Alexander and Co., 40, Lombard-street. Australia, Union Bank of, 38, Old Broad-street. Bosanquet, Anderton, and Co., 73, Lombard-street. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand. Cunliffe, Brooks, and Co., 29, Lombard-street. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. Hallet and Co., 14, George-street, Westminster. Hanbury, Taylor, and Lloyds, 60, Lombard-street. Hankey and Co., 7, Fenchurch-street. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 17, St. James-street. Hill and Sons, 17, West Smithfield. Hoare, Messrs., 37, Fleet-street. Hopkinson, Messrs., 3, Regent-street. Ireland, National Bank of, 13, Old Broad-street. Lubbock, Forster, & Co., 11, Mansion-house-street. Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street; Argyle- If the Wages be Guineas instead of Pounds, for each Guinea add One Penny to each Month, or One Farthing to each Week. Ditto OZ. 10s. .. 1 0 1 10 20 3 0 Awards Bills of Lading General Release .. Powers of Attorney 1 15 0 1 10 0 With a progressive duty of 17. for every 1080 words. SPOILED STAMPS. The days for claiming the allowance at Somerset House are Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 12 to 2 o'clock. Persons residing within 10 miles of London must apply within six months from the time when the stamps became spoiled. Persons not residing within ten miles of London are required, within 12 months after the stamps. are spoiled, to make an affidavit before a Master Extraordinary in Chancery, which affidavit must be stamped, and the same left at the Allowance office on Monday or Wednesday, and called for on the Monday following, when an Allowance Ticket will be given for the same description of Stamps. Hours of Transfer, at the India House, from 9 to 1, Tuesdays and Thursdays; and 9 to Saturdays. Dividends are paid from 9 to 2; Saturdays, from 9 to 1. At the Bank, the regular Transfer days are now the same for all Stocks, viz., Tuesday, Wednes Thursday, and Friday. But Transfers may be made on Monday and Saturday, between 11 and 2 payment of a fee of 2s. 6d. to the Bank. Tickets for preparing the Transfer of Stock must be given in at each office before One o'clock the India House before Two. Private Transfers may be made at other times than as above, the books not being shut, by paying the Bank and India House, 2. 6d. extra for each Transfer.-At the South Sea House, 3. 6. Expense of Transfer in Bank Stock for 254. and under, 9.; above that sum, 12. India Stock fo and under, 1. 108.; above that sum, 1. 148. South Sea Stock, if under 100%., 9. 6d.; above inf sum, 128. Powers of Attorney for the Sale or Transfer of Stock to be left at the Bank, &c., for examination day before they can be acted upon; if for receiving Dividends, present them at the time the Dividend is payable. Probates of Wills, Letters of Administration, and other proofs of decease, must be left at the Ba &c., for registration, from two to three clear days, exclusive of holidays. JURORS AND JURIES, 6 GEO. IV. C. 50. Every man between 21 and 60 (except exempt) is qualified to serve on Juries, 1. If he has a clear income of 107. a year arising from lands (freehold, copyhold, or customary) within the county. 2. If he has a clear income of 207. a year, arising from leasehold lands within the county, provided the lease be for 21 years, or for a term of years determinable with a life or lives. 3. If he is a householder, rated to the poor-rate for his house of 207, a year. 4. If he is a householder assessed to the inhabited house duty at 207. per annum, in every county except Middlesex, where it is 30. 5. If he is a householder, and occupies a bo with 15 or more windows. Exemptions. -Peers, judges, clergy, preachers, barristers, doctors at law, adv of the civil law, attorneys, officers of coroners, physicians, surgeons, apothecaries 3 cers in the army and navy, pilots, househo vants of Her Majesty, officers of customs, talk and post-office, sheriffs' officers, high cos and parish clerks, also persons exempt by of prescription, charter, grant, or writ GENERAL POST OFFICE, LONDON. Letters to go INLAND by the morning mails nust be put into the General Post Office, St. Marin's-le-Grand, or the Branch Office, Lombardtreet, before half-past eight a.m. The boxes for he evening mails are closed at both of these places it six p.m.; but letters will be received at the office in Lombard-street and in St. Martin's-leGrand until seven p.m., on payment of 1d. with each, in addition to the postage: