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Speaking of the business before Con- gress, the New York Daily Advertiser makes the following remark: " We cannot but thinlz 1t strange that the affairs of the Post office are suffered to remain unexpIo- red and undisposed of, until this late period of the session." It IS, at first thouoht. strange that Department, in which there has been admitted mis-management and as- sumption of illegal power, should have been permitted to go on, during nearly six months of the session, without full and proper iD- yestigation of its affairs The reader should be aware, however, as we now re- mind him. that if one branch of Congress could ind it expedient to send Committee to Philadelphia to look up the corresDon- dence which members of their own body have held with the gentlemen connected with the Bank, and yet have not found time or Inclination to examine the confessed de- llnqaeneies of one of the most important and delicate parts of the Gosernmental machine under its peculiar charge; if, we say proper scrutiny of the conduct of tha Post office has not been undertaken by ona of the Houses oi Congress, the other n,,,et De De exonefafed rem blame on that score.- The heavy debates on very momentous questions which have so constantly occu- ped the Senate, have not prevented tho proper Committee of that body from, Iool,

 lng into the affairs of the post office | | nat eoiamlttee Is now steadily pursuing the object of ascertaining the true state ofI ule Ios'-oflice Establishment; the causes @alch nave produced, and the means by , wn,ch II Is to be extricated from, its present emoafrassments. 1 full report from that committee may, no doubt, be expected some .I tune before the rise Of Congress.- -National iatet. ss7'