7 DECEMBER 1839, Page 9

The increase in the delivery of letters on Thursday, under

the new fourpenny postage rate, was 12,000. The average of the General Post delivery for Thursday had been under the old system 36,000 ; on Thursday last the number of letters delivered was 48,000. The loss on 'that day, compared with the previous Thursday, was about 700/. An envelope was put into the Post-office on Thursday evening containing thirteen separate letters to different members of the writer's family in Ireland, the whole weighing under half an ounce, being written on very thin paper, procured for the purpose.—Globe.