The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

FIRST REPORT OF THE

GENERAL

We resume our notice of this report, one of the
most Instructive dormant. ever issued by a governmetital
department. Acceriiii.g to the report, the gross postal ro-
of Austria in 1862 was 906,8061.; of Beattie, 77,6481.;
of Denmark, 70.9631. ; of France, 1,864,3801.; of Holland,
116.2171.; of Prussia, 1,286,6961.; of Berrie, 771,0801. ; of
Seamy, 133 6771. ; of Sweden, 66,8581.; of the United
States, 1,273,7731.; of Great Britain, 2,422,1884 The
postal revenue of Liverpool in 1864 was 91,9091.; of Man-
chester. 74,7361.; of Dahlia, 63,6761.; of Edinburgh,
41,6121.; of Onegow, 68,1361. Dublin is the only place
amongst the large cities sod towns in which the postal re-
venue Is decreasing. The But Indies, the Cape of Good
Elope, Mauritius, and Van Diemen'. Lead, are the only
important depeadeneies to which the postage cn letters from
England is more than 64. The Postmaster-General con-
siders that the general redaction of the colonial postage t•
61. has proved a good measure, and that there is
a prospect of the reduction being adverse], which
will be of immense imperanee, partlealarly with
respect to the correspondence of the Ent Indies, which is
enormous from this country. A century ago 740001. was
paid out of the postal ninnies for pensions; at the present
time there are only three, vie., 4,7001. a year to the Duke of
Grafton es representative of the Decker of Cleveland,
which command in 1686; 4,0001. a year to the heirs of the
Duke of Schonberg, which eanneseed in 1696; sad
6 0001. a seer to the Duke of Marlborough, whist suer
me red in 1708. In the Accountant Gentili% rase,
80,000Postm asters' letter bills, and 6,600 receipts foe disburse.
meats hive to be examined every week. Tbe Footprints?
General states in his report that gnat facilities would be
afforded to the Foot-Moe if the public) would post lenen
and newspapers as early as possible, write the number of
the house and the name of the street end town legibly on
the address of every letter, sad provide a letter-box at
every door. There sea be no doubt that immense num-
bers of letters are delayed or seat to the Dead Letter-OMo.,
owing to the stupid nomencletare of streets and numbering
of houses is England. In no civilised country in the world
is this so disgraceful as in Great Britain.

The Postmaster-General states that there are 60 King-
stree% 60 Queen-streets, and 60 Joha Mints sad William-
streets in London. livery street in au coatinuou line, or
• weU &flan part of it, should banana name didn't hos
ell as►en is the sun city or tows, sad the house should
he numbered i• a noonsive order, from one upwards. The

to sansbets should never occur fa the seats street, not

even on the opposite side of it. " A mamma in London."
says the report, "living hetweea timbers 14 sad 16,
numbered her boom 94, bermes she had aa old braes plate
+lib that number ea it which had lama mad for a former
redden. A bandied years ego the remits of the Poet-
Aloe wan 140,0004 it is now 2i maniocs sterling. &sty
veers ago the Basile were sosvayed at a rate of three and four
miles as hour ; they are now conveyed 30, 40, and 60 miles
an hour. The two great postal retention have been Palmer
and Hill—the former a theatrical manager and the latter a
seentary in the Colonial-oam. Neither had ever seen the
inside of a post-office, when they propounded their reform..
Palmer revolutionised the Intend sad Hill the uterus;

arrangements of the Past-dies ; the former increased the
speed of conveying the mails, and du latter reduced the
postage of letters. The great scheme of Palmer was sag.
sated to him by Pules tradesmen mad letters of import-
snap by private creches instead of by the post bags on
none', and that of the letter by seeing poor people refuse
high pretested lstten because they could not afford tu
pay fur them, and because by looking at the addrses on
them they contrived to gain all the information they wanted.
la 1764 the packet service coot 10,0001. a year, at the pre-
sent time it eosu Ekio,oool. In 1839. 190,000 Poet-Oleo
mune, orders were granted. In 1865, the number granted
was 101 millions. Aceordieg to the report a mall convey-
. . .

