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ON THE

INSTITUTION OF POSTS IN GENERAL,

AND OF THE

POST-OFFICE OF GREAT BRITAIN

IN PARTICULAR.

Among the various institutions of the present age, civil or political, there are few that mark with more prominent character the grand march of civilization and refinement than that of modern post communication—an institution no longer confined within its ancient national bounds, but extending its advantages in various degrees to the most distant regions, establishing and perpetuating those ties of interest or affection with which epistolary correspondence may be said to unite the remotest extremities of the earth.

For perfection of system, arrangement of intricate and minute detail—for extended and useful operation, the General Post-office of Great Britain stands pre-eminent. Her packets, on the one side, traverse the Atlantic—on the other penetrate the frozen regions of the North; her agents are to be found in many of the principal

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