ii. 417;

letters to his brother, vol. i. 176, 367, vol. ii. 417

Hill, Mr. Pearson, vol. ii. 176, 194, 417, 424; his account of his father's printing press, vol i. 226; appointment in the Post Office, vol. ii. 191; improves the mail-bag apparatus, 237; invents a stamping machine, 331; his plan for the delivery of circulars, 405, 490; his marriage, 426

Hill, Sir Rowland; birth, vol. i. 1, 34; ancestors, 1-7; parents, 8-33; combines the strong qualities of each parent, 31; early life at Horsehills, 35-46; intimacy with the Pearson family, 42; feeble health, 44; makes a water-wheel, 44; a model forge, 45; removes to Birmingham, 47; attends his father's school, 48; a young trader, 49; buys Miss Edgeworth's "Parent's Assistant," 50; ambition, 50, 67, 87, 203; builds a boat, 51; helps in household work, 51; feeling of responsibility, 51, 52, 76, 129; shares in his mother's troubles, 52; works a ruling-machine, 53; turns bookbinder, 54; assists in teaching, 54; works at the assay office, 55; makes an electrical machine, 55; love of astronomy, 57-59; habit of criticism, 58, 499; studies mathematics, 60; --navigation--architecture--would have puzzled an examiner, 61; learns his deficiencies, 62, 65; teaches at a neighbouring school, 65; forms literary and scientific societies, 68-72; studies French, 73, 74; wins a prize for drawing, 74; becomes a theatrical manager, 77; begins a school atlas, 79; makes a planisphere, 82; a water-alarum, 83; learns surveying, 85; makes a map of the scene of a murder, 86; scheme of a large college, 87, 104, 179, 180; reforms his father's school, 88; establishes punctuality, 89; enforces penalties incurred, 90; keeps the accounts and pays off his father's debts, 90; corrects Shakespeare, 91; rivals Zerah Colbourn, 92; makes a trigonometrical survey, 94; his audacity as a school-reformer, 102; his plans always worked, 103; helps in writing "Public Education," 103; his faith in his system shaken in old age, 104; over-worked, 105; describes his system, 107-122; a stern schoolmaster, 124; plan for controlling his temper; his courage, 125; becomes his father's partner, 128, 186; plans Hazelwood School; is his own architect, 128; and clerk of the works, 129; love of long walks, 131; sees a criminal trial, 132; love of feats, 133; sketches Dover Castle, 133; lectures on electricity, 134; sees a steamboat, 135; becomes sub-secretary to Deaf and Dumb Institution, 136; visits Derbyshire, 137; describes a Hampden club, 139; visits Liverpool, 140; his need of trips, 141; describes his parents, 142; early rising; sees John Kemble, 143; hears a debate, 144; sketches Netley Abbey, 145; sees Stonehenge, 146; experiments on diet, 147; attends the New Hall Hill meeting, 149; describes the fire at Hazelwood, 151; saves a woman from burning, 152; discusses the question of fire insurance, 158; visits Edgeworth-town, 160; climbs down to the Hermit's Cave, 168; publishes "Public Education," 170; thinks the celebrity of Hazelwood excessive, 174; over-worked, 175-177; trip to Scotland, 175; Paris, 176; his fortitude, 177; intends to open a school near London, 180; Bruce Castle, 181; his marriage, 182; helps his brothers, and is helped by them, 184, 191; holds property in common, 186; articles of partnership, 187; family fund, 188; family council, 191; trained to reason, 194; his early friends, 198; his youthful judgments, 199; gets rid of prejudices, 200; one of the founders of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 201; the "Vernier pendulum," 201; health again breaks down, 202; writes "Home Colonies," 202; gives up school-keeping; confidence in himself, 203; forms various schemes, 205; visits Robert Owen, 206; scheme for a social community, 207-214; Sir J. Shaw-Lefevre and he form a small society, 209; his friendship with Mr. Roebuck, 214; few careers open to him, 215; tour in France; describes his own character, 216; joins the South Australian Association, 217; works at abolishing the stamp duty on newspapers, 217; his "Letter on Pauper Education," 218; becomes secretary to the South Australian Commission, 220; turns his mind towards postal reform, 223, 229; invents a printing-machine, 224; offered a partnership by Mr. Clowes, 230; corrects error of Miss Martineau's, 239; devises a travelling post office, 241; examines the effects of reduction of taxation, 243; analyses postal accounts, 246; ascertains cost of conveying a letter, 248; the conclusions at which he arrives, 256; writes "Post Office Reform," 262; lays it before Government, 263, 266; publishes it, 267, 276; examined before "Commission of Post Office Enquiry," 268; proposes use of stamps, 270; appeals to the public, 275; present at a meeting of the Common Council, 280; his caution in statement, 286; parliamentary committee granted, 287; writes "Letters to Lord Lichfield;" mode of composition, 292; examined before parliamentary committee, 295, 316, 325; regards low postage as no tax, 311; assists in preparing committee's report, 331; examines rival claims to the authorship of Penny Postage, 332; learns that Penny Postage is to be granted, 343; writes "On the Collection of Postage by Means of Stamps," 345; "Facts and Estimates," 347; present at the division, 352; letter to the Duke of Wellington, 354; in the "kitchen" of the House of Commons, 356; interview with Lord Melbourne, 357; present in House of Lords, 360; described by Miss Martineau, 361; testimonials, 363, 442; offered appointment in Treasury, 365; consults Mr. M. D. Hill thereon, 366; accepts appointment, 369; first visit to the Post Office, 371; hours of work, 374; inspects the French Post Office, 376; prepares for introduction of penny postage, 380; visits Mr. Baring, 385; learns who "My Lords" are, 386; first day of penny postage, 390; difficulties with the Stamp Office, 397; obliteration of stamps, 399; resists needless expenditure, 411; proposes to set up pillar-boxes, 417; wins Mr. Baring's confidence, 422; detects errors in accounts, 429; meets with constant opposition at the Post Office; over-worked, 431; plan of rural distribution, 