The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-12 00:00:00

RE-ANIMATION.

THE Medical Effects .1 Steel, as a strengthener
and restorative, have been known for ages to excel these
of all other articles of Use Materia Medica, and in this age of uxury
and dissipation, when the indiscretions of youth disappoin: the ex_
pectations of maturity, it is not to be wondered that a medicine of
such efficacy a SEDDON'S genuine AROMATIC LOZEN,ES
if STEEL should have attracted the attention of the firs medi-
cal men in Europe. When the most important functions
suspended, and those v ho are invalids by inheritam e er morulidenace
are reduced to the most deplorable state of nervous debility,
it
is cot in despair that relief is to be found. It has been ascertained,
beyond a doubt, that these circumstances ate o-casioned by a gene-
ral er partial relaxation or weaknesses in eithet 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, they immediately difthse themselves
like a vapour through every pore, producing effects at once delight.
ful, salutary, and permanent. When the spark Gflife begins to grow
dim, the circulation lan mid, and the faculties pasalysed, these Lo-
zenges are found to give tone to the nerves, exhilirate the animal
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oxford-street. else by Messrs. Ward, Pring, and Rawl*, Westrore:
land-street, Dablin; Butler, Waterioo.place, Ed.nburgh •' and of
most respectable Venders in the kingdom; in boxes at 7s* and 22.*
each. Observe each bra is signed J. P. Seddon.

MRs.GORE'S NEW NOVEL.—We are requested
to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street,
has this day published " Preferment," a Novel, by Mrs.
Gore, author of " Mrs. Armytage," " Stokeshill Place,"
&c., in 3 vols. post Bvo., which can now be had at all
the Libraries. Mr. Colburn has also just published
" The Duchess of St. Albans' Memoirs," in 2 vols. post
Bvo., with Portrait, 245.
RORY O'MORE FOR SIX SHILLINGS,
FORMING THE NEW VOLUME OF " THE STANDARD
NOVELS."—Now isn'tit a treat to get " Rory O'More,"
the celebrated in Irish story, in song, in music, and on
the stage, complate in a single volume? Complate did
we say ? nay, more than complete ; for the same hand
which invented and traced the romance in so popular
a manner, has also adorned it with all an artist's feel-
ing and talents. " Rory's Return Home," painted
by Lover, and engraved by Greatbach, is a most cha-
racteristic frontispiece, and the " Farewell to the Land
of the West," by the same, a vignette of touching in-
terest and beauty. Far and wide as " Rory" has tra-
velled
arbeforaez,hte.e w ill now greatly extend Us limits.—
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sta,—Therc can be but one, way of carrying the
Penny Postage into operation, and that is by the adop-
tion of my plan (now before the Lords Commissioners
of her Majesty's Treasury)—all the long-winded wire-
drawn communications mean the same, but they all lack
my explicitness.
All plans must be simple—easy to be understood—
giving no extra trouble.
Because country postmasters and country letter-
writers are not the most enlightened classes, many being
unable, and more being unwilling, to comprehend any-
thing less simple than the present—
There can be but four ways.
1. By pre-payment. Absurd ; because it would re-
qtfire constant attendance in many post-offices in the night
as well as the day ; and when the post-office was.about
to close, wolud be impossible, if', as is expected,-Ike let-
ters will be increased sixfold, unless, indeed, the number
of clerks be materially increased.
2. By stamped sheets of paper. A plan utterly in-
admissible for several reasons : it would derange the
whole paper trade ; it would be monstrously unjust to
many, and would require uniformity of folding to exhibit
the stamp.
3. By stamped envelopes. This pet plan is liable to
many objections ; it is unjust, because many short letters
receipts of bills, country orders,announcements of births
and other family events, &c., will be written in the en-
velope, rendering a sheet of letter-paper unnecessary ;
secondly, it will add enormously to the bulk and weight
of the millions of letters sent by post ; thirdly.
there will be no security that three or more notes, on
very thin paper, be not included in one envelope ; and,
fourthly, forgery cannot be prevented.
There remains but one plan more, and that is by
" adhesive penny stamps"—stamps of a circular form,
like medallion wafers, to be wetted by the tongue and
affixed to the letter (already closed with a wafer). I
therefore propose that every letter put into any post-
office, written on any sort of paper, after the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1840, shall go free to every part of the United
Kingdom, if it shall have upon it, at the time it is put in
the post-office, a penny adhering stamp.
The dangers are-1. Forgery ;2. Falling off of the
Stamp.
First—Forgery. Every stamp is liable to forgery, whe-
ther on a sheet of letter paper, an envelope, or a penny
adhesive stamp. The security is—firstly, in the adop-
tion of a superior mode of distribution ; secondly, in
their being sold by Government in wrappers of exqui-
site and almost inimitable engraving ; thirdly, by vary-
ing the tint of the paper on which the "penny adhesive
stamp" is stamped—by the appointment of licensed sub-
distributors—by a simple system of permits—and, finally,
by the appointment of District Penny-post Inspectors,
whose duty shall consist in visiting extensive districts,
purchasing penny stamps, examining them and the per-
mits, and who shall travel by mail free of expense—in
a word, by the appointment of talented and educated
gentlemen, whose duties shall be somewhat analagous to
those of the Assistant Poor-law Commissioners. These
are the securities from forgery. This is the business of the
Exchequer. The people have nothing to do but to buy
a penny stamp and stick it on.
But, secondly, the stamp may fall off. This will be
of no consequence, as the present Post-office stamp,
somewhat altered, having a cross in the centre (instead
of the present filling up), must be stamped upon the
penny adhesive stamp, by every postmaster, instead of
at random as at present. This " marginal stamp," of
which a specimen is sent, will firstly spoil the stamp for
future use, and secondly, by pointing out the place from
which the stamp has fallen, be delivered free, because it
proves a penny adhesive stamp had been placed on.
Where there is no adhesive stamp the " marginal
stamp," is to be put upon such letter, the postage of
which unstamped letter is to be 4d.
There are other provisions for the safe delivery of
money letters, which are not in future to have any exter-
nal mark or figure indicating the value of their contents.
Such is my plan—at least a rough and hasty sketch
of it—penned in extreme haste as you will see ; and I
finish I as began, by lauding its superiority over all
others.—l am, Sir, yours, &c.
Cambridgeshire. J. H. W.
P.S. The penny adhesive stamps may have wafers on
their under surface, or some adhesive material like court
plaister, or transfer-varnish applied just before affixing.
Boxes containing from twenty to one hundred stamps.
Wafers and adhesive liquid with brush would save the
saliva, and make " assurance doubly sure."