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SATITRDAY.
Last night's Gazette notifies that Mr. Fox Manic, the Secretary at War, "has appointed Benjamin Hawes, Esq., to be his Deputy."
It also announces formally, under date the 29th October, the appoint- ment of Lyon Mayfair, C.B., F.R.S., D. Ph., to be Gentleman Usher in the Household of Prince Albert, vice Colonel Sir William Reid, re- signed.
All letters for places in the United Kingdom posted after this day—Sa- turday, November 1—must be prepaid by stamps, or be sent unpaid ; no coin will henceforth be received from the person posting the letter : if sent unpaid, double postage will be chargeable on delivery. Unpaid let- ters of greater weight than four ounces are not forwarded through the post. Penny, twopenny, tenpenny, and shilling stamps, can be purchased at all post-offices.
There now remain in the Crystal Palace the wares of not more than five hundred or six hundred British exhibiters ; but the Foreign exhi- biters continue slow in their arrangements for departure. It is said that our Customhouse-regulations are so pedantically tedious as to astonish even their official-ridden minds : but the cause -cannot lie there, or it would be felt equally by all ; whereas it is mentioned as an honourable characteristic of the Swiss and the Tunisians especially, that they have been more prompt both in their arrival and in their departure than any other people.
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