The Changwo has just arrived bringing a home mail, five weeks and five days from London to Tchang. We feel getting nearer civilisation with punctual mails and of so rapid transit, compared with the old days when mails arrived once in three weeks, and never less than seven weeks from London. Our postal affitirs are splendidly attended to at present by the Chinese Imperial Post. We have an energetic and_ most obliging postal officer.. The only.thing objectionable Is the exteu.charge levied on.home parcels between Shanghai and inland postal to We hope China may soo: be admitted the Postal Union, and a uniform rate for every kind of postal matter established but better still, when the Yangtze comes under the full control of Britain, and we become blessed with penny postage.
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