about 600 in all, 240 are Independent, 130 Baptist, 150 Wesleyan, and 50 Roman Catholic. The hours named after each church are those of divine service on Sundays; when no hour is specified it is understood that the hours of the regular Sunday services are 11 a.m. and 6. 30 p.m. Many of the Saturday morning and evening papers give a list of the principal preachers on Sunday. BAPTIST CHAPELS: - Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington Butts, close to the Elephant and Castle (p. 78); Rev. C. H. Spurgeon (general public admitted to all vacant seats 5 min. before the beginning of service; strangers may obtain early admission by applying at the doors for an envelope, in which they are requested to place a donation for the Tabernacle). - Bloomsbury Chapel, Bloomsbury Street, Oxford Street; services at 11 and 7. - Park Square Chapel, Regent's Park; services at 11 and 7. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCHES: INDEPENDENTS, see Congregationalists. JEWS: Great Central Synagogue, 129 Great Portland Street. METHODISTS. a. Wesleyan Methodists: Wesley's Chapel, 47 City Road; Great Queen Street Chapel, Lincoln's Inn Fields; Finsbury Park Chapel, Wilberforce Road; Hinde Street Chapel, Manchester Square; Mostyn Road Chapel, Brixton Road; Peckham Chapel, Queen's Road, Peckham; Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, 57 City Road. b. Other Methodists: Brunswick Chapel (New Connexion), 156 Great Dover Street, Southwark; Elim Chapel (Primitive Methodists), Fetter Lane, Fleet Street; United Methodist Free Chapel, Willow Street, Tabernacle Square, Moorgate; United Free Chapel, Queen's Road, Bayswater. Palace NEW JERUSALEM OF SWEDENBORGIAN CHURCHES: Gardens Terrace, Kensington. - Argyle Square, King's Cross. Camden Road, Holloway. College Chapel, Devonshire Street, Islington. Flodden Road, Camberwell. Services at 11 and 7. * PRESBYTERIANS: Scottish National Church (Church of Scotland), Pont Street, Belgravia. Regent Square Church, Regent's Square, Gray's Inn Road (Rev. J. MacNeil); services at 11 and 7. Marylebone Church, Upper George Street, Bryanston Square, Edgware Road (Dr. Donald Fraser). St. John's Wood Presbyterian Church, Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood (Dr. Munro Gibson). Welsh Calvinist Chapel, Cambridge Circus, Charing Cross Road. ROMAN CATHOLICS: St. George's Cathedral, Westminster Bridge Road (see p. 299); various services. Pro-Cathedral, Newland Terrace, Kensington Road; services at 8, 9, 10, 11, 3, and 7. Oratory, Brompton Road; various services. Berkeley Mews St. Chapel (Jesuits), Farm Street, close to Berkeley Square. UNITARIANS: Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury Street (Rev. Stopford Brooke); services at 11 and 7. - Little Portland Street Chapel (Rev. P. H. Wicksteed); Unity Church, Islington (Rev. I. W. Freckelton); Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Hampstead (Dr. Sadler); Mall Chapel, Notting Hill; Wandsworth Chapel. WESLEYANS, see Methodists. The The services of the South Place Ethical Society (Dr. Stanton Coit) are held at the South Place Institute at 11.15 a.m. lectures of the Ethical Society are held in Essex Hall, Essex Street, Strand, at 7.30 p.m. 2 Dutch Foreign Churches: - Bavarian Chapel (Roman Catholic), 12 Warwick Street, Regent Street; services at 8, 9, 10, 11.15, 3.30, and 7. Danish Church (Lutheran), King Street, Poplar; service at 10.30a.m. Church (Reformed Calvinist), 6 Austin Friars, near the Bank; service at 11 a.m. French Protestant, Athenæum Hall, 73 Tottenham Court Road (pending the erection of a new church); services at 11 and 7. French Protestant Evangelical Church, Monmouth Road, Westbourne Grove, Bayswater; services at 11 and 7. French Protestant Anglican Church, 36 Bloomsbury Street, Oxford Street; services at 11 and 3.30. French Roman Catholic Chapels, Little George Street, King Street, Portman Square, and at Leicester Place, Leicester Square; various services. German Lutheran Church (lately in the Savoy), 43 Cleveland Street, Fitzroy Square; services at 11 and 6.45. German Lutheran Church, Dalston. German Church at Forest Hill. - German Evangelical Church, Fowler Road, Islington. German Methodist Church (Böhlerkirche), Commercial Road; services at 11 and 6.30. German Roman Catholic Chapel, 9 Union Street, Whitechapel; services at 9, 11, 3, and 7. German Synagogue, see Jews. Greek Chapel (Russian), 32 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square; service at 11 a.m. Greek Church (St. Sophia), Moscow Road, Bayswater; service at 11.15 a.m. Italian Roman Catholic Church, Clerkenwell Road, E.C. Spanish Roman Catholic Chapel, Spanish Place, Manchester Square; numerous services. Swedish Protestant Church, Prince's Square, St. George's Street, Shadwell; service at 11 a.m. Swiss Protestant Church, 78 Endell Street, Long Acre; service at 11 a.m. 53 17. Post and Telegraph Offices. Parcels Companies. Commissionnaires. Lady Guides. Post Office. The English Post