The careless manner in which the business of the Liverpool
Post- office is conducted, has on several occasions been animadverted upon, not only by the press, but the public generally. Nothing, however, seems calculated to cause the people who have the control of that esta- blishment to alter their course of proceeding. On Friday last, the Times and other morning papers arrived in Liverpool as usual, at eight o'clock in the evening : but on the news-agents making application for them, they were informed that the clerks were gone home ; and as no one was left in charge but the porter, he could not open the newspaper- bags without the authority of the postmaster ; and, as that gentleman had "gone out to a party," they could not be delivered until the fol- lowing morning !—Tinies.
It has been stated that "the Corporation of Bristol were indebted to the Charity Trustees no less a sum than 200,0001;" which, it was pre- tended, arose from principal and interest due to the Trustees, in conse- quence of the misappropriation of certain charities formerly under the control of the Corporation, but which, by virtue of the Municipal Act, were vested in the management of the Trustee Board. At the time this hubbub was raised, we expressed our conviction of its being a de- cided Radical trick, got up for the purpose of serving electioneering purposes. From a report now presented to the Town-Council of Bristol by Mr. Fletcher, a gentleman of Whig principles, but who, on account of his talent and great experience, was selected to inquire into and report to them the real state of the case, our prognostications have been fully verified; and, so far from the city Corporation being indebted in the enormous sum before-mentioned, it seems the Charity Trustees are indebted to the Town-Council no less a sum than 21,5224 Ps. Id.— Standard.
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