13 MAY 1854, Page 13

A correspondent makes a suggestion that might be practically useful.

Ministers have professed their readiness to give the public information respecting the progress of the war as the despatches arrive ; but they do so through the cumbrous and dilatory machinery of the London Gazette. A much more practical course, at least while Parliament is sitting, would be, to have the intelligence printed at once, and laid on the table of each House in the afternoon : it would then find its way into the jour- nals of the next morning, or even of the same evening.