433, 451; sets a high value on statistics, 434; consulted about a twopenny rate, 435; applies for office of secretary to the Post Office, 437; alarmed by the change of ministry, 439; under Mr. Goulburn, 443; thwarted in his work, 444-447; investigates railway charges, 452; Lord Lowther's hostility, 459; dismissal impending, 462; his mother's death, 465; notice of dismissal, 466; correspondence with Sir Robert Peel, 469; question of publishing correspondence with Treasury, 473; offer of help from "the men of the League," 477; cuts down personal expenditure, 480; interview with Mr. Stephen, 481; official publication of garbled correspondence, 482; petitions Parliament, 483; publishes all the correspondence, 484; select committee moved for, 487; committee granted, 492; letter to Sir G. Clerk, 493; publishes "State and Prospects of Penny Postage," vol. ii. 1, 14; examined before the committee, 1-10; director and then chairman of the Brighton Railway Company, 16; resigns, 23; offered appointment on the South-Western Railway, 24; receives the national testimonial, 29; takes the longest holiday he had ever known, 38; offered appointment as secretary to the Postmaster-General, 39; letter to Mr. Hawes, 43; accepts the appointment, 45; enters upon office, 47; encounters obstructions, 49; snowed-up, 52; speech at Liverpool, 53; undertakes Money Order Department, 56; visits Bristol, 57; assists at the Treasury, 59; vexations tell upon his health, 60; encounters unpopularity in the office, 63; proposes a book post; also a system of promotion, 65; proposes railway legislation, 66; reforms Money Order Office, 70, 178; resists an offensive minute, 73; a special constable, 84; establishes book post, 87; claims promotion, 95-106; reduces Sunday labour, 108; his measure for transmission of "forward letters," 110; receives deputation from Lord's Day Society, 113; attacked by Sabbatarians; treachery in the Post Office, 115; objects to the use of compulsion, 120; slandered by Lord's Day Society, 129; complete success of his measure, 135; device for railway sorting, 137; establishes meeting of surveyors, 140; reports on demand for total abolition of Sunday labour, 145; visits Glasgow and Greenock, 148; defended by the _Times_, 151; Lord Ashley's motion, 155; health again failing, 163; claims promotion, 164; consults Mr. Cobden and Mr. Hume, 166; interview with Sir C. Wood, 169; asks for appointment of Mr. F. Hill as assistant-secretary, 170; his father's death, 176; his limited staff of clerks, 177; proposes a commission for revising salaries, 184; manages the Railway Department, 193; seeks Mr. Cobden's aid; visits towns in West Riding, 194; claims promotion, 196; consults his friends in Parliament, 198; "a mysterious allusion in Mr. Cobden's letter," 199; Lord Hardwicke Postmaster-General, 203; Court-dress, 207; discussion with Lord Hardwicke, 209; does not expose his lordship's spelling, 210; Tory ministry thrown out, 211; Lord Canning Postmaster-General, 213; letter to Lord Canning, 215; promotion or resignation, 217; dangerous state of health, 219; meets Mr. Gladstone, 222; sole secretary, 224; proposes railway legislation, 227; accelerates northern mails, 231; replies to attacks, 235; his minute on the true revenue of the Post Office, 238; reduces Colonial postage, 241; his evidence before the Commission for Revising Salaries, 246; upholds promotion by merit; dislikes competitive examinations, 249; purchase of telegraphs, 251; accelerates deliveries in London district, 258, 272; arranges secretarial duties, 264; establishes conference of secretary and assistant-secretaries, 265; gives more power to the heads of departments, 266; opposes the Board of Works, 269; divides London into districts, 270; accelerates mails, 273; need of railway legislation, 276; proposes Government loans to railway companies, 278; a member of the Royal Commission on Railways, 283; in favour of contract work, 286; opposed to Panama route, 290; doubles the mail to India, 292; arranges scale of salaries, 296; upholds promotion by merit, 298; supports a system of life insurance in the office, 304; lectures on the eclipse of 1858, 308; encounters discontent in the office, 321; threatened with assassination, 327; approves of Mr. Sikes's scheme of savings banks, 332; and of the volunteer corps, 334; attempts compulsory prepayment, 335; has for the first time to retrace a step, 336; his plan of tubular conveyance, 336; describes the lost labour of inventors, 339; controversy with Mr. R. Stephenson, 341; opposes the newspaper proprietors, 342; attacked by the _Times_, 344; his plan for the delivery of newspapers, 347; condemns official franking, 351; his account of the Postmasters-General from 1853-60, 353; his difficulty of composition, 355; his work limited to four days a week, 358; F.R.S., K.C.B., 359; peace in the office; dangerous illness, 360; has not the confidence of Lord Stanley of Alderley, 361; receives Mr. Gladstone's support, 362; censures the management of the Post Office Savings Banks, 365; wishes to establish parcels post, 368; reforms the packet service, 369; upholds promotion by merit; appeals to the Treasury, 376; interviews with Lord Palmerston, 377; resigns, 379; his character described by Sir F. Baring, 388; receives copy of Treasury Minute, 390; asserts his claim to the sole authorship of Penny Postage, 393; receives a grant from Parliament, 399; made D.C.L., receives presents from Liverpool and Longton, and the Albert Gold Medal, 400; looks upon himself as happy among reformers; considers future postal reforms, 401; his character, 411-415; attends the Political Economy Club, 416; meets Garibaldi, 417; grieved by the state of the Post Office, 418; describes the state of his health, 419; suffers from the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 421; regularity of his household, 422; resources of his old age, 423; thoughtfulness for others, 424; death thins his family, 425; his son's marriage, 426; not forgotten of men, 427; receives the freedom of the City, 428; death, 429; Westminster Abbey, 430

