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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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[100]
This
motion
has
twice
been
deferred,
owing,
it
is
said,
to
representations
made
by
members
of
both
sides
of
the
House
of
Commons.
A
few
days
ago,
an
influential
deputation
from
the
House
met
the
First
Lord
of
the
Treasury
at
his
official
residence,
the
members
of
which
strongly
urged,
that
in
place
of
the
deferred
pension
to
Lady
Hill,
a
Parliamentary
Grant,
sufficient
though
reasonable,
be
made
to
Sir
Rowland
Hill
at
once.
It
is
considered
certain
that,
when
the
House
resumes
after
Easter,
Lord
Palmerston
will
propose
a
grant,
most
probably,
of
30,000l.
CHAPTER
VIII.
EARLY
RESULTS
OF
THE
PENNY-POSTAGE
SCHEME.
There
are,
of
course,
two
aspects
in
which
to
contemplate
the
measure
of
penny-post
reform.
The
first
relates
to
its
social,
moral,
and
commercial
results;
the
second
views
it
in
its
financial
relationship.
When
the
system
had
been
in
operation
two
years,
it
was
found
that
the
success
of
the
scheme
in
its
first
aspect
had
far
surpassed
the
most
sanguine
expectations
ever
formed
of
it
by
any
of
its
advocates.
As
a
financial
measure,
it
cannot
be
said
to
have
succeeded
originally.
In
this
latter
respect
it
disappointed
even
Mr.
Hill,
who,
though
he
never
mentioned
the
date
when
the
revenue
derivable
from
the
Post-Office
would
be
recovered
under
the
new
system,
was
very
emphatic
in
his
assurances
that
the
loss
during
the
first
year
would
not
exceed
300,000l.
Calculating
upon
a
fourfold
increase
of
letters,
in
his
pamphlet[101]
he
estimated
the
net
revenue,
after
deducting
for
franks
and
newspapers,
in
round
numbers
at
1,300,000l.;
a
sum
only
300,000l.
less
than
the
revenue
of
1837.
We
do
not
say
that
Mr.
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