I accordingly wrote to Mr. Mitchell for information on the subject, and applied for, and obtained from Mr. Bond, Mr. Mitchell's original letter to him of the 3d of October, with the Nantucket postmark.

"Last winter I addressed a letter to Mr. Schumacher, acquainting him with the foregoing facts relative to the discovery, and transmitting to him the original letter of Mr. Mitchell to Mr. Bond, dated 3d October, bearing the original Nantucket postmark of the 4th.

Occasionally envelopes with an Australian postmark reached her, and these always excited especial notice.

It was addressed to James Nicholson, Esq., and stamped with the Strand postmark.

By the last post there came a letter with the Brighton postmark, and marked 'urgent,' for Mr. Knopf, and he (Robertson) was just wondering if he should run over to No. 26 with it, when his master returned.

One morning, when he was alone, he received a letter bearing the Plassans postmark, the superscription on which he examined with surprise, not recognizing the writing.

The postmark showed that it was from New York.

Enclosed in his father's letter was one with a Russian postmark, and this Jack found was from Count Preskoff.

With the next day's mail there came to Madam Conway a letter bearing a foreign postmark, and bringing the sad news that her son-in-law had been lost in a storm while crossing the English Channel, and that her daughter Margaret, utterly crushed and heartbroken, would sail immediately for America, where she wished only to lay her weary head upon her mother's bosom and die.

"From Hildegarde," said Mrs. Wilbram, noting the Los Angeles postmark.

A search of the postmark of his much-beloved package revealed the date "Av.

In the absorbing interest which the postmark had created,that fraudulent postmark as it certainly was,he had never condescended to examine the postage-stamp.

In the absorbing interest which the postmark had created,that fraudulent postmark as it certainly was,he had never condescended to examine the postage-stamp.

Now the postmark is dated '73.'

Whatever might be the facts as to the postmark and postage-stamp, the words 'Mrs. Caldigate' had been written by the man now in prison.

It might well be that this gang of ruffians,for it was manifest that there had been such a gang,finding the envelope addressed by the man to his wife, had fraudulently,and as foolishly as fraudulently, endeavoured to bolster up their case by the postage-stamp and the postmark.

But when Bagwax opened a correspondence with Mrs. John Caldigate and explained to her at great length all the circumstances of the postmark and the postage-stamps, and when at her instance he got a day's holiday and rushed down to Folking, then, as he felt himself, he was doing that of which Sir John Joram and Mr. Jones would not approve.

'You see the date in the postmark.'

The postmark theory was exposed to derision.

But when she understood the point which had been raised and made as to the postmark,which she did understand thoroughly,then she comprehended also her own jeopardy, and hurried up to London to see Crinkett.

Got a fresh thin envelope, put the old one inside, traced the address through, pasted on a postmark from your last one to me, and put three heavy sheets inside to make it fata lot fatter than the one I got out of his pocket.

That she did not was owing partlyonly partlyto another letter which, bearing an English postmark, indicated that Ray McCrea, who had been abroad for a month on business, was turning his face toward home.

This was addressed, in a very bad hand, to A. McLeish, Callao, Peru, but they could not make out the date of the postmark.

It had a Birmingham postmark, and Mrs. Melcombe heard with pleasure that Joseph would be away at least a fortnight.

The letter was written, as only the postmark shows, on September 26th, 1859, and was as follows: * *