Note 86 — I THE RATE FOR LETTERS

"Was the Committee ignorant—we think not—that the radicals in politics and the sectarians in religion, have been the warmest advocates—and indeed (except the mercantile body we have alluded to) the only very zealous advocates for this penny post?"—Quarterly Review, October 1839, p. 531. Cf. Edinburgh Review, January 1840; J. Morley, Life of Cobden, London, 1881, p. 411.