The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-21

and they were elected to the House. Others
went out and have got fat offices; others have
made money as lawyers, and Spectators, and
traders; others by gold digging; and if . large
number have persisted among the mines, or on
The sea, or on the plains, or among the noun
tains, outward or inward bound, we must re-
member that such are the chances of life. Cali
fornia is the place for disappointed wings Let
them emigrate there largely, and they may re-
volutionize the State, and secure the next cleo
lions to the Legislature and to Congress, out
and ont
The Washington Republic proposes q very
patriotic expedient in urging the junction Of the
wings in support of Gen. Pierce and his policy; |
but it will hardly pay-certainly it will not
yield dividend for the next four years. STAN
ly's resolution is better. There is something |
substantial in California. The democratic party
is already too large for the spoils; but there /
room yet in California; and when that is ill ed
there is still considerable margin of un' .ppro.
priated gold washings in Australia. The scheme
of the Republic is an empty abstrs.cti on There
is nothing made by it. All the frtynt seats are
engaged. The plan of Edws I'd Starry is the
best plan for the wings. Let them embark for
the gold mines; and they may yet live to see
the great measures of a high tariff national
bank and distributio' i of the proceeds of the
public lands, in full b. asst in California and Aus
tralia. Stanly is DO and for California. Stanly
is practical man. What say the wings?
IMPORTANT Az. ID GRATIFYrNs POSTAL ARRANGE
MENT.-In our Washington correspondence. pub
lished in yesterdays HERALD, the gratifying in
telligence is announced that the post Office ir-
regularities in the transmission of foreign news
| papersand correspondence, have been, or are
about to be, remedied. This news we hail with
| much pleasure, and we are sure that the public
| generally will congratulate themselves upon it,
1t has been matter of constant complaint. and
| of unceasing annoyance to this office, that the
papers mailed here, and directed to our nume-
rous subscribers on the European continent
have, in almost every instance. failed to reach
their destination; and many have been the ef-
| forts which we have made to rectify the evil,
but hitherto without success. We have onl7
our own experience in the matter to speak Of !:
but doubtless the same cause of complaint has
universally existed throughout the United
States. and been felt by all having correspond
ence with the continental countries.
Change Of officials has, however, brought
change Of system and the new Postmaster
General, on putting himself into relations with
the British Post Office authorities, has dicovered
that the old way Of doing business in his de-
partment was exceedingly slovenly and inefii-
cient. Hence the complaints of the monde
livery of letters and newspapers. The disease
having been found out, the remedy was easily
applied, and the regulations-whichw we detailed
in yesterdays HERALD-have been adopted,
in order to ensure henceforth the delivery of
matter mailed in this country. By these regu-
lations it will be seen that it is requisite to
mark on the letters and newspapers, directed to
the various continental nations, the route by
which they are to be transmitted. We trust
that these arrangements will render unneces-
sary in future the complaints constantly re-
ceived at this Office from our subscribers
abroad. of the general tone of which the follow
ing from an influential parsonage in Hamburg,
will serve as specimen =
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD
HAMBURG Feb. l6, 1853.
SIR-Since the new Postal Convention of the
United States with Prussia, your paper much read
here, has hardly been seen, except it may be stray
number coming per steamer from London. None
Of your regular subscribers receive their papers
AS no satisfactory reason be found here for this
untoWard case OF annoyance-for the Hamburg city
post, which delivers all mail matter received per
Prussian mail from over sea, can only say they are
not to blame, as all mail matter received by them
is duly given out take the liberty Of addressing YOU
these lines, to inform You OF this serious grievance
and perhaps you may be able to apply remedy.
Very respectfully, &c.
so much for the arrangements to ensure de-
livery; but that is not oil the benefit which the
public is to derive from the recent correspon-
dence between the heads of the post office de-
partnents in Washington and London 1t has
been discovered that. contrary to the stpula-
tons OF the postal convention of December
1913. newspapers have been subjected to an
extra tax of two cents each. levied in this coun-
try, and very obligingly forwarded to swell the
Golfers of the British post Office The mistake
leaked out, it would seem, some two years
since. and though notified to the department at
Washington, it went on uncorrected; but the
English Postmaster General has now avowed
his readiness to refund the sums thus illegally
collected for the past four years. In future,
therefore, the rate of two cents only, instead of
four. is to be levied on newspapers mailed in
the United States, for such European countries
as have concluded postal regulations with the
United Kingdom.
These ameliorations in our post Office system
abroad will be hailed with pleasure by the com.
munity which has been heretofore victimizcd
by the error committed therein. And it now
only remains for Judge Campbell. our new
Postmaster General to brush up the internal
postal arrangements Of the country, which are