§ VISCOUNT EBRINGTON (Devon, Tavistock)I beg to ask the Postmaster General if, in the case of guaranteed rural posts in Ireland, it is true that, in calculating the cost of the post messenger, the number of letters and papers delivered by him is alone taken into account, no allowance being made for the letters and papers he receives from the district; and, if so, on what grounds is this method of calculation justified to the guarantors of the post?
§ SIR JAMES FERGUSSONIt is the invariable practice, in calculating the revenue available to meet the cost of rural posts throughout the United Kingdom, to take into account only the letters, &c, delivered, those collected for despatch being considered as providing the revenue for the service of the places to which the letters are addressed. Both could not be counted at each end.