The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-26 00:00:00

Ounces, Six Rates of Postage.
On Letters above Three Ounces, and not exci ceding Four
Ounces, Eight Rates of Postage.
And so on in proportion.
Postmasters should bear in mind, how rever , that after the
First Ounce in the annexed Scale, no dic,tinction is made
between the Ounce and a Fraction of an Ounce. A Letter,
kr instance, which turns the Ounce weight, is liable to Four
rfaces of Postage ; and a Letter weighin .g a Fraction above
TWO Ounces, is liable to Six Rates of Postage, and so on.
This Regulation, however, will not affect the mode of charging
trench Rates on Letters to or from France, and through
Prance, as the present system of chart ;ing French Rates on
such Litters must continue in force, viz., a Single French
Rate for each Quarter of an Ounce, .exclusive.
The Single Rate of Inland Postage on all General Post. Let-
ters, transmitted between places in the United Kingdom, will
be the uniform Rate of 4d., except in those cases where the
Letters are at present subject to lower Rates than the Sum
Specified, and except in the case of Foreig n Letters transmitted
by packet, on which the Rates of Inland Postage at present
taken must be continued, although the charge must be cal-
culated in both cases by weight, as before` mentioned, and not
by Enclosures.
No Inland Rate of Postage will be taken on Letters between
the British West Indies and the United Kingdom, or en
those between Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands, and the
United Kingdom. This last description of Letters must, how-
ever, be addressed " via Falmouth," or tl ley will otherwise be- I
come subject to the present Inland Rates, as they will be for-
warded through France, and be treated as Foreign Letters.
As the rate to and from North Amert,ca already is an uni- i
form rate of One Shilling for a Single L etter, the rate of Post-
age on Letters conveyed by Packet between the United King- 1
doin and all the British Colonies (with the exception of Let-
ters to the East Indies, which are to be charged when they are
sent or received via Falmouth 2s. 6d. as at present,) will be
an uniform single rate of One Shilling, advancing on all Let-
ters exceeding half an ounce according to the scale of Weight
already laid down.
No Penny Postage will hereafter be charged upon Letters
Passing through the General Post except on those which are
ranked; Franks, however, will still be liable to the local rates
of a Penny or Twopence, as at present, when passing through
Penny Posts in the Country, or the local Posts of London and
Dublin.
The additional rates heretofore chargeable on Letters con-
' IcYed by the route of the Menai and Conway Bridges, that of
Milford and Waterford, and the additional Halfpenny on Let-
ors conveyed by Mails in Scotland, will be abolished.
No Letter which is not franked, or which shall not be either
despatched by, or addressed to a Public Department on the
Public Service shall be forwarded when above the weight of
Sixteen Ounces, with the exception of those from Foreign
Countries or the Colonies, addressed to the United Kingdom,
whether they shall arrive by Packet or by private Ship, and
Deeds and Parliamentary Proceedings when addressed to
the Colonies to be forwarded by Packet. The Letters will be
delivered according to their address, but at the rates of Postage
to which they will be liable by the scale before given. With
respect to Deeds and Parliamentary Proceedings, they will be
treated according to the existing' Regulations, and will be
charged with the rates they are at present liable to, except
where those rates are higher than they would be under the new
System. Parliamentary Petitions above Sixteen Ounces within
the United Kingdom will be treated in a similar manner. Let-
ters evidently intended to be franked, but which have become
liable to Postage by wrong date, &c. &c., must be forwarded,
even if above the weight of Sixteen Ounces, but at the rates
already laid down.
All Letters exceeding the weight of an Ounce (with the ex-
ception of Letters addressed to France) must have the Postage
Paid in advance. Should the Postage not be paid in advance,
the Letters must be charged with double the rates to which
they would otherwise be liable.
The Charge on Letters transmitted by private Ship between
the United Kingdom and Places beyond Sea (with the excep
tion of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, and Places within
the limits of the East India Company's Charter) will also be
taken by weight according to the scale before given. The
single rate of Postage on such Letters will be Bd. when posted
or delivered at the port of departure or arrival, and Is. when
Posted or delivered at any other Place within the United King-
dom. These rates of Bd. and Is. will apply also to Letters be-
tween this Country and China.
The rates on Letters conveyed by private Ships between the
United Kingdom and Countries comprised within the limits of
the East India Company's Charter will be the present uniform
rase for Sea Postage of 2d. outwards, and 4d. inwards, for
Letters not exceeding the weight of three ounces, when posted
°e delivered at the Ports of departure or arrival respectively,
'Pond that weight an uniform rate of Is. per ounce will be
taken as Sea Postage. When, however, such Letters are
Posted or delivered at any other Place than the Port of arrival
I and departure, they will be liable to the charge of Inland Post-
! age, calculated according to the new scale of weight, in addition
to the Sea Postage before mentioned.
Letters transmitted by private Ships between Places within
the United Kingdom must be treated in the same manner as Ge-
neral Post Letters forwarded by the regular Mails between such
Places, and charged with the same rates of Postage according
to the scale of weight before laid down. Letters conveyed by
. private Shins between Great Britain and the Channel Islands,
and the Isle of Man must be treated in a similar manner.
All Letters that cannot be forwarded owing to their exceed-
ing the prescribed weight must be sent to the Dead Letter
Office in accordance with the existing regulations.
By Command,
W. L. MABERLY, Secretary.

