New-York tribune., 1870-02-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
N0Ghl DANA hAA's
CABLE ARRANGEMENTS.

THE COTTON TRADE.
The Times this morning has editorial article on
the present depression in the cotton trade Inc
writer asorbes the causes to the deaness of the raw
material aud the superiority of the American manu-
factures and thinks the true remedies for the as
tress are-hrst greater intelligence and skill on the
part of the workmen, and second, reduction III the
price of Goals
ENDOWMENT OF SCIENTIFIC SCHOOLS DEMANDED.
A deputation of the leading sayans of England,
among them Messrs. Grove, Huxley, Hooker, Gallon,
and Delorne, waited on the Ministers to-day and
asked for the endowment of Scientific Schools by the
State. . ,,-,,... ,,o,, ,o-o .
Material reduction in the rates of dockage are pro-
posed at the Birkenhead Docks.
THE CUNARD IMPOSITION AND POSTMASTER
GENERAL CREswELLS ACTIoN-MR. THOMAS
HUGHES, NJ. p.
IPRoM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
LONDON, Jan. 2o-The Cunard and Inman Compa-
MES are making great efforts in the English papers
TO persuade the public that any mail service which
they don't perform is foredoomed to be failure. L
have seen as many twenty kilograms, letters, and
editorial paragraphs inspired by the agents of those
companies and calculated to fill the mind OF the
business public with the most dreadful anxieties
But the facts don't square with these dismal croak-
ings Under the new arrangement we have received
three mails from America. Two came by the Ger
man line TO SOuthampton-the North German Lloyd
and one by the Williams and Guion line. The first
was brought by the Rhein, leaving New-Iork jan
l. and reaching London in good season JAM II; that
is, it was delivered Tuesday and we did not
usually get the Inman mail, for which the North
German Lloyd is substituted, until Thursdays The
mail of the Sth by the same line, delivered this
week on Wednesday.
The mail of the 5th. leaving New-Iork on Wednes-
day by the Guion steamship Manhattan, was delv-
cred in London on Monday, the 18th. No doubt
that is longer time than a mail ought TO
take from New York but it is not for the
Cunard people TO criticise the performance. The
delivery by the Guon ship is exactly the same de-
livery we have had for four months past by the
Cunard line Over and over again have written
that the Cunard mail of Wednesday, due in London
on Saturday of the following week, has not been
distributed in London till Monday. This was not
the exception; it was the rule. From the 4th Sep
iember. 1869 to the lst January, 1870, the Cunard
mail was twice and only twice distributed in London
on Saturday morning, when it is due There being
no Sunday delivery in London, the mails, in every
case if not received Oh Saturday morning were not
received by the public until Monday morning. Thus,
out of IS mails brought during four months by the
yaunted Cunarders but two received by the
public sooner than the mail brought this week by
the Guion steamer.
BeTnapS you Will IeIltluDtI ludl NutH llc Nuhdiu
Company got its existing contract out of the British
Government its managers were cunning enough to
relieve themselves from all stipulaions in regard to
the duration of their voyages You Will remember
also that the agreement for this contract of
the last acts of the expiring Tory Government that
after the Liberals into Office it overhauled,
and that it only ratified by the accidental ex-
piraton of the time within which the House of Com
mons was entitled to annul it. The Committee of
Inquiry reported against il, but before vote could
/ be taken, the adjournment for the holidays inter-
yened. know what the opinion of some members
/ of the Government in relation to that contract.
4 and there is no doubt whatever that, if vote
could have been reached the contract wonld have
been cancelled; partly the ground of excessive
and unreasonable compensation, and partly on the
ground of the inefficient service which the Cunard
Company proposed 1t might have been supposed
that q company valuing reputation for honorable
dealing would have thrown up a contract no matter
how profitable rather than secure it by an accident
i and against the known wish of the Government with
which it dealing That was not the view of the
! Cunard Company. They clutched at their 10000
year. and hid on to il while by the testimony of Mr.
Burns their manager and one of the largest owners
in the company, they have not ships enough s!aple
to perform the service they have undertaken. Being
free from all restrictions to the time they may
CIOcSlHB lHcII NOl lbhb
become longer instead of shorter. Occasionally they
think it worth while to make fast run. and keep
up the rapidly decreasing superstition of the public
that the Cunard line is fastline
But what the rule is the fact have already stated
in regard TO the mails from New-YOrk to London
abundantly shows, viz; That they have delivered
but one mail out OF nine on time. And l see by
rable dispatch that the Cunard steamer Cuba which
left Liverpool Jan. l, arrived in New-York JAM Is,
fourteen days voyage. They call the Cuba one of
their fast SHIPS and her fourteen days voyage is III
performance not of the American but of the British
mail service, for which the Company are now re-
eeiving their enormous subsidy of more than
10000 year.
Can Mr. Creswell be blamed for refusing to yield
10 the extortionate demands of company
which treats in that way Government and public
which has conceded everything the company asked
think not. / am much interested as most per-
IONS IN swift. and regular service between New
York and London, but / am entirely content with
Mr. CreswelPs decision. The Cunard mail has sell
dom ayaed u.s. because the North German Lloyd
steamer leaving New-York Thursday distributed
its mail in London ordinarily on the day with
the Cunarder leaving on Wednesday. The Inman
service useful, though not so swift rs il should
have been; but we lose nothing by its withdrawal,
because the North German Lloyd is substi-
tute9 and The German ships faster than either the
luman or the Cunard What we do lose is the
service Of the Hamburg American steamers, which
left New-York on Tuesday, and, touching at Ply
mouth, usually delivered their mail in London ON
Saturday of the week following For that Mr. Cres
well has been able to give us nothing in exchange
The Hamburg agents made a great mistake in com
bining with the Cuharders to resist the proposed re
duction. Considering the treatment they had re-
ceiyed on this side from the Cunard Company, one is
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