Hill, Sir Rowland: letters to Sir G. B. Airy, vol. i. 506; Duke of Argyll, vol. ii. 280, 330; Mr. E. Baines, vol. ii. 332; Sir F. Baring, vol. i. 440, 542, vol. ii. 85; a brother, vol. i. 206, 211; Lord Canning, vol. ii. 225, 460, 478; Mrs. F. Clark, vol. ii. 335; Lord Clanricarde, vol. ii. 437, 443, 453; Sir G. Clerk (a draft letter) vol. i. 493; Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. i. 515; Mr. Gladstone, vol. ii. 384, 393, 399; Mr. Goulburn, vol. i. 464; Sir B. Hawes, vol. ii. 43; Sir W. Hayter, vol. ii. 299; Lady Hill, vol. i, 201, 230; Mr. M. D. Hill, vol. i. 175, 179, 185, 191, 220, vol. ii. 417; "Journal of the Society of Arts," vol. i. 525; Lords of the Treasury, vol. ii. 379, 492; Colonel Maberly, vol. i. 445; Sir R. Peel, vol. i. 471; Mr. Schuster, vol. ii. 285; Lord Stanley of Alderley, vol. ii. 385; Admiral Smyth, vol. i. 500; Mr. Warburton, vol. ii. 457; Duke of Wellington, vol. i. 354; Sir C. Wood, vol. ii. 168

