Letters and Newspapers are received at the Railway Station, Euston Square, to be despatched by the Day and Evening Mails, to all Towns, the correspondence of which is conveyed by the London and North Western Railway Company, or by the lines branching from it. A fee of 6d., in addition to the postage, both of which must be paid by stamps, is charged upon each letter or newspaper. For the morning dispatch from 7.30 till 9.5; for the evening dispatch, from 7.30 till 8.35.

All Receiving Houses are for the receipt of General, Foreign, Ship, and London District Post Letters, both paid and unpaid, with the exception of the Receiving Houses at 63, Cheapside, 25, Cornhill, 15, Charing Cross, and 152, Oxford Street, at which places General Post Letters cannot be received. From 63, Cheapside, 25, Cornhill, 15, Charing Cross, and 152, Oxford Street, General Post Letters are despatched half-an-hour later than from the other Receiving Houses.

General Post Letters for the Day Mails can be put into the Receiving Houses till a quarter before eight o'clock in the morning of the day on which the Mails are despatched.

RATES OF POSTAGE.-All Inland Letters or Packets, including those from the Channel Isles, and the Isle of Man, if PREPAID, are subject to the following rates:-Not exceeding Half an Ounce ld, One Ounce 2d, Two Ounces 4d; and so on, at the rate of twopence for every ounce, and every fractional part of an ounce. An Inland Letter to pass unpaid must not exceed four ounces. All above that weight must be prepaid either in money or by stamps. No Letter must exceed the dimensions of twentyfour inches in length, breadth, width, or depth.

The postage of Letters to Soldiers and Sailors, received from all parts beyond the sea, without the penny having been prepaid, is 2d. in addition to the Ship Letter gratuity, if received by Private Ship. Soldiers and Sailors can send and receive Letters to or from the East Indies, Hong Kong, and China, or other places in the Chinese or Indian Seas, by the Overland Mails, via Southampton," under the weight of half an ounce, on their own private concerns, only while they are employed on her Majesty's Service, or in the Service of the East India Company, for one

penny.

REGISTRATION OF LETTERS.-Letters may be registered on payment of sixpence, which, together with the Postage, must be paid in advance. The postage of registered letters to parts abroad may be paid either in money or by stamps, but for places within the United Kingdom the postage must be paid by stamps; while the registration fee must, in all cases in London, be paid in money.

LETTERS from one part of TOWN to

Or the Principal Office by
Morning.. 10 o'clock

Morning.. 12

another; if put into

They are sent out at

Morning.. 10 o'clock
Morning.. 12-

Aftern. bef. 1

Afternoon 1

Afternoon. 1

Aftern. bef. 2

Afternoon. 2

TABLE OF PRECEDENCY.

by virtue of an Act 31 | Knights Commanders Hen. VIII.

Barons according to Knights of St. Patrick.

• If of the rank of Barons.

+ Above all of their own rank only, by stat. 31 Hen. VIII

When in actual office only, by 1 Geo. I.

N. B. The priority of signing any treaty or public instrument by Ministers of State is taken by rank of office, and not by title.

THE QUEEN'S MINISTERS

First Lord of the Treasury..

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lord Chancellor

President of the Council.

Visct. Palmerston.

Rt. hon. Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, bt.

Lord Cranworth."

Earl Granville.

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Rt. Hon. Matt. T. Baines.

Lord Privy-Seal

Earl of Harrowby.

Rt. hon. Sir George Grey, bt.
Earl of Clarendon.

Rt. Hon. H. Labouchere.

Lord Panmure.

Rt. hon. Sir Chas. Wood, bt.
Duke of Argyll.

Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Rt. hon. R. Vernon Smith.
Marq. of Lansdowne.

The above form the CABINET.

Paymaster-General and Vice-President of the Board of Trade..

First Commissioner of Parks, Palaces,

&c....... Attorney-General

Solicitor-General

Earl Spencer.

Marq. of Breadalbane.
Duke of Norfolk.
Duke of Wellington.
Viscount Hardinge.

Rt. hon. Robert Lowe.

Rt. hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, bt. *Sir A. J. E. Cockburn. *Sir Rich. Bethell.

THE QUEEN.

ICTORIA, QUEEN of the United Kingdom of

GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, Defender of the Faith, Sovereign of the Orders of the Garter, Thistle, Bath, St. Patrick, and St. Michael and St. George. [St. James's Palace and Buckingham Palace, London; Windsor-Castle, Berks; Hampton-Court and Kensington, Middlesex; Kew, Surrey; Osborne House, Isle of Wight; Holyrood House, Edinburgh; Balmoral, Aberdeenshire; The Castle, Dublin.]

