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The Court of Common Council, on Thursday, adopted strong resolutions in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's postage plan.
A considerable number of "bankers, merchants, and traders of the city of London," assembled in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, to petition Parliament m favour of Mr. Hill's plan of Uniform Penny Postage ; the Lord Mayor in the chair. The following resolutions, unanimously adopted by the meeting, were moved and seconded by Mr. George Larpent, Mr. Timothy Curtis, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Thompson I Iankey junior, Mr. John Travers, Mr. George Moffatt, Mr. James Cooke, Mr. Thomas Mulkey, Mr. Gassiote, and Mr. W. Christie.
"That the present rates of postage fetter commercial transactions, are pre- judicial to the interests of the general revenue, check the education and the moral progress of the people, and tempt all classes to systematic violations of the law.
"That the plan proposed by Mr. Rowland Hill for establishing a uniform postage of one penny fin each half ounce, to be paid in advance, through the medium of small adhesive stamps, would, in the judgment of this meeting, increase the general revenue, and ultimately realise the present amount of Post-office receipts ; and it is a subject of great gratification to this meeting, that Government have decided upon the adoption of such a plan, as well as that all parties are agreed in acknowledging its merits. " That as the adoption of the plan in question would prove a source of great social and mural benefit to the whole community, it is the opinion of this meeting that no consideration of an assumed temporary deficiency in the revenue should induce the Legislature to delay the introduction of so im- portant a national measure. "That this meeting is decidedly adverse to a Metropolitan delivery of letters on the Sundays. "That petitions to the Houses of Lords and Commons, founded upon these resolutions, be prepared and lie for signatures in the City of London, and that requests be made to the Duke of Richmond to present, and to the Lords Ash- burton and Brougham to support the petition to the House of Lords ; and his the City Members to present and the Netropolitan Members to support the same in the House of Commons." 1.4
About 2,000 signatures were ratacilkd to the petition before it was taken from the room, and the interest excited ou the subject was very great.
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