Letters to him from Sir G. B. Airy, vol. i. 507, 509; Duke of Argyll, vol. ii. 356; Lord Ashburton, vol. i. 362; Sir F. Baring, vol. i. 369, 439, 475, vol. ii. 86; a brother, vol. i. 184; Lord Canning, vol. ii. 218; Lord Clanricarde, vol. ii. 40, 102, 445; Mr. Cobden, vol. i. 382, 477, 478, vol. ii. 31, 194, 198; Miss Edgeworth, vol. i. 421; Lord Elgin, vol. ii. 359; Mr. Gladstone, vol. ii. 362, 400; Mr. Goulburn, vol. i. 466; Captain Basil Hall, vol. i. 418; Lord Hardwicke, vol. ii. 207; Mr. T. W. Hill, vol. i. 173, 185, 213; Mr. M. D. Hill, vol. i. 176, 366, vol. ii. 417; Thomas Hood, vol. i. 479; Mr. Hume, vol. ii. 170; Miss Martineau, vol ii. 14; Mr. Moffatt, vol. i. 467; Sir R. Peel, vol. i. 469; Sir A. G. Spearman, vol. i. 228; Rev. Sydney Smith, vol. ii. 14; Lord Stanley of Alderley, vol. ii. 384; a sub-sorter, vol. ii. 455; Colonel Torrens, vol. i. 223; Sir C. E. Trevelyan, vol. ii. 301; Mr. Warburton, vol. i. 343, 344, vol. ii. 38

Hill, Lady, childhood, vol. i. 43; marriage, 182; devotion to her husband, 183; hears from her husband about his Vernier pendulum, 201, and his printing press, 230; congratulated by Mr. Wallace, 360; conversation with Sir F. Baring, 441; assists her husband in reducing his expenditure, 480; her twenty-second wedding-day, vol. ii. 115; her husband's amanuensis, 327; proposed pension to her, 390; address to the Queen, 394; meets Garibaldi, 417; her husband's death, 429

Hill, Thomas Wright (Rowland Hill's father), hurt in the Birmingham riots, vol. i. 2, 34; unusual character, 7; relish of life, 8, 25; wish to be a lawyer, 9; knowledge of the Bible, 10; an astronomer, 11, 57, 498; under Priestley, 11; lectures on natural philosophy, 12, 55; on the formation of letter-sounds, 12; short-hand, 13; matchless benevolence, 13; character as a schoolmaster, 14-19, 62; a mathematician, 15, vol. ii. 177; love of theories, vol. i. 18; admirable as a father, 19, 55, 59; a staunch Liberal, 19; a student of Adam Smith, 23; scheme for representing minorities, 24, 69; imperfect side, 24; death, 25, vol. ii. 176; marriage, vol. i. 32; children, 34; opens a school, 47; money difficulties, 52, 90; buys a horse, 64; not jealous of his sons, 88; described by his son, 142; chairman of Attwood's Committee, 150; recommends spirit of co-operation, 185; consolation in his children, 197; discusses postal matters, 237, 241, 275; present at presentation of national testimonial, vol. ii. 32; remark on the first census, 260; letters to one of his sons, vol. i. 13, 24; his brother-in-law, 52; Mr. M. D. Hill, 20, 105, 127, 172, 177; Sir Rowland Hill, 185, 213

Hill, Sarah (Rowland Hill's mother), girlhood, 7; character, 27; moves her husband to turn schoolmaster, 30, 47; economy, 30, 34, 52; marriage, 32; a "notable" woman, 43; described by her son, 142; death, 465

Hill Top. See School.

_Hillska Skola_, vol. i. 173

Hinks, Rev. W., vol. ii. 30

Hinde, Mr., vol. i. 465

Hodgson, Mr. Joseph, attends R. H. in times of illness, vol. i. 177, vol. ii. 163, 219-221, 458

Hoffay, Mr., vol. ii. 221

Hogarth, William, vol. i. 39

Holgate, Mr., vol. i., 324

Holyhead, vol. ii. 275

Home Colonies, vol. i. 202

Honduras, vol. ii. 370

Hong-Kong Post Office, vol. ii. 257

Hood, Thomas, vol. i. 479

Horsehills, vol. i. 35, 45

Horsfall, Mr., vol. i. 429

"Household Words," vol. ii. 48, 192, 253

Howard, John, vol. i. 4, 141, 196

Huish, Captain, vol. ii. 231, 232, 274

Hull, vol. i. 150

Hume, Mr. Joseph, vol. i. 171, 173, 341, 357, vol. ii. 225; visits Hazelwood, vol. i. 174; a supporter of postal reform, 263, 288, 342, 350, vol. ii. 38; consulted by R. H., vol. ii. 166, 167, 174, 198, 199; letter to R. H., vol. ii. 170