Office undertakes the transmission of letters, newspapers, book-packets, patterns and samples, printed or lithographed circulars or notices, and telegrams. The GENERAL POST OFFICE is in St. Martin's le Grand (p. 90). The Poste Restante Office is on the S. (right) side of the portico (p. 90), and is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There is also a Poste Restante Office at the Charing Cross Station. Poste Restante letters, which should have the words 'to be called for' added to the address, are delivered to applicants on the production of their passports or other proof of identity, but it is better to give correspondents a private address. Letters addressed to persons who have not been found are kept for a month, and then sent to the Dead Letter Office for return to the writer, or for destruction. The value of enclosures in such letters amounts in some years to more than 200,0001. Unprepaid letters are charged double postage, but may be refused by the addressee. The postage for the whole of Great Britain, Ireland, and the islands in the British seas, is 1d. for letters not exceeding 1 oz. The fee for registration for a letter or other packet is 2d.; special registered-letter envelopes are supplied at 21/4-3d. each (according to size), to which the ordinary postage must be added. For letters to the United States, Europe, and various other places iucluded in the postal union the rate is 21/2 d. for letters under 1/2 oz. Newspapers are transmitted to any part of Great Britain and the adjoining islands for 1/2d. each. Newspapers for abroad (1/2d. per 2oz.) must be posted within eight days of publication, otherwise book postage rates must be paid. For Book Packets, Patterns, and Samples 12d. per 2 oz. is charged for Great Britain and the countries of the postal union. No inland book packet may exceed 18 in. in length, 9 in. in width, and 6 in. in depth, or 5lbs. in weight. Postcards for use in the British Islands are issued at 51/2d. or 6d. per packet of ten (thin and thick); for countries included in the postal union, at or 2d. each; reply post-cards may be had at double these rates. Envelopes of three sorts, with embossed 1d. stamps, and newspaper wrappers with impressed 1/2d. or 1d. stamps, are also sold by the post office. 1, 11/2, The number of daily deliveries of letters in London varies from six to twelve according to the distance from the head office at St. Martin's le Grand. On Sundays there is no delivery, but letters posted in the pillar boxes within the town limits and in some of the nearer suburbs are collected in time for the general day mails and for the first London district delivery on the following day. Letters for the evening mails must be posted in the pillars before 5.30 p.m., in the central districts before 6 p.m., or at the General Post Office, with an additional 1/2d. stamp, up to 7.45 p.m. Foreign letters may be posted at the General Post Office till 7 p.m. with an additional 1d. stamp; till 7.15 with 2d. extra; till 7.30 with 3d extra; and at the termini for Continental trains till 8 p.m. with 4d. extra. The head district offices are open on Sunday for two hours. Comp. the Post Office Guide, published quarterly (6d.), or the Post Office Handbook (half-yearly; 1d.). London is divided into eight POSTAL DISTRICTS, - the Eastern, Northern, North Western, Western, South Western, South Eastern, East Central, and West Central, which are designated by the capital letters E., N., N.W., and so on. Each has its district postoffice, from which letters are distributed to the surrounding district. At these chief district offices letters may be posted about 1/2 hr. later than at the branches or pillars. The delivery of London letters is facilitated by the addition to the address of the initials of the postal district. The number of offices and pillars in London is upwards of 2000 and the number of people employed by the postoffice is about 11,000. PARCEL POST. The parcel post was introduced into England in 1883. The rate of postage for an inland parcel is 3d. for a weight not exceeding 1lb.; each additional pound 11/2d. The maximum length allowed for such a parcel is 3 ft. 6 in., and the length and girth combined must not exceed 6 ft.; the maximum weight is 11lbs. Insurance and compensation (up to 10lt.) are allowed. Parcel Post Service, at various rates, is also established between the United Kingdom and several foreign countries (not including the United States) and British colonies. A POST OFFICE ORDERS are issued for sums not exceeding 10l. at the numerous Money Order Offices connected with the post-office, at least one of which is to be found in every post town in the United Kingdom. For sums under 11. the charge for transmission is 2d.; over 11. and under 21., 3d.; over 21. and under 41., 4d.; over 41. and under 71., 5d.; over 71. and not exceeding 10l., 6d. Foreign Money Orders, payable in the countries of the postal union, are issued at a charge of 6d. up to 21., 1s. up to 