[244] “First Annual Report of the Postmaster-General,” pp. 65, 68.
[245] “Third Report,” p. iv.
[246] Ibid.
[247] “Third Report,” p. iv.
[248] This is strikingly shown by the following extract from the First Annual Report of the Postmaster-General, published in 1854. “In 1844 the Post Office received from the coach contractors about £200 a year for the privilege of carrying the mail twice a day between Lancaster and Carlisle; whereas, at the present time, the same service performed by the railway costs the Post Office about £12,000 a year.”—Ed.
[249] Times, May 31, 1839.
[250] See p. 268.
[251] In grateful recollection of Mr. Warburton’s friendship and assistance in the cause of Penny Postage, I am glad to say that my son has christened one of his children Henry Warburton (1877).
[252] The eminent Liverpool merchant.—Ed.
[253] A periodical of which Mr. Henry Cole (now Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.) was the editor. It was brought out in support of the cause of Penny Postage.—Ed.