CHAPTER XXVI.

MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS FROM 1855 TO 1859.

Postal Guide and Postal Official Circular, 329--Date Stamps. Mr. Pearson Hill's Stamping Machine, 330--Mr. C. W. Sikes and the Post Office Savings Banks, 331--Salaries, 333--Volunteer Corps, 334--Compulsory Prepayment, 335--Parcels Post. Tubular Conveyance, 336--Inventors, 339--Telegraph Tube Service, 340--Mr. R. Stephenson, 341--Postage on Newspapers, 342--The _Times_, 344--Mr. Gladstone, 345--Serious Illness, 346--Plan for distributing Newspapers, 347--Wreck of the "Violet" Mail-packet, 349--The Bey of Tunis. Number of Letters posted in Russia and Manchester. The last Attack on Penny Postage, 350--Government Franking, 351.