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The report of the Postmaster-General furnishes a clear and comprehensive exhibit of the operations of the postal service and of the financial condition of the Post-Office Department. The ordinary postal revenues for the year ending the 30th of June, 1869, amounted to $18,344,510, and the expenditures to $23,698,131, showing an excess of expenditures over receipts of $5,353,620.

The report of the Postmaster-General presents fully the condition of that Department of the Government. Its expenditures for the last fiscal year were $10,407,868 and its gross receipts $7,620,801, making an excess of expenditure over receipts of $2,787,046. The deficiency of this Department is thus $744,000 greater than for the year ending June 30, 1853.

Croker, who knew him, says that 'he was very convivial, and in other respects like his father though altogether on a smaller scale. He edited a new edition of Malone's Shakespeare. He died in 1822. Croker's Boswell, p. 620. See Boswell's Hebrides, Oct. 30, 1773. Ib. Nov. 1. Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church.

A desert strip of land, not much above high water mark, unites the twain, which form an island forty-eight miles long and thirty broad, with an area of 620 square miles.

The greatest length, or major axis, is 620 feet; the greatest breadth, or minor axis, is 513 feet. The outer wall is 157 feet high in its whole extent. The exterior wall is divided into four stories, each ornamented with one of the orders of architecture.

There have been purchased and redeemed since March 4, 1889, 4 and 4 1\2 per cent bonds to the amount of $211,832,450, at a cost of $246,620,741, resulting in the reduction of the annual interest charge of $8,967,609 and a total saving of interest of $51,576,706.

Cassalis to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 620, 621. State Papers, Vol. VII. pp. 620, 621. Strype's Memor. Eccles., Vol. These words are curious as directly attributing the conduct of the monks to the influence of More and Fisher. Cromwell to Gardiner: Burnet's Collectanea, pp. 460, 461.

The report of the Secretary shows that the ordinary expenditures for the current fiscal year ending June 30, 1910, will exceed the estimated receipts by $34,075,620.

In the year ending 31st March, 1886, there were no fewer than 26,228 of them, and of this large number 1,620 contained cash and cheques to the amount, in all, of £3,733 17s. 5d. Be sure, too, that your letters are properly fastened. On this subject, hear Mr. George Seton.

On the 1st day of July, 1893, this sum had been reduced to $585,137,100, or an aggregate reduction of $1,747,294,108. The interest-bearing debt of the United States on the 1st day of December, 1897, was $847,365,620.