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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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British
Inland
Postage
1d.
or
2
cents.
Sea
Postage
4d.
"
8
"
United
States'
Inland
Postage
1d.
"
2
"
-----
---------
6d.
12
cents.
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---------
In
the
event
of
the
American
Government
not
being
prepared
to
agree,
Lord
Elgin
proposed
that
a
disinterested
third
party
should
be
called
in,
to
whom
the
whole
matter
might
be
amicably
referred.
To
this
communication
no
answer
whatever
was
returned,
and
the
English
Department
had
to
wait
until
the
next
report
of
the
United
States
Post-Office
was
published,
in
order
to
ascertain
how
the
proposals
had
been
received.
It
was
found
that
Mr.
Holt
here
complained
that
a
reasonable
offer
that
he
had
made
to
England
had
been
declined
there,
"and
for
reasons
so
unsatisfactory,
that
for
the
present
no
disposition
is
felt
to
pursue
the
matter
further."
It
is
sincerely
to
be
regretted
that
this
great
improvement,
which
would
have
been
gladly
hailed
by
thousands
on
both
sides
of
the
Atlantic,
should
have
been
so
arrested,
and
especially
that
the
United
States'
Government
should
have
been
deaf
to
the
proposition
to
send
the
matter
to
arbitrament.
Unquestionably,
the
present
results,
as
well
as
the
responsibility
of
future
exertion,
lies
at
the
door
of
the
United
States;
and
it
is
to
be
hoped
that,
in
justice
to
the
thousands
whom
the
Americans
have
eagerly
invited
to
populate
their
country--not
to
mention
other
considerations--they
will
soon
renew
their
efforts
to
obtain
the
boon
of
a
sixpenny
postage,
and
be
prepared
to
meet
the
mother-country
on
reasonable
grounds
with
equal
terms.
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