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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
153
We
may
say
here,
as
we
have
not
before
referred
to
the
circumstance,
that
it
was
necessary
to
make
it
clear
to
the
Committee,
the
amount
of
increase
in
correspondence
necessary
to
the
success
of
the
scheme.
In
opposition
to
the
views
of
official
men,[93]
Mr.
Hill
held
that
a
fivefold
increase
in
the
number
of
letters
would
suffice
to
preserve
the
existing
revenue,
and
he
hazarded
a
prediction
that
that
increase
would
soon
be
reached.
As
regarded
the
means
of
conveyance,
he
showed
that
the
stage-coaches,
&c.
already
in
existence
could
carry
twenty-seven
times
the
number
of
letters
they
had
ever
yet
done;
and
this
statement
passed
without
dispute.
The
evidence
was
clear
and
convincing
as
to
the
vast
amount
of
contraband
letters
daily
conveyed;
and
no
less
certainly
was
it
shown
that,
if
Mr.
Hill's
schemes
were
carried
out,
the
temptation
to
evasion
of
postage
would
be
at
once
abolished,
inasmuch
as
there
would
then
be
no
sufficient
inducement
to
resort
to
illegal
mediums.
A
Glasgow
merchant
stated
before
the
Committee,
that
he
knew
five
manufacturers
in
that
city
whose
correspondence
was
transmitted
illegally
in
the
following
proportions,
viz.--(1)
three
to
one;
(2)
eighteen
to
one;
(3)
sixteen
to
one;
(4)
eight
to
one;
and
(5)
fifteen
to
one.
Manchester
merchants--among
whom
was
Mr.
Cobden--stated
that
they
had
no
doubt
that
four-fifths
of
the
letters
written
in
that
town
did
not
pass
through
the
Post-Office.
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