21 MARCH 1840, Page 5

Mr. Wise, of Bush-mills, near Northampton, has obtained the order

for the supply of the penny- adhesive stamps. We havo seen a sheet of the paper adopted by the Government. It is divided into three com- partments, each containing two hundred and forty small water-mark crowns; under each of these there will be a 1102da:ii011 of the Queen's head and the price of the stamp. Although each sheet will contain seven hundred and twenty stamps, and when printed be comal in value to three pounds, stiff sufficient room is left that each peony stamp may be cut out. It is an ingenious yet simple invention:—Surthompton Hera Id.