Note 298 — II THE RATE FOR NEWSPAPERS
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"He believed it would be admitted that there was no wish to make revenue out of this carriage of newspapers; but, on the other hand, the newspaper interest had no right to ask that their productions should be carried at less than cost price. It should be as near as possible an equal bargain between the parties, by which neither the revenue on the one hand, nor the newspapers on the other, should gain.... He believed it was the opinion of the Post Office that a halfpenny would not be sufficient to cover the expenses of transmission."—Lord Stanley, 23rd April 1855; Parl. Debates (Commons), vol. cxxxvii. col. 1664.