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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
172
[95]
Select
Committee
on
Postage,
1843.
[96]
Ibid.
[97]
October,
1859,
Art
9.
See
also
Raikes'
Diary,
vol.
iii.
[98]
"Lord
Lowther,"
so
Mr.
Hill
was
told,
"was
a
steady
friend
to
Post
reform,
and
was
well
acquainted
with
the
department."
Without
doubt
the
new
Postmaster-General's
feelings,
however
ridiculous,
were
consulted
in
this
matter.
Mr.
Hill's
anxiety
for
the
general
scheme,
and
for
subsequent
minor
proposals,
was
quite
natural.
When
refused
the
Treasury
appointment,
he
asked
to
be
taken
into
the
Post-Office
there
to
see
his
plans
worked
out.
Lord
Lowther,
when
he
comes
to
speak
on
the
proposal,
somewhat
indignantly
asks
the
Treasury
Lords
if
"the
character
and
fortunes
of
the
thousands
employed
in
the
Post-Office
are
to
be
placed
at
the
mercy
of
an
individual
who
confesses
that
he
is
'not
very
familiar
with
the
details
of
the
methods
now
practised.'"
"It
is
easy
to
imagine,"
continued
Lord
Lowther,
"the
damage
the
community
might
sustain
from
his
tampering
with
a
vast
machine
interwoven
with
all
the
details
of
Government
and
necessary
to
the
daily
habits
and
events
of
this
great
Empire!"
The
matter
is
not
one
of
"detail,"
but
of
"principle;"
if
their
Lordships
want
this
or
that
carried
into
execution,
they
have
only
to
say
so,
and
Lord
Lowther
will
see
that
it
is
done,
"though
it
may
be
in
opposition
to
my
own
opinion."
[99]
We
find
that
Birmingham,
at
which
town
Sir
Rowland
Hill
spent
some
of
the
earlier
years
of
his
life,
has
been
the
first
to
move
in
the
matter.
At
a
meeting
held
March
3,
a
statue
was
voted
to
cost
2,000l.
to
be
placed
in
the
new
public
hall.
A
petition
to
the
House
of
Commons
was
likewise
adopted.
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