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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Another
gentleman
who
is
well
acquainted
with
the
people
told
me,
that
although
the
desire
of
parents
to
keep
their
offspring
at
home
is
unusually
strong
in
Zetland,
yet
that
cheap
postage
has
had
the
effect
of
reconciling
families
to
the
temporary
absence
of
their
members,
and
has
thus
opened
to
the
islanders
the
labour-market
of
the
mainland."
An
American
writer,[107]
in
an
admirable
pamphlet
on
cheap
postage,
says:
"The
people
of
England
expend
now
as
much
money
as
they
did
under
the
old
system;
but
the
advantage
is,
they
get
more
service
for
their
money,
and
it
gives
a
spring
to
business,
trade,
science,
literature,
philanthropy,
social
affection,
and
all
plans
of
public
utility."
Joseph
Hume,
writing
to
Mr.
Bancroft,
then
American
minister
at
the
court
of
St.
James's,
1848,
says:
"I
am
not
aware
of
any
reform,
amongst
the
many
which
I
have
promoted
during
the
past
forty
years,
that
has
had,
and
will
have,
better
results
towards
the
improvement
of
the
country
socially,
morally,
and
politically."
And
Mr.
Hill
himself,
in
addressing
the
Statistical
Society
in
May,
1841,[108]
made
a
statement
which
was
neither
an
idle
nor
a
vain
boast,
when
he
assured
them
that
"the
postman
has
now
to
make
long
rounds
through
humble
districts
where,
heretofore,
his
knock
was
rarely
heard."
We
have
yet
the
second,
or
financial,
aspect
of
the
measure
to
consider.
In
two
years
a
tolerably
correct
idea
might
be
formed
as
to
the
results
of
the
scheme
financially;
but
it
would
certainly
not
be
fair
to
attempt
any
full
estimate
of
such
a
thorough
reform
within
a
more
circumscribed
period.
Not
that
this
was
not
attempted.
Colonel
Maberly
discovered,
at
the
end
of
the
first
week,
that
Mr.
Hill's
plan
had
failed,
at
any
rate,
as
a
question
of
revenue.
No
doubt
the
wish
was
father
to
the
thought.
He
not
only
thought
so,
however,
but
proceeded
to
take
timely
action
and
shield
himself
and
his
congeners
against
some
probable
future
attack.
In
his
own
words,
he
charged
"the
officials
to
take
care
that
no
obstacle
was
thrown
in
the
way
of
the
scheme,
so
as
to
give
a
colour
to
the
allegation"--which
the
prophetic
colonel
was
only
too
sure
would
be
made--"that
its
failure
was
owing
to
the
unwillingness
of
the
authorities
to
carry
it
fairly
into
execution."[109]
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