Chapter 18

[776]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, pt. 1, pp. 17, 23.[777]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, questions 234, 2883, 4692, 10870-74; rep. 1, app., pp. 427, 431, 433; rep. 2, p. 32.[778]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3452, 3754-56, 4330-33, 4152, 6059, 6204, 6971, 8051, 9122-30, 10481, 5486-92-95, 4934-45, 5536, 3953, 6174-87. By this means Dr. Dionysius Lardner sent and received the greater part of an extensive literary correspondence (qs. 5487-96).[779]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3206-07, 3368-69, 3516-45, 3872, 4080, 4116-17, 4906, 5434, 6895, 7740, 7742-50, 7242-48.[780]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3923, 6683, 7419-23.[781]Ibid., qs. 3212-13, 3924-28, 3377-81, 3879-82, 4504, 6928, 7867-82, 5613-18, 4074, 4873-90, 3520, 7327.[782]Ibid., rep. 1, 9, p. 427.[783]Ibid., qs. 2265, 2279.[784]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 2697, 2699, 2703.[785]Ibid., qs. 4229[786]Ibid., qs. 5125-26. In Walsall not 1-50 part of the letters sent to and from neighbouring places went by post (qs. 5681-5789).[787]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, qs. 4195-96, 4205.[788]Ibid., qs. 3550, 4065, 4194, 6947.[789]Ibid., qs. 5257-59.[790]Ibid., qs. 5265.[791]Ibid., qs. 6716, 10371.[792]Ibid., qs. 6514.[793]Ibid., qs. 497, 3008, 5525-26, 5329, 5186-88, 5983, 8962, 10,021; app. to part 2, p. 34.[794]Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 195-99, 204-30, 346, 351, 431.[795]Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 195-99.[796]Ibid., pt. 1, p. 364.[797]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 43, 73, 74.[798]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 87-88, 126;Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, pp. 31, 68.[799]Receiver and Accountant-General of the Post-Office.[800]Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 108;Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, p. 7.[801]In another place his estimate for gross revenue was £608,000; annual charge £105,000 on a purchase price of £3,000,000 with expenses for improvement; working expenses £425,000, and surplus £77,750 (Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 145-47).[802]Ibid., pp. 7-39.[803]Parl. Deb., 3d ser., ccxxviii, col. 215; cxcii, coll. 747-751.[804]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, p. 131.[805]31 and 32 Vict., c. 110.[806]32 and 33 Vict., c. 75.[807]Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 162; 1868-69, vi, 348, p. 11; 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 217; 1873, xxxix, 316, pp. 762-64; 1873, vii, 290, p. 95;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cxcii, coll. 747-751, 1303-04. According to figures furnished by Mr. Fowler in a speech in the House of Commons in 1868, the value of the capital and the debentures of the Electric and International at that time was £1,240,000 while the capital value of the British and Irish Magnetic was £534,000; of Reuter's Company, £266,000; of the United Kingdom Electric, £350,000, and of the London and Provincial, £65,000 (Parl. Deb.3d ser., cxcv, coll. 747-751).[808]Rep. P. G., 1876, p. 10;ibid., 1883, p. 9.[809]31 and 32 Vict., c. 110.[810]Rep. P. G., 1895, app., pp. 33-35; 1889, p. 13.[811]Ibid., 1890, p. 7.[812]Rep. P. G., 1892, p. 20; 54 and 55 Vict., c. 46.[813]Rep. P. G., 1900, p. 15; 1898, p. 19; 1906, pp. 1, 15.[814]Ibid., 1900, p. 15; 1902, p. 13; 1905, app., p. 99; 1906, p. 16.[815]Acc. & P., 1876, lxxxiv [c. 1418], pp. 116-119.[816]Rep. P. G., 1904, pp. 15-22.[817]Rep. P. G., 1897, pp. 40-42; 1879, p. 21; 1886, p. 10; 1892, p. 19; 1900, p. 10.[818]Rep. P. G., 1893, pp. 19-22; 1903, pp. 15-18; 1905, pp. 16-18; 4 Edw. VII, c. 24; 6 Edw. VII, c. 13.[819]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., clxxix, coll. 841-858; cxcii, col. 1116, LondonTimes, 1906, Nov. 5, p. 5; 1907, July 1, p. 14.[820]Parl. Deb., 3d ser., ccxxviii, coll. 172 f.;Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. i-xiii, 147, 240.[821]Rep. P. G., 1891, app., p. 40; 1901, app., p. 57; 1907, app., p. 61.[822]Ibid., 1881, app., p. 53; 1891, app., p. 66; 1901, app., p. 83; 1905, app., p. 99.