CLUBS AND CLUB HOUSES.

There are, in all, in London, about ninety. The following is a list of the principal club-houses:—

Alpine 8 St. Martin’s Place, Trafalgar Square.
Army and Navy 36 to 39 Pall Mall, S. W.
Arthur’s 69 and 70 St. James’s Street.
Arundel 12 Salisbury Street, Strand.
Athenæum 107 Pall Mall.
Brooks’s 59 St. James’s Street.
Carlton 94 Pall Mall.
City Carlton 83 King William Street, E.C.
Cavendish 307 Regent Street.
City of London 19 Old Broad Street, City.
Conservative 74 St. James’s Street.
East India United Service 14 St. James’s Square.
Garrick 13–15 Garrick Street, Covent Garden.
Gresham 1 Gresham Place, City.
Guards’ 70 Pall Mall.
Junior Athenæum 29 King Street, St. James’s.
Junior Carlton 30 to 35 Pall Mall.
Junior United Service 11 and 12 Charles Street, St. James’s.
Junior Army and Navy 13 Grafton Street, Bond Street.
Naval and Military 94 Piccadilly.
New University 57 St. James’s Street.
Oriental 18 Hanover Square.
Oxford and Cambridge University 71 to 76 Pall Mall.
Portland 1 Stratford Place, Oxford Street.
Pratt’s 14 Park Place, St. James’s.
Reform 104 Pall Mall.
Smithfield 47 Halfmoon Street, Piccadilly.
St. James’s 106 Piccadilly.
Travellers’ 106 Pall Mall.
Union Trafalgar Square, (S.W. Corner.)
United Service 116 and 117 Pall Mall.
United University 5 Pall Mall, East.
Westminster 23 Albemarle Street.
Whitehall Parliament Street.
White’s 37 and 38 St. James’s Street.
Windham 11 St. James’s Square.

THE LONDON PARCELS DELIVERY COMPANY.

This Company—whose chief office is in Roll’s Buildings, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street, and whose minor receiving houses, at shops, &c., are very numerous—delivers parcels at a tariff of 4d. if under 4 lbs. weight, and within three miles distance; under 14 lbs. within a like range, 6d.; and so on up to a cwt., which will be delivered for 1s. 2d., subject to the aforesaid condition. Over three miles distance, the charge for delivering a parcel under 1 lb. to any part of London and its environs will be 4d., under 7 lbs., 6d., and so forth. For a parcel under 112 lbs., if carried beyond three miles, sender will be charged 1s. 6d. To more distant places, minimum charge is 6d. Light but bulky packages charged for by measurement. The Company does not undertake to collect parcels from the houses of the senders.

MONEY-ORDER OFFICES, AND POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.

The London Postal District, to which special rules relate, includes every town and village within twelve miles of the General Post-office. Reference has already been made to the number of post-offices, receiving-houses, and pillar-boxes, in this area. There are 500 Money-order Offices, the whole of which (with a very few exceptions) have within a recent period been made Post-office Savings-banks also. The facilities thus afforded to strangers visiting London for a few days, for receiving or transmitting money, are very great. A Post-office Money-order will convey sums of a few pounds without risk of loss, at a cost of a few pence, either from the visitor to his country friends, or from them to him. The Post-office Savings-banks are even still more convenient; for a person residing in the country, and having money in the savings-banks, can draw it out in London during his visit, or any part of it, with a delay of a day or two, free of expense. In whatever part of London a visitor may be, he is within five or ten minutes’ walk of a Money-order Office; and at any such office he can, for six hours a day, (10 till 4,) obtain the requisite information concerning both of these kinds of economical monetary facilities.

LONDON LETTERS, POSTAL AND TELEGRAPH SYSTEM.

As just stated, the London District Post operates within twelve miles of the General Post-office: that is, within a circle of twenty-four miles in diameter. There are a few outlying patches beyond this circle, but they need not here be taken into account. This large area is now divided into eight Postal Districts, each of which has a name, an initial abbreviation, and a chief office. They are as follows:—

E. C. Eastern Central St. Martin’s-le-Grand, (head office.)
W. C. Western Central 126 High Holborn.
N. Northern Packington Street, Islington.
E. Eastern Nassau Place, Commercial Road, East.
S. E. South-Eastern 9 Blackman Street, Borough.
S. W. South-Western 8 Buckingham Gate.
W. Western 3 Vere Street, Oxford Street.
N. W. North-Western 28 Eversholt Street, Oakley Square.