Any further information on this subject shall be freely and with pleasure supplied by, yours, sincerely, (Signed) JOSEPH HUME. His Excellency George Bancroft. MR. HUME’S TABLE. _Estimate of the number of chargeable Letters delivered in the United Kingdom in each year, from_ 1839 _to_ 1847.(1) Year. Number of Letters. Annual Increase. Increase per cent. Millions. Millions. on the No. for 1839. 1839. 76(2) 1840. 169 93 123 1841. 196-½ 27-½ 36 1842. 208-½ 12 16 1843. 220-½ 12 16 1844. 242 21-½ 28 1845. 271-½ 29-½ 39 1846. 299-½ 28 37 1847. 322 22-½ 30 The most important of the tables contained in the parliamentary return will be given in the appendix, either entire, or so as to present the material results in their official form. The contents of that document have not, to my knowledge, been in any manner brought before the people of the United States. It is humiliating to think, that while a system fraught with so many blessings has been so long in operation, and with such signal success as a financial measure, in a country with which our relations are so intimate, I should now begin to prepare the first pamphlet for publication, designed to give the American people full information on the subject; this publication being the first effort of the first regularly organized society, now just formed, for the purpose of securing the same blessings to the citizens of this republic, which the British Parliament enacted, after full investigation, nine years ago. If we look at the various political questions which have already in those eight years grown “obsolete,” after occupying the public mind and engrossed the cares of our statesmen, to the exclusion of the great subject of cheap postage, and consider their comparative importance, we shall be satisfied that it is now high time for a determined effort to satisfy the people of the United States with regard to the utility and practicability of cheap postage.