The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-02 00:00:00

PENNY POSTAGE BILL.

The following are the principal clauses in the above bill :
The preamble declares the expediency of one uniform rate
of penny postage, parliament pledging itself to make good
any deficiency in the revenue.
Clause 1, empowers the Lords of the Treasury to alter and
fix the rates of postage according to the weight of letters
without reference to distance, and alter or repeal any such
altered or reduced rates, and make others in lieu of them
by warrant, such warrants to he inserted in the London Ga-
zette ten days at least before coming into operation, and to
be laid before parliament.
2. Such rates to be charged by and paid to the Postmaster-
General.

3. Lords of the Treasury may suspend, wholly or in part,
the privilege of franking, either parliamentary or official.
4. Lords of the Treasury may suspend, wholly or in part,
letters sent by the twopenny or penny post, and subject such
letters to the same rates as any other letters.
5. Lords of the Treasury may direct, that letters written
on stamped paper, or inclosed in stamped covers, or having
a stamp affixed thereto, such stamp being of the required
amount according to weight, to pass free of postage ; stamps,
&c., once used, being no longer available.
6. Lords of the Treasury may direct the Commissioners
of Stamps and Taxes to provide proper dies and other imple-
ments for stamps.
7. Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes must keep a sepa-
rate account of stamp duties arising under the act; and
Lords of the Treasury may direct them to pay over such
sums to the Receiver-General of the Postoffice, at the Bank
of England ; such sums to be held by him, liable to all
changes to which the Postoffice revenue is at present liable.
8. Rates or duties to be deemed stamp duties, and subject
to all regulations for collection, prevention, and punishment
of fraud or forgery, in like manner.
9. Letters to be sent as the Postmaster-General, with the
consent of the Lords of the Treasury, will direct.
10. Masters of outward-bound vessels to any place, to take
charge of any post letter bag tendered to him by an officer of
the Postoffice for conveyance, subject to penalties for refusal,
and entitled to the same gratuities as the master of any other
vessel, not being a post-office packet.
11. Lords of the Treasury may alter gratuities to masters
of vessels.

12. The word " letter" or " letters" to include newspa-
pers, and any other packet, paper, article, or thing, trail-
nutted by the post, but not to deprive newspapers of any pri-
vilege they now possess of passing free of postage.
13. Three of the Lords of the Treasury to be a quorum.
14. The act to cease and determine on the sth October,
1840.

15. Act may be amended or repealed during the present
session.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER.—The uncertainty which still hangs over
the Liverpool cotton market appears to prevent the restora-
tion of confidenCe here. The demand for yarn yesterday was
rather more limited than on the preceding Tuesday ; and the
buyers generally endeavoured to supply themselves at lower
prices. In this attempt, however, they were not very suc-
cessful ; the business done being generally at the prices of
yesterday week, but those prices were by no means so readily
obtained as on that day. In goods, also, there was not quite
so much doing, with the exception of printing cloth, which
was about the same as on yesterday week, though scarcely so
good as on Saturday last.—Manchester Guardian.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY 29.2--The
demand for flannels has not been so good to-day as in former
weeks. In prices there is no change to report. The wool
market still remains heavy, and the manufacturers are want-
ing to purchase for less money.—Manchester Guardian.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JULY 30.—We have nothing
new to report in the aspect of this market. The same lifeless-
ness existed this week as for several weeks past. Notwith-
standing, a fair trade is done to order, and few goods are
brought to market. Prices also remain firm. The warehouses
continue doing a steady, and, we have reason to believe, not
an unprofitable, business.—Manchester Guardian.
BLACKBURN.—No change of any moment has taken place
during the past week, either in the yarn or cloth markets ;
and both may be considered, especially the former, as below
par when compared with the cotton market. The unfavour-
able state of the weateer, too, with regard to harvest opera-
tions, must have a correspbndent influence upon all our nome
commercial operations, and seriously affect our autumnal
transactions.—Blaekburn Standard.

We are happy to perceive that Viscountess Milton has pre-
sented her lord with a son, who is prospective heir to the ex-
tensive estates of the Fitzwilliam familv.—Herald,