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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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FOOTNOTES:
[139]
Postmaster-General's
Reports,
1863,
1864,
and
Revenue
Estimates
for
1864-5,
from
which
the
whole
of
our
statistics
are
derived.
[140]
The
colonial
post-offices
proper
are
not
under
the
rule
of
the
English
Postmaster-General.
All
appointments
to
these
offices
are
made
by
the
Colonial
Secretary,
if
the
salary
is
over
200l.;
if
under
that
sum,
by
the
Governors
of
the
different
colonies.
[141]
An
attempt
was
made
at
further
centralization
a
few
years
ago,
when
it
was
proposed
to
reduce
the
chief
offices
of
Edinburgh
and
Dublin
to
the
position
of
offices
in
other
large
towns,
a
measure
which
had
the
effect
of
rousing
the
people
of
the
sister-countries
to
arms.
The
Commissioners
of
Post-Office
Inquiry
who
sat
in
1855
reported
against
the
proposal,
considering
the
present
system
to
possess
advantages
to
the
public
over
those
accruing
from
the
suggested
change.
[142]
For
information
relative
to
the
necessary
qualifications,
examinations,
&c.
of
candidates
for
appointment
in
the
metropolitan
or
provincial
offices,
see
Appendix
(C).
[143]
The
following
list
of
Postmasters-General
before
this
period,
taken
from
a
return
made
to
the
House
of
Commons,
March
25,
1844,
may
not
be
uninteresting
to
some
of
our
readers.
After
Sir
Brian
Tuke,
the
first
"Master
of
the
Postes,"
we
find
his
successors
to
have
been
Sir
William
Paget,
one
of
Henry
VIII.'s
Chief
Secretaries
of
State,
and
John
Mason,
Esq.
"Secretary
for
the
French
Tongue."
"The
fees
or
wages"
of
each
of
these
functionaries
are
given
at
66l.
13s.
6d.
a-year.
The
reader
will
be
familiar
with
the
Postmasters-General
under
Elizabeth,
James
I.,
Charles
I.
and
the
Commonwealth.
Coming
to
the
reign
of
Charles
II.
we
find
Philip
Froude,
Esq.
acting
for
the
Duke
of
York
from
1678
to
1688.
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