The Hongkong Daily Press prints the following translation of a memorial presented to the Throne by H.E. Tan Chung-lin, Viceroy of Canton Although the Postal Service is in itself a iffing thing, it bears rather hardly upon the people. A good many complaints have een raised respecting it its existence is quite against the law, and the revenue derived from it is insignificant. Out of consideration for the convenience. of the people, I humbly beg Your Majesty to ex-excise your power to abolish it. The Postal Service was allowed to be established on the recommendation of the Tsungli Yamen. It is under the direction of. the Commissioner of Customs at the Treaty ports, and. all the regulations, which are modelled after those of foreign countries, were framed by Sir Robert Hart. When the regulations were brought into effect at the beginning of the first moon, the feeling of the people was much -excitedand. many: merchants
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