The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-14 00:00:00

C 017 2.'r -PAS H X ON A nzz.

The Duchess of Northumberland has issued cards for a fete
chanapetre, at Sion House, on Thursday neat.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will give grand dinners
to-day and on Saturday next, at Stafford House.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset gave an elegant enter-
tainment last night to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex
and the Duchess of Inverness, in Park-lane.
The Earl and Countess of Detewarr entertained the Earl
and Countess of Wilton, Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Lord
Lyndhurst, and a select circle at dinner on Friday, in Upper
Gross enor-street.

The Duke of Devenshire left Devonshire House yesterday,
or, his return to Brighton.
The Marchioness of Anglesea leaves Uxbridge House, in the
course of the present week, for a tour up the Rhine.
Lady Maryborough left town yesterday for Deal Castle, for
the season.

The Earl of Wilton is not expected to depart for Saxony,
on a Special Mission to the Court of Dresden, till the middle
of next month.

Lord and Lady John Russell are expected on Saturday at
Minto House, Roxburghshire, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Minto.

POST-OFFICE ORDERS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Among the many irregularities daily complained of in the
management of this department, the following will claim a pro-
minent position. A gentleman in town received one of these
orders for the payment of a sum of money to him, by the Post-
master at Charing-cross, upon whom it was drawn. The
order bore date July 1, 1842, and was duly signed by the post
master of the place from whence it came ; and on its being
presented on the following day for payment, the answer ob-
tained was "No advice." 'thinking this the effect of some
oversight, which would be rectified in the course of a post or
two, the gentleman waited two or three days before he applied
again, but when he did so, and received the same answer as
before, he began to suspect all was not right. However as he
had not been accustomed to receive moneys through this me-
dium, he reconciled himself to wait two or three days m3re ; in
short, he made a third, and ultimately a fourth application,
with no better success; and twelve clear days have now elapsed
since he received the order, and still the money is withheld on
the plea of " no advice."
That the poAtnaster in the country received the money is
self-evident from his issuing the order, and if he through negli-
gence has omitted to advise the office in town, be merits severe
ahlse,aitsiomn oorre
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reprehension. That gross neglteloctubatndwiriaattetevnerti;onanadr,ealetlhiaoruggeh-
ts of no
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tly receiving of this
ntirblfeimrenasiitao.liim'ceoe;ge,.e.ide'reiittrileee:nlelcjap'eeildimn'sdbi ted upon ti,;:eh saocplertioehntelyp's
money, his ruin must have been inevitable. The affair merits
the attention of the Postmaster-General.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week ending July 9,1842 :
PaSSCTIgerS
Merchandise 427 8 4

£1,304 15 10
Earlington, July 13. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

THE RoYAL Housuttot.o.—The members of the
Royal household, with the vast number of domestics in the
Master of the Horse department. whose salaries and wages,
payable quarterly at Lord Jersey's office in the Royal Mews,
Lecome due on the lst instant, have been officially infhrmed
that a delay of some days must necessarily take place in the
payment, in consequence of the Lords of the Treasury haviug
required a return of their respective incomes, perquisites. &c.,
to be made forthwith to the Treasury at Whitehall, with the
view, it is supposed, of subjecting them to the deduction of the
Income-tax,