[156] This is quite true. The Post Office has been unceasing in its efforts to put a stop to the transmission of newspapers through the post, except with postage stamps affixed to them. In 1855, the Treasury, at the urgent instance of the Post Office, abolished the transmission of newspapers with the impressed stamp to foreign countries and our colonies, unless, in addition, postage stamps were affixed.—C. P. R.
[157] Since the 1st of October, 1860, the mails are conveyed between London and Dublin in eleven hours and-a-half. The distance is 335 miles.—C. P. R.
[158] It now costs £100,000 a-year.—C. P. R.
[159] Unfortunately, Mr. Stephenson died without mentioning his proposed arrangement; but if he had lived until now, he would have seen that the ill-will of the Post Office towards the railways is as great as ever it was.—C.P.R.
[160] Viâ Mont Cenis.
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—Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.
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