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LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. •
TO BREWERS, PUBLICANS, AND OTHERS.
The Queen's Head Inn, and Nine Public-houses, situated in
the Town and NeighJourhood, Malt-house, Cottages, Store-
house, and Land.
ittit. W. WI SIMPSON. has received (Elec.-
L'fiL tions to SELL-by A UCTION, at the Queen's Head
Inn, Lowestoft, en Wednesday, Feb 2, at Twelve, in One
Lot, and if not sold entire then (on the same day), in several
lots, the following valuable prGnertv, viz.:—
TEN INNS and PUBLIC-HOUSES, comprising the
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The town of Lowestoft is distant ten miles from Yarmouth
and Beceles, 12 from Southwold, 16 from Bungay and Hales-
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POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS

(From the Spectator.)
The Penny Postage is one of the few benefits which
the People sometimes derive from a weak Government.
It was a concession to Public Opinion, made with the
greatest reluctance, and only because at that particular
moment it was expedient to court popular favour ; the
gradual loss of which had endangered the existence of
the late Ministry. B It, however ungratefully the
boon may have been granted, its universal importance,
end the value which the nation attaches to it, prevent
the possihility of its ever being resumed. Penny Postage
(unless, indeed, it eventually lead to a halfpenny rate)
is as immutable as the Bill of Rights, or any funda-
mental institution of the empire.
It was always our opinion that the monopoly of con-
veying the correspondence of the country is not a legiti-
mate or proper source of revenue. It was net so in-
tended in its origin ; and, looking at its nature and
amount, it was perhaps the most odious, impolitic, and
tyrannical tax ever imposed upon a people calling
themselves free, and believing themselves intelligent.
Yet custom reconciled as to th imposition ; and as the
members of the Government, high and low, as well as
those of both Houses of Parliament, contrived to exempt
themselves, their families and friends, from its operation,
the system was said to thrive well ; for while it swelled
the resources of the Budget, it was a cause of hourly
distinction to the rich and privileged classes, who re-
joiced in Government covers and Parliamentary frank,.
Time, however, which innovates on all things, at last
l brought Post-office Reform. But though the tax is
greatly mitigated, the principle of making the Post-office
a source of revenue still continues. Future improve-
ments, therefore, must in some degree depend upon
fixing the amount, per cent.. which it may be expected
to yield as a tax ; ftnd upon expending all above that
amount on the rapid, frequent, and safe conveyance and
delivery of letters and small parcels. Instead of con-
fining the expenses of the department to the minimum
of cost with the view of producing the maximum of
taxation, the principal object ought to be to perfect the
system. Every improvement would eventually incre Ise
the general receipts, and consequently augment the
returns to the Treasury. Hence, to oppose improve-
ment, is to injure the revenue ; a fact of which the ene-
mies of Post-office Reform seem totally ignorant.
At this moment, before the stage of transition eis
passed, and while the pl in is not yet fully carried out,
the Pest-office yields the enormous profit of some 40 per
cent. to the State, without the employment of any
capital, or incurring the slightest risk. But this is by
no means its only advantage to the Government. It is
of all departments (except perhaps the Customs) the
most fruitful source of patronage ; and a Parliamentary
return of the number of appointments annually given by
the Postmaster-General would expose the real motives
of many opponents of Post-office Reform. Such a re-
turn would be still more useful : it would suggest inquiry
whether all the present cumbrous and expensive ma-
chinery is actual'y necessary ; and it might therefore
lead to changes alike economical and efficient. If a
large saving can he made in t'ee ministerial part of the
system, part of the loss to the revenue, of which so
many pathetic complaints are made, will be shown to
arise from jobbery or mismanagement ; and thus, that
long-enduring peblic, whom all profess to regard, yet
whom every man, individually, is delighted to drain,
will be found to have been doubly ill-used—first by
having been plundered and aggrieved for the sake of the
rove iee, erre secondly for the purpose of patronage.
Port-office Improvement cannot, however, now be
prevented, though it nary be retarded ; and Govern-
ment will only show its wisdom by cheerfully taking the
lead, .instea i of being sulkily driven to consult the
wants and wishes of the country on this subject. An
indication of the feeling of the Administration was
shown in Lord Lowther's recent answer to the depu-
tation from the London Mercantile Committee on
Postage ; but his Lordship did himself injustice in say-
ing he was " as willing as his predecessor" to carry out
Mr. Hill's plan—we believe him to be both more
willing and more able than Lord L:chfield to carry it
out. It is perhaps to be wished that the same disposi-
tion and similar ability existed in the inferior function-
aries of his department.
Admitting that many of the great alteraticns adv.).
catrd by Mr. Hill must be attended- with a certain
increase of expense with an uncertain increase of reve-
nue, and that time may be required for their due con-
sideration, there are, nevertheless, other important
changes to which neither objection applies. Our pre.
sent remarks will therefore be confined to pointing out
some defects which arise from mistake, negligence, and
the want of a systematic arrangement.
I. THE DISTRICT POST. Before the establishment
of a uniform Penny Post, small parcels under the
weight of four ounces were conveyed to any part of the
Metropolis for 2d. and to the suburbs for 3d. Tne
same-sized parcels are now charged one price as if they
were sent to the Land's End or to John o'Groat's
House and this is said to be because there is a uni-
form rate. That, however, is a fallacy; and it has
proved equally inconvenient to the inhabitants and
in-
jurious to the Post-office. The new system was in-
tended to increase not to lessen alsy existing advan-
tage. In every other case, the Post office conveys a
letter or small parcel at a cite rper rate than it could
possibly be sent by any other paid conveyance ; but u
parcel weighing from two to four ounces can be sent
from houses within a short distance of each other
at leas than half the price now demanded by the Post-
office. The Post-office loses, therefore, the benefit of
conveying most of such parcela (which are either sent
by baud or by one of the private conveyance-compa-
nies), and which could be delivered by the present
corps of District postmen without any additional cost
to the depertment. The London public and the Post-
office revenue are alike injured—the latter perhaps the
most—without any single counter-balancing benefit,
and without any apparent reason.

