§ MR. DARBY GRIFFITHasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether he saw any objection to allow the postage stamp and rate of three pence, which was now in use for certain foreign and colonial postage, to be made applicable to the internal postage of the country? The hon. Gentleman said that he was in hopes that this question had already been settled as he desired; because, in the course of experiments which he had recently made, he had sent through the post two letters, weighing an ounce and a quarter each 410 bearing a three-penny stamp, and they had been delivered without any overcharge.
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERsaid, that without entering into any details, he might inform the hon. Gentleman that the Post Office and the Treasury had under their consideration the expediency of making some modification in the present arrangement of the scale of postage, which would, he thought, confer great accommodation on the public, and would include the change which the hon. Gentleman desired to see effected.