But this, alas! is not the case. The books of the department contain a long and affecting list of the names of active, intelligent sorters and letter-carriers who have proved unable to resist a temptation to which they ought not to have been exposed; besides which, suspicion at this moment is unavoidably resting upon many innocent men, in consequence of the immense number of such robberies that have not yet been detected.

With these evils before the mind, there can surely exist no doubt that-inasmuch as to afford a safe and ready means for conveying small sums BY POST to all parts of the United Kingdom, there has been expressly established that enormous and extensive banking system, "the Money-Order Department," which we have already described, a very small fraction of the community ought not, in opposition to the remonstrances of Her Majesty's Postmaster-General, to the demoralization of the servants of the Post-Office, and to the discredit of a new system in which the interests of all classes of society are involved, to be allowed any longer to scatter broadcast over the country, sovereigns, crown-pieces, half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences, practically speaking with little more concealment than a mere label, stating to postmasters and letter-carriers, but too often inadequately paid, to whom they wish them to be delivered. For the benefit, therefore, of the public in general and of the servants of the Post-Office in particular, we earnestly recommend that any letter apparently containing gold or silver coin shall be forwarded by all' postmasters to the London Inland Department,

to be opened at the Dead-Letter Office, in order that the sender thereof may be informed of the same, as also that on payment of an extra postage of one shilling the money enclosed, and the letter that contained it, will be delivered to him.

To conclude: If an additional postage of one penny per letter were to be charged to every person who prefers making the postman, or rather the public, wait until his servant shall open the door to receive a handfull of prepaid letters, which could rapidly be dropped, exactly as they were posted, through a receiving slit into a tortuous receptacle, from which it would be impossible for any but the right person to extract them, the delivery of the correspondence of the country would be PERFECT.

We are no admirers of unreasonable, arbitrary measures; nevertheless we cannot ignore the fact that by the new and startling introduction of Penny Postage, Parliament have induced the Governments of other countries to join with us in an attempt to lengthen and strengthen the pinions by which, under the blessing of the Almighty, the family of mankind now communicate with each other; that accordingly in the United States of America the stamped head of Washington, in Belgium that of King Leopold, in France that of the Goddess of Liberty, already frank letters at low rates to every portion of their respective dominions: indeed, Russia and Spain have lately adopted a uniform rate of postage.. As, therefore, the civilized nations of the globe are readily following our example, it is no less our interest.

than our duty, for their sakes as well as our own, that the system which we have thought fit to originate, and from which no sane person can now dream of retreating, should, in all possible respects, be fairly, scientifically, and effectually developed.

THE END.

JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, PRINTER,
LITTLE QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.

November, 1856.

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