[823]Between 1870, when the telegraphs were taken over by the state, and 1873, the number of employees was more than doubled, although, during the same period, the number of messages—not including news messages—increased only from ten to fifteen millions (Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. 18, 90, 232, 240).[824]Rep. P. G., 1895, pp. 37-38.The proportion of the amount spent on salaries and wages which in 1881, before Mr. Fawcett's revision, stood at about 55 per cent, increased, as a result of that revision and Mr. Raikes' revision in 1890, to about 65 per cent.[825]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., clix, col. 389;Economist, Sept. 21, 1907, p. 1576.[826]Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6;Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division, vi, p. 244;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, col. 1053.[827]Rep. P. G., 1883, p. 6; 1885, p. 9; 1886, p. 10;Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 3, 57; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxii, col. 712; cclxxxviii, coll. 1056-57, 1060-61; cclxxxix, coll. 82.[828]Rep. Com., 1884-85, xii, p. 63; 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 3-5; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6, 92, 188-93; 1898, xii, 383, p. 12;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, coll. 1052 f.; cccxxxvi, col. 1809; cccxxxvii, col. 1435; cccxlvi, col. 908.[829]Only five years before, Mr. Raikes, the Postmaster-General, said in the House of Commons: "I am inclined to think that it is extremely doubtful whether there would be much public advantage in establishing telephonic communication generally between those [the principal] towns" (Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cccxix, col. 664).[830]Rep. Com., 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 17-18; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 8, 34;Rep. P. G., 1896, pp. 16, 17;Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 35-37, 40; 1905, vii, 271, pp. 233-235; 55 and 56 Vict., c. 59, 59 and 60 Vict., c. 40;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., iii, coll. 168, 186, 196.[831]Ibid., 4th ser., iii, coll. 166 f.[832]Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. iii, 25-27, 60-62, 87, 90-91, 163, 176, 221, 223, 275, 281-82, 321-22;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., xxxi, coll. 207 f.; xlviii, coll. 463-66.[833]Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. iii-xiii.[834]62 and 63 Vict., c. 38.[835]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., cxxiv, coll. 781-82; cxv, col. 841; cxvi, coll. 915-17.[836]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 168-186; cliv, coll. 1067-68; clxiv, col. 87; LondonTimes, 1906, July 6, p. 10; 1907, Jan. 3, p. 8; Feb. 9, p. 3; Mar. 22, p. 4.[837]Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 10, 76, 79, 233-235.[838]Acc. & P., 1902, lv, 25, pp. 4-10;Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 1-3, 53-54, 233-235;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 183; ci, coll. 1002-03; cxxxii, coll. 422.[839]Ibid., 4th ser., ci, coll. 976-993.[840]Acc. & P., 1905, xliv, 16, pp. 3-23;Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. iii-xi.[841]Rep. P. G., 1905, app., pp. 90-92; 1907, pp. 21-23, 93.[842]Parl. Papers, 1812-13,Reports from Committees, ii, pp. 60-61.[843]Reports from Com., 1837-38, xx, pt. r. p. 509. Before 1797, the loss on returned letters seems to have been included in the Charges of Management.[844]First payment of tolls amounting from £16,000 to £20,000 a year. 2dRep., app. no. 39,Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx.[845]Three quarters only. 1stRep., app. no. 28.[846]1stRep. P. G., 1855, p. 68. 20thRep. P. G., 1874, app., p. 46.[847]Expenditure for sailing packets in 1858 was £935,883.[848]Postage ceased to be charged on government departments early in 1868.[849]10thRep. P. G., 1864, pp. 32-38; 18thRep. P. G., 1872, pp. 26-27. Until 1858 revenue does not include revenue from impressed newspaper stamps nor does expenditure include cost of packet service until 1861.[850]In 1876 the beginning of the financial year of the Post Office was changed from 1st January to 1st April.[851]27thRep. P. G., 1881, app., p. 52.[852]37thRep. P. G., 1891, app., p. 64.[853]Including estimated value of services to other departments from 1891-1892 on.[854]47thRep. P. G., 1901, app., p. 82.[855]53dRep. P. G., 1907, p. 95.

