The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-30 00:00:00

KEEP THEMSELVES FOR THE PRESENT UNFLEDGED.

POST-OFFICE DIRECTORY FOR THE SIX HOME COUNTIES.—
This is a work entirely of a new character, and furnishes,
among others, a remarkable instance of, the vast changes
effected by the steam-engine. By means of steam the chs-
tancebetween London and the capitals of Scotland and Ire.
land can be traversed in less time than was required not
many years ago to travel from London to Lincoln; and, as
regards time, the metropolis, and all the principal towns in
the Home Counties, are as near as Hyde park was in days of
yore to Whitechapel. A good Directory of these counties
has, therefore, become as necessaryto the inhabitants of
London as one of London itself. fhe connexion is so inti-
mate, and the communication so frequent, that a work of this
kind has become 'necessary, and indeed almost indi.spen-
able, to bankers, public companies, and wholesale merchants,
not to mention the tens of thousands who travel merely for
pleasure and health. To all these the present publication
will be found both useful and instructive. It furnishes a
statistical account of every town and hamlet in the six dis-
tricts, entering often into minute details as to manufactures
and trades carried on in each. We ref.r, as a proof, to the
description of Colchester, with the villages of Lexden and
Mile-end. Messrs. Kelly and Co., indeed, appear to have
spared no expense or labour in getting up the work. Each
place had. been visited by one or other of their travellers, and
ceovtemryt'iensi,tonrainnaketi7
aciud
olileil!etse,,
dxon the spot. Maps of the six
Essex. Hertford, Kent, Sun ev,
and Sussex. have been expr,s4y prepa.oti q. the work, and
are well executed. Tie thie,!tories town appear to I
be very complete; and, in addition to these ilwre is a I
cation of trades, entitled, " Erades' Directory," which will
be found very convenient, particularly to the wholesale
houses in London. Ad a book of reference for the Homo Coun-

ties we regard it the most complete work of the kind ever
published.
THE NI.F.xicAN DEBT.—The correspondence . which has
taken place relative to the payment of the dividends between
Messrs. John Schneider and 'Co. and s.lossrs. F. de Lizard'
and Co., has excited a good deal of interest among the bond-
holders. It appears that rue Messi,,. Schneider, haying been
appointed by the Government of 111,xico agents in place of
Messrs Lizardi, had requested the latter, according to ttheirinstructions, to deliver up the funds in their hands remitted
for the
_payment of the dividends, together with the docu
ments relating to the agency. Messrs. Lizardi, in reply; saY
they have no documents whatever, nor have they
any. other books than those relating to the they
Version of the debt, and the payment of the divi-
dends which, being required for daily reference, they
cannot consent to part with, and they add :—"
is still a considerable balance due unto us from the Idealcal!
Government, which we hope you are authorised to pay.
Mr. G. R. Robinson, Chairman of the Committee of the
Spanish American Bondholders, also addressed a letter tithe
late agents on the same subject, insisting, in the name
Committee, that as hey had declined to pay over the funds
to Messrs. Schneider, they proceed at once to pay the
.same
to the bondholders as a p;rt of the payment of the dividend
due en the Ist of October last, but this application had the
There
same result. "The entire the funds," theY say, "remitted?
by (he Mexican Goverment have been carried to its credit 01
:xcount and there is a con,idecable balance :till due unto us.