TO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS.
It is due to our readers abroad to make them aware that we have been compelled to adopt the rule of not taking in unpaid letters by foreign posts, from correspondents unknown to us. We have been obliged to adopt that rule in self-defence. Letters have come to us from all parts, East and West, sometimes containing matter of general Interest, much more often of purely local interest, and sometimes of no interest at all ; the expense in post- age was considerable—in time, still more vexatious. In the case of communications from unaccredited correspondents there was no means of exercising any process of selection; and we could only find relief by excluding all of that class : they are returned to the post- man unopened. In the mass, it is possible that there were some letters which merited our attention ; but the writers will now understand the reason why we have not noticed them. To complete their wish to inform as, correspondents shoull transmit their coin- mfmications through some accredited channel in England.
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