New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-18

to predict the failure of any such attempt as that
should it be made. In the other case the proprle-
tors said to be dissatisfied for various reasons
with the editorial conduct of the paper, and to con-
template an important change But no resolution
has been taken and reveal no names
The Irish are complaining justly enough for ausht
know that the new Post Office contract Tor the
mails between England and Ireland has been
awarded TO an English company. What the POST
Office people for is saving money, and the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway Company are to
carry the mails under the new arrangement for
S15O,O00 less thar was paid to the Dublin steam
Packet Company. If the English bid WAS for less
sum than the Irish bid, the Treasury would think
that fact decisive, and insist on the work being
done by the company which would do it cheapest
But the American public have an interest in TINS
matter, perhaps not less than the Irish. A
great part of the outgoing mails to the
United States are dispatched to the south
of Ireland aud embarked at Queenstown, whHe
nearly all the inward mails from the United States
are landed at Queenstown and forwarded thence u
England This last portion of the service is per
formed in a very unsatisfactory way. delay Oh
five minutes in the arrival Of steamship from
NewYork at Queenstown may, ana frequently does
cause a delay of twenty fOlr hOdrs III the delivery
of the mails IN London; sometimes OF fortV-elghV
hours. | once told the late Mr. Anthony lrolIoPe
So He was long an officer Of the department ana
PROTESTED that it was impossible,-it was too mon
srous. 1t is monstrous. but 1T is true. ana IL ME-
Fawcett will overhaul this new contract "heh ho
gets well, he will find beautiful opportunity oi
adding to his reputation as all energetic rel"Iuicl'
And once more represent respectfully to the IoSt-
master General of the United States the deslra-
bility of pressing the British Post Office TO remedy
this long standing grievance.
Perhaps NAV ue allowed to suggest TO the Post
master at New-York a single modification OF tie
present excellent system of dispatching the mails
from new York. He now selects from among the
vessels sailing on particular day the fastest SNIP
no matter TO which line she belongs. But 1t some
times happens that fast ship sails, for example
on "A Tuesday, and very fast on the Wednesday.
IL he ill look at his record of arrivals he will fnd
that the mails sent by the Abyssinla on tuesday
have not been delivered in London so soon as those
dispatched by the Servia on Wednesday. why not
in such cases. hold the whole mail, anu send IL
day later. with the probability OF Its arriving
day earlier
The English mission of Louise Michel is a failure.
This woman has talked herself out in Paris where
her popularity is at dn end even among the most
revolution 1ty classes She was never taken very
seriously there. and it Is odd to see serious Eng
lish journal discussing her and her lectures ser-
ously, and commenting on her views OF English
society Her views do not matter. Her audiences
were small, her dlscourses were in French ana
nineteen twentieths OF the people of London are still
completely unaware OF her existence. She mas
nothing new TO saY-Got even so much oil theory
as Mr. Henry George Her notonety III faris was
due chiefly to the violence of her temper. She at
tackled and ridiculed everybody and everything
which most people hold IN respect. That answers
for WHILE but Louise Mchels day has not been
a long one, and Is over c. W. 5