[.] . 48 (POST OFFICE Wasmus" Francis H. hair dresser, 88 North Woolwleh road Wilkin Ellen (Mrs.), beer retailer, Victoria ( Londou) tlocks Waterfield Thnmas, boot maker, Roscoe street Williams Georg-e, beer retailt>r, Woodstock street Waterbouse Mathew Goodson, earthenware dlr. Barking rd Window George, shopkeeper, Nelson street Watkins Samuel&; Son, Victoria tavern~ Railway hotel, Window Sarnuel, shopket>per, Alice street Barking road Winter William, cheesenwn~er, 38 North Woolwich roatl Watkins Thomas, baker, Stephenson street Wood Charles, marine store dealer, lli North Woolwieh rd Watkins William, boat builder & Tidal basin, Victoria Wood Edward Thomas, 9 Wind-or terrace, Barking road () docks Wood George Thomas, beer retailer, Bidder street Watson Jas.jun. Dock Hou8e tavern, Victoria (London) dks Wood John, shopkeeper, I Trinity terrace, Barking rood Watson John, cowkeeper, Rathbone strt>et Woods Jas. tailor, 2I Cuqtom House ter. Nth. Woolwich r1l \l'atson Peter, lorl~infl house, 80 North Woolwicb road Wood>~ Rohert, Sidney Arms, Alice street Watson Waiter Henry, hair dresser, Victoria (London) dks Working Men's Club (S. Wood, sec. l,Victoria (London) dks Way James, marine store dealer, Vincent street Worland JarnP-s, corn merchant, 43, North Woolwich road Webb Mary Ann ( 1\Irs.), shopkeeper, Hoy street Worland William Commercial, corn dealer, Alice strert West Ham Local Board of Health Pumping Station Wormersley Pelham,linendraper,32,33,34 North W nol wich rd (engineer's office), (William B. Hon.eman, engineer), Wortley Richard, undertaker, 27 North Wool\\"ich road River side Wray George, shopkeeper, Arkwri!!ht street Westley & Son, cowkeepen, Bidder street Wright Susannah (Miss), dress maker, 8 Woodstock stref't Whisler Mary Ann (Mrs.), laundress,139Nth.Woolwich rd Wyndham P. & Co. creosote works & saw mill<~, Victoria White Charles, ginger beer maker, Hallsville road (London) docks; city office!!, Lombard ho. George yard e.c White Georlle, tailor, Rathbone street Young Jacob, beer retailer, Hoy street White Robert, en~ineer, Victoria (London) docks Young Jane (Miss), dress maker, 1 Lawn villas, North Wig-g-ins & Rihll, oil & color merchants, ship chandlers, W oolwich road sail makers &c. Victoria (London) docks Young William, Victoria Dock tavPrn, North Woolwich rd Wigley Henry, news agent, W oodstock street Youngman William, oilman, Church street

CANVEY ISLAND, which is united to South Ben­ in the gift of the Bishop of Roche~ter, and held hv the Rev. fleet at low water by a cau<~ewav across Hadlt>i~h Ray, is in Henry Hayes, T.A.K.C.L. The principal landowner" are the parishes of Bowers Gittbrd, Hadleigh, North BenfiPet, J. I. Belcham, W. Clarke, C. A<~plin, and thP. Hilton Laindon, Pitsea, Prittlf'well, , Southchurch, trustees. This island is 6 miles lo11g by 3 hrnad, Pon taina and Vange: it is the Comennos of the ancient geographer about 5,000 acres, and had a population in 1871 of 277. Ptolemy, and is a marsh island of the Thames, defeuded by Parish Clerk, Joseph Hills. high banks all round, er... cted in I623; it forms a very rich ~razing ground, on which many cattle and sheep are fattened. Here is a coastguard station, with a chief officer Letters received from . Rayleigh is the nearest and eight men. The church of St. Katherine consists of a money order office nave, with a porch on south side. The re:rister dates from Coast Gu,rd Station, John Green, chief officer the year I819. The Jiving is a vicarage, yearly value £140, National School, Miss Mary Pitt, mistress Beckwith Charles, Lobster Smack I Drawbridge Thos. beer retatler &grocer I Green J ohn,chief officer of coastguards