[776]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, pt. 1, pp. 17, 23.

[777]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, questions 234, 2883, 4692, 10870-74; rep. 1, app., pp. 427, 431, 433; rep. 2, p. 32.

[778]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3452, 3754-56, 4330-33, 4152, 6059, 6204, 6971, 8051, 9122-30, 10481, 5486-92-95, 4934-45, 5536, 3953, 6174-87. By this means Dr. Dionysius Lardner sent and received the greater part of an extensive literary correspondence (qs. 5487-96).

[779]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3206-07, 3368-69, 3516-45, 3872, 4080, 4116-17, 4906, 5434, 6895, 7740, 7742-50, 7242-48.

[780]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 3923, 6683, 7419-23.

[781]Ibid., qs. 3212-13, 3924-28, 3377-81, 3879-82, 4504, 6928, 7867-82, 5613-18, 4074, 4873-90, 3520, 7327.

[782]Ibid., rep. 1, 9, p. 427.

[783]Ibid., qs. 2265, 2279.

[784]Ibid., 1837-38, xx, qs. 2697, 2699, 2703.

[785]Ibid., qs. 4229

[786]Ibid., qs. 5125-26. In Walsall not 1-50 part of the letters sent to and from neighbouring places went by post (qs. 5681-5789).

[787]Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx, qs. 4195-96, 4205.

[788]Ibid., qs. 3550, 4065, 4194, 6947.

[789]Ibid., qs. 5257-59.

[790]Ibid., qs. 5265.

[791]Ibid., qs. 6716, 10371.

[792]Ibid., qs. 6514.

[793]Ibid., qs. 497, 3008, 5525-26, 5329, 5186-88, 5983, 8962, 10,021; app. to part 2, p. 34.

[794]Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 195-99, 204-30, 346, 351, 431.

[795]Ibid., pt. 1, pp. 195-99.

[796]Ibid., pt. 1, p. 364.

[797]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 43, 73, 74.

[798]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 87-88, 126;Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, pp. 31, 68.

[799]Receiver and Accountant-General of the Post-Office.

[800]Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 108;Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, p. 7.

[801]In another place his estimate for gross revenue was £608,000; annual charge £105,000 on a purchase price of £3,000,000 with expenses for improvement; working expenses £425,000, and surplus £77,750 (Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, pp. 145-47).

[802]Ibid., pp. 7-39.

[803]Parl. Deb., 3d ser., ccxxviii, col. 215; cxcii, coll. 747-751.

[804]Acc. & P., 1867-68, xli, 202, p. 131.

[805]31 and 32 Vict., c. 110.

[806]32 and 33 Vict., c. 75.

[807]Rep. Com., 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 162; 1868-69, vi, 348, p. 11; 1867-68, xi, 435, p. 217; 1873, xxxix, 316, pp. 762-64; 1873, vii, 290, p. 95;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cxcii, coll. 747-751, 1303-04. According to figures furnished by Mr. Fowler in a speech in the House of Commons in 1868, the value of the capital and the debentures of the Electric and International at that time was £1,240,000 while the capital value of the British and Irish Magnetic was £534,000; of Reuter's Company, £266,000; of the United Kingdom Electric, £350,000, and of the London and Provincial, £65,000 (Parl. Deb.3d ser., cxcv, coll. 747-751).

[808]Rep. P. G., 1876, p. 10;ibid., 1883, p. 9.

[809]31 and 32 Vict., c. 110.

[810]Rep. P. G., 1895, app., pp. 33-35; 1889, p. 13.

[811]Ibid., 1890, p. 7.

[812]Rep. P. G., 1892, p. 20; 54 and 55 Vict., c. 46.

[813]Rep. P. G., 1900, p. 15; 1898, p. 19; 1906, pp. 1, 15.

[814]Ibid., 1900, p. 15; 1902, p. 13; 1905, app., p. 99; 1906, p. 16.

[815]Acc. & P., 1876, lxxxiv [c. 1418], pp. 116-119.

[816]Rep. P. G., 1904, pp. 15-22.

[817]Rep. P. G., 1897, pp. 40-42; 1879, p. 21; 1886, p. 10; 1892, p. 19; 1900, p. 10.

[818]Rep. P. G., 1893, pp. 19-22; 1903, pp. 15-18; 1905, pp. 16-18; 4 Edw. VII, c. 24; 6 Edw. VII, c. 13.

[819]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., clxxix, coll. 841-858; cxcii, col. 1116, LondonTimes, 1906, Nov. 5, p. 5; 1907, July 1, p. 14.

[820]Parl. Deb., 3d ser., ccxxviii, coll. 172 f.;Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. i-xiii, 147, 240.

[821]Rep. P. G., 1891, app., p. 40; 1901, app., p. 57; 1907, app., p. 61.

[822]Ibid., 1881, app., p. 53; 1891, app., p. 66; 1901, app., p. 83; 1905, app., p. 99.

[823]Between 1870, when the telegraphs were taken over by the state, and 1873, the number of employees was more than doubled, although, during the same period, the number of messages—not including news messages—increased only from ten to fifteen millions (Rep. Com., 1876, xiii, 357, pp. 18, 90, 232, 240).

