Mr. Fawcett's new plan for facilitating the:small savings of the
poor is an admirable one. A saving child may now get an official strip of paper intended to hold twelve :stamps, add a stamp at a time to it as he can save a penny, and when it is full take it to the post-office, and get a savings'-bank receipt for a shilling,—the minimum deposit which it will pay the Post• Office Savings' Bank to take. A correspondent 'of Monday's Times suggests that if the postman were authorised to dis- tribute these official strips, and to sell stamps to saving women or children on his rounds, it would much facilitate the process ; and so it would, but very much at the expense, we fear, both of the postmen and the public. To have to serve, say, fifty small children in one round with the stamps they :require, would vastly delay the letters, and increase the burden of that already ever-worked official. Children's transactions are always slow.
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