Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-17

it in respect letters it is fair credit the former
each with $4,000 for newspaper postage in addition to
the above respectfully set down to their credit
There is similar omission and for the reason In
regard to the New York and California lines but have
reliable data from which determine what additional
should be placed to their credit for postage print
ed matter, Of which no separate account appears
The number Of letters conveyed between the United
States and Europe during the year
By the Cunard line 423
tho Collins OlS 345
tho Bremen 4l2ll7
the 4ool2o
4,ol,oll
The number Of newspapers
by tho Cunard line l,034, l63
tho ouos4o
the Bremen, lin closed mails 1913
the Havre do .................. 4,9S7
the several United States lines in Prussian clos
ed mail... 33,l55
l,3Sl,S63
The number of letters by the Now York, New Or
leans, Aspinwall, and Pacific mail steamship lines
707 533
BY the Charleston and Havana line .......... 6S64
BY the New Orleans and Vera CRUZ. 2,lQ5
Havana lines was . 33l22
BY the New Orleans and Vera Cruz ltne....... 3,l37
The amount received from Great Britain on loose
letters collected during the year on board the At
lantic mail steamers was 269 I6
Amount paid Great Britain 30 Sc
The amount received from Great Britain on dead
letters returned to the London office 1924 90
Amount paid Great Britain dead letters return
ed to Washington 1,772 &C
The United States revenue, under the postal treaty
with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland for the last fiscal year to.469s94 70
The balance in favor of that Government at the
close of the fiscal year 70
This large balance against the United States arises of
course mainly from the circumstance that although there
only three trips by the Cunard line than
performed unedy by the Collins, Bremen, and Havre
lines much the greater part of the mails conveyed
by the former. For instance
While the postage on the letters sent during the
year from Great Britain to the United States by
the Cunard steamers 1926, 200 %
BY the Collins steamers, performing just half the
number OF trips 1t was but... lO6,O65 46
Showing difference 80
More than treble the number of letters having been sent
to this country by the Cunard than by the Collins
Again
While the sum paid to Great Britain for the convey
ance Of closed mails for the year 70OSl 10
The amount paid by that Government to the United
States, exclusive Of the sum received on the Cali
fornia closed mails, via the West Indies and Pa
mama direct was $4S,222 p
And this includes the land conveyance of the British
and Canada closed mails.
The partially of the British in behalf of the
Cunard line is presented in still stronger light by the
accompanying statements where it is shown that in the
matter simply of sea postage closed mails during the
last threequarters of the year. dating from the time the
United States and Prusan arrangements went into ope-
ration the British charge against the United States is
S2S, $50 co. while during the same time the United
States received from Great Britain for Atlantic
yeyanoe q all closed mails, including those and from
the BRUSH North American Provinces Havana and Cali
fornia only SO, 5l3 60. But in the mails dispatched
from the United States for England by these lines
such difference appears Thus, taking the period
the mails sent by the Cunard steamers, the postage
So, S33 O6
by the Collins steamers l2'2O1 ~
1T, 625 46
From this last comparison it is apparent that as re-
CARDS the mails sent from the United States each line
ceived very nearly its due proportion
Comparing the Bremen and Havre lines with the Gu
nard line, the difference in favor Of the latter is still
vastly greater. Thus, by the Bremen and Havre lines
performing unitedy twenty voyages the postage
on mails sent from England only S45 800 90.
This great inequality can be accounted for solely by
the fact that while the United States makes dscrimi
nation in respect to the lines carrying the Prussan clos
ed nails the British postal authorities employ the Gu
nard line almost exclusively for the transmission of their
closed mails which pass through the United States.
Another extraordinary feature in this is pre-
sented with reference to the mails from the continent Of
Europe received in the United States through England
1t will be that Of this class of correspondence for
the year there received by the British steam
And by the United States steamers per-
forming but three trips less, only....... 5,737 "
Difference in favor Of the British line of
nearly ten 10 one o. -
Whilst these most uninst otions have hapn