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London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4.

Wao is to be Postmaster f3eoeralP The Be-
stoney is esofesesdly the soul of the department ;
why not let him be recognised henoeforth as its
directing head? If postmsater peers, whether of
the popinjay, pedant, or profligate class, had had
their way. there is no saying what the Post-office
might still have been : oar lettere might still have
been baked and buried at a charge of a shiiliog a
sheet in saddle bags, and carried at the rate of seven
miles an hoar. Long after locomotives had steamed
forcibly into the preserves of St. Martin's-le-Grand
we know what a deadly straggle had to be waged
with the postmaster-General order of society betore
woof the Commons could extort a recognition of our
right to piney postage. In that memorable struggle
Mr. ROWJAND HILL was the insurgent ring-leader;
but the people gratefully appreciated and allowed
bis 'hints to be followed as chief victor long before
abs Noble defenders of perpetual distance and per-
pawl darkness had been fated reluctantly to noo-
sing& To the mass of the people the difference be-
tween things as they were and things as they are
practically amounts to the difference bet, so having
the use of a Poet-oho' and not bath gcm at all.
Tardily and grudgingly the propriety ut admitting
Mr. ROWLAND HILL to a share in the official deve•
loponat of the system he did so much to improve was
admitted, and after a time he became secre-
tary to the department. In that position he requires no
bareasoratic superior; and as a question of adminis
trains poi*, it is plain that he ought not to have
one placed over his head, foe the simple reason that
there is nobody more competent to direct and super-
intend the execution of the numberless arithmetical
a details which make up the business of the depart-
ment. To appoint and pay a noble nonentity for
playing the part of make-believe head of the Post-
ed's:el is about as aboard as it would be to nominate
one of oar hereditary legislators generalissimo of the
Metropolitan Police. Police and Post-office are mere
esledepartments, neither of which requires a political
chief, because neither of them affords any proper !mi-
nden for such a functionary to do.
We learn with less surprise than disgust that so
°beim' an opportunity of taking one simple and
easy step in administrative reform is about to be die
regarded, in order that some miserable purpose of
clique or caste may once more be served at the ex-
po*, of the nation. By way of making the most of
this precious bit of oligarchic patronage, a sort of
semi-official announcement is put forth that Lord
Cram° will not quit England for the East until
some time in autumn. The effect of this will of
cause be to keep open the mouths of all the
wonted cormorants who cry continually for
official food : and the longer the Anal decision is
deterred the greater will be the extent of ministerial
inflow° which will for the time be exercised. Rumour
does not seem inclined to wait for the fall of the leaf,
but babbles out, in her usual incontinent manner,
what she hears in whisperings and gathers from
iauendoes. According to her, a choice is already is
antemplation every way worthy of our present dis-
creet and discriminating rulers. Sir JAMES GRAHAM
Si too great a man, and just now too sulky, to be
offend such a pat; but as it is orinsidcrid highly
important to coax him back into good humour, it has
been suggested that the right boo. baronet might be
propitiated by having a near relative named Post-
inastesOrneral ; so it has been solemnly considered
whether Lord DUFFELIN might not do, as Sir James
Gmeneti's deputy in the department with which his
Name is indissolubly linked in popular recollection.
It will be unanimously confessed that nothing could
be mote happy or appropriate than such a selection.

NOT one of the persons arrested in Hyde-park oo
Sundry wu brought before a magistrate till near five
&cloak on Monday afternoon; the greater part of
them were liberated nooonditionally that evening.
The made, were not brought up on Tuesday till one,
p.m.; and a considerable number of them wire dis-
*barged in like manner. In not one case did Got ero-
molt ultimately prosecute; all the charges were dis-
posed of as simple police cases. The parties liberated
unconditionally we ere entitled to hold innocent ; yet
they were incarcerated lu the police cells, in this hot
weather, some foe one and some for two whole
days. And the only exenee offered by Sir
GIORGI Oaav, in the House of Commons,
for the illegal detention, or wrongoes im•
prisonment" of these persons, is that Government was
given to understand that the prisoners were to have
counsel, and that the w .ole of the Crown counsel
were cut of the way. This is a most aggravated case
of petty tyranny. The withdrawal of the Sunday
Trodir g Bill, the proscoutiun of which occasioned the
demonstration in Hyde-park, was tantamount to a con-
fession thst it osght never to have been introduced. It
is alleged that tho Bill was not a Government mea-
sure ; but Lord __...ltonxivr Goosvexon is a confiden-
tial supporter or Ministers, and connected with
nary of them by family ties; and his Bill was sup-
ported by SW OroeGa OMIT, and other
members of the Government. In short,
it was a pro si•Goveniment Bill. Ministers
have been, at the least, accessory to the
loutish pulley which provoked the tumult on
Sunday. Nay more, it is certain that but for
the orentations marshalling of a large police force
on Sunday, and the exasperating proclamation issued
by Sir Osumi Osex's orders on Saturday, there
would have t een no assembly that the moat timid'
weld think in the least alarming. The whole row

appears to have been got up by the Government's
resorting to the continental system of ago., provo-
aFf►. And, unless we are much miaiiitormed, an
attempt was in contemplation to lend additional
importance to this riot of Government manufacture,
by haling the oases investigated at Bow-street—
the Police court consecrated to charges of se-
dition and treason. Some of the parties ar-
rested, we observe, were accused simply of
rioting i yrt it never appears to have orcurred to the
emthontsee that there Was any necessity, or even

rotor, for reading the Riot Act. The whole affair
Is most discreditable to the Horn BECRrrARY and
his adritrers. We are credibly informed that many
foreigners wbo were prreent in Hyde-park co
Sunday, 'waned astonishment at the forbearanste
—they ars mid to have need a *troopr epithet—
whir which the crowd permitted the police to Gam
elf the persona arrested. It I. to be hoped that same
wilt be taken—either by las Wag upon an
or by moving Ice
alter Gee or two dye
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