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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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What
party
speeches
failed
in
doing,
the
clamour
and
popular
tumult
outside
at
length
accomplished.
Popular
ridicule
settled
upon
the
subject;
pencil
and
pen
set
to
work
upon
it
with
a
will.
Newspapers
were
unusually,
and
sometimes
unreasonably,
free
in
their
comments,
and
all
kinds
of
stories
about
the
Post-Office
went
the
round
of
the
press.
Sir
James
Graham
had
to
bear
the
brunt
of
the
whole
business;
whereas
the
entire
Cabinet,
but
especially
Lord
Aberdeen,
the
Foreign
Secretary,
ought
equally
to
have
shared
the
opprobrium.
As
it
was,
the
bearing
of
the
Home
Secretary
in
the
House
of
Commons
was
singularly
unwise
and
unadroit.
The
subject
had
now
come
to
be
regarded
as
of
too
great
public
importance
to
be
suffered
to
rest;
besides,
it
was
an
attractive
one
for
the
Opposition
side
of
the
House.
Mr.
Duncombe
renewed
his
motion
towards
the
end
of
July
in
the
same
session.
It
was
in
a
slightly
altered
form,
inasmuch
as
he
now
moved
for
a
select
committee
"to
inquire
into
a
department
of
Her
Majesty's
Post-Office
commonly
called
'the
secret
or
inner
office,'
the
duties
and
employment
of
the
persons
engaged
therein,
and
the
authority
under
which
the
functions
of
the
said
office
were
discharged."
Mr.
Duncombe
made
some
startling
statements
as
to
the
mode
and
extent
of
the
practice
of
letter-opening,
all
of
which
he
declared
he
could
prove
if
the
committee
was
granted.
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