§ MR. HOLDEN (Walsall)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if he will allow commercial and other cards—subject to the present regulations as to writing on one side, &c.—to circulate through the Post Office upon affixing a halfpenny stamp, as is now permitted to the senders of newspapers; and, if not, upon what grounds postage cards are differently treated to newspapers?
§ SIR J. FERGUSSONThe question of allowing cards of private manufacture bearing an adhesive halfpenny stamp to pass as post cards is still under consideration.