In the House of Commons, the other night, Mr. Baring
challenged a statement by Mr. Goulburn, of the amount of money transmitted through the Money-order department of the Post-office ; saying that he had doubled the figures. Mr. Goulburn said that he had read from the wrong column. He was too goodnatured to the Post-office ; for the return itself—part of a formal document presented to the louse of Lords, under the signature of Mr. Secretary Maberley—is not one of the least specimens of the extraordinary bungling that besets the depart- ment. The return is one of the amount of money-orders circulated in England and'Wales, in each quarter since the commencement of 1839. The figures for the last quarter, ending 5th January 1843, ex- hibit the amount of 1,031,992/. "money-orders issued," 1,023,2001- "money-orders paid ; " "total amount passing through the office," 2,055,192/. I So, a pound posted in London and delivered at Canterbury is reckoned by the officials at St. Martin's-le-Grand as two pounds I
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