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TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1838

The last time we adverted to the postage question,
we called attention to the evils which a high rate of
postage inflicts on the poor. We did not like to be
very sentimental on the subject, lest we should expose
ourselves to the persiflage of the Tories. To-day,
however, we can borrow from them to enforce our views.
The Times of yesterday said—

Among the calculations made of the correspondence of the
poor is one that th,,re are 50,000 Irish labourers in Liver-
pool, and as many in Manchester, and these poor people are
most of them, as Mr. Ashurst observes, " warm-hearted,
affectionate, and proverbial for their attachment to the land of
their birth, and to the tics of kindred and of home." Yet the
whole of these arc as effectually prohibited from exchanging a
word with home and friends as though an Act of Parliament
had prohibited it in terms.

When this picture, which must be deeply affecting to all
feeling minds, is added to ths....'multitude of others, arising from
the dispersiGn of familios and dear connexions, not by emigra-
tion alone, ht:t. over the United Kingdom by the ecger watch
after the nwar."s of subsistence, to which probably nine-tenths
of the phole population are driven ; and when it shall be
proved that concession will cost nothing, such a claim is esta-
blished to the prompt and effectual interference of the Legisla-
ture as has probably never before existed.

We scarcely need inform our readers that the com-
merce of the country suffers as much from the high
rate of postage as the poor ; but we are reminded of
one fact, by the word " emigration," which seems de-
serving of notice. Lord ASHBURTON, in his evidence,
makes the following statement :
I am in the habit of receiving one letter a year from America
about some property I have there ; the letter generally brings
with it half-a-dozen sheets of foolscap paper in accounts. I
only get it once a-vear ; but the last letter I got cost me 235. ;
it was from New York. I receive but one in a year ; and it is
of very little importance how much is charged for a single
occasion ; but it could not but occur to me at the time how
much mercantile transactions must be impeded by such charges
Though poor emigrants may not desire to send home
six sheets of-foolscap at a time, such charge on letters
from them must put an 'end nearly to all communica-
tion, and root out for ever all the little fibres of affec-
tion and remembrance which, even after their departure,
connect them with their native country. There is
another instance of a bond of peace being destroyed by
taxation—the fiscal monster. Lord ASHBURTON'S

illustration of the effects of such a charge in impeding
mercantile transactions speaks for itself; and, in his
opinion, the foreign postage is to the merchant of more
consequence than the home postage. We may, how-
ever, set the exorbitancy of the charge the Noble Lord
mentions in a striking light, by observing that, for the
cost of thirty such letters, a passenger might be carried
from New York to Liverpool, and be fed like a prince
all the way, taking with him two or three hundred-

weight of baggage. He might carry, if he liked, a
hundred or a thousand letters, so that for a mercantile
house, which had many correspondents in America, it
would be cheaper to send a porter across the Atlantic
with its letters than to send them alone.
In another part of our Paper we insert two articles

on the subject of the Postage from the Times, which
so fully explain the impediments which the present
high rate of postage lays in the way of commerce, and
the progress of knowledge, that on those points we
shall offer no other remarks, but take up, on some future
occasion, another part of the subject.

Something like a dead set appears, just at this mo
meat, to be making on the Bank of England. The
Chronicle, in a long article yesterday, blamed it most
severely for buying securities, and so getting more of
its notes into circulation. The Times of this morning
contains an article, which censures it for having
parted with so many of its securities, and for having
paid its dividends out of the Rest. The former warns
the public that a rise in price, speculation, and panic,
will infallibly ensue from a redundant circulation : the
latter exclaims against reduced profits. The
poor Bank suffers from the general stoppage
of prosperity caused by the Corn-laws ; there
is no extension of business, no legitimate want
of more money, and it cannot therefore get enough
paper into circulation to continue to its pampered pro-
prietors, while money is only at 3 per cent., the 8 per
cent. per annum they have been accustomed to receive.
The more it can borrow from the public at no interest,
as when it issues a million of promises to pay in ex-
change for 1,200,0001. in the 3 per Cents. Reduced,
the more it increases its profit. The proprietors of
Bank Stock therefore call out for it to borrow in this
manner from the public, and buy with the bor-
rowed money a right to receive from the same
public 40,0001. a year. Some intelligent member
of the public, who is, we take it, not a Bank
proprietor, and perhaps has some private reason for
keeping a sharp look out on the Bank, watches this
operation, and.warns those who have to pay the Bank
profit of the consequences. The Bank monopoly,
however strongly we are against it, seems a so; t of cor-
rective of the Corn-law monopoly—as colchicum
drives out the gout, but destroys the constitution ; and
as long as the landlords' gout prevails, the country must
be dozed, we suppose, with the Bank poison. We shall
not, at present, therefore, much as eve hate the mono-
poly, join in an attack on it, and merely advert to the
on, and
to to inform our readers of what is going
to console the terrified Bank proprietors, by the infor-
mation derived from the Chronicle, that the Bank is
again largely
exchanging its promises to pay which
bear no interest, or
f the pulic funds, which bear a rea-
sonable interest which is sure to be paid.

The case of MARY WOLFREY and the Rev. Mr.
BREEKS came on yesterday for hearing in theArches'
Court, and after a long pleading on both sides, the
Judge (Sir HERBERT JENNER) declined giving
judgment immediately. The whole case turned D
on the
theological question of praying for the dead. r.
ADDAMS, MTS. WOOLFREY'S Advocate, contended
at considerable length, and with much weight of
authority, that prayers for the dead were agreeable to
the rules and practice of the English Church, and
did not countenance the Romish doctrine of Purgatory.
Sir JOHN DODSON, the Queen's Advocate, at as great
length, and with probably equal authority, asserted
that prayers for the dead countenanced the doctrine