ace for canylog government deopacies was established in
1481. James I. established a post for coaveyhas foieigu
letters, and ►is eon atablished as inland post. In 1644 a
weekly conveyance of letters Wall parts of the k ngdom was
establthed. Is 1683 a penny poet. and in 1708 a halfpenny
post was established in London. Is 1838, the stamp on
newspapers wag reduced from :id. to Id., which caused a
•rest increase to the number which passed through the Post
.•fike. From the earliest period to the present day, every
time the postage was reduced and greater facilities given to
the public, the pawl revenue accessed. Lord Canning
gives groat credit in his report to the late Lieut. Wombats,
for opening the Overlaid Mail route to India. In the
archives of St. Martin's-lc-Grad, the accounts of the
Post °Mee revenue are perfect from 1686 to the present time.
Amongst them is as item of eapeadituro in 1687 entered
that—. Paid to Edward Lick, of Hounslow, fora man to de-
liver letterset the camp, M." From these archives it appears
that ell the postmasters in the West of England were well
affected to William 111., and rendered him great amistance
when he landed in this country. These documents also re-
veal some curious particulars of the abase of the franking
system. Among the items franked by the H mail
pockets is 1695 were " aims parcels of cloth for the cl,thing
colonels in Lords Grey and North's regiments." Also a
peek of hounds. Only just before the franking privilege
was abolished it is well known that a pair of buckskin
hunting breeches were franked by a Rumanian official to
go by pest, and were enclosed in a cover and sent in the
mail beg. Lord Canning is troubled with great disco
and 'marriage inventors for the improvement of the Post-
ale'. "Crude, ill considered schema," says his lordship,
"conceived in ignorance of the simplest details of the bold-
ness of the Postcffiee, or pilfered from inventions already
well known, reach me in plenty, generally followed by
pressing claims for remuneration." Cases of detested
wholesale and retail robbery of newspapers before they are
posted are mentioned In the report as having been athibuted
to Poet-office delinquencies.
The present staff of Bt. Martin's le-Grand consists of
2,600 persons. There are now nearly 6,000 more Poet-
offices in the United Kingdom than there were 16 years ago.
Thhasil communication with the Isle of Wight, Isle of Mao,
Scotland, Ireland, and the north of Eagland, and that ta
the Clyde. has recently been, or is in program of being, im-
proved. Travelling poet oMess have just been istrodused
into Inland. The Postmaster General still 000siders it best
to leave the arrangements for the mail communication
between Constantinople and the Crimea with Lord Raglan.
Revisions, with improvements in the scales of salary, have
t just been made at the Postnaces of Edinburgh, Dublin,
Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and Bristol, though not
yet carried Into area The encouragement which the
Postmaster-General has gives to Ms subordinates to insure
their lives has already led to 200 Insurances. The report
' intimates the probability of the pater, on newspapers and
closed mails to and through Prato, from England, lying
reduced, and that "so far as facilities for all intercourse by
I pat can well, the intimate relation of England and Prance
will be promoted,* the utmost" In 1740 there was only a
post from Lades to Edinburgh three those a week, end oa
' are ocession the mail tam the English to the Bata metro-
, polls contained one letter. I. 1623 a mail containing
' despatches for the Secretary of State was seat by express
from Plymouth to Louden in 67 hours: elates trains
perform the distance sow in five ►ours.

PATRIOTISM IN NBA

•The patriotic

spirit which animates the colonists 0, New Brunswick, tad
which was evideneed by the munidoence of the legislative
vote in aid of the Patriotic Fluid, has sot abated. The pri-
vate sabecriptioas already received by the Liesteseet.
Governor ammo to 3,0001., and at least 2,0001. more la
easildendy ezpseted to bs dentin. Mortisp aratinse to he
held in every tows sad village, sad eves is the beekwood
esttlessets, a., which spirited resrlutioss are pasted, sad
subsuiptioss paid to the Patriots Peed. But this is spiel!:
Kr. Pesky, the gourrseseat emigration *Seer at 8t Jobe,
has proposed to the execetive of the preview to great a
million acres of its vaeast lands to the crows, to be appor-
tioned, at the teratinatios of the war, armies domain
British soldiers sad militiamen, sad the widows and emboss
of these who fell is the service, es audition of actual bottle-
nose. The propeshies was favourably received, sad a saes•
mines ef the esseutive essaell boo the matter soder quasi-
dentists. The peewees et seinirisi laud is British Awe
rice at the impleades at their term of 011/Ville will probably
be a strew halsersesst to sassy to eslist,.ead the settlement
of a badge mob Ines is the peeving; es a seed system,
would be a gematesiveatege to New Brassy/1814 end meat* a
tie Wines the obey sad Beglead that essld as,., be
esurred. Tb. servile, of Mr. Perky is the week= if New
Brasswielt bare just bees rewarded by his smokes* is
the poeS of ifitherres Omemississer, seder the BsMeosellp
Treaty, on the resommesdatios of the Goversir-Gemerral
end Mr. ihempies.