Mr. WALLACE'S motion for a Commission to inquire into the
state of the Post-office will come on next Thursday. It' the House of Commons were not an unwieldy body, the majority of whose Members are quite incompetent to discharge their proper functions, there would be no °erasion for such a measure as Mr. WALLACE recommends. The Revenue :.7ommissioners' Reports, the contents of which we have taken a a :tad deal of trouble to analyze and digest, furnish a body' of evidence against the existing system of Post-office management, which has never been refuted ; and which we will venture to assert. Mr. VER- NON Samoa with all his flippancy and presumption, will fit to meet fairly on Thursday night. The House of Commons ought to have esamint d the evidence that has been laid on its table, and be prepared t r address the Crown, at once, to act upon it ; unless that evidence can be proved to be false, and the recommendations of the Commissioners ill-considered. But we presume that there is no hope of such prompt proceedings. The Lords of the Treasury, have the fear of Sir FRANCIS FREELING before their eyes ; and the majority of the House would not for all the world disoblige a Lord of the Treasury. What is the la- boriously-collected evidence of the Revenue Commissioners, when weighed in the balance against the assertions and the sneers of Mr. V FUSON SMITH ? On the authority of this great financier and experi- enced intuit of business, Government intend to oppose the motion of Mr. War.t.ace, notwithstanding the bait held out to them, of providing comfortable Commissionerships for another batch of their partisans.
We hope Mr. Waat.ase will insist upon knowing what has actually been done by the Duke of RICHMOND mid his subalterns—what actual foundation he had for his profuse complimenting of that noble person last week ? We suspect he will find on Thursday, that he has "hal- looed before he is oat of the wood."
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