The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-01 00:00:00

POSTAGES ON FOREIGN LETTERS.

The following explanatory notice with regard to the recent
change in the mode of charging the postages on foreign letters
has'been ,posted up against the Foreign Letter Department of
the-General Post Office : _ _ .

"With reference to the instructions on the subject of cbarg-
ineureign letters, I beg to explain, it is not intended to deprive
the public. of any advantage they. derived from the -mode df
charge in, this country, and consequently a letter consisting of
one piece of paper, not •exceeding an ounce weight, is still
chargeable. as single only; a letter with one-enclosure, not, ex-
ceedi rig air ounce weight, is chargeable as treble. This applies
to British rates only. The ,British sates on foreign letters are
only to be charged by weight: whemit is advantageous to the
public at large. Thus a letter containing one or more en-
closures, not exceeding a quarter on an ounce, is to be charged
single only; a letter with more than one enclosure above ra
quarter of an ounee,iend not exceeding half an ounce, is to be
charged doiltile only; and, according Co the former practice, a•
letter with not more than one enclosure exceeding half au ounce,
and.oat exceeding an ounce, is to he charged treble. •
"There is a difference between the British and the French
mode of calculating the fractions of the weight.
" According to the English pructice,•ia letter does not•be-
come chargeable with a higher rate of postage unless it exceeds
the weight specified by turning the scale ; whereas, according
to the French system, if it reaches the weight named, it in-
stantly beomes liable to the increased rate; for instance, a
letter is not liable to•two British rates unless it exceeds a guar-
ter of an ounce; or to three rates, unless'it exceeds half an
ounce.; or to four rates, unless it exceeds au mince ; but in
charging the French rates,•if the letter weighs the quarter of
an ounce, although it does not exceed it, it must be charged
with two rates; if it weighs half an ounce, with three rates;
if it weighs three-quarters of an ounce, with four rates; and if
it weighs an ounce, with five rates; and so 4jia for every quarter
of as ounce.

" By command,
. " W. L. MABERLY."

AGRICULTURE.

As a proof of the good which the Highland Society of Scot-
land for the improvement of agriculture have effected ,through
their operations; it was stated, at.a meeting of the:Kirkaldy
Agricultural Association, last week, that the formerly wild and
dreary country of Badenoch, lying 1,000 feet above•the,level of
the sea, and which one might have supposed was_ destined for
ever to continue nnder the dominion of its native heath—even
that country was now in a very.high state of cultivation, yielding
rich crops,. and in a more forward state than many parts of the
south.

A correspondent of the Hereford Journal says he has success-
fully employed the following mixture for the the last sixteen
years to provide against smutty wheat :—" Two uunces.of blue
vitriol to a gallon .of water, or a pound to eight gallons, and so
on according to the quantity of wheat to be sown, and the size
of the tub or.vessel it is:to be steeped in. The vitriol should be
dissolved in a few gallons of hot water, and what morels wanted
to make up the quantity may be added cold. The wheat to be
steeped in a kipe, and limed in the usual way the night. before
sowing.". .

. ~
Amongst the horses exhibited at the Suffolk Agricultural
show on the 30th ult. was a fine cart-mare the property of Colonel
Rushbrook, which was some time since seized with locked jaw, and
"as patfectly cured by pouring cold water along the back from a
wa.teriag-pot, without intermission, .for a corasiderabletime the
application basin.. been recommended by an-eminent ..Lo,ndon
Zleiristlatian* A;this affection has been .considered. incurable,
ove.skLet
At thwilfas. should be generally known. . • .
pirenheld at Winchester on illonday a great number of
sheep
an.advanced pntzi, which met with ready purchasers, though at
which -realized mug'
cThere was also a plentiful.stipply of cheese;
early.part of the last mhi.gher price than at the fair held in the
TARTARY. OATS. :enotrh,...
a field of Tartary oats.a.r.;;itt,izondent informs us, that crossing
upon-Spalding Moor,. he,twau. la. agn in the parish of Holme-
cluster of stems growing.very cotisl?s! curiosity to approach.a
lie found that therenw4eientr'llt at a distance., On
examination,
and which bore attc,:etei,stems growing.from
one single grain,
• Four of the sterns were four:feat er,. upwards ot 2000
grains. • ten inches ,I.
the others were nearly of .the,sauteleatth.,__r..k c ong, end
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