[1] "Select Committee on Postage, First Report, 1838," p. 122, questions 1829, 1830.
[2] It should be remembered that newspapers had for many years (since 1712) been the subject of a tax, and until 1855, when the newspaper tax was abolished, such papers passed through the post free.
[3] Hansard, xxxiii., p. 1214.
[4] Athenæum, No. 1836, January 3, 1863, p. 18.
[5] Nos. 1834 (December 20, 1862) and 1835 (December 27, 1862).
[6] Second edition 1838.
[7] Mr. John Collins Francis refers to this issue in his two volumes, "John Francis and The Athenæum," published by Bentley in 1888.
[8] It is said to have cost £1,000; the art of the label cost, to Mr. Corbould £12 12s., to Mr. Heath £52 10s.
[9] "Fifty Years of Public Life," p. 63.
[10] Illustrated in "British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate," by Fred J. Melville, 1909.