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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
370
8.
The
English
Post-Office
will
compare
favourably
with
that
of
any
nation
in
the
world.
In
no
country
are
post-office
privileges
procured
cheaper
than
with
us.
Like
any
other
institution
capable
of
endless
growth,
and
which
must
grow
and
expand
with
the
progressive
influences
of
the
times,
it
clearly
is
not
perfect
in
every
arrangement;
but
in
answer
to
complaints
of
the
hard,
unyielding,
and
stringent
rules
which
are
said
to
bind
the
English
Post-Office,
it
may
not
be
out
of
place
to
institute
a
few
comparisons,
asking
that
some
reference
should
be
made
to
contemporary
history.
In
England,
coin
was
suffered
for
many
years
to
pass
in
ordinary
letters,
to
the
temptation
and
seduction
of
many
of
the
officers,
and
the
practice
grew
from
a
thoughtless
economy,
in
spite
of
all
the
appeals
that
were
made
to
the
contrary.
At
present
coin
is
not
allowed
to
pass
through
the
post-office,
except
in
registered
letters:
in
France
it
has
long
been,
and
is
now,
a
penal
offence
to
transmit
coin
in
letters.[199]
At
the
time
Sir
Rowland
Hill
was
urging
his
penny-postage
scheme
on
the
attention
of
the
British
Legislature,
another
European
State
(Piedmont,
1837)
had
the
most
stringent
and
severe
regulations
maintained
in
its
Post-Office.
The
law
punished
any
one
posting
a
book
or
a
newspaper
opposed
to
the
principles
of
the
monarchy
with
from
two
to
five
years'
hard
labour;
any
one
who
might
receive
of
such
newspapers
or
books
through
the
post
without
having
delivered
it
into
the
hands
of
the
authorities
with
two
years'
imprisonment;
a
reward
of
one
hundred
crowns
was
offered
to
any
one
giving
information.
These
arbitrary
and
iniquitous
laws
are
equalled
and
even
surpassed,
in
European
codes
of
still
later
date--witness
Russia
and,
until
quite
recently,
Austria.
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