DRAUGHT WINES.-PORT AND
SHERRY, 10s. 6d., 125., and lbs. per Gallon ;
Marsala and Lisbon, 12s. per Gallon ; Cape, 6s. 6d. and is. 6d. -
Pontec, 9s.

HENEKEY and COMPANY.
Gray's Inn, Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn.

ATENT BRANDY VERSUS COGNAC.
—The celebrity of BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY,
and its unparalleled extent of sale, with which the public
generally are now well acquainted, would seem to render
almost unnecessary any attempt to extend a knowledge of those
Co.fa. Such, indeed, would be the course that J. T. Betts and
‘, would pursue, were it not for the numerous and specious
attempts to foist upon the world articles presumptuously
offered as substitutes for the Patent Brandy, without the most
remote pretensions to approach it in quality; attempts which,
however short lived, impose upon J. T. Betts and Co. the ne-
cessity for issuing, from time to time, a caution to the Public to
satisfy themselves of the identity of the Spirit which they pro-
cure, if purchasers would take only that simple precaution,
and really obtain Betts's Patent Brandy, the complaints in-
cessantly mule of the defective character of Home-made
Brandy, would soon cease to be heard.
, So unbounded is the confidence of J. T. Betts and Co. in
tne sterling qualities and value of their production—and so en-
tirely is that confidence borne out by chemical analysis, by
tnedical sanction, and by universal family support—that they
have challenged their continental neighbours, the French Dis-
. tillers, to produce, amongst the finest samples of Cognac, an
article of equal purity, or possessed of the same wholesome
properties, as the Patent Brandy.
The Patentees, as Distillers, cannot send out less than Two
Gallons, which may be obtained; either pale or coloured, for
Cash on Delivery, at Eighteen Shillings per Imperial Gallon, of
the highest legal strength, at the Distillery, No. 7, Smithfield-
. bars, leading to St. 0 h - treet —the'r only Establishment.

