The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-07
a-Gs2.l21 90
Deficiency. y...................

OcEAX AND FonEiaX MAIL SEnvfcE.-Thc aggre-
gate amount of postage (sea, inland and foreign
mails transported from July |. 1857, to February
10, lSjS, by the steamers of the New York and
Liverpool Collins line Sill ,l92 80, and by
temporary steamships employed on same line, dur.
ing residue O the fiscal year, ending June 80, 1898,
Sil G37 l3 making total of Sl52 ,S29 G5 postages
for the year. The pOstages by this line during the
year ending June 80 1857, amounted S2l0,AG o.
The pOstagcs upon mails conveyed during the
last fiscal wear by the United States steamers of
the New York, Southampton and Bremen line,
were St02 G03 90, and by the New York, South
ampton and lIavre line, SlO5,923 2G, being de
of S35 Isl 60 by the Bremen, and increase
of 81, ,GI3 q by the lavre line, as compared with
the previous fiscal year.
The amount of letter postage upon mails eX-
changed with Great Britain during the year ending
June 30, 1858, was SSO2,17l.G4; with Prussia,
S325, 1885, Bremen 2I,9Oj.92; France, S2O5 S26-
AZ. Hamburg, Sl5,ST9.74; being a decrease on
British mails of S7l ,423, II; Prussan mails Of
81, ,lOs.97; on Bremen mails of S24 l77.07: and an
increase on French mails of Sl74, ,G3s.23, and on
Hamburg mails of Sl4 .S20.ll, compared with the
preceding wear. Net increased letter pOStages on
European mails, So, 1872 The postal arrange
ments with France and Hamburg which have re-
Gently gone into operation have caused 4 diversion
of much of the correspondence with the continent
of Europe heretofore exchanged via England and
via Bremen to the routes via France and via Ham
burg, which accounts for the large decrease on
British and Bremen mails during abe past year.
The total pOStageS on letter mails exchanged with
Europe was Sl,37S, ,l47.32. On mails sent to Great
Britain, $3.50, lS0.5S; to Prussia. Sl93,7G5.95; to
Bremen S1l ,S6G3G; to France, Sl0l, ,4l46G; and to
Hamburg. So 30S37. Total sent. S691 ,535 90. On
mails received from Great Britain, S422, ,50 OG; from
Prussia, Sl3l ,997.G5; from Bremen Sl603956;
from France, Sl04 4ll7G: and from Hamburg, So
57l.37. Total received, S6s0, 0,Gll.i 40 Total posta-
ges collected in the United States SSf2 624 SO: in
Great Britain Prussia, Bremen, France. and Ham
burg. S535, ,522.79. Excess ofpostages collected in
the United States, S307, l0l.74
Total postages for the year from the New lork,
Aspinwall, and California lines, $500, 747.47: from
the Charleston and Havana line, 50, 1854 and from
the New Orleans and Vera Cruz line, 81, ,359.37.
The Postmaster General regrets that, since the
expiration of the contracts for the BremQR sahC
llavre lines, ocean mail steamship service t
Europe has not been established on any permanent
basis. The ships of the New Y Ork and Iverpoo
line withdraw in the month of February, 1858
and service has been performed uuder the Collin
contract since that time. The contract being will
! the Navy Department., the Postmaster General hat
control over it, and of course no power either +
enforce iullilment or to annu for repeated failures
as in the case of ordinary mail contracts.
The temporary contracts for service to Southamr
! ton, Bremen, and Havre, expiring on the lst q
June last, he was very solicitous either that th
trips upon the Collins line should be resumed. q
that the contract should be declared at an end :
J that by new arrangements he could secure the fin
/ number OF weekly trips, b American vessels n,
cessary to alternate regularly with the ships of III
Cunard line. Hence, soon after the Adjournment
Congress, he sought to ascertain whether or nj
he could depend on the resumption of service undt