An illustration of the spirit in which the British Post.office
cities act occurred the other day. Galignani's Messenger, which is chit fly made up of extracts from English newspapers, was stopped at the French Post-office, in consequence of an application from St.Martina. le-Grand, grounded on the late Post-office Act, by which it was pro- vided, that French newspapers published in England were not to be sent by post to France, nor English newspapers published in France sent by post to Englund. The French Government has cogent rea- sons for enforcing this provision ; the English none whatever, especially when a paper containing matter already published inn Eng. land is in question. But the principle of our Post-office seems to be that of checking, not facilitating, the circulation of letters and papers.
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