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7 th February . —The Monopoly of the Post Office Clerics . — The ' Times' announces that this complication of jobbing and Vandalism is to be abolished , and that the clerks of the Post Office , instead of enjoying , to the prejudice of rival dealers and of the public , an entire monopoly of the trade in foreign newspapers , and great privileges with regard to English ones , will henceforth be prohibited from dealing in newspapers either English or foreign .
Who will say after this that exertions for the reform of abuses are lost labour ? But six months ago , the French Postmaster General was here on a mission to negociate for the free circulation of newspapers between Great Britain and France : but the private interests concerned in the privileged traffic were too strong both for the influence of the French g overnment , and for the collective wisdom of our Ministers : who , observe , had at the
very time two Commissioners in France , to impress upon the tardy and unenlightened understandings of the French government the benefits of free trade . When the failure of the negociation was announced , the press made some severe remarks , after which the matter dropped , or seemed to drop ; and now when nobody expected to hear any thing more about it , the animadversions have produced their effect , the obstacles have given way , and the abuse is to be extirpated . Abel Handy was not so far wrong when , having exhausted all possible means of extinguishing the conflagration , he reflected that ' perhaps it would go out of itself . * Evils very often go out apparently of themselves , after human exertion seemed to have done its utmost in vain :
but the evil would not have been got rid of , if the exertion had not been made . The ' Times' has , in an excellent article , pointed out the further measures which are necessary to render the destruction of the Post Office monopoly of any avail . The French Government must be invited to renew the negociation . The newspapers of either country should circulate in the other post free , as English newspapers do in England , or at a very small postage duty . The arrangement should be extended to any other country whose Government is willing to accede to it . If free trade in silks and broadcloth is important , free interchange of ideas and feelings is still more so , both for the maintenance of peace and friendship amon g civilized nations , and for the advancement of civilization itself , by the mutual blending and softening of national peculiarities .
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12 th February . —Attendance in the House . —Mr . Ward has obtained what it was very proper should be granted , —a Committee to make arrangements for preparing accurate lists of the majorities and minorities ; those which now appear in the newapapers being supplied by individual members , irregularly , and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1834, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2631/page/7/
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