New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-20

ceiver are 20 few that he requires bat On al
salary; and keeping store. the publicity given
10 bis plsce BY its being mad. brsnch Office fo'
the City psss. will nearly and efentnes quite
compensate him for sll hi. trouble.
M.il-carriers, with light spring c,rts drawn
ty good horses call s; tie receiving houses, sag
dozen times day and carry the letters to the
General Post Office. whence the city letters sre
sent out By carriers aDd letters for the cDuatry
MA 81. Let u see Low this city establishment
pay. in Crest Britain. ard how important. part
it plays il their eIceilen, postal sy.tepI. Ere
quent letier-delivey vss one Of me great i'm
proveuents 80 strongly urged b. Hill. though
there sre allow snces TO De ssde n comparing the
entire postal service of that small kingdom With
tina. Of this country, yet 10 tue domestic postal
arrangement. IN cities add towns, tee cases sre
exactly parallel. The same number Of people Oh
tie same surface here, will write IS many letters
as there. provided the circumstances of cost se-
curity, facility, and expedition are the same. In
fact. the difference ought TO be il favor OF our
population. ss they are generally more active aud
more universally educated. How does the case
stand at present Why, the English people write
about five times as many letters in the aggregate
SIS We do snd in cities and towns, from twenty 20
one hundred times as many. Ia 81 English city,
et.e, nailed before o'clock il the morning
will be forwarded TO sDy part Of the city bounds,
and en- spswe- obtained before twelve BY regular
cour.e Of mail. So, If mailed before ten or
twelve o'clock, an answer ms! be expected in
four hours. The charge is one penny on each
letter. Under this system no long journeys
are 10 be made to the Pos.-O Office. but the whole
thing il. accomplished by an Agent OF the Govern
ment and at the moderate charge OF t~o cents.
Here letter mailed in New-York for any part
Of TIE Ctr, thoush Lot Aaf mule dis.ss. may
be 6e,ivered il the course Of two or three days
Upoa q recen. occasion we mailed letter 70 s
iriesd stopping st hotel on Friday s1d il vas de-
l7ersj, by due ccurse Of mail bs one Of our
so-cslled lttter-carrier. or Monday forenoon Ia
former srtcle il Va. shown, from the English
Post Ofice Reports, that there were mailed In
London alone in 1853 over $1,000, 600 lestess-as
many 40 in the whole United States; that the
proportion is over IL OO0 to every thousand inhas
itants sid .hs. the population OF cities Ike Liy-
erpcol and Manchester write 5000 TO every
1000 people. wide the proportion for tie same
number Of people in New YORK, Philsdel phia and
Baltimore sre, respectively $4,000, II 900 and
10000. This difference i, almost entirely among
what are known 5. drop letters, though our
drop letters pay postage Of only one cent
while the English are charged two. Tse number
II I la, - - an
-. 5l6.3 ga The whole number Of Letters IN allied
In that city was 972lS.&37. and the entire
portage on all nailsble matter was SOIL
il4. Thi. would give for the London
Dist-ic, Post, the sum Of S2,2i6.762. A' the
foreign letters pay higher postage than those IN
the kincdcm, let us make az allowance OF cay
sli6.7G2 snd this would leave for the circlla-
ton of ma;lsble matter in London s., 100 600.
II cannot be far from that According 70 the re-
port Of our Postmaster General for FOL, the
snly year We hare report on the subject there
were rs, 425 drop letters 10 the whole ai.ei
State. A. these had esch postage OF one
celt jus, enough to pay for the trouble Of hand
ing them OUT, tse profits on them may be stated
in round numbers st-no.hlng. Aud what are
the financial results OF the Englsn system We
have seen that - 100, 600 are received for local
mail matter 10 London. Now there are in the
entire kingdom -,72l le!ter-csrriers, and :. j6l
receivers and these sre paid. annually, the sum
Of 81 - 400, .ho wing that the money received
on letter. and papers, distributed in that city
slcne, pays more than - 900 600 beyond the
entire salaries of all the carriers, receivers aud
sub Pos,mas.ers throughout the kingdom. We
subioin the figures in detail. Ii will be Observed
that the las. three columns give respectively the
entire number Of persons employed in the juri'dc-
ton Of TIE POst.Offces named, incluiing sob
Pos,masters, carriers clerks. stampers, and
sorters; the entire expenses of the principal IS
well as the sub Off .es attached. both salaries
snd incidental charges: and the gross receipts
for postage and postage stamps sold.