28 DECEMBER 1839, page 9

New Postage Regulations.

Cosy of :1'reamry Minute, dated '20/i December 1839. My Lords read the Minute of the 23d of Ang,ust, proposing to receive cow- munications from the public with reference to the......

Tile Elephant And His Keepers.

TRUTHS are absolute or conditional. That "knowledge is power" Inv be called an absolute truth ; that " ignorance is bliss " is a conditional one. It may have been true that the......

11,30-c,

TOPICS OF • THE DAY. A NEW-YEAR'S GIFT. " Mr Lords" of the Treasury promise Penny Postage on the of January ! Thank you, my Lords, for surpassing our expects= ' tions. Though......