New-York tribune., 1871-03-27
NEW-YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 81, 1871.

ampton by the North German Lloyd STEAMSHIPS
For the last eight months we have had really
but two mails week to New-York the TUESDAY
hight mail by the Cunard cargo boats from Liver
pool not being at all sure TO arrive earlier tnaii
the Thursday night mail by the Inman line. Inc
North German service, on the other hand, Las
been exoellcntly DONE its ships being among tue
fastest and the most comfortable on the A'iahtc'
All this is too well known TO need repetition, Dut NY
sject in mentioning it is to ask why the return man
from NewYork is not TO be sent again, as formerly
by this line' have been told that our Postmaster
General, during tle war just ended, made con-
tract with the Inman line for the on:iro Satiu-
day service, extending over some two years. llns
was done, if done IL has been, regardless OF
the fact that the North German line carried
tlc mails quicker than the Ilman and OF the other
fact which think llr. Creswcll might have re-
membercd, that it was the North German Lloyd
which came to lis help when tie conspiracy be-
tween the Cunard and Inman lines left lin without
means Of sendng the mails at tine end Of the week.
1t may be that am wrongly informed, and that no
permanent contract with The InInan line las been
made. hope so for we used often 10 get our let
tcrs by the North German ships on Tuesdays, who
10y the lnman, leaving the same day, they almost
never arrive before Wednesday, and frequently not
ill Thursday, md sometimes not till friday. L
wish Nr. Croswell would live in Loadon while. Ilc
would End it a very agreeable city, and be would
also find what difference il made to his comfort az
well as TO his business affairs, whether letters hon
New-YoIk took ten days or twelve in coming.
Last weeks Spectator has article on Ballads"
of which one-halfis euogisic criticism on Brown
ing's Hery6 Rel, and the other On Jim Bludso."
which is quoted in full, Now it Goes not often
happen 20 an American, any other living poet, to
bc bTackcted with Robert Browning by critical
authority so high as The Spectator, and Col. John
Hay who wrote jim Bludso," is likely tofiud him
self flmous in England somewhat suddenly. "Ihe
half impudent description" says Tie Spectator " Of
Jim Biudso dead having got ont o the habit OF
living like you and mc'-thc easy-gong, shp-shod
description of jim BluGsos mode Of keeping faith rs
passing il his checks-and the genJne faith Of the
last verse. are all touches which 20 beyond the
description Cf great feat ~ Gcion-iuto a descrip-
ton of character at least as complete in ts way as
Mr. BroWnine's of Heryc Rie Surely the pleasures
c. thia kind which the world has are much fewer
than thpy need be-" Last December also, Tie Spec-
!Gor quoted Col Hays Little Bseeches" describing
Il then as almost equal TO the Biglow Papers, and
now as ." a californian ballad full If the true Yam
lee familiarity and hum0r, yet full OF life full Of
the spirit Of the siluation.' TO day it correctly
assigns both these ballads TO Col Hay, who viii be
glad to know perhaps, that hii poems have excited
great interest alec in other quarters public and pri
vatc. l have seen them copied end heard them
praised very widely in England, and have twice
been asked whether TO volume Of these remarkable
ballads had been published CIV