10 NOVEMBER 1838, Page 6

On Friday week, great :darn . ' was caused in the Glasgaw

Post-office, in consequence of its being discovered that the letter-box was on fire! On smoke being noticed, the box was instantly broken open, and the flames extinauisheal withuut much damage being done. The letters in it were, however, burnt on the edges; and a minute's delay would have destroyed the whole. A likely cause for this atrocious act is, that the guilty party wished to destroy some correspondence which it may have been of importance to keep back.— Glavow Chronicle.