11. STAMPS ON LETTERS. Every letter that passes
through the Post-office, whether General or District,
ought to bear a stamp containing the date (and hour,
if Diitric:) and the name of the place where it is
posted : the utility of which for tracing a letter is obvi-
ous. But let any one compare, as we have done, five
or six letters of each class, General and District, end he
will find that no uniform principle is observed. Some
General Post letters are altogether without a stamp :
others contain the date without the name of the place ;
some, the place without the date ; while in form the
stamps are unitke each to each. With respect to Dis-
trict letters it is " confusion worse confounded ;" and
though the hieroglyphics that occur on them may per-
haps be deciphered by official skill, to the uninitiated

the marks are utterly unintelligible and uselesa. From
the want of systematic arrangement and central control,
so visible in this branch of the service, men are led to
infer extreme carelessness or incompetency in other
branche3 which are more concealed in their workings,
though felt in their evil results.
111. THE DELIVERY OF LETTERS. If the name
of the street be accidentally omitted on any letter, the
delivery of that letter is matter of chance ' • and to the
Post•office, Court Guide, Blue Books, Directories,
and the numerous other works of reference, are things
unknown. Let the party, from his name, rank, or sta-
tion, be ever so easily identified, or stand ever so con-
spicuous in the Court Guide or Blue Book or Direc-
tory, he will not receive his letter until it has been

" Try"-ed by a jury of postmen, each taking it in turn,
who may think he knows some one of that name, or

" something like it," in.bis beat. After many, failures,
the individual may, at tbe distance ofiviveek or ten
days, be lucky enough to receive biz letter, covered

wttb evidences of neglect in the form of Tries ; whereas,
a single glance at one of the commonest books of refe-
rence might have immediately discovered his address.
This is a serious evil ; and, considering that it is an im-
portant part of the contract on which the monopoly
exists that letters shall be duly and quickly delivered,
a special department in the General and District offices
ought long since to have been established for the pur-
pose of ascertaining doubtful or mistaken addresses :
a little experience, and that tact which experience
gives, would soon enable the oficers to do all that is
practicable. But " Not known," " Try," and " the
Dead Letter Office," save trouble to all but peripatetic
postmen.

IV. THE POSTAGE OF NEWSPAPERS IN THE
LONDON DISTRICT. Though any newspaper will pass
and repass from one end of the kingdom to another
without charge, yet if it be sent from one street of

London to the very next street it is charged a penny.
While a distinction existed between the District and

the General Post-office with respect to postage, the fact
admitted of explanation ; but when the rates were
assimilated, the retention of the postage of newspapers
became anomalous and unjust, It shows how un-
willingly the reform was adopted, and how determined

the authorities were to clutch every farthing of receipt
for the revenue. The stamp is affixed to a newspaper
professedly to cover its postage ; and if it carries a paper
free any number of hundreds of miles, upon what prin-
ciple is a charge amounting to one-fifth of the value of

the paper imposed for conveying it perhaps two miles,
perhaps only fifty yards? A clearer proof of the want
of a general system, or of the niggardly spirit of the
Post-office, could not be adduced. In fact, no anomaly
seems too great to be preserved if a few hundred pounds
are to be gained by it.
Enough of suggestion for one week. Lord Lowther
may be assured that his administration is watched with
confidence by many, and interest by all.

ENIIGRA TlON.—Thirty-five persons from Dow-
lais, and fourteen families from Rhymney, left for the
United States last Saturday. Chairs which cost five
shillings, are now sold for only one ; and other house
hold furniture proportionally low.—Silurian.