The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-12-07
Iar number OF newspapers :

The number of letters by the New York,
New Orleans, Aspinwall, and Pacific mail
steamship lines, vas 2,7o7.5
By the Charleston and Havana line bS,lsi
DO Nav 0slsans and Vera Cruz 2,lO5
The number OF ~spapers By the Charles
ton and havana lane was 33,l22
By the New Orleans and Vera Cruz line 3I37
The amonn, received iroa Great Britain loose let
,ers collected during the year on board the Atlantic
mail steamers was 81 ,269 10
Amount PAID Great Bdiain same 20 IS
The amount received IRON Great Boiain dead letters
returned to the London office Sl4024 %
Amour, paid Great Britain dead letters
turned TO Washington l,772 60
The United States revenue under the postal treaty WIN
the United Kingdom OF Great B,ilain and Ireland, Tor
the last nscai year amounts 10 S469se 10
The bali IN favor OF that government at the close OF
The Else al ,e,r was -Sl3l36l rs
This large baaucr against the United States ases OF
course manly IRON tue circumstance that anoush there
were only three more s BY Tue Cunard iiae thaa
performed anItedly by The Collins, Bfemen and Havre
nss much The geaer part oil the mails were conveyed
By the iofmer. For instance:
While the postage the letters sent during the year
from Great Britain TO the United States by Cunard
BY the Collins steamers. performing jus,
hall the number OF UPS, II was but lo6.o65 40
Showing difference Of 2I9,.3s 50
More tnsn treble the number oil letters having been
ssi 10 this country By the Cuoard ,nan BY the Collins
steamers. Again;
WAe The sun paid 10 Great Britain Tor The conveyance
OF closed mails for the year was S7oosl,l9
The amount paid BY that government to the Uned states
exclusive OF the.an received the California closed
mails, VIA the West Indies and Panama direct, was
only S4s,222 ~
and Canada closed mails
The partslty OF the British government, in behalf OF
the Cnnard line presented 10 sui stronger light by the
accompanying statements, where u is shown that 10 ihr
matter simply OF postage closed mails dufDs the
as three quarters Of the year, dating from the time the
United STATES and Prussan arrangements went into opcr
ats0n the British charge against the United States 10
exs, $50 60
While during the same time the United States received
from Grea, BRAIN for Atlantic conveyance oil all
closed mails, Including those 10 and IRON the Brush
North American provinces. Havana and California. only
e3,3i3 so.
But IN tbe mails despatched from the United States for
England BY these two lines such difference appears
Thus, taking The period mails BY Gu.
nad sisamefs. the postage was S232 SAG 90
By Collins steamers l27,2o7 90
es ye I25 e25 az
Prom this last comparison il is apparent that as regards
the mails iron the United States each line received
very nearly ils due proportion. Comparing the Bremen
and Havrs lines with rhe Cunard ne the difference in
favor Of .he latter - still vastly greater
Thus. by the Bremen and Havrs lines performing
uniiedy twenythsee Voyages, the postage on mails seD
IRON England was only S45.eso 30.
Tsis great inequality be accounted Tor solely BY
the fact thai while The United States makes no d'scnm
nation IN respect to the lines carrying the Passlan closed
mails The Brush po.,sl authorizes employ the Cunzfd
lne almost exclusively tor the transmission OF the,f
cio.ea mt'is when pass through the unned States.
Anotnsr extraordinary feature In tnsS matter pre-.
e"ned WIN reference w The mails from the continent OF
KUsope received ~ tn. Uaue. States through Eng
land. Ii will he seen that Of this ciass OF correspond
cnce for the year there we're BY the Bntsh
steamers 37.058 letters
Ana by the United States steamers, per-
forming ba, three trpe lese, only 5737
Difference in favor OF the British line 1922
or nearly ten TO one.
Willis, these most unjust determinations have been
taking place. other facts connected with the snb-
iec should be borne IN mind. Gfent Britain ceived Tor
the tsaps't through that country Of our Bremen closed
nasls, IN the first Quartet OF the last fiscal year. thirty
Cents IN Unnce, aud the United States and PrussiAn
IN ounce whilst The Uniied States has received bui
twelve and hall for the British md Can.
adA clossd mails though performing a service At leas,
equal in point OF imponance,
The Whole amount OF letter postage collected in the
Voted States and Prussia, respectively under the United