Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery; Letter, Spoof

Subjects:

Light, Instruments, Medical Treatment, Politics

    Strongly objects to the implications of an advertisement for 'Patent Newly-Invented Spectacles' that have been patronised by Henry J Temple (3rd Viscount Palmerston), among others. Stresses that Palmerston's 'vision was never clearer than it is at present' and 'shows no signs of growing defective'.