We call the attee.: L. lITULGRAVE to a case of
the week whieh gees to illost;„ management of the Peat-office. GOOD-
WIN, a le:ter-ea:, .•etenced to death at the Old Bailey on
Wialnesda, fur ia a bank-mole from a letter intrusted to ban fur Jury who convicted him presented a me- morial tu let ugly recommending him to mercy, on the
greurels of prio.i. eool character, "and the great temptation Ia which he was snbk.t, win.]: to the loose nature qf the Post Vice regulations re!ati.ig to paid letters: It appeared Lion the evidence of one of the letter-sorters, given on the trial, that there are between two and three hundred letter- sorters in the General Post-office; that the desks are separated from each other by a thin partition ; that letters sometimes after being sorted remain on the desks for an hour and a half; attd that it would be quite easy for any person on either side of a desk to take off the letters.
No wonder that so many letters are missing and so few re- covered. The return presented last session, of the number dam- e/et/0ns that had taken place, was a most fallacious one: if a re- turn or the number of letters reported as missing had been sup- plied, it would have given a more correct idea of the slovenly mode in which sonic of the operations in this immaculate department are carried on.
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