The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-17
The Disorganixation OF the Maiis--Publio
Meeting

The mails are In such disorder, the failures
and delays have become so frequent and annoy
ing, that our merchants have determined to make
an effort to induce Congress to move in the mat
ter, and furnish remedy for the evil of which
the public complain
We understand that petition is now circulat-
ing on 'Change and among the merchants, for
meeting to be held in this city, to express the
opinion of New York on the utter incapacity of
the Postmaster General to manage the mails in a
proper and useful manner. The Press of this
city, with their daily express, have, since the LIST
inst repeatedly beaten the mail from the South,
and once or twice it has placed us in possession
of New Orleans papers three or four days in ad-
v1nce Of the regular mail. All this has aroused
the merchants to the shocking mismanagement
OF the Post Office Department and they are now
determined to see if their just complaints will
not have some effect in Washington.
This meeting will shortly be held, and we
mean to report its proceedings in full Similar
meetings ought to be held in other cities. We
have suffered enough and now that Congress
is in session, some movement should be made
throughout the country to effect some change.
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Terrible Distress In EDgIaDd-American SYM
pathy-Grsat Public Meeting next Monday.
Last year was marked by the narrowing dis
tresses of the Irish people, and the sympathy of
America in their behalf. The potato rot pro-
duced a famine in green Erin, and threw thou
sands and thousands into horrible restitution
No sooner, however, were the facts known in
this country, than the feelings of the people were
enlisted with benevoence and charity. Sub
scriptions were raised, collections formed, and
numerous vessels of war, with generous volun-
teers to man them-Commodore De Kay, and
many others-were despatched with breadstuffs
for the destitute of Ireland, Scotland, and part
OF England Those events created a sympathy
and feeling throughout the civilized world.
The British Parliament noticed them-all those
high in authority spoke of the generous acts pf
the American people with enthusiasm and ardor
So far well. A new description of ma
uonal disaster has broken out again in Eng
land, and other parts of Europe. Misfortunes
never come singy, to individuals nations Or
We do not allude to the stringency of the money
market-to the scarcity OF money, which has
brought England to the verge of bankruptcy--we
do notlallude to the insolvency of her merchants,
or the escapes Of numbers Of them from their
creditors. II is, no doubt, melancholy to see the
high aristocracy of England, landed or monicd,
sink into poverty, and be compelled to eat simple
roast beef and plum pudding, without the wines
of France, or the expensive Injuries of the four
quarters of the world. The Duke of Buckingham
has run away from his splendid castles, being IN
debt ten millions Of dollars but this is not the
distress which affects England at the present
moment. The Duke Of Beaufort had to curtail
his horses and his wines, and is probably ready
run away, too; but this lie not the awful nation
al disaster. The Marchioness Of Aylesbury, who
visits the Italian Opera every night THE season,
and applauded Jenny Lind with so much enihu-
siasm, has not only become defauter, lame
duck, as it is called, but was also cast ashore
in gale on the Isle Of Wight, and up TO he,
eyes in water and love; but these are not the
misfortunes that now fill England with sorrow
and wo.
What then isthe new calamity which distrcsoes
the English people so mnch, from the highest
to the lowest'-their statesmen and their press
their bishops, at enc hundred thousand dollars
year, and their curates at fifty dollars What is
1t that dlstresses unhappy, unfortunate and
Borrowing England, and all her great men
Lit up your eyes and weep. II is the veto.
res and the triumphs Of the American arms in
Mexico. Those brilliant NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
superior even to those of young Napoleon in
Italy--have thrown England and the English
people, from thehighest TO the lowest-her states
men and her journasts--into state of despair
Iporezovcrwhelming dietress Than the ia.