houses or lodgings. They are a lot of people mostly without votes, and of no importance, and we therefore do not see why we should give them the facilities they desire. I have drawn up and printed a letter to answer all such complaints as the one I will read, which is from some medical man:
Sir,—I have moved to —— in the same postal district. As my private address has, unfortunately, got on to the Parliamentary register, people will direct letters to my old address, and I am quite helpless to prevent their doing so. This involves delay, and sometimes very Serious inconvenience.
Would you oblige me by drawing the attention of the Postmaster-General to the grievance, and ask that lodgers may be placed on the same footing as householders.
P.M.-Gen.: Inform the correspondent civilly that his request cannot be granted.
Sec.: Here are numerous letters from persons complaining that their cross-country posts are deplorably deficient, and arranged so badly that the "Times" or "Daily Mail" reaches Paris before it gets to their homes in Dorchester and other places.
P.M.-Gen.: Send the usual official answers. They must live in some place where our mailing arrangements will be more satisfactory to them.
Sec.: Some fussy man writes:
Sir,—I enclose a prospectus just issued for a motor mail coach company, in which it is stated that each motor mail coach will produce a profit of £350 per
