n Glasgow has increased, in ten
years, from L26,000 to L47,000; and, recollect, Glasgow is a city
containing nearly 400,000 inhabitants, being second in importance to
London alone. Well, the Government first bought a building for the
Post Office, for the sake of economy, so ruinous that they were soon
after obliged to take off the two upper stories and having done
that, they were compelled to leave it for two years and a half
without a roof, in the mean while taking no steps to erect a new
office. The result is, that for the greatest commercial city in
Scotland we have no cavalry barracks, no defences of any
description, a Post Office without a roof, and yet, with an amount
of wealth that may prove a tempting prize to an invader."

We will not say much about the Cavalry Barracks. Drunkenness, we know,
prevails to a great extent at Glasgow; and if the people there are apt
to be so disorderly as well as drunk, as not to be controllable by the
ordinary police, perhaps they do require dragoons to repress their
excesses. In that case, it is no doubt a shame that Glasgow should have
no barracks for cavalry. But that the Glasgow Post Office wants a roof,
is a substantial inconvenience and injury, a just cause of complaint, a
matter for strong and sober remonstrance; for remonstrance as
strong--and as sober--as Glasgow can make. A roofless house is
disgraceful enough considered as indicating insolvency, but it is much
more disgraceful when its rooflessness is the result of injustice. To
expatiate on the prime necessity of secrecy and security in such a
building as a post office, would be to insult the understanding of our
readers; and we feel that some apology is due for hinting that, of all
the works of masonry, that is the very edifice which ought most
carefully to be tiled in. It is, therefore, with all our power that we
would trumpet--if with a penny trumpet, though, in fact, ours is a
threepenny trumpet--the lack of a roof to the Glasgow Post Office as a
real Scottish grievance; and a very great one, particularly as compared
to the others alleged by Scottish agitators. We may add that we
sympathize the more cordially with the parties aggrieved, inasmuch as we
of course regard the condition of the Post Office at Glasgow as fraught
with prejudice and peril to the general cause of letters.

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ABERDEEN FOR CHINA.

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