New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-27

Tie gross expenses, as here sci down, show an ia
cresse Of 3 per cent on the expenses Of the previous
veal but the report informs US that the expenses
woperly pertaining to tue year, increased only q
per cent" We see that the gross revenue net reve-
nue. and number Of letters have all increased in
orenter rato than the annual expenses. To appre
ciate this the more fully, we must see what improve
uer + have b. en- introduced ard what outlays have
been made la the annual report issued last year Cor
1851 the encrslsated that duriog the year
the number Of places at which free deliveries were
established fer the first time was U'S, aud " al
"2s ether places the free delivery extended and
"othoruise IN proved" In the same report ne says:
"Sr &C the CONNIE ncement Of the revision liSjl, at
Il Gnuua, expense Of about / !O00 provision has
been made for free delivery OF than 100000
letters per week got TO speak OF newspapers aud
books which formerly could only be obta-ed by
"applyiue at the office In the present report he
ssye: at Len places free deliveries were estao-
"lshed for the frst time ast year aud at ~ other
places" the "free delivery extended or other
wise imrroved' And notwithstanding all of this
outlay, which the PostmGster.Gencra speaks OF as
reyisor of the posts in the rural districts including
,n additional force of letter carriers, the revenue is
all tie tine increasing much faster than the eXoend!-
tures.
Tie direct fruits Of the efforts and expenditures to
improve the local post made in 1856 and lsJ', are
seen in the increase Of local letters in London from
1S.G TO 1857, TO the amount Of 1899 Geo, while the
mail letters going distance) only increased 2oOo
in tie same time Willie free deliveries were extended
to some tw thousand places in the INTERIOR over hity
receiving houses several branch Post-Oces and SIX
ty.sx letter pillars established in the London Dis
trct. Now, here is grand secret that we shalt im-
Iart to our official friends at Washington, aud we shall
presume that they will Ieyer tell anybody. Ihe very
means employed to "e1tend the free delivery and
"o.herwte prove the postal service gave an IN
petus to correspondence that at once created anger
revenue, while the expenses were augmented 70 idr
less extent Tie Briti-h authorities 90 to Work IN
the ve,y sensible way TO stimulate ana increase
tie local circulation as much as possible. he ad-
vantage of this is twcfod. That spondence-ioca
ltt.trr-is far more susceptible Of increase tlan co'
respoudepce et gees long distances aLd as postage
is unfcrm these letters thst circulate within the o2unos
of city or IN axe necessarily less expensive than
others. Our official Solons have found that weekly
NAL between two small country towns does not pay
ard that a monthly mail iIom Independence to Santa
F6, or Utah, has far larger outlay than income and
while tIey see that two and four mails day between
give large income with the large accommodated II
is quite Leyond their comprehension that the same
prI cple carried out by giving siz, eight ten or
twelve mails deliveries day within 'a'se
city, viii give margin OF proht 70 sun
greater extert. They can rememner' a'o' y
they Please tha, step By step the entire mschoefy
the Bn'i4h Pos.Ofice in the last twenty yeas mas
toeh anna lgemated, combining the penny 20" Tue
"twc.p,nIy post and the "four-psnny post OF
rsiher reduced 70 penny post 80 tha' Ine oc'' Gnu
ne mail circulation s-e row carried on by the same sci
Of nep subject TO the same regulations, ard the same
prices Our members of Congress too, msy kno"-a
they DO rot consider us mpertirent in teii1g 'nsu'-
that they have only closed very small stable door
BY making the transportation OF letters l'esai over
long distances, While they have eit large oArn open
by allowing private posts in all Of our large clee' Du'
this last is a. II should be- unless they 9h m9"e I'M
form POSTAGE Of trcO cents erryrAee when the genera
average will give a larger revenue ana iar '"ee'
co,resrcrd6r,e ard no.tsl accommodation, than We
have now.
The following are some Of the Improvements MIRO
duced du,iro the mast wear: At all city end country
Offices where there is night duty, and "heie tue rue
las been TO close the MAJ 81 10 O'CLOCK P H. 'ol
dispatch in tie morning. the same is no" 70 oe Aep'
opeD without extra fee, up to nearly Tue s'e 'A| 'ne
mail leaves. In the London DHric., at the commence
melt of 1856. only five per cert of the letters oi Tue
merning delivery were delivered before O'CLOCK al
the opening of 1857 IS per cent, and al ihe
of 1858 % Der cent Of the letters were delivered oeioe
O. During those three periods the average times al
which the deliveries commerced were, respectively,
a, 1855, ':22, and O'Clock AM minutes a"