CASTLE HEDINGHAM, anciently a market town, parhh, formerly the seat of a branch of the De V ere is a village, parish, station on the Colne Valley Railway, family, and the residence of the great Gt'neral Lord V ere of and polling place fer the Eastern division of the county, in , is now a farmhouse. The soil i~ mixed; ~nh .. oil, hundred, uuion and county C'ourt dis­ blue clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley. and mau!.{old­ trict, Hedingham rural deanery, archdeaconry, wurzel. The area is 2,4'!9 acr·es; gross estimaterl J'eutal, &nd Rocbester diocese, 5 miles north from Halstead, and 7 .£.j,994; rateable value, £5,4i>9; the population in 1871 waa 110utb-w1'st from Surlbury, on the east ~ide oftbf' Col ne, and I ,23.5. at the point where the road hranches off to Sudhury, and de­ Parish Clerk, James Wright. rives its name from its castle; it is lighted with gas. The church of St. Nicholas is an an('ient edifice, with brick PosT & MoNEY ORDER OFFICE, Po~t Office Savin~ hattlements, and is partly in the Norman and partly in the Bank & Telegraph Office.-Edward Bingham. Lerten Early English Rtyle: has chanf'el, nave, aisles, and a massive al'rive thruu~h Halstead by mail cart at 5.40 o..m.; brick tower: the church \\as thoroughly restored in 1871; dispatched at 6.35 p.m. The letter box is closedat6.30 p.m the chancel is divided from the nal'e by handsome carved a ACTING ~l.uHsTRATEs FOR THE CoUNTY. oak screen; there is an organ; it contain<~ a superh monu­ ment to John de V ere, Earl of Oxford, who died in 1539, and North Hinc~ford Division. to his countess, in a recumbent posture. The re~isters date N. C. Bamardiston, esq. Ryes lodge, Little Henny,Suilb•ny from 1558. The living is a vicarage, yearly valull £145, in the C. B. Sperling, esq. Castle H Pdingham gift of Lewis A. Majendie, esq. M. P. (who is a lay rector; the Rev. C. J. Gooch, Toppestield rectorial tithes are about £9:20 yearly), and held by the Rev. Rev. J. Fo<~ter, Foxearth 8idney Phillips, M.A., of Brasenose CollPg-e, Oxford. The J.ewis Ashhurst Majendit>, e<~q. 111. r. Het.lingham castle Independents have a spacious chapel here The charitie~ E. A. S. Walton, esq. Haverhill hamlet amount to .£IO yearly. Here are a savings bank, a read in~ Lewis J. Way, eilq. 'fhe Court, 'filhury room and library, also a police !ltation, at which petty Rev. W. K. Borton, Wic-kh:lm St. Paul &essioo .. are held every alternate Wedne8day. Hedingham W. W. Boreham, e<~q. Haverhill Ca.'ltle is in the :Norman style, and was formerly the chief John Brewer, esq. O,·er Hall, Gestingthorpe stronghold of the illustrious house of the DeVeres, Earls of Clerk to fhe Magi.~trati'S, Robf'rt F. 8tedmnn, Surfhul'y Oxford and Dukes of Dublin : in 1151 Maull, queen of King Petty Sessions are held at Castle Hedingham every Stephen, is said to have died here: in I2I6 the castle was alternate tuesday taken by King John, when held for the harons, butfloon after INSURANCE AGENTS:- was captured by the Dauphin Louis of France, and then re­ London~ Norll)ich Accident~ Casualty, E. Bingham taken by the weat Earl of Pembroke. Here John de V ere, Reliance llfutual Life, J. Dysan Earl of Oxford, entertained Henry VII. with the greatest Roy"l Exch,:nge, J. M. Balls magnificence and hospitaJity ; but the greedy monar('h, Scottish Provincial, W. Hart lf>llming from hi~J own acknowle•lgment that he harl given Police Station, Charles Fox, inspector liveries to his retainers, fined him in the enormous sum of Inland Revenue O.ffire, Pram+~ Horder · 15,000 mal'ks. The keep is the only part of the ca~tlt! which Clerk to the Hedinghcun Highway Board, Wm. Alex. remains, and is square, with sides 62 feet by 5.5 feet, and no Troop, of Halstead feet in height; it stands on an eminence, partly artificial, Inspector of Weights~ Measures, Charle11 Fox which rises above the village. In ll90 Aubrey de Vere, Reyi.~trar o.f Births ~ Deatlu for the Hedingham Dit• Earl of Oxford, founded a Benedictine nunnery, ufwhich his trict, Jetfery Mayne countess, Lucia, was the first prioress: the revenues of the ScHOOLs:- Dissolution were £29 12s. lOd.: it is now a tarmhutlse. In National, James Prohert 1'250, H ugh de V ere, Earl of Oxford, founded an hospital. Independent, Michael Thoma!l F.astwood, master Tire De V eres alienated the castle in 1625, and it now be­ CARRIERS TO ;- longs to Lewis Ashhnrst Majendie, esq., M.J•., J'.P., lord of BRAINTREE-Mrs. Snsannah Andrews, mon. wt>rl. & fp the manor, and principal landowner, wko re11id"!! in a LONDON-To Sarncen'sHettd, Aldgate, tuf'8. & friday handsome tnanilon, erected in 1718. Kirby Hull, in th11 SUDBURY-Mrs. Susannah Andrew•1 tuei. thun. & :;at •