Hunt, Leigh, vol. i. 276

Huskisson, Mr., vol. i. 198, 242

Hutchinson, Mr., vol. ii. 279, 281

Hutt, Sir W., vol. i. 220, 482

I

Income-Tax Commissioners, vol. ii. 30

India, postal reform in, vol. ii. 187, 212, 317; postage to, 242; book-post to, 245; mutiny, 292, 354, 478

Inglis, Sir Robert, vol. i. 355

Inventors, not men who merely make lucky hits, vol. ii. 339; described by Lord Brougham, 398; their common lot, 401

Ireland in 1821, vol. i. 160, 161; letters to (before 1840), 297; Sunday labour, vol. ii. 112, 154; mails to, 274, 338, 340; life insurance, 307; debts owing by postmasters, 313; early history of Post Office, 352

Isle of Wight, vol. i. 146, 168

J

Jackson, Mr., vol. ii. 70, 77, 179

Jefferson, ex-President, vol. i. 174

Jeffrey, Lord, reviews "Public Education," vol. i. 178

"Jerusalem Coffee-house," vol. i. 303

Johnson, Dr., knew how to bind a book, vol. i. 54; reads aloud the "Vanity of Human Wishes," 106; receives a packet from Lisbon, 276; rendering of a passage in Milton, vol. ii. 225; quotes Bentley, 235; to be read on the banks of the Wolga, 427

Johnson, Mr., vol. ii. 49, 74

Johnstone, Dr., vol. i. 64

Jones-Loyd, Mr. (Lord Overstone), evidence before committee (1838), vol. i. 310, 312; consulted by R. H., vol. ii. 43, 56, 216, 461

Jullien, M., vol. i. 174

K

Kater, Captain, vol. i. 95, 499

Kean, Edmund, vol. i. 135

Keble, Mr., vol. i. 194

Kemble, John, vol. i. 143

Kennedy, Dr., vol. i. 55

Keswick, vol. i. 339

Kidderminster, vol. i. 156; R. H's. birth-place, 1, 2, 34; his statue to be set up there, vol. ii. 428

King, Lord, vol. i. 362

Kingston-on-Thames, vol. ii. 141

Kington, vol. ii. 277

Knight, Mr. Charles, suggests stamped covers for newspapers, vol. i. 218, 265, 270, 377