5l., 1s. 6d. up to 71., and 2s. up to 10l. POSTAL ORDERS, of the value of 1s., 1s. 6d., 2s., 2s. 6d., 3s., 3s. 6d., 4s., 4s. 6d., 5s., 7s. 6d., 10s., 10s. 6d., 15s., and 20s., are issued at a small charge varying from 1/2d. to 2d., and pass from hand to hand like ordinary money. They are payable at any Money Order Office in the United Kingdom. If not presented for payment within three months from the last day of the month of issue, a fresh commission is charged equal to the original cost. By the use of not more than five 1d. stamps, affixed to the face of the order, any broken amount may be made up. TELEGRAPHS. At one time there were no fewer than 35 different telegraph companies in Great Britain, but in 1870 the whole telegraph system, with the sole exception of wires for the private use of the railway companies, was taken over by Government (p. 91). The present tariff for the transmission of messages by telegraph throughout the United Kingdom, which came into force in 1885, is 1/2d. per word, with a minimum charge of 6d.; the addresses are counted as part of the telegram. The charge for telegrams to the United States varies from 6d. to 1s. per word, address in cluded. Telegrams are received at all railway-stations and almost all post-offices throughout the country. London and its suburbs contain 300 telegraph offices, open from 8a.m. to 8 p.m. The following seven are always open: Central Station, St. Martin's le Grand (corner of Newgate Street); St. Pancras Station; Paddington Station; Victoria Station; King's Cross Station; West Strand; Willesden Junction Station. There are in Great Britain 175,000 miles of telegraph wires. Telephones. The telephonic communication of London is mainly in the hands of the United Telephone Co., the head office of which is in Oxford Court, Cannon Street, City. In July, 1889, between 30 and 40 call-rooms were open in and near London; and arrangements have been made to open about 80 more in the shops of the Aërated Bread Co. Parcels Companies. Parcels for London and the environs are transmitted by the London Parcels Delivery Company, which has 1200 receiving offices distributed throughout London, usually in shops indicated by notices. The head office is in Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, Fleet Street. Within a radius of 3 M. a parcel under 4lbs. is sent for 3d., under 14lbs., 6d., under 28lbs., 8d., and so on up to 112lbs. for 1s. 2d.; beyond 3 M. the charges are from 4d. upwards. Parcels for all the chief towns of England are conveyed by Pickford & Co. (57 Gresham Street, E. C.) or Carter, Paterson, & Co. (126 Goswell Road, E.C.), but the Post Office forms the best carrier for packages not exceeding 11lbs. in weight. [A card with C. P. in large letters, conspicuously exhibited in the window, secures the stopping of the first of Carter & Paterson's vans which happens to pass the house.] Parcels for the Continent are forwarded by the Continental Daily Parcels Express (53 Gracechurch Street and 34 Regent Circus) and the Globe Parcels Express (20 St. Paul's Churchyard and 13 Woodstock Street, Oxford Street), which work in connection with the continental post-offices. Parcels for America are forwarded by Staveley & Co.'s American European Express (H. Starr & Co.), 19 Australia Avenue, Barbican, E.C.; the American Express, 99 Cannon Street, E.C.; and the American & European Express, 52 Lime Street, E.C., and 113 A. Regent Street. Pitt & Scott, 23 Cannon Street, City, and 7 Carlton Street, Regent Street, are general shipping and parcel agents for all parts of the world. Commissionnaires. These are a corps of retired soldiers of good character, organised in 1859 by Captain Sir Edward Walter of the 'Times' newspaper, and form convenient and trustworthy messengers for the conveyance of letters or small parcels. Their head office is at Exchange Court, 419a Strand, but they are also to be found in most of the chief thoroughfares, where they may be recognised by their green uniform and metal badge. Their charges are 3d. per mile or 6d. per hour; the rate is a little higher if the parcel to be carried weighs more than 141bs. The charge for a day is about 3s. 6d., and they may also be hired by special arrangement for a week or a longer period. - The Army and Navy Pensioners Employment Society, 44 Charing Cross, is a similar organisation. The Lady Guide Association, 121 Pall Mall (temporary office; Managing Directress, Miss Davis), established in 1889, provides ladies qualified to act as guides to the sights of London, as interpreters, as travelling companions, as aids in shopping, etc. It also keeps a register of boarding and lodging houses, engages rooms at hotels, exchanges money, provides railway and other tickets, and generally undertakes to give all the information and assistance required by a stranger in London. The charge for the guides, who are arranged in three classes and may be engaged by the hour, day, or month, varies from 4s. to 8s. 6d. per day. |