19 AUGUST 1871, Page 2

The Post Office is about to undertake a new business,

which may prove very profitable, but will demand very great care in management. Mr. Mousell stated, on Monday night, that he desired to extend the money-order system to all India, had arranged his plan, and only awaited a telegraphic assent from the Indian Government. He will not, we venture to predict, receive it. The Indian Government has hitherto avoided the money-order system, for fear of corrupting the department, and it is extremely unlikely that it will begin it when complicated by exchange, by its own ignorance of the extent of probable demand, and by Euglish ignorance of Indian accounts. If the experiment is determined on, it should be restricted at first to the three Presidency towns and Allahabad and Lahore, where supervision is keen and constant, and the treasuries always full.