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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Lord
John
Russell
and
a
great
number
of
the
Liberal
party
concurring
in
this
view,
the
motion
was
again
rejected
by
188
to
113.[128]
For
some
weeks
the
subject
was
not
again
noticed
in
Parliament,
and
probably
would
have
dropped;
but
it
was
a
theme
on
which
the
Press
could
not
be
induced
to
be
silent.
Fresh
events
occurring
in
Italy,
owing,
it
was
said,
to
the
past
action
of
the
English
Government
at
the
Post-Office,
Mr.
Sheil
gave
notice
of
a
resolution,
which
he
moved
on
the
1st
of
April,
1845,
expressing
regret
that
Government
had
opened
the
letters
of
M.
Mazzini,
thus
frustrating
the
political
movement
in
Italy.
Few
members,
however,
showed
any
desire
to
prolong
a
desultory
debate,
and
thirty-eight
only
were
found
willing
to
affirm
Mr.
Sheil's
proposition.
Mr.
Wakley,
a
day
or
two
afterwards,
tried
to
revive
the
same
discussion,
but
a
motion
which
he
made
was
negatived
by
three
to
one.
On
the
8th
of
April,
1845,
Mr.
Duncombe,
while
intimating
his
desire
to
waive
personal
questions,
and
disclaiming
all
party
feeling,
moved
for
leave
to
bring
in
a
Bill
"to
secure
the
inviolability
of
letters
passing
through
the
Post-Office."
He
was
at
war
with
the
system,
not
with
the
Government.
Let
the
Government
approach
the
subject
in
a
fair
and
not
in
a
party
spirit.
All
the
Ministers,
however,
and
the
chiefs
of
the
Liberal
party,
again
stoutly
resisted
any
change
in
the
law;
and
this
long
controversy
was
finally
set
at
rest
by
an
adverse
decision
of
161
to
78.
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