SIGHT AND HEARING.
THE INVISIBLE OPERATIVE VOICE
CONDUCTOR, effected by the Messrs. S. and iit.
SOLOMONS, Opticians and Aurists to the Royal Family, 39, Albe
tereaarle—street, Piccadilly, and 96, Cheapside, by which thousands of
shilling have been greatly benefited, is the size of a seven.
eas ' piece, and when fixed into the cavity of the ear is soft and
Y. and
which
ierre perceptible than having a piece of wool in its
place,
with distinctness, And
faintest whisper at a public assembly is heard
the use of newly.s And defective VISION is brought to nature by
they are placedbefnovreented SPECTACLE LENSES: immediately
or nuts pa; ever y
objet and imperfect eyesight, either by day
Minute particle is seen with great
clear and distinct, and the most
both the sight and hearing Leiosene much improved.
tier eat distinctness, by the use of which
The Messrs. SOLOMON
of the SA ME NAME, and the CLAIM all connection with persons
so they state the HISTO Ry of ale of Amber Spectacles : in doing
Arts and Sciences" of Andrew Ure, mIR, from the Dictionary of
" Amber is an indurated vegetable jnic*LF•ll-S-, &c. &c.
-c-- and not produced by the
laws of crystallization, but by the same
°uses which influence the
by
found embedded in
mechanical condition of gum. Insects are
it. Amber is most powerfully electrical
workmen, too, are such an extent as to explode into fragments Y; friction—very —very hot, to
tree, xecited electrics ;
subject to nervous tremours in their wrists, a-•
they
and is is of such a
counter great danger by handling such dreadful mg'
B'c' ;
Amber grows with lime, and is apt to take
edeny
Sir li.
soft nature when exposed to warmth that it swells, bubbles up, and
Chemistry,
will burn away with flame."
The above Dr. U re's statements are further confl
confirmed
BREWSTER and Pliny, as also by Parks and Heny n
Thedestructive effects of such a material for Spectacles, ts,
nnvision, are fully and most satisfactorily explained inAeZseet
Curtis and Dollond's Second Edition on the Preservation of Sight,
and may be ascertained at any respectable Optician's in London:-'
The Messrs, Solomons' newly-invented Spectacle Lenses are not
constructed of such a material; hut which arc very superior, and
bring back at once dimness of sight and imperfect vision to its
original and natural state ; these Spectaclesh,
aand atd very
ir small Voice
Conductors for Deaf persons, are only to be the Establi
tnents, 39, -Albemarle-street, and 96, Cheapside.
No Travellers are employed.

RE-ANIMATION.
THE Medical Effects of Steel, as a strengthener
and restorative, have been known for ages to excel those
of all other articles of the Materia Medica, and in this age of 'rata),
and dissip maturity,
when the indiscretions of youth disappoint the ex_
pectations of it is not to be wondered that a medicine of
such efficacy as SEDDON'S genuine AROMATIC LOZEN,ES
of STEEL should have attracted the attention of the firs- medi
cal men in Europe. When the most important functions of life al e
suspended, anal those ho arc invalids by inheritant eor imprudence
are reduced to the mo..t deplorable sate of nervous debility, it
is not in despair that relief is to be found. It has been ascertained,
beyond a doubt, that these circumstances ate occasioned by a gene-
ral or partial relaxation or weaknesses in either sex; and it is
equally certain that SEDDON'S LOZENGES are the best, if
not the only remedy ever discovered for this species of debility.
When taken into the stomach, thee immediately difffise themselves
fua vapour through every pore, producing effects at once delight-
'l?l, salutary, and permanent. When the spark of life begins to grow
dim, the circulation lan,uid, and the faculties calalysed, these Lo-
zenges are found to give tone to the nerves, exhilinte the animal
s pirits, invigorate the bosly, and le-animate the whole man. When
aversion to exercise, loss or depravity of appetite, and pallid counte-
nance, e ene e,indicate approaching consumption, the delicate female will
p preserved and restored to health and society by the benign in-
fluence of this medicine
„.p..repared only by the Proprietor and sold hy his Agents, Mr.
ts.nord, 104, Strand; Mr. Tohnston, Coinhill; Mr. Sanger, 150,
Oxford_street ; also by MeSsrs, Ward, Pring, and Rawlo, Westmore-
tland. street, Dablin • Butler, Waterloo-place, Edinburgh ; and of
most respectable Venderseach, Observe each box is signed
J. Y. Seddon.