p. 124.

[689] H. Joyce, ibid., p. 330.

[690] 54 Geo. III, cap. 169.

[691] H. Joyce, ibid., p. 362.

[692] Ibid., p. 363; 55 Geo. III, cap. 153.

[693] The Marquis of Clanricarde.

[694] "The principle upon which the postal communication between England
and the Australian colonies has latterly been conducted is, that a
postage of 6d. for a single letter has been charged, of which 4d. was
understood to represent the sea rate, 1d. for collecting or delivering a
single letter in any part of the United Kingdom, and the same in any
part of the colonies; so that the whole cost of sending a letter from
any part of the United Kingdom to any part of the Australian colonies,
or _vice vers[^a]_, should not exceed 6d.

"As the whole cost of the packet service has hitherto been borne by the
Imperial Government, the portion of the postage which represented the
sea service has been accounted for to the Home Post Office, so that of
the 6d. charged, 5d. has been appropriated to England, and 1d. to the
colony receiving or despatching the letter, as the case might
be."--_Second Report of the Postmaster-General_, London, 1856, p. 66.

[695] Cf. H. Joyce, ibid., pp. 138-9.

[696] Cf. note 1, opposite.

[697] 18th Report, 1829, and 22nd Report, 1830.

[698] _Historical Summary of Post Office Services_, p. 52.

[699] _Historical Summary of Post Office Services_, p. 55.

[700] "The advantage of Imperial unity, which was held in 1898 to
justify the sacrifice of revenue incidental to a measure calculated to
bind together the United Kingdom and her possessions beyond the seas,
cannot, of course, be urged as a plea in favour of universal penny
postage; but apart from all other arguments for and against the
proposal, the decisive consideration is that the British Government are
not at present in a position to bear the very heavy loss that would be
involved in the reduction of foreign postage from 2-1/2d. to
1d."--_Papers laid before the Colonial Conference_, 1907; _Memorandum by
General Post Office_ (Cd. 3524), p. 500.

[701] H. von Stephan, _Geschichte der preussischen Post_, Berlin, 1859,
p. 3.

[702] "Kommt es doch vor, dass ein Bote eines deutschen Reichsf[:u]rsten
ausser dem Botenlohn noch eine besondere Verg[:u]tung beansprucht, weil
er auf dem Botengange gleichzeitig einige Schweine f[:u]r die Herrschaft
nach dem Bestimmungsort hat treiben m[:u]ssen. Da diese Begleitung auf
kein besonders lebhaftes Gangtempo schliessen