The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-21

regulations, which the postmaster general WI
order to be strictly enforced, and by which pos
. masters will be required to demand prepay
ment of postage on all transient printed mattel
This is good move, and will relieve the mail
of a large quantity of worthless trash. Here
after books, not weighing over 4 lbs, may D
f sent in the mail, prepaid by postage stamps
one cent an once, any distance in the U. State
under 5000 miles, and at two cents an ounc
any distance over 5000 miles; provided the
are put up without a wrapper or cover, or IN
cover or wrapper open at the ends or sides, S
that their character may be determined with
out removing the wrapper. Unsealed, circu
lars. advertisements, business cards, transfer
printed matter, Except books, not we1ghln!
over three ounces, sent in the mail to any par
of the United States, are to be charged will
one cent postage each, to be prepaid with post
are stamps. Where more than one circular i
nrinted on a sheet, or circular and letter. eacl
must be charged with single rate This ap
plies to lottery and other kindred sheets assum
ing the form, name and appearance of newsPa
pers; and the miscellaneous matter in such
sheets must also be charged with one rate. A
business card on an unsealed envelope of cir
cuar subjects the entire package to letter post
age; and whenever subject to letter postage,
from being sealed, Or from any cause whatever,
all printed matter must be prepaid, orexc]uded
from the mail 1t is the duty of the postmas-
ter at the mailing office, as well as the office
of delivery, carefully to examine all printed
matter, in order to see that it is charged with
the proper rate of postage, and to detect fraud.
At offices where postage stamps cannot be pro-
cured, postmasters are authorised to receive
money in prepayment of postage on transient
matter; but it is made their duty to at all times
keep supply of stamps on hand.
Saxon, an English paper published in Boston,
and edited by doctor Bartlett the former dis
tinguished editor of the New York Albion, has
the following rather significant article on the
present condition and future prospects of Eng
land In commenting on some recent speeches
delivered in the English parliament, by lord
Palmerston and Messrs Roebuck and Had
field, the radical members from Sheffield, the
Anglo Saxon says:-lt is consoling to those
who doubt the stability of the French alliance,
and who fear combination of the military
powers of the continent for the invasion and
of England, to see such unanmi-
ty of patriotic sentiment on the part Of the peo
pie, particularly that part which has hereto
fore been supposed to be Unaffected to the gov
and existing monarchcal institutions
of the country. If Mr.. Roebusk will 60 so far
as to say he will uphold the queens govern
ment in any necessary war, we need not fear
he detection of OTHER men.
''We have been accustomed toregard such |
an event as the invasion of England BY foreign
lespots as visionary, and indeed impossible
)ut after all, the question is not without its
alarming features, Tor if Louis Napoleon should
,e led off from his alliance with Great Britain,
re might form junction with Russia. Prus-
ia in that case would join Russia, since France
ould, with an army, march to or across the
thine, keep in subjugation any democratic up
'slng in Germany. With France, Russia and
Prussia, in a state denomination, Austria could
OF hold out; she must come into general con-
piracy and then, hol for the conquest of Eng
and, her free institutions, and above all her
rec press The power of steam, the coniunc-
logsof railroads, would make it an easy task
0 throw $4,000 men on the coast of Kent,
which could march to London in few hours.
POSSESS itself of the treasures of the bank, and
he capital of tls empire. The duke of We'll
ngton thong such ahing not impossible, and
therefore, desired sir John Burgoyne to write
hat celebrated letter which was published a
ew years since.
"England has no safety but in her insular DO
ltion, and even that is much impaired under
he effects Of modern science She has no for
fesses to impede the march of an army-she
as no mountain Businesses from which que
lila warfare might be carried on; and the in
aders, with the limited force of the British
rmy, would meet with no real obstruction I'M
| they reached the mountains of Scotland and
Wales, as in the time of julius Caesar and his
ncestors. Twice has England been invaded
nd conquered by foe, who assembled his
'fces on the opposite side of the channel-Ju-
US Caesar, Just mentioned, and William of
'ormand y. Napoleon the elder, contempla
"a, or affected to do so, similar enterprise,
ut was deferred by the spirit of resistance {
by the British people, the power of
re navy, and the then hostile feelings TO him
nr the part Of the great military nations of the
Except the alliance with France, ENGLAND
as nothing to avert the wrath of the northern :
overs, and such combinations as they NAV 7
'ganise against her"
The idea of an invasion of England has +
eretotore been regarded only as an idle dream 7
I'd when, few years ago, the duke of We'll 1
ngton publicly proclaimed the possibility of
zen an event, not even his great name, cou- a
ed as 1t was with the highest military honors
10 the most brilliant services, could quite re- V
'em 1t from sheer of contempt Time. how a
er' has wrought a salutary change in public /
ntlment, and men see that what the great {
Ike regarded as possibility, is now not only .
possible but a probable contingency. v
LAM GRADUATION B1LL-Senator CLAW, of =
abama, on the 10th ut., introduced into the "
nlted States senate the following bill, which e
IS read second time and referred to the COM n
ttee on public lands: Il
Il supplementary to the act entitled Gan act to 81
graduate and reduce the price of public lands to II
actual settlers and cultivators." Approved Au. :,
gust 4, 1854. -"
De IL enacted, &C. That in all cases where IL