The Postmaster-General has decided that from the 6th July all
letter-receivers in towns are to receive none but stamped and unpaid letters, and that there will be a general revision and in most cases a reduction of their salaries in consequence.
A meeting of the members of the City Corporation was held yesterday, on the special summons of the Lord Mayor, to consider if the Common Council shall not formally entertain the question of some project on the basis of the one suggested by Sir Robert Peel as a noble object of ambition,—that the Corporation should be- come possessors of some of the extensive properties in Ireland with a view of con- ferring the blessings of peace, order, and prosperity, already enjoyed to a great extent in the provinces formerly settled by the Corporation and the great London Companies. After much discussion, friendly to the general idea, a Committee was formed, to make inquiries if some project could not be legally undertaken.
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