It was incorrectly stated in the papers last week (the
Spectator among them), that the new Post-office regulations for the transmission of Newspapers would take effect only from the 10th of October. It should have been the 1st. An officia',. circular issued from th.! Post- office explains, that from and after the 1st of October—Wednesday next— stamped newspapers, without covers or in covers open at the sides, may be sent to the Colonies by packet-boats free of postage : in like manlier, Colonial newspapers may be received postage free in England : if brought in private ships, a postage of threepence will be charged on each paper, as heretofore. Stamped newspapers will be transmitted to foreign parts on payment of a postage of twopence, if forwarded within seven days of the date of thei..! publication, wrapped in the usual manner; but liable to a treble letter postage if containing any thing written except the direction. This rule applies to all newspapers. foreign newspapers, if printed in the language of the country in which they are published, and not otherwise, will be delivered in any part of Great Britain and Ireland, on payment of twopence, in addition to the postage charged by the Foreign Post-dfice.
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