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1794- A new penny post delivery. Any
penny post may be extended beyond the
former limit of ten miles from town.
1800. In villages or. rural pairts residents
make their own arrangements. A few
villages receive an allowance in aid of
their posts.
1800. Post Office First Annual Direc-
tory issued. Nearly 5000 copies sold.
1800. Convention or 5th Clause posts
for collection and delivery in places not
post towns (13 in operation in 1803) ; ad-
ditional charge for delivery, id.
1807. Whilbread's Speech in the House
of Commons proposing Post Office Savings
Banks and plan for annuities, and insur-
ances.
1813, 22nd July. The new lax of id.
on Scotch letters not to apply to Coldstream
or other places near.
1823. One Postmaster-General instead
of two.
1824. Only one postman in Newcastle.
1829, 5th May. All undelivered valen-
tines to be sent to the Dead Letter Office.
1832. James Chalmers advocated the
repeal of taxes on knowledge (newspaper,
stamp, and paper duty).
1834. Charles Knight first suggested
stamped covers for postage or newspapers,
see Companion to the newspapers, ist June
1834.
1834. London alone produced a daily
newspaper ; Liverpool, Canterbury, Edin-
burgh, and three others oftener than once
a week. The oldest Edinburgh newspaper
is the Scotsman, established in 1817 as a
weekly, appearing two or three years later
twice a week, and daily from 1855.
SCOTSMAN OFFICE.
The Glasgow Herald, the oldest news-
paper in Scotland, was "Started in 1782 as
the Advertiser, the name being changed in
the beginning of last century to the Herald
and Advertiser. It was issued tri-weekly
in 1855, and daily from 1859. The Dun-
dec Advertiser Wfa5 begun in January 1 801,
and appeared as a daily on 1st May 1861.
1834. Rowland Hill takes an active
part in promoting the total abolition of
the stamp duty on newspapers (immedi-
ately reduced from i^d. to id. and eventu'
ally abolished.)
THE POST IN
THE VICTORIAN REIGN.
1S37, 2ist June. " Letters " signed by
the Privy Council sent to the sheriffs and
magistrates of the several counties, cities,
and corporations, etc., with all speed and
care, said " letters " being the proclamation
of the accession of Queen Victoria.
Prior to December 1839. "Single letter"
rates — 15 miles, 4d. ; 20, 5d. ; 30, 6d. ;
50, 7d.; 80, Sd. ; 120, 9d. ; 170, lod. ;
230, iid. ; 300, IS.; every additional lOO
miles, id. One halfpenny extra on any
crossing to Scotland ; one penny for any
crossing the Menai Bridge. London to
Edinburgh, is. i^d. If -i oz. , 7s. ^^d.
In some large towns penny posts within
a certain radius ; also a twopenny post.
1837. Letter rate — France, lod. ; North-
ern Germany, is. 8d. ; South America,
3s. 6d.
1837. Money Order a private liusiness
by some of the Post Office staff"; number
under 60,000 a year.
1837. Rowland Hill submits case of
Penny Postage before Parliament.
1S37, November. Appointment of the
Select Committee of the House of Com-
mons upon Mr Rowland Hill's proposed
uniform Penny Postage scheme.
Mr James Chalmers, bookseller, Dun-
dee, lays his plan of the adhesive stamp
JAMES CHALMERS.
before the Committee (Mr Hill's scheme
being an impressed stamped envelope and
labels for exceptional cases), and on 8th
February 1838 before the Mercantile Com-
mittee of the City of London.
Mr Robert Wallace, Kelly, Ayrshire
(born 1773, died 1S55), Postal Reformer —
M. P., 1833-1845— was Chairman of the