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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[81]
Select
Committee
of
Postage,
1843,
p.
133.
[82]
Miss
Martineau,
quoting
from
the
Political
Dictionary,
vol.
ii.
p.
563,
says
that
Mr.
Hill
first
offered
his
scheme
to
the
Government
of
Lord
Melbourne
before
it
was
presented
to
the
country.
However
this
may
be,
Mr.
Hill
makes
no
mention
of
the
fact
in
his
frequent
appearances
before
Committees
of
the
House
of
Commons,
&c.
[83]
Post-Office
Reform,
p.
2,
third
edition.
[84]
Post-Office
Reform,
p.
14,
third
edition.
[85]
Our
Exemplars,
Poor
and
Rich,
edited
by
Matthew
Davenport
Hill.
London,
1851,
p.
317.
[86]
The
Westminster
Review,
July,
1860,
p.
78,
in
an
able
but
exceedingly
ex
parte
article
on
"The
Post-Office
Monopoly,"
doubts
whether
Mr.
Hill's
system
is
a
near
approximation
to
perfect
justice,
being,
in
its
opinion,
"by
no
means
the
summum
bonum
of
letter-rates."
"A
charge
of
one
penny
for
the
carriage
of
all
letters
of
a
certain
weight
within
the
United
Kingdom,
irrespective
of
distance,
is
eminently
arbitrary."...
"No
one
in
London
who
has
written
two
letters,
one
to
a
friend
residing
in
the
same
town
as
himself,
and
another
to
one
in
Edinburgh,
can
have
failed,
in
affixing
the
stamps
to
them,
to
observe
the
unfairness
of
charging
the
same
sum
for
carrying
the
one
400
yards
and
the
other
400
miles,
when
the
cost
of
transmission
must
in
the
one
case
be
so
much
more
than
in
the
other."
These
quotations
plainly
show
that
Mr.
Hill's
early
arguments
have
been
lost
upon
the
reviewer.
If
Mr.
Hill
demonstrated
one
thing
more
plainly
than
another,
it
was
that
the
absolute
cost
of
the
transmission
of
each
letter
was
so
infinitesimally
small,
that
if
charged
according
to
that
cost,
the
postage
could
not
be
collected.
Besides,
it
is
not
certain
that
the
one
letter
would
cost
the
Post-Office
more
than
the
other.
Moreover,
to
the
sender
the
value
of
the
conveyance
of
the
local
letter
was
equal
to
its
cost,
or
he
would
have
forwarded
it
by
other
means.
No
doubt
a
strong
argument
might
be
based
on
these
grounds,
as
to
the
justice
of
a
lower
rate
for
letters
posted
and
delivered
in
the
same
town.
Such
a
measure
might
be
supported
on
Mr.
Hill's
principles;
but
the
apparent
anomaly
is
surely
no
argument
against
a
State
monopoly
of
letter-carrying.
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