Knowles, Sheridan, vol. i. 200

L

Labouchere, Mr. (Lord Taunton), vol. i. 267, 268, vol. ii. 160

Land's End to John O'Groat's, vol. ii. 278

Laplace, vol. i. 59, 506

Lardner, Dr., vol. i. 173, 312, 322

Larpent, Sir George, vol. ii. 30

Lawrence, Mr. William, vol. i. 431

Lawrence, Mr. (of the Post Office), vol. i. 303

Lea, William, vol. i. 6

Lea, Bailie, vol. i. 7, 31, vol. ii. 148

Ledingham, Mr., vol. i. 374, 404, 448

Lee, Mr. James, vol. ii. 92

Leeds, vol. ii. 109, 194

_Leeds Mercury_, vol. ii. 150

Lees, Sir Edward, vol. i. 318

Leicester, vol. i. 366

Letters, postage rate before Penny Postage, vol. i. 238, 239, 247, 252, 276, 277, 281, 282, 295-297, 339, 381, vol. ii. 380, 396; charges by enclosures, vol. i. 238, 282, 295; effects of high rates on the poor, 239, 305-309, 342; taxing, 247, 283, 372; deliveries few and slow, 269, 281; in large districts no deliveries, 253, 324, 451, vol. ii. 381; illegal conveyance, vol. i. 238, 254, 300-304; number as stated by government, 279, 290, 298, 299; as stated by R. H., 298, 299; average weight of London mail, 319, 339; R. H.'s reforms; proposed sorting in coaches, vol. i. 241; actual cost of conveyance, 249, 280, vol. ii. 242, 493; cost of distributing, vol. i. 248, 354; uniform rate, 250, 312; primary and secondary distribution, 251, vol. ii. 406; rates suggested, vol. i. 251, 264, 269, 284, vol, ii. 404; charges by weight, vol. i. 264, 318, 376, 386; low postage no tax, 311; prepayment, 250, 314, 378, vol. ii. 180, 258, 335; uniform fourpenny rate, vol. i. 381, 384; penny rate begins, 390; number of letters after 1839, 395, 418, 435, 463, vol. ii. 86, 188, 190, 214, 259, 260, 314, 350, 382, 397; registration, vol. i. 410, 455-459, vol. ii. 7, 315, 367, 381; thefts, vol. i. 283, 410, 411, 455, vol, ii. 190, 315, 368; forward letters, vol. i. 457, vol. ii. 110; free delivery, vol. i. 252, vol. ii. 270, 381; returned letters, vol. ii. 314; increase of correspondence to distant places, vol. ii. 241, 371; effect of school boards on letter writing, 418. See also Penny Postage and Post Office.

Letter-Boxes (hall door), vol. ii. 90. See Pillar Letter-Boxes.

Letter carriers, union of two corps of, vol. i. 258, 373, 375, vol. ii. 100, 103, 247, 271; improved condition of, 190, 345, 381; life insurance and burial fund, 304-307; discontents, 321; eligibility of their position, 309, 324; Christmas boxes, 325, 328; mutinous meeting, 326

Lewins, Mr. W. vol. ii. 367

Lewis, Sir G. C., passage in "Notes and Queries," vol. i. 239; commission of inquiry into Sunday labour, vol. ii. 160; mail service to Kington, 277; R. H.'s device of government railway loans, 279-281; Post Office insurance fund, 305

Lewis, Dr. vol. ii. 303

Libraries, Post Office, vol. ii. 308

Lichfield, vol. i. 138, vol. ii. 191

Lichfield, Earl of, Postmaster-General; his Post Office Consolidation Act, vol. i. 281; opposed to penny postage, 279, 288, 293, 314, 325, 351, 427, vol. ii. 3; goes into a passion over it, vol. i. 359; R. H.'s letters to, 292, 293

Life insurance of Post Office staff, vol. ii. 304-307

Lines, Mr., vol. i. 74, 391

Liverpool, R. H.'s first visit, vol. i. 140; newspapers in 1834, 218; testimonials, 442, vol. ii. 400; speech at a public dinner, vol. ii. 53; committee of the town council, 54; district system, 272; mutual guarantee, 307; pneumatic tubes, 340

Lloyd, Mr. James, vol. ii. 387

Loans to railway companies. See Railways.

Locke, Mr., vol. ii. 159, 281

London, R. H.'s early visits, vol. i. 58, 134-136, 145, 200; removal to, 180-182, 200; daily newspapers, 218; deliveries, 269, 282, vol. ii. 34, 258, 272; petition for Penny Postage, vol. i. 280, 289; number of Post Offices, 376, vol. ii. 314; amount of correspondence, vol. ii. 94, 270; Sunday agitation, 118; grant of its Freedom, 428; represented by its chief magistrate in Westminster Abbey, 430. See also Post Office.

Londonderry, Marquis of, vol. ii. 91

Longton, vol. ii. 400

Lord's Day Society, foolish deputation from, vol, ii. 113; its course of slandering, 129, 136, 154, 155; a proof of conscious weakness, 149; Professor Henslow's reply to, 145

Lord Mayor's English, vol. i. 144

Lords of the Treasury, vol. i. 386

Lowe, Mr. (Viscount Sherbrooke), vol. ii. 280, 347.

Lowther, Viscount (Earl of Lonsdale), vol. i. 436, 439, 448, 462, 465, 492, vol. ii. 61; member of committee (1838), vol. i. 287; votes against Penny Postage, 327; Postmaster General, his cold and suspicious manner, 444, 458; his ignorance, 453, vol. ii. 10; plan of registration, vol. i. 455, 456, 459, 476; his pride offended, 459, 476; claims to the origination of Penny Postage, 488

Lyons, vol. ii. 311

M.

