We understand that the Post-office authorities charged the second number
of the Court Gazette with postage, on the ground that it had not been submitted to the Postmaster-General for his opinion whether or not it came under the description of a newspaper. The proprietor of the Gazette means to bring the matter to issue, and has accordingly commenced, we are told, proceedings against the Post- master- General for illegally stopping the circulation of the paper. The clause of the Act of lot Victoria, cap. 34, sec. 32, on which the Post- office authorities act, is as follows- " And be it further enacted, that in all cases in which a question shall aritt, whether a printed paper is entitled to the privileges of a newspaper or mkt publication hereby privileged, so far as respects the transmission thereof byde post, under the Post office act, the question shall be referred to the deem* lion of the Postmaster-General ; whose decision, with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treasury, shall be fired." But we apprehend that when a new periodical publication is entered at the Stamp-office as a newspaper, and when the proprietors and pub- Halters have otherwise fulfilled all the conditions required by the kw, that no question ought to arise, and the Post-office authorities hare so right to interfere.—Sun. [Unless the Post-office people can prove that the Gnat Gazette, though entered and stamped as a riewspaperby the proper authorities, was deficient in something necessary to make it a newspaper, they ought to be mulcted heavily for a breach of a lave]
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