Calling at the Post-office at this place recently, a number of foreign letters and papers addressed simply, "Tungchow, China," were shown me by the clerk, with a request for information as to their disposal. I was fortunately able to tell him, that all he showed me were for the 2'ungchou near Peking, not our Zngchou. With native letters the characters, of course, evuble the clerks to tell which place is meant, but with foreign mail the case is different. If the name of the province were added to the address, just as the name of the State, except in ease of the largest cities, is made a sine qui non on mail matter in the States, much of this trouble might be avoided. A letter addressed toT'ungehou, Chibli, China, would certainly not go to South America, nor would it be delayed by a detour of from four Gave to x week in this province. To add "Shantung" to letters, etc., addressed to this place, would not only save them a trip North, but in some cases would also prevent their going south to Lungchon,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.