Note 156 — APPENDIX, No. 2.
Reading edition
This is quite true. The Post Office has been unceasing in its efforts to put a stop to the transmission of newspapers through the post, except with postage stamps affixed to them. In 1855, the Treasury, at the urgent instance of the Post Office, abolished the transmission of newspapers with the impressed stamp to foreign countries and our colonies, unless, in addition, postage stamps were affixed.—C. P. R.