But Burritt's proposal was not that which was accomplished so long afterward. In his own words:[161]-- By the term "_Ocean Penny Postage_" we mean simply this:--That the single service of transporting a letter, weighing under half-an-ounce, from any port of the United Kingdom to any port beyond the sea, at which the British mail-packets may touch, shall be performed by the British Government for _one penny_; or one penny for its mere conveyance from Folkestone to Boulogne, Liverpool to Boston, &c., and _vice versa_. Thus the entire charge upon a letter transmitted from any town in the United Kingdom to any port beyond the sea, would be two pence;--one penny for the inland rate, and the other for the ocean rate. [161] =A Penny All the Way=, Melville, p. 23. Of course this does not reckon in what might be added for an inland rate at the "port beyond the sea", but the main point was the transportation on the ocean part of the journey at a uniform rate of one penny. This was practically accomplished--and even bettered--by the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1875; for where Burritt wrote:[162]--"It would meet the terms of our proposition if every letter under half an ounce, from any town in Great Britain to any town in the Colonies, should pay _three pence_; one penny for the home inland rate, another penny for the ocean, and the third for the colonial inland rate, and _vice versa_" the Postal Union fixed a charge of but twopence halfpenny as the standard rate between _all_ countries that subscribed to its provisions. [162] =ibid.=, page 22. To quote further:[163]-- The later discussion in England on the extension of Penny Postage across the seas has alternated between the proposals for Universal Penny Postage and Imperial Penny Postage. Mr. Henry Fawcett, who was Postmaster-General in 1880, was keenly interested in endeavouring to get the Colonies to accept a lower postal rate to and from the Mother Country, but the Colonies were afraid to lower their rates.... Mr. Henniker-Heaton brought up the subject in the House of Commons in 1885 by moving for the opening of negotiations with other Governments, with a view to establishing Universal Penny Postage.... In 1890 the Jubilee of the introduction of Uniform Penny Postage was celebrated in London and throughout the United Kingdom, and public interest in postal matters received a new stimulus.... The long sustained agitation for Imperial Penny Postage was at last brought to a definite issue at the Imperial Conference on Postal Rates in 1898. The London _Standard_ of 13th July, 1898, stated:--