New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-18

Inc actual gam IN the number OF leers per hunuu'
in Great Britain from 1850 10 l356-in six years
was 3l ,32i73l, being many as the people OF the
United States write in year The number OF lei
tiers written now in year in Great Britain IS
4c2,OOO,O00 more than they wrote 10 the year
1889. One comparison more: The number OF let
tiers written and sent in the United States from
1859 to 1856, inclusive, $50 l04 6i5, and 10
Great Britain during the years 1853, A. . and 3,
l,7S9 G76 769, or 1885, 900, 900 more in four years
than the people Of the United States have written
since the adoption of the Constitution The City
of London has written and sent by post during the
last ten yesrs-l9i7 to lS56-920, 527, 09 letters,
and the entire United States in that time only
SO, 81, 5i9! If We go back more than ten years,
the difference is still greater.
The number Of Post Offices in the United King
dom is 10, SG6, and of these 345 are Head Post
Offices, and lO,O2l ub-Post- Offices 365 of these
Offices were established last year. During the year
"free deliveries" were established for the first
time at 03s places, and at PSI other places the
free delivery was extended and otherwise i'm
proved" "At an annual expense of about f42,-
1000 year, provision has been made for free
"delirery of more than 10000 letters per week
"(not to speak of newspapers and bOOks) which
"fOrmerly could be obtained only by application at
the Office widow" "Pilar letter boxes -
resembling, somewhat, a cast iron paror
stove-bave been tried as an experiment and found
eminently successful and acceptable to the public,
and their number has been considerably increased.
large additional number are to be put up in London
Dublin, Edinburgh and other places. BY dividing
London into ten postal districts, with initial letters
to distinguish tbem-like IN. w." "E. c."
for North-We and East Central-the public help
assert the letters; about 80 900 daily in the London
district are so addressed, and ths greatly facilitates
their sorting and delivery. BY means of several of
these improvements, 90 per cent Of the letters in
the London morning delivery are delivered before
q O'clock and 65 per cent before 9 o'clock, being
an average of as minutes earlier than the same de-
livery was completed one year ago. Letters from
the country toward London are sorted, to the num-
Der of 1l0O00 day, in the provincial Offices and
travelling POstOffices. The people of England
average 20 letters to each person in year. the
people of the United States less than 5 to a
person. being little over to person in the
Northern States, and less than three in the South
ern. Postage between England and France was
reduced two years ago from ten pence to four
pence, and the correspondence has already increased
one million letters. The number Of newspapers
sent by post last year was, by estimate, 100000,
and the book packages 3, 100000. The dead letters
returned during the year numbered about 400, 900
-"eveIy such letter being now opened, redirected
"and reposted on the day Of its arrival at the Re-
turned Letter Office" Our dead letters are
opened and the most of them committed to the
flames, in from three to nine months after they get
clogged in the great CircumlOcutiOn Office. But
notwithstanding this, the Universal Yankee Nation
are no doubt, the " smartest people in all crea-
ton. OF new Money Order offices 100 were opened
last year, and of these 81 were in the London Dis
trct There are now in the kingdom 2, O95 Money
Order ofices-these, of course being at all of the
larger Poet Offices. Many relaxstions have been
made in the rules for the payment of money orders,
saving trouble and time to the public and the De-
partment and these relaxatons " do not appear, in
ga single instance to have given rise to fraud, or
"even TO fraudulent attempt"
If there are any persons in the United States,
whether in office or out who hold the opinion so
srroganty and positively expressed by our late
Postmaster, General" tell you Sir, my system i,
better than Rowland Hills"-we advise them
TO spend quiet hour in looking over the state.
ments of this blue covered pamphlet Of sixty-four
pages, issued by her Majestys Postmaster General,
the Duke Of Argyll.