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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
369
6.
The
English
Postmaster-General
is
frequently
supposed
to
have
some
control
over
colonial
post-offices,
and
even
those
of
foreign
countries.
Except
at
Gibraltar
and
Malta,
however,
he
is
quite
powerless
out
of
the
United
Kingdom.
7.
Frequent
applications
are
made,
it
seems,
for
extra
foreign
and
colonial
mails,
yet
those
existing
are
only
kept
up
at
a
ruinous
loss.
Of
the
eight
great
lines
of
packet
communication,
only
one
pays
its
expenses
and
yields
a
profit.
If
the
letters
sent
abroad
were
charged
with
the
whole
cost
of
the
packets,
the
foreign
agencies,
and
other
incidental
expenses,
not
only
would
all
the
sea-postage
be
swallowed
up,
but
the
mails
would
entail
a
loss
of
nearly
four
hundred
thousand
pounds
a
year.
"We
want,"
said
a
leading
weekly
commercial
paper
lately,
"increased
facilities
for
communication
with
our
West
Indian
Colonies;"
yet
every
letter
now
forwarded
to
those
colonial
possessions
of
ours
costs
one
shilling
over
and
above
the
postage
charged!
On
each
letter
conveyed
between
this
country
and
the
Cape
there
is
a
dead
loss
of
sixpence;
to
the
West
Coast
of
Africa,
one
shilling
and
sixpence.
Everybody
has
heard
of
the
New
Galway
line
of
packets
for
America,
now
suspended
for
the
second
time:
every
letter
carried
by
these
packets
under
their
first
contract
was
charged
one,
and
cost
the
country
six
shillings;
under
the
second
attempt,
each
letter
is
said
to
have
cost
even
more
than
six
shillings!
With
the
change
of
system
and
change
of
management,
described
briefly
in
speaking
of
the
packet
service,
there
can
be
no
question
that
this
state
of
things
will
not
be
allowed
to
continue.
The
principle
of
requiring
the
colonies
themselves
to
pay
a
moiety
of
the
cost
of
their
service
is
a
step
in
the
right
direction,
and
is,
certainly,
only
just:[198]
the
colonies
will
not
be
taxed
for
the
mother-country,
as
in
one
memorable
instance
in
history,
nor,
as
at
present,
will
the
mother-country
be
taxed
unfairly
for
the
colonies:
there
will
then
be
equal
interest
in
keeping
down
the
expenditure,
and
in
establishing
rates
of
postage
high
enough
to
be
remunerative.
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