Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1844-07-26
CHEAP POSTAGE IN ENGLAND.


Prof. e. Wright now on visit TO England.
has the following remarks on Cheap Postage
in one Of his letters, published in the Boston
Chronicle:
You may send letter Of no matter how
many pieces OF paper, or containing no matter
what dry substance, if it does not weigh over
nan an ounce, to any part Of the kingdom for
penny or too cents; If it weighs less than an
ounce, four cents and so on This has won
deriul consequences. II sets all the people TO
corresponding, resusclates old friendships, Gre
aies new ones, facilitates all manner of traffic.
ana pays The government clear prof of So
opO,OCO per arnum! 1t may be called the
grand civiizer and universal educator of the
people. he poorest girl that can express her
IDEAS by pot-hooks, now corresponds with her
poor parents while out at service; and if She
wishes to remit them few shngs of her
earnings, she has only to pay three pence or
six cents at the post-olTice for money order.
and enclose il in letter, and the government
Then becomes not only the bearer but the in
snrer OF the money. Ii cannot be lost, and the
party to whom IT Is sent is as sure to get II as
II II were handed over in silver. The conve-
nience of this arrangement for making Iutle
purchases, collecting little debts, &c., must be-
felt To be understood
In connection with the great carriers. WHOSE
arrangements for the delivery of parcels. afier
the manner of Harnden & Co, ramify all over
The kingdom, the cheap postage and money or.
der system give the country all the advantages
OF the city. They give life-blood circulation.
winch make people strong, wise and happy. |
Wish could blow trumpet on this subject
mat would reach every Lighthouse beyond the
mountains Fellow-country men, we have the
power IN the United States to have a system
as good and as cheap. For Heavens sake, do
not et Us PICK our own pockets any longer for
the benefit of people who will never thank US.
II our Federal Government cannot do this for
US, 1t is not worth having. This postage svs-
tenn is the best thing have seen in ENGLAND
For the sakeof it, could almost put up with the
monkey tricks and the mean tricks Of the ars-
tecracy. And the aristocracy are cutting an
Tics about these times, | assure You. As To
dinners and balls, these are every day matters.
or rather every night. For instance, The Duke
of Wellington has a ball at Apsley House
The company begin to assemble at II O'Clock.
7. M..-9O0 Of the highest nobility, all riding
IN their coaches, with three or four liyeried
tunkies apiece, all loaded with diamonds and
enriched with iandango Uncomfortable. They
pass thro' gorgeous rooms hung with paintings
and perlumeG with tropical hOt-house plants:
they look at each others diamonds dance The
polka, or see it done, sip headaches or guzzIe
the govt, in the shape of champagne, and il il
one, two, three, or fonr O'Clock, and they 90
back as they came. This is their ordinary bus
mess, the every day work of these 900 highest
nobility, for which they are truly to be pitied.
The headaches and the heart-aches, (if they
have any hearts,) and the toe-aches they hnu..
to bear. hui as 10 The expenses theV do not
have TO bear them for they really come out of
the tea-pots and the bread-lrays OF the common
people.