[22] “Report of the Committee on Postage (1843),” questions 1803 and 1804.
[23] Question 2968.
[24] Vide ante, pp. 485, 486.
[25] “Report of the Committee on Postage (1843),” questions 423-439.
[26] “Report of the Committee on Postage (1843),” p. 3.
[27] “State and Prospects of Penny Postage,” p. 42.
[28] The following anecdote I find recorded by Sir R. Hill, “The Clayton tunnel, the longest one upon the London and Brighton Railway, bore for some time, though quite undeservedly, the reputation of being unsafe. One day when I was travelling through it, a man, addressing me said; ’sir this tunnel does a power of good.’‘How so?’I asked. ‘Why,’he replied, ‘there are more prayers said in this tunnel than in all the churches in Brighton put together.’”—Ed.
[29] An interesting account of this tract, by Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, will be found in “The Academy” of December 27th, 1879.—Ed.
[30] Application of the same rule to the letters of the year 1868 would raise the amount of relief to nearly £17,000,000. [In 1878 the amount would be nearly £23,000,000.—Ed.]
[31] “Hansard,” Vol. LXXXVIII., p. 957.