26 FEBRUARY 1859, Page 9

THE RESCINDED ORDER.

THE recent order announcing that letters not prepaid would not be for- warded, has been rescinded in deference to public opinion, or rather to the opinion of certain public men. For our own part we have great doubts whether public opinion does not rather go with the order. Correspondents of our own hold it as the abolition of a nuisance. There may, indeed, be objections to the actual suppression of letters, since even one in a hundred may have a value. But why not put a restriction upon abuses of the Post Office? Let the recipient of the letter, if he choses to complain, return it through the Post Office; and empower that Department to impose a fine— say 5s.