New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-07
Ocean Penny Postage.
Frnrss Worcester spy.

Mn. EpIroR: Let me beg YOU 70 admit INTO
some corner Of your paper Jew thoughts on ooesn
Penny Postage q subject which must interest, dreSty
snd deeply many O. your rcace-s, aud ni1hons on 49,
sides OF The Atlantic Perhaps you are s~Sre '~. -e
proiec. of reducing the transit charge ON Letter ion
any port of Great Britain sny port beyond tne sea
one rerEy OF TWO cents, has beel aoot in this country
fer several years It hss now assumed the Character %
a measure of urgent necessity and vsst mp
and Is about 70 be broaghf Forward in Psriaineni,
backed by aucst the unanimous sympathy and siraS"
OF s pol-cal parties. All Of all classes Of society IN
fact no opposition % this grel postal reorn nas nSn
Tested ss in sny quarter K seems az once 20 conei
ate End win 10 It's advocacy Ell interests. The sudden
ard immense emigration 10 Austrsis, within the A-'
few months with the old gui stres OF hnnsn seings
flowing with unminlshed currc1t toward AneE1sS Gas
brought the subject home 20 slAoaS during me last
year who though, 4, d.d net SisCt them beosd. ine
poorer ant industrial classes o. society, who supply me
largest tributaries OF this swiiinning rver u eisrA
ton, lock for the reazGsn o. Ocean Penny Postage ~
sbCon o, .ncSiimshle value
The commercial class Cf community hegin "a under
stand rs importance, and q urge its adoption livery
interest. every influence every Gposon and tendency
OF the Times, u IA IL favor. Bat - maze Oean Pen
DIV Postage universal csex'cn.ive with the globe. the
ssr'pshy and concurrence o, the people and govern
Q: s!l maritime countries IN Chttendon are re-
cuisi,e For 70 realize completely the system proposed
whatever be the distunce direction, or under what
ever a. lever may be conveyed tac single scEvce Of
lis trasi, irC any pOt o, one country 10 any port
OF oller. NUT be performed for one PsRss II the
kIsh Iiall packers pfiNftr tllc
any pert CT Great Britain % any port beyond TIE sea al
which they touch Tor one penny, the American mail
packets inust do the same The French steamer that
convsys letter errcss the. Mediterranean, or ,hc Ger
men scruss the Baltic or the Dsnh across the sound 10
Sweden, must each perform this single service for
p,sRt Several Governments and nations, N IN, must
move In this msiter before he whole scheme Is con
summarized.
But Great Britain and the United States establish
this sy-tem over ihar Ga e>iOurths ~ the sooe,
without the sd or concurrence OF any other govern
ments whatever England can alone establish lt be-
tween Liverpool and Halifax. and viii do II, dcubue~s,
ere lone and besn her AMI all her colonial ports be
yord the sea- IN every direction snd to every distance
And il he can convey lcitc- rom Liverpool 10 Hsll-
tax OF 20 Hong Kone to Australia for penny, can
not the Uuucd etes transport one from New York to
Liverpcul Havrc. Bremen Havana Sr the same
What a singular anomaly il would be, II thH transit
charge on letter from Liverpool 10 Quebec should BE-
tro crris and the service on from Boston 10
Lverpcol should be res cents Il probably the fact
that aiEctsss Of all the correspondence oi the world
Llat eros. the Sea- Is conveyed N British and Amer
can vesscls H. therefore, these two Governments
be brought by pressure ~ public opinion, TO unite in
establlng Ocean Penny Postage, 80 far NJ lies IN
their united power they could alone confer the boon,
almost to the u extent OF ts blessing and bcned;ence
upon the family of man. Yours sincerely,
EIrIu BrnRrrr
Lendo- IS Bree@ 81 BSiti'ss' N,r. s. 1888