Maberly, Lieut.-Colonel, vol. i. 374, 386, 424, 426, 428, 430, 444, 455, 487, 491, vol. ii. 48, 49, 55, 56, 58, 63, 64, 65, 71, 73, 75, 84, 89, 113, 120, 121, 122, 129, 177, 185, 201; examined before parliamentary committee of 1838, vol. i. 300, 302, 313, 314, 316, 323, vol. ii. 10; his opinion of Penny Postage, vol. i. 326, vol. ii. 10; examined before Committee of Enquiry, 1843, vol. ii. 1, 3, 5, 7, 10; question of his retirement, vol. i. 362, 427, 437, vol. ii. 41, 43, 74, 96, 98, 99, 103-105, 165-169, 194-200, 206, 209, 210, 215, 218, 219, 221, 437, 445, 457, 461; appointed to the Board of Audit, 224; his selection of heads of departments, 266

Macaulay, Lord, vol. i. 333, vol. ii. 151; a man of "imperfect sympathies," vol. i. 199; an error in his history, 500; R. H. sends him a document about Titus Oates, vol. ii. 261; "defiance of Post Office regulations," 315; funeral, 431, 432

Madeira, vol. ii. 318

Magistrate, School, vol. i. 110

Magna Charta, vol. i. 145

Mails. See Railways.

Mail-bag apparatus, vol. ii. 237

Malmesbury, Earl of, vol. ii. 149

Maltby, Dr. vol. i. 173

Malthus, Mr., vol. i. 173, 188

Manchester in 1821, vol. i. 160; Chamber of Commerce, 301, 307; postage to Lyons, vol. ii. 311; pneumatic tubes, 340; correspondence equal that of Russia, 350

Map-making, vol. i. 79, 86

Marcet, Mrs., vol. i. 501

Margate, vol. i. 133-135

Marks, School, vol. i. 107

Marlborough, Duke of, vol. i. 38, vol. ii. 356

Marseilles, vol. ii. 294

Martineau, Miss, error in her History of England, vol. i. 239; passage in her Autobiography about Sydney Smith and Lord Monteagle, 361; describes R. H., 361, 390; letter to R. H., vol. ii. 14

Massey, Mr., vol. ii. 395

Matthews, Mr. William, vol. i. 73, 89

Maury, Mr., vol. i. 303

May, Sir Erskine, vol. ii. 91

Mayer, Mr., vol. i. 442

Mazzini, vol. ii. 28

McCulloch, Mr., vol. i. 245, 338

Mediterranean, vol. i. 281

Melbourne, Viscount, vol. i. 344, 416, 438; receives deputation, 341; adopts Penny Postage, 343, 346; R. H's interview with, 357; on "moral-force men," 358; moves second reading of Penny Postage Bill, 359

Menai Straits, vol. i. 297, 381

Mercantile committee. See Committee.

Messengers, Post Office, vol. i. 425

Metropolitan Asylums Board, vol. ii. 421

Miles, Mr. Pliny, vol. ii. 319

Milford, vol. i. 297

Mill, James, vol. i. 180

Millington's Hospital, vol. i. 4

Milton, John, quotation from his "Defensio Secunda," vol. ii. 225; "Paradise Lost" read by R. H., 423

Minorities, representation of, vol. i. 24, 69, 223

Mitford, Miss, vol. ii. 319

Moffatt, Mr., vol. i. 277, 436, vol. ii. 225; supporter of Penny Postage, vol. i. 294, 342, 469, vol. ii. 389; corresponds with Duke of Wellington, vol. i. 353; letter to R. H., 467; consulted by R. H., vol. ii. 170, 198, 200; R. H.'s resignation of office, 384, 388, 389, 394

Money Order Office, similar institution in France, vol. i. 376; early State of English Office, vol. i. 377, 411, 454, vol. ii. 254, 398; reduction of charges, vol. i 411, vol. ii. 316; increase in business, vol. i. 411, vol. ii. 254, 286; mismanagement of, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. 70, 77, 439; frauds, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. 61, 76, 80; economies and improvements in, vol. ii. 56, 71, 76-78, 178, 216, 257, 286, 381, 399, 439, 458, 463; losses and profits, 78, 179, 257, 286; Sunday business, 108; clerks classified, 179; salaries, 245; amount yearly transmitted, 286, 383, 397; contract work, 286; extended to colonies, 316; foreign countries, 404; described in "Household Words," 253

Monopoly, Post Office, vol. i. 238, 246, vol. ii. 405

Monsell, Mr. (Lord Emly), vol. ii. 284

Monsoons, premature setting in of the, vol. i. 168

Montagu, Mr. Basil, vol. i. 43

Monteagle, Lord. See Rice.

