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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Mr.
Hill's
proposals
were
instantly
hailed
with
intense
satisfaction,
especially
by
the
mercantile
and
manufacturing
classes
of
the
community.
Whatever
might
be
said
in
Parliament,
public
opinion
in
the
country
was
decided
on
the
question,
that
if
the
success
of
the
new
scheme
was
sufficient
to
cover
the
charges
of
the
Post-Office
establishment,
it
ought
by
all
means
to
be
carried
out.
Scarcely
ever
was
public
sympathy
so
soon
and
so
universally
excited
in
any
matter.
The
progress
of
the
question
of
post-reform
was
in
this,
and
some
other
respects,
very
remarkable,
and
shows
in
a
strong
light
how
long
a
kind
of
extortion
may
be
borne
quietly,
and
then
what
may
be
accomplished
by
prompt
and
conjoint
action.
Before
Mr.
Hill's
pamphlet
appeared
no
complaints
reached
the
Legislature
of
the
high
rates
of
postage.
During
the
year
in
which
it
did
appear
five
petitions
reached
the
House
of
Commons,
praying
that
its
author's
scheme
might
at
least
be
considered.
In
the
next
year
320,
and
in
the
first
half
of
the
year
1839
no
fewer
than
830,
petitions
were
presented
in
favour
of
the
measure.
Within
a
few,
the
same
number
were
sent
up
to
the
House
of
Lords.
During
the
agitation,
it
is
calculated
that
no
less
than
5,000
petitions
reached
St.
Stephen's,
including
400
from
town-councils
and
other
public
bodies--the
Common
Council
of
London,
and
the
Society
for
the
Diffusion
of
Useful
Knowledge,
among
the
number.
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