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 ch;irging 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 charg-
ing foreign letters, 1 beg to explain, it is not intended tea deprive
the 'public of any advantage they derived from the mode of
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-
ceeding an ounce weight, is chargeable as treble. This.applies
to British rates only. The British. rates on foreign letters are
only to be charged by weight when it is advantageous to the
public at large. Thus a letter containing one; pr more en- -
clostires, not exceeding a quarter on an ounce, isita he charged
single only ; a letter with more than one enclosure above a
quarter of an ounce, and not exceeding half an ounce, is to be
charged double only; •ind, according' to the 'fanner practice, a
letter with not more than one enclosure exceeding half an ounce,
and not exceeding an ounce, is to be charged treble.
" There is a difference between the British and the-French
mode of calculating, the fractions of the weight.
"'According to the English practice, a letter does not be-
come chargeable with a higher rate of poStage unleis- it exceeds
the weight specified by turning the scale ; whereas, according
to the French system, if it reaches the weight named, it .in-
stantly bermes liable to the increased rate; for instance, a
letter is not liable' to two British rates unless it eXCeeds a quar-
ter of are ounce; or" to three' rates, unless it exceeds half an,
ounce; or to four ratef, unless it exceeds an ounce ; but in
ofd
iia rg e
charging the -French rates, if the letter weighs 7
e quarter (
an ounce, although it does not exceed it;
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 soon for every quarter
of an 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 formerl3, wild and
dreary country of Badenoch, lying 1,000 feet above the level of
the sea, and which one 'night have supposed was destined for
ever to continue nnder the dominion of its native heath=eyen
that country was now in a very high state of cultivation, yielding
rich crops, and in a more forward state than mans parts of the
south.
A correspondent of the Hereford Journal save he has success-
fully employed the following Mixture for the the last sixteen
years to provide against smutty wheat :—" Two ounces 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 he
dissolved in a few gallons of hot water, and what More is 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." _

Am-angst the horses exhibited at the Suffolk Agricultural
show on the 30th tilt. was a fine cart-mare the property of Colonel
Itushbrook, which was some time since seized with locked jaw, and
was pet fectly cured by pouring cold water along the backfer, theom.a
iin
watering-pot, without intermission, fur a consul .bl application having been recommended by an etn!neul,Lontliiti
veterinatian..
the at;, As this affection has been considered incurable,
ve fact should he generally knnwn•
At,the fait held at
Winchester oti Monday a great' number of
shoe P was Penned, which met with ready purchasers, thOugh at
an arivancerl priee.
Geld in the
There WilS al-n a plentiful supply of cheese,
which- realized a inne higher price than at the fair
early pert of the lathmonth. TaRTARY °A7S.—/Venrn-spqndent informs us, that crossing
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