The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1856-08-28


r Inittlng money home by money orders With owe
N % million dollars remtted by mail annually in mo
" ney orders with perfect safety, and the immediat
b. and extensive applicability of the system in time @
war, from hostile shore; is there any difficulty il
seeing the great utility of this financial agent partc
" uary to the poor and humble, who wish to trans
NIT small sums? The nearest approach to compulso
ry prepayment that they have in Great Britain il
the privilege of mailing letters for any place in the
United Kingdom with without pre-pay1nent bui
II not prepaid, the postage is doubled and Aus
trala letters must be paid they will not be for
" Wafded, there being arrangement with that colo
ny Tor collecting any postage that is due. But there
Is tlS vast difference between their arang and
ours: Wien letters not prepaid or thev lose
ther stamps, they are taken to Washington after
many months, and burned; while in England thev
are at once returned safely to the writer's.
SINCE Penny postage was introduced into England
IN lo4o, there has been increase in the number of
letters written in year, of $50 900 000 there being
that number last year than there was in 1890
an increase amounting to just six fold The whole
number ofIettcrs written and mailed in Great Britain
according to the official estimates, since January 1,
lo4U-Wheu Penny Postage introduced, has
been ,993, ,5lS ,S76, almost five thousand millions
taking the number written in year during high
postage and the rate OfncrelSe at that time as STAN
dtr the number of letters during the sixteen wears
with hlgh rates, would have been 1910 529 536 or
90 9o9, $40 less than the number actually produced
under penny rate! What vast social, moral intel
ectual, pecuniary and commercial benefits must have
arisen from cheap and convenient postal system that
called out 800 900 900 letters in sixteen years. in
Stead OF the moderate number of ,319 900 900 that
would have been written with high rates The whole
number OF letters written in the United States since
we nave been nation (65 years) has been only 393
9oo,ol4, or less than the number written in Great
britain during the last four years These are the
prictlcaI results. Is not tree known by its fruit?
Does net penny postage teach q wonderful lesson,
III showing such vast correspondence in country
where scarcely one-haf of the people have any edu-
cation at all
One of the great features of the British Post Office
.
more than any other to increase correspondence is
dee sEeef dyerB aye een t af t % paees
where none existed before, and at 64O other places
the free delivery extented otherwise improve
Rural letter carriers employed very extensive
l ana III the country districts around six T
towns Observation-Disclosures Colchester, Halifax q
Iurnbridge, Huddersfeld Wells, Norwich and Gree c
nock-the number of letters delivered by carriers
amounts TO some eighteen thousand week-nearly u
million IN q year. In London, not content with S
en deliveries day, they are going have hourly h
deliveries and rapid is the distribution be- that
etters viii be all delivered within hour after each
collection h
The Postmaster General-his Grace the Duke of a
argye-nake one very significant remark about for h
ign postage He says know it is your Lorshps Il
lesre, and it is in which fully concur that the
postage between the United Kingdom and every for
ign country, both letters and printed matter, N
hOuld be m0derate'' n
The number of persons in the employ of the British
ost office is y h47 and the number of miles of mail N
age cost transportation railway is 20 cents a d
llle and by coaches and other conveyances cents it
Some curious scraps of old postal history given.
he Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1866, sent form tc
+ prayer by post, from Croydon through Waltham in
ross and Ware to Croxon and it was forty hours OF
a going sixty-three miles The railway through sr
liles liz forty hours n
In 1898, Sir Robert Sinclair had pension of e30O
year given him to keep up the post in Scotland,
ut he lost money at it, and threw itup
In I1l5 there not single horse or carriage ~
9s in all Scotland, the mail transportation being ~
L done by foot runners the same as it is now in w.
any parts of India. In 1716, the Duke of Argyle 40
ncesor of the present Postmaster General started IF
le first horse post in Scotland In 1757-ninety- -
inc years ago-the mail eighty-seven hours in IL
'ing from london to Edinburgh AT this time it is M
even hours The first stage coach and the first pen IF
post and letter delivery were established in Scot ~
nd in 1776. The letter delivery was started by one M
eter Williamson, eccentric native of Aberdeen. i
1d he had letter deliveries every hour throughout b
e city Of Edinburgh As soonas the business got
be profitable the government took possession and -
we Williamson penson.-N. Y. Journal of Com 4r
cree. SI SSL
CONCLUSION OF BENToN's THIRTY YEARS REVIEW. an
-Ihe following is the two hundredth and last chan to
r OF Col Benton history of his Senatorial life ag
have finished the View which proposed to take Al
Thirty Yearss working of the federal government tn;
ring the time that was part of it-a task under ma
ken Tor seuI purpose, and faithfully executed pet
lether theobect of the undertaking has been attain u
OF not The preservation of what good and wise
IN gave us has been the objects and for that pur- wa
it has been duty of necessty to show the evil gre
well as the good, have seen, both of men and a $
assures The good, have exultingly exhibited spe
ppy to show it, for the admiration and imitation of ou
sterity; the evil have stintelv exnosed onII for
'rectIon, and for the warning example. =
have seen the capacity of the people for self gov
lment tried at many points, and always found it =
aal to the demands of the occasion Two other tri-
now going remain to be decided to settle the Off
esCloh OF That capacity. -
Inc election of President and whether that cleo
g Is TO be governed by the virtue and intelligence
.e people, or to become the spoil of intrig ue and
=, The
Lhe sentiment of political nationality and wbetb-
II IS TO remain coextensive with the Union. lead
to harmony and fraternity; or divide into section
;m ; ending In hate, alienation and civil war?
IN irresponsible body, (ehiy self constituted and NJ