[824]Rep. P. G., 1895, pp. 37-38.The proportion of the amount spent on salaries and wages which in 1881, before Mr. Fawcett's revision, stood at about 55 per cent, increased, as a result of that revision and Mr. Raikes' revision in 1890, to about 65 per cent.

[824]Rep. P. G., 1895, pp. 37-38.

The proportion of the amount spent on salaries and wages which in 1881, before Mr. Fawcett's revision, stood at about 55 per cent, increased, as a result of that revision and Mr. Raikes' revision in 1890, to about 65 per cent.

[825]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., clix, col. 389;Economist, Sept. 21, 1907, p. 1576.

[826]Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6;Law Reports, Queen's Bench Division, vi, p. 244;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, col. 1053.

[827]Rep. P. G., 1883, p. 6; 1885, p. 9; 1886, p. 10;Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 3, 57; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxii, col. 712; cclxxxviii, coll. 1056-57, 1060-61; cclxxxix, coll. 82.

[828]Rep. Com., 1884-85, xii, p. 63; 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 3-5; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 1-6, 92, 188-93; 1898, xii, 383, p. 12;Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cclxxxviii, coll. 1052 f.; cccxxxvi, col. 1809; cccxxxvii, col. 1435; cccxlvi, col. 908.

[829]Only five years before, Mr. Raikes, the Postmaster-General, said in the House of Commons: "I am inclined to think that it is extremely doubtful whether there would be much public advantage in establishing telephonic communication generally between those [the principal] towns" (Parl. Deb., 3d ser., cccxix, col. 664).

[830]Rep. Com., 1892, xvii, 278, sess. 1, pp. 17-18; 1895, xiii, 350, pp. 8, 34;Rep. P. G., 1896, pp. 16, 17;Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. 35-37, 40; 1905, vii, 271, pp. 233-235; 55 and 56 Vict., c. 59, 59 and 60 Vict., c. 40;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., iii, coll. 168, 186, 196.

[831]Ibid., 4th ser., iii, coll. 166 f.

[832]Rep. Com., 1895, xiii, 350, pp. iii, 25-27, 60-62, 87, 90-91, 163, 176, 221, 223, 275, 281-82, 321-22;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., xxxi, coll. 207 f.; xlviii, coll. 463-66.

[833]Rep. Com., 1898, xii, 383, pp. iii-xiii.

[834]62 and 63 Vict., c. 38.

[835]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., cxxiv, coll. 781-82; cxv, col. 841; cxvi, coll. 915-17.

[836]Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 168-186; cliv, coll. 1067-68; clxiv, col. 87; LondonTimes, 1906, July 6, p. 10; 1907, Jan. 3, p. 8; Feb. 9, p. 3; Mar. 22, p. 4.

[837]Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 10, 76, 79, 233-235.

[838]Acc. & P., 1902, lv, 25, pp. 4-10;Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. 1-3, 53-54, 233-235;Parl. Deb., 4th ser., lxxxii, coll. 183; ci, coll. 1002-03; cxxxii, coll. 422.

[839]Ibid., 4th ser., ci, coll. 976-993.

[840]Acc. & P., 1905, xliv, 16, pp. 3-23;Rep. Com., 1905, vii, 271, pp. iii-xi.

[841]Rep. P. G., 1905, app., pp. 90-92; 1907, pp. 21-23, 93.

[842]Parl. Papers, 1812-13,Reports from Committees, ii, pp. 60-61.

[843]Reports from Com., 1837-38, xx, pt. r. p. 509. Before 1797, the loss on returned letters seems to have been included in the Charges of Management.

[844]First payment of tolls amounting from £16,000 to £20,000 a year. 2dRep., app. no. 39,Rep. Com., 1837-38, xx.

[845]Three quarters only. 1stRep., app. no. 28.

[846]1stRep. P. G., 1855, p. 68. 20thRep. P. G., 1874, app., p. 46.

[847]Expenditure for sailing packets in 1858 was £935,883.

[848]Postage ceased to be charged on government departments early in 1868.

[849]10thRep. P. G., 1864, pp. 32-38; 18thRep. P. G., 1872, pp. 26-27. Until 1858 revenue does not include revenue from impressed newspaper stamps nor does expenditure include cost of packet service until 1861.

[850]In 1876 the beginning of the financial year of the Post Office was changed from 1st January to 1st April.

[851]27thRep. P. G., 1881, app., p. 52.

[852]37thRep. P. G., 1891, app., p. 64.

[853]Including estimated value of services to other departments from 1891-1892 on.

[854]47thRep. P. G., 1901, app., p. 82.

[855]53dRep. P. G., 1907, p. 95.

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