Note 34 — Chapter XVI

“February 24th, 1847.—I felt tempted to obtain returns, with a view of settling some of the disputed points between the Post Office and myself—the one as to the division of French postage between the two Governments, for instance—but refrained, from a desire to avoid all causes of irritation. Armstrong tells me that, in a statement of French postage which I have attacked in my pamphlet as being too high by about £30,000, an error of £32,000 was actually discovered in the Accountant’s office.”—Sir R. Hill’s Journal.—Ed.