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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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Some
change,
or
some
new
system,
had
long
been
regarded
as
absolutely
necessary.
In
1861,
the
number
of
savings'
banks
on
the
old
plan
was
638;
yet
out
of
this
number
there
were
no
less
than
fourteen
counties
in
the
United
Kingdom
without
a
bank
at
all.
Even
in
England,
when
the
test
was
applied
to
towns,
all,
for
instance,
of
a
size
containing
upwards
of
10,000
inhabitants,
it
was
found
that
there
were
at
least
twenty-four
without
savings'-bank
accommodation
of
any
sort.
Nor
was
this
all.
Even
where
savings'
banks
already
existed,
355
were
open
only
once
a-week,
and
that
for
a
few
hours;
some
twice
a-week;
but
very
few--only
twenty,
in
fact--were
open
for
a
few
hours
every
day.
When,
added
to
all
this
want
of
accommodation
and
absence
of
facility,
we
remember
the
unsatisfactory
state
of
the
law
concerning
them,
there
can
be
no
wonder
that
public
attention
was
called
to
the
subject
from
time
to
time.
So
early
as
1807,
Mr.
Whitbread
introduced
a
Bill
into
Parliament
to
make
the
money-order
office
at
the
post-office
available
for
collecting
sums
from
all
parts
of
the
country,
and
transmitting
them
to
a
central
bank
which
should
be
established
in
London.
At
that
time,
the
money-order
department
of
the
Post-Office
had
not
arrived
at
the
state
of
efficiency
to
which
it
subsequently
attained,
and
the
Bill
was
withdrawn.
Other
proposals
shared
the
same
fate,
till,
in
1860,
Mr.
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