DR. CAMERONasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether his attention has been called to a notice, issued from The London Gazette Office, to the effect that all advertisements must be ordered personally, and, if from the country, "through the hands of an agent in London," and that "payment will not be received in money," but must be made in London Gazette stamps; whether the effect of this rule is not to add a guinea fee to a London solicitor to the 332 cost of statutory county advertisements inserted in The London Gazette; and, whether he will consider the advisability of cancelling regulations inconvenient and costly to the public, and not found necessary in the case of The Edinburgh Gazette?
§ MR. COURTNEYMy hon. Friend seems to suppose that the regulation in question is a new one. I am assured that this is not the case, and that the notice to which he refers merely expresses what has been the invariable practice of The London Gazette Office. The reason for the regulation is to secure that any informality in a notice may be pointed out and corrected without the delay of correspondence; it thus probably in the end saves the time and money of the advertisers. The agent need not be a solicitor, but an advertisement agent, whose charge would be much less than a guinea. The business of The Edinburgh, Gazette is so small that no real comparison can be drawn between it and The London Gazette.