We enclose a booklet containing the texts of parliamentary impeachments against the introduction of the increased postal and telegraph rates and a bill urging their nullification. These were actuated by the following considerations (a) By increasing the postal rates at the very beginning of the reversion to China, of complete postal control, the foreign nations are led to suspect that the nullification of postal control is open to abuses.
(b) The post office, having earned a net profit of over $1,000,000 from -last year's receipts, is more than a self-supporting organization.
(c) As the increases are exorbitant, the results thereof will produce pernicious influence on trade and communication.
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