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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



r Nov. 2. 



SLT.SCRIl'TIOXS 



FOR THE 



I MOM 



TO 



Mr. ROWLAND HILL, 



At; 1 HOE OV TUB PBX.VT PoSTAGB, 





WILL CLOSE ON THE 30th OF NOVEMBER. 



Or all the sources of income stated in the recently published 

 Quarterly Returns of the Public Revenue, none exhibit so large 

 * propionate increase as the Post Office. On the year's net 

 Revenue, the Customs have increased at the rate of about 10 

 per cent., the Excise l| per cent., the Property Tax 2 per cent., 

 whil. e Post Office Revenue, under its almost nominal rate of 

 a ue« . has Increased above 13* per cent., and the increase on 

 the quarter has been even as much as 25 per cent. 



These cheering results show that (though the plan of 

 Penny Pottage is yet but imperfectly tried) the complete restora- 

 tion of the Post Office Revenue to its amount before the Penny- 

 Postage was adopted is not an event far distant, if it be fully 

 and honestly carried out , and the City of London Mercantile 

 Committee on Postage desire to impr. these sat.sfactory re- 

 suits most emphatically upon the Public, in ■MKMDCinff the 

 „; ng close of the National Testimonial to Mr. Rowland 



Hill All parties are unanimous upon the great moral and 

 com, \al advantages of the Penny Postage. Its expeu.ency 

 as a financial step has been the sole ground of question , but 

 uow. even this can scarcely be doubted-, for, let it be remem- 

 bered, that the Old Postage Revenue had been absolutely sta- 

 tionary for twenty years-retrogressive, in fact, if we consider 

 the increase of population, educat.on,and commerce dunngtne 

 period. The chan-e which Penny Postage has effected, is to 

 make the Post Office Revenue the moil buoyant source of 

 ft kraeJ Income, bidding fair to become more profitable than 

 it has ever been. The Committee, therefore, call upon the 

 Public to reward, with suitable gratitude, the Author of this 

 great and triumphant measure. 



The Committee have (he satisfaction to announce that the 

 Subscriptions, beaded by the chiefs of political parties and of 

 commercial wealth, already reach lo.ooo*.; but 10.000/. cannot 



be held to be a stiff, lent notional reward for such national ser- 

 vices. The Commit* ce therefore urge upon the nation at least 

 to double this sum. If ■ -Y letter-Witter, fo| only a single 

 week, would pay a tw< any Instead of a penny rate for his 

 let i, the amount, and more, would be raised. In proportion 

 as the public show their gratitude fed Mr. Hill, so they 

 strengthen the chances for the complete adoption of his plan, 

 note but My carried out. Its perfection u ill bring greatly- 



increased convenience to themselves, and increased advantage 

 to the Post Office Revenue. 



Never have the services of any Public Benefactor been re- 

 quited as Mr. Hill's have been. Quitting a permanent situation 

 for a temporary public engagement to carry out his plan, Mr. 

 Hill's services, whilst hi* plan was yet not carried out, were 

 dispensed with, and he received the following acknowledg- 

 ments of his merits, and— nothing more :— 



"I gladly avail myself," writes the present Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer, "of the opportunity of expressing my sense of the 

 satisfactory manner in which, during my tenure of office, you 

 have discharged the several duties* which have been from time 

 to time committed to yon." M I entertain," writes Sir Robert 

 Peel (who has also subscribed 10/. to the Testimonial), u a due 

 sense of the motives by which your conduct, in respect to Post- 

 Office arrangements, has been actnn*cd,nnd of the zeal and 

 fidelity with which you have discharged the duties committed 

 to you."— Mr. Trevelyan, on behalf of the Lords of the Trea- 

 sury, writes thus s— ** I am also commanded by their Lordships 

 to take this opportunity of stating, that they consider it due to 

 you, on the termination of your engagement with the Govern- 

 ment, to express to you the approbation with which they have 

 regarded your zealous exertions in the execution of the duties 

 which have been intrusted to you ; and how materially the 

 efficiency of the Post Office arrangements has been promoted by 

 the care and intelligence evinced by you in the consideration 

 of the various important questions which have been referred 

 to you." 



Under these circumstances the Committee call upon the 

 Public to come forward with due generosity, and reward Mr. 

 Hill themselves, as the unrequited Inventor of the great measure 

 of Penny Postage— a measure which has opened the blessings 

 of free correspondence to the Teacher of Religion, the Man of 

 Science and Literature, the Merchant and Trader, and the 

 whole British Family, especially the poorest And most defenceless 

 portion of it j— a measure Wbtcb is the greatest boon conferred 

 In modern times on all the social interests of the ririlised world ; 

 for Penny Postage is spreading its influence throughout Europe, 

 and reaching even Russia. The Committee rely on the grati- 

 tude of their countrymen, and feel sure that this, their last 

 appeal, will not be made in vain. 



(Signed) GEO. LARPENT, Chairman. 



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