" A letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight,
may now be sent front any part of the United Kingdom to any other part, for one penny if paid when posted, or for twopence if paid when delivered." This is a "Post-office regulation" published yesterday. We have actually got Penny Postage, though not the convenience of stamped envelopes—in our estimation worth half the rate.
Some of the Tories—abandoned to judicial blindness, and reck- less of odium—persevere in their depreciation of a measure which it was believed they would gladly have carried themselves ; which was said to have been at the head of Sir Romer PE in.'s popularity- measures if he had kept his footing at Court in May last ; which was supported by the shrewdest men of business ill the Tory party —Lords LOWTHER and ASHBURTON ; and which even the newspapers who now rail at and ridicule it, describeti as a great .public benefit, nail, at the eleventh hour, it was taken up by the
Government. It is vexatious, no doubt, that the credit of' Postage Retbrin should be enjoyed by the Whigs, while on their .Conservative successors will probably devolve the task of making good the deficient revenue: and complaint on this scare would not be unfair : but by spitefully running down the most popular of all recent measures, Conservatives make their bad political position SO worse. Sincere Liberals were wont to console themselves under the expectation of a Tory return to office, by reckoning upon the certainty of obtaining Postage Reform from Sir Ru. PERI„' whereas it would now seem, that opposition, not support, would have been experienced from a Tory Administration.
