New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-12-11

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to reduce Postage to low rates is to throw the
Department on the Treasury for It's maintenance
We say, Not So 1t may need little aid for
fine. hut Will soon recover itself Now to the
facts.
Great Britain has population OF when pro-
portion far below that ofour own People can "fi'e
or even read. Herpeople are less enserPflsiug anu
inouirinr than cur own: her members OF the same
f,,n;iv are not scattered over the land as ours
are. fhey do not read fourth as many newspd-
pers. comparatively, as ours do. She, up to 1889,
exacted Rates of Postage higher than our own
Since 1910, but one penny two cents has been
charged for the conveyance of any letter from
point to point within the United Kingdoms. This
reduction took effect Jan. 10th, 1910; conse-
ouenty, we have since had less than four years
trial Of the cheap system. What have been tbs
results
J. The number Of letters now mailed and paid
in Great Britain and Ireland is more than t,1ice
end hclf what it was three and half years
ago, under the high rates, though a great part of
the number then sent were franked, and paid NO
postage.
2: The Revenue, which for the last year OF
the old system was less than Eleven and Half
Million Of Dollars, fell, on the reduction, to less
than SIX and Half Millions, and rose the next
year to over Seven Millions. Thus III the very
second year of the reduced rates the Postage
reached two-thirds the highest previous aggregate,
and is still increasing.
3. Even at the penny rate, the British Post OF
fee paid all its own expenses the second year OF
that rate and more than Two and a half MIL
lions surplus into the Treasury. All this time,
be it remembered it was carrying all Newspapers
for nothing ut cV-the Revenue from that
source being called Stamp Duty and paid directly
into the Treasury, leaving the Post Office to carry
and distribute them absolutely for nothing.
Such are the data from which the Postmaster
General draws the inference that any sweeping
Reduction of Postage in this country will throw
the Department permanently on the Treasury Tor
support confess such deduction from such
premises is to me utterly unaccountable.
I suppose l ought to be grateful to the r. nj.
General for the picoyupe Reforms he does recon-.
mend Viewing the whole ground, however,
nv gratitude is exceedingly homeopathic in
quantity.
Can it be possible that Congress will be gov
erned by this Report? trust not. H. &.
The Snoyv-Storm-Thingsa at Washington.
Editorial Correspondence.
WAsHINGToa, Friday Evening, Dec. 8.
The snow-storn of yesterday extended as far
South as this City, and farther. The afternoon
Train from Philadelphia which should have reach
ed Baltimore at OF this morning, got in little
before 4. staid over III Philadelphia, where some
attempts at seighing were made last evening
All the Eastern Shore Of Maryland was covered
with snow through to-day, but there is less this
side of Baltimore The little inets of the Chesa-
peake were frozen over, aud ice in abundance
running in the Susquehanna. The day has been
cool but pleasant and tonight is beautiful
ceedingly.'
You will have seen that the Van Buren, men
have taken every thing in the House-speaker,
Printer, Clerk, &c. &c. Every Wing subordi.
nate in that body is to have his walking papers
directly. The Calhoun and Buchanan factions
are completely used up, and VANS nomination at
Baltimore secured. Good for our side. G.