at the latter Office they will be received from seven until halfpast seven, on payment of 6d. with each. The Branch Offices, in Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, and High-street, Borough, are open for the receipt of morning letters until eight 1.m.; and for evening letters until six p.m.; but evening letters will be received until a quarter to seven on payment, by stamp, of 1d. with each, in addition to the postage. Letters may be posted at the Receiving Houses intil half-past five p.m. The business of the Money Order Office is carried on at the General Post Office, St. Martin's-leGrand, and at the Branch Offices in Lombardstreet, Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, and High-street, Borough. The charge for such orders is now 3d. for sums of £2 and under; and 6d. for sums between £2 and £5, which is the highest amount for which an order will be given. All post-towns in England, and the principal posttowns in Scotland and Ireland, as well as most of the Receiving Houses in and around London, are empowered to pay and grant money orders. Letters will be registered by the Post Office, on payment of a fee of 18. upon each letter. Letters to go by the FOREIGN MAILS (except those for India via Marseilles, which must be posted at the same time as Inland letters) are received on Tuesdays and Fridays, at the Branch Offices, Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, and the Borough, until eight p.m.; at St. Martin's-leGrand and Lombard-street, until ten p.m.; and at St. Martin's-le-Grand only from ten to a quarterpast ten p.m., on payment of 1d., and from a quarter-past ten to half-past ten, on payment of 6d., with each. The Foreign Mails are made up in London as follows: or paid are charged double the amount of the deficiency. All letters passing through the Post Office are distributed into one or other of these four classes; namely, 1. Inland; 2. Colonial, by packet; 3. Foreign, by packet; 4. Ship. The rate of postage on each class is as follows: 1. INLAND. Letters passing between one part of the United Kingdom and another are charged at the uniform rate of 1d., if the weight does not exceed half an ounce: if more than half an ounce and not above one ounce, 2d.; and an additional 2d. for each additional ounce, or fraction of an ounce. N.B. No Letter or Packet exceeding 16 Ounces in weight will be forwarded by the Post, except (1.) Printed Votes and Proceedings of Parliament. (2.) Addresses to Her Majesty, and Parliamentary Petitions. (3.) Letters and Packets received from, or addressed to, places beyond the limits of the United despatched by, the Government departments, or such Kingdom. (4.) Letters and Packets addressed to, or Officer as may under the former system have had the privilege of franking by virtue of his office. And, (5.) Deeds, if transmitted under such regulations as the Postmaster-General may consider necessary to prevent abuse of the privilege. Packets falling under any of these descriptions are free from limitation as to weight. put into the Post, will be immediately sent to the All other Packets above the weight of 16 ounces, if Dead-Letter Office. 2. COLONIAL, BY PACKET. Letters to the Colonies by Her Majesty's packetcertain exceptions, charged at twelve times the rate boats (and not passing through France) are, with of Inland prepaid letters. 3. FOREIGN, BY PACKET. Foreign letters, not weighing more than half an ounce, are charged the single rates of packet postage, from whatever part of the United Kingdom they may be despatched, as given in the table below; except those to the places marked with an asterisk (*), on which an additional 2d. is charged for Inland postage, if not posted at the port from which the packet sails. But the following scale does not apply to French rates on letters to and from France and through France, as the system of charging French rates on such letters continues in force; namely, one French rate for each quarter of an ounce. month except in Germany, via France Spain and Portugal, via France 0 6 08 0 6 0 8 0 9 Switzerland, via France. 011 13 3d and 18th of every 0 10 0 5 and March, then Egypt and India, via Marseilles 7th and 24th of every month. Turkey, Greece, and Mediterranean, via Marseil- 1 3 1 10 1 8 1 3 Packet rates from Southampton. | *La Guayra, Mexico, *Cuba, and *Carthagena * Brazil Buenos Ayres By Falmouth Packets. 8. d. • 2 2 1 6 1 0 15 2 1 2 0 1 0 Newspapers intended to be sent either to the British Colonies and possessions, or to foreign parts, by Her Majesty's packets, must be put in the post within seven days after the day on which they were published; and foreign newspapers must be printed in the language of the country from which they have been forwarded On failure of either of these provisions, they will be charged as letters, according to their weight. All newspapers forwarded by post must be Packet rates from Falmouth. sent without covers, or in covers open at the sides; they are otherwise chargeable with postage as letters. By Liverpool Packets. 2 7 Newspapers, British or Foreign, in which any letter, paper, or other thing is enclosed, or with Packet rates from Liverpool. any writing or marks of reference or information 4. SHIP RATE. 1 2 1 0 All letters, Colonial or Foreign, transmitted by private ship, are charged at EIGHT times the rate of Inland letters; except those sent, by Hamburgh Packet, to Hamburgh, Cuxhaven, or Lubeck, which are charged at six times the Inland rates. NEWSPAPERS. Printed Newspapers, duly stamped, pass free, by the General Post, to all places within the United Kingdom; except in those cases where they are posted and delivered in London within the limits of the General Post delivery, when they are charged 1d. each. Newspapers are placed under the same regulations as letters, with respect to the times at which they must be put into the post-office; except that the additional charge for newspapers posted between six and half-past seven p.m. is only a halfpenny. Newspapers from the British Colonies are delivered free of postage at any place within the British dominions: those for persons who have removed may be forwarded by post free of charge, provided they are not opened at the place to which they were originally addressed. whatever upon them, or upon the covers, other than the address, will be charged with treble the duty of letter postage. Postmasters are authorized and required to examine and search all Newspapers, to protect the revenue from fraud; and the Postmaster General is empowered by the Act of Parliament to proceed against parties attempting any frauds upon the revenue through the medium of Newspapers. LONDON DISTRICT POST. The scale of charges and the limitation of weight are the same as those of the General Post. There are ten collections and ten deliveries in Town daily (Sundays excepted); six despatches from, and six deliveries at, all places within a circle of three miles from the General Post Office; five despatches from, and five deliveries at, all places within a circle of six miles; and four despatches from, and four deliveries at, most other places within twelve miles. Town letters should be put in at the Receiving Houses as follows:-Over Night, by eight o'clock, for the first delivery. Morning by eight, second delivery. Morning by ten, third delivery. Morning by twelve, fourth delivery. Afternoon by one, fifth delivery. Afternoon by two, sixth de Afternoon by three, seventh delivery. Afternoon by four, eighth delivery. Afternoon by five, ninth delivery. Afternoon by six, tenth delivery. Newspapers may be forwarded to the British Colonies and possessions by Her Majesty's packet-livery. boats free of postage, or by private ship for a postage of 1d. each. To some Foreign parts also they may be forwarded free; and to others for a postage of 2d. each, to be paid at the time of putting in. Newspapers to the East Indies are forwarded by the packet via Marseilles, on payment of 3d. with each the mail is made up on the 7th and 24th of every month, except that happen to be a Sunday, when the mail is made up on the following day. Letters may be put in at the principal Office (St. Martin's-le-Grand) an hour later, up to twelve o'clock; three quarters of an hour later, up to six o'clock; and an hour later, for the last delivery. Letters put in on Saturday evenings are delivered in the country on Sunday mornings. THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GREAT BRITAIN. THE QUEEN. Royal Princes and Princesses. VICTORIA, born May 24, 1819; succeeded to the throne, land, uncle to Her Majesty, born June 5, 1771; married Ernest Augustus, (King of Hanover,) Duke of Cumber June 20, 1837; married Feb. 10, 1840. May 29, 1815, Frederica Carolina Sophia, daughter of the Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and widow of Fred William, Prince of Solms Braunfels, born March 2, Issue: George Frederick, born May 27, 1819; marred Feb. 19, 1944, Princess Mary of Saxe Altenberg. |