The HOUSE of PEERS.

SPEAKER, The Lord HIGH CHANCELLOR.

Lord REDESDALE, Chairman of

Speakers by Royal Commission

Committees.

Lord CAMPbell.

PEERS of the BLOOD ROYAL. (3)

1841. Dec. 8. His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of WALES, Duke of CORNWALL, Earl of CHESTER; Earl of DUBLIN; Great Steward of Scotland, Duke of ROTHESAY, Earl of CARRICK, Baron of RENFREW, Lord of the ISLES; Duke of SAXONY, and Prince of COBURG and GOTHA, K.G.

1799. April 23. His Royal Highness George Frederick Alexander Charles Augustus, Duke of CUMBERLAND and TEVIOTDALE (Earl of ARMAGH, in Ireland, King of HANOVER), K.G.

1801. Nov. 27. His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of CAMBRIDGE, Earl of TIPPERARY, Baron of CULLODEN, a Lieut. General in the Army, Colonel of the Scots Fusileer Guards, Ranger of St. James's and Hyde-parks, President of Christ's Hospital, K.G.; K.P.; G.C.M.G.

Note. For Marriage and Issue of the Queen and Peers of the Blood
Royal, see "Sovereigns of Europe."

The Scotch Peers take Precedence of English Peers of the same Rank created since the Union in 1707: The Irish Peers take, in like Manner, Precedence of British Peers of the same Rank, created since the Union in 1801: And Irish Peers created since the Union, rank according to the Dates of their Patents among the Peers of the United Kingdom.

The name of an Heir enclosed thus ( ) denotes an assumed surname, in other cases the patronymic is understood.

DUKES. (20)

Rich. 111. 1483. June 28. Henry Charles Howard, Duke of NORFOLK, Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY, Hereditary Earl-Marshal of England, Premier Peer and Earl, K.G., b. 1791; s. 1842; m. 1814, Charlotte, dau. of the first Duke of Sutherland. Heir, his son, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, b. 1815. [Arundel-Castle, Sussex; Glossop, Derbyshire; Earsham-Park Farm, Suffolk.]

His Grace enjoys the Earldom of Arundel, as a feudal honour, by inheritance and possession of the Castle, without any other creation Cow. VI. 1546. Feb. 16. Edward Adolphus Seymour, Duke of SOMERSET, Lord SEYMOUR, a trustee of the British Museum; b. 1804, s. 1855; m. 1830, Jane, dau. of the late Thomas Sheridan, esq. Heir, his son, Lord Seymour, b. 1835. [Maiden Bradley-House, Wilts; StoverHouse, Devon; Wimbledon-Park-House, Surrey.]

Cha. II. 1675. Aug 9. Charles Gordon-Lennox, Duke of RICHMOND, Earl of MARCH, an aide-de-camp to the Queen, lord-lieut. and cus.-rot. of Sussex, colonel of the Sussex militia and High Steward of Chichester, Chancellor of Marischal College, Aberdeen, K. G. (Duke of LENNOX in Scotland, and D'AUBIGNY in France), b. 1791; s. 1819; m. 1817, Caroline, dau. of the 1st Marquess of Anglesey. Heir, his son, Earl of March, b. 1818. [Gordon Castle, Banffshire; Huntly-Lodge, Aberdeenshire; Kinrara, Inverness-shire; Goodwood-Park, and West Stoke, Sussex.]

1675. Sept. 11. Henry Fitzroy, Duke of GRAFTON, Earl of EUSTON, hereditary Ranger of Whittlebury and Salcey Forests, Northamptonshire, b. 1790; s. 1844; m. 1812, Mary Caroline, dau. of the late Adm. the Hon. Sir Geo. C. Berkeley. Heir, his son, Earl of Euston, b. 1819. [Euston-Hall, Suffolk; Wakefield-Loage, Northamptonshire.] 1682. Dec. 2. Henry Charles Fitzroy Somerset, Duke of BEAUFORT, Marquess of WORCESTER, a major in the Army, an aide-de-camp to the Comm.-in-chief; b. 1824; s. 1853; m. 1845, Georgiana, dau. of Earl Howe. Heir, his son, Marquess of Worcester, b. 1847. [Badminton-House, and Stoke-Gifford, Gloucestershire; Troy-House, Monmouthshire.]