The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-17
Iotal rtduCUoh TOT Iof'
n a ,roni.a IF futurp annual reductions.

Total reduction for ls49 "boio'''o
with promise of future annual reductions
Posr OFFICE DISCRIMINATING experiment OF Inc re,
ducton and pre- payment OF postage, with the use OF
stamps was made early in 1885, and there has been an
experience of nine years II is TO be observed that the
BRUSH postal system not dependent upon Itself as
10 lis receipts and expenses but it much part of
the service OF the public, as fleets and armies FOR
,ime the loss, consequent upon the new system was
enormous but the has, in 1919, about reached
the of that of 1885, independent OF the incacula
Die benefit bestowed by TIN diminished restraint upon
correspondence The number OF chageable letters IN
creased from 50 millions and hall, IN 1889, TO The pro-
digous number of 1879 millions in 1913, and the gross
revenue for the year ls47 to f2.lsl ooO being
within fi5oooo of the amount received IN 1899, be-
fore the reduction. The Review says, that the ex
ample we have SET has been followed, or is about to
influence the postal arrangements oil other countries;
and it is triumph to the advocates OF post once re-
iofm, TO find the portraits OF WASHINGTON and FRANK.
LIN g. pre- payments of stamps in the United Staes
adopted as the symbols of tina, improved system.
which is represented monarchy by the engraved
head OF own sovereign" In conncxlon with tins
subject may remark, reference TO the present sys
tenn of country, that Mr. Kendall-then at the
head of our Post Office Deparlmen-wiih the sagacny
which distinguished his ocM position, in $50 despatch
ed gentleman of this cityand Aow resident among
us-to Europe to gather information upon the subject
The agent only visited Great Britain but parts of
continental Europe; and upon the basis of the nfoma
ton furnished him from St. Martins Grand and by
The chiefs of the postal arrangements the continent
upon his reported in favor of adopting the reluc
non OF postage and the Prepayhs system IN me oned
States. This, we all know, has been partially intro
duced with great success as to results
CoLoNIEs-The Review states that the whole OF the
British colonial in Europe, ASIA Africa, and
America Gin regard which the orator, eloquent Daniel
Webster, borrowing the tnte idea from British author,
disappeared from Them do not cost England more than
is expended by France on Algeria. The result OF the
English colonial possessions for the year ls4S stated
foows-the aggregate cost OF maintaining the coonl
al governments not being stated:
Population E5 332 900
Imports into the United Kingdom 10000
Exports from the United Kingdom 1924 200
Declared value of British manufactures i'm
ported - S,79aO00
Population, &c.-There are sixteen millions of per
sons who nhaba Great Britain, England. Wales, and
Scotland There are lSS 900 holders the public funds,
of whom 1908 received dividends below EGO year.
OF the sixteen millions of persons there are bat 900
horses, and 10000 who possess the luxury OF four
wheeled carriages
EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED SrArEs-Ths, in ls47,
from Great Britain and Ireland direct The United ates
amounted TO 100000 PERSONS in 1913, to 100000. If
those who came to the United States by way of the
British Provinces and those not regularly registered,
proportion of the sexes about IS per cent of
male than female. For ls4o the estimate of emigration
from the same sources TO this country is 100000
EXPENDITURES AND PROPOSED REDUCTIONS OF TAXEs =
The aggregate expenditure for lsls OF the British govern
ment approXmaes TO sixty million sterling, of which
thryeght went TO pay the annual interest the funded
annual public expenses Golden, Gladstone Hume, and
others, propose TO reduce certain taxes the following
extent
Excise malt, hops, SOAP and paper $4,000, 900
Window tax 100000
Customs and tea duties 100000
Total proposed reduction IL 900, 900
In relation to the items of the excise duties, Golden
contends, that what soap is to the skim literature Zone
OF the means Of which paper is to the healthy action
OF the mind" This is doubtless true, in the abstract
but the opponents of these contend that such
an annual loss TO the government cannot be NET by any
immediate and commensurate reduction OF expenditure ;
therefore, the proposition, if carried, would be fatal
TO our unsophsticated American understanding it
seems shat the British financial Ieormers begin at the
wrong end. They should strike off all items of useless
expenditure and then they may measuably relieve the
people from the taxes and burdens which them to
the subsistence OF the Chartisi movement Hume, and
others, talked of more extensive and radical reform
but as yet, systematic effort has been made Let the
British people reduce official and salaries from
those OF their gracious Queen her consort, and in
fants downwards, making reasonable compensation for
reasonable service. Let them abolish pensions
slnecures, ami annual donations, whose name is
legion, and which bestowed upon utilitarian
principle Let them give ribbons saIers medals, if
companied with their curses to reward public nomina
ties and nonentes. Let them apply the sponge TO the
pIodgous stpends of the higher and fox hunting orders
OF their national clergy In fine let them pau out of the
naonaund only those who render commensurate national
service Not till then will Great Britain with all her past
greatness having reference the spr, OF REFORM
which is still pervading the civilized world be truly great
the words, which her own Shakespeare places in the
mouth of Rose, in Macbeth
- Alas, poor country;
lmot aira m kuO itsell