Montrose, Duke of, vol. ii. 373, 374, 404

_Morning Chronicle_, vol. ii. 120, 122

_Morning Post_, vol. i. 449, vol. ii. 76, 116

Mortleman, Mr., vol. ii. 349

Mudge, Colonel, vol. i. 94, 96

Mulready envelope, vol. i. 393, 419

Murchison, Sir Roderick, vol. ii. 359

N.

Napier, Messrs., vol. ii. 148

Neate, Mr., vol. ii. 398

Netley Abbey, vol. i. 145

New South Wales, vol. ii. 290, 481

New York, vol. i. 206, 303, vol. ii. 93, 187

New Zealand, vol. ii. 290, 480

Newcastle, vol. i. 452, 465, vol. ii. 340

Newspapers, stamp duty on, vol. i. 217, 226-230, 524, vol. ii. 238, 343, 466-473; reduced, vol. i. 218; number of in 1834, 218; made to serve for letters, vol. i. 240; privilege of late posting, vol. ii. 62; acceleration of news, 294; tubular conveyance, 338; claims for lower postal rate, 342-349; R. H.'s plan for their distribution, 347, 484-491; number sent by post, 382

Newman, Cardinal, vol. i. 194

Nicholson, Mr., vol. ii. 251

"North and South American Coffee-House," vol. i. 303

"Notes and Queries," vol. i. 239

Northcote, Sir Stafford, vol. ii. 334; commissioner on Post Office salaries, vol. ii. 221; commissioner on packet service, 239

Nottingham Shoemakers' Society, vol. i. 308

Numbering of streets, vol. ii. 311

O.

Oates, Titus, his slanders paralleled, vol. ii. 117; pensioned, 261

Ocean Penny Postage, vol. ii. 241, 319, 371

O'Connell, Daniel, vol. i. 278; on the deputation to Lord Melbourne, 342

O'Connell, Mr. M. J., vol. i. 287, 327

Oliphant, Mrs., vol. i. 500

Orthography, vol. ii. 418

Ostend and Dover mail packet, vol. ii. 349

Overstone, Lord. See Jones-Loyd.

Owen, Robert, interested in Hazelwood, vol. i. 173; R. H.'s visit to him at New Lanark, 175, 206; description of New Harmony, 206; his plan, 206, 210, 214

Oxford, University of, vol. ii. 400, 422

Oxford, vol. ii. 181

P.

Pacific Ocean, vol. ii. 291

Packet service. Admiralty _versus_ Post Office, vol. ii. 5, 183, 238, 288, 369-375, 402, 466-473. See also Post Office and Commission.

Page, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. 283, 341

Palmer, John, his postal reforms, vol. i. 237, 257, 289; defrauded by government, vol. ii. 9; Surveyor General, 40

Palmer, Mr., vol. i. 426

Palmerston, Viscount, vol. ii. 399; letter to Lord Elgin, 359; R. H.'s interviews with, 377; notice in House of Commons on a pension to Lady Hill, 390, 394; deputation to him, 395; brings up message from the Queen, 395; speech in House, 395-8

Panama route, vol. ii. 290, 481

Parcels Post, vol. ii. 65, 336, 369, 403

Paris, R. H.'s visits to, vol. i. 176, 376; number of post offices in 1839, 376

Parker, Mr. (M.P. for Sheffield), vol. i. 243, 287, 327, 344; secretary to the Treasury, vol. ii. 38, 59, 98

"Parker Society," vol. i. 462

Parkes, Mr. Joseph, vol. ii. 388, 394

Parnell, Sir H., vol. i. 245

Parr, Dr., vol. i. 172

Parris, Dr., vol. i. 504

Parsons, Mr. J. M., vol. ii. 16

Parsons, Mr., vol. i. 401

Partnership, articles of, vol. i. 187

Patronage, vol. ii. 61, 184, 191, 211, 247-250, 287, 299, 364, 403, 405

Patten, Mr. Wilson (Lord Winmarleigh), vol. ii. 388, 389

Pattern post, vol. ii. 368

Pauper education, vol. i. 218

Peacock, Mr., vol. i. 302, 325, vol. ii. 327

Pearson, Mr. Joseph, vol. i. 42, 279

Peel, Sir Robert, vol. i. 289, 343, 436, 445, 473, 482, vol. ii. 14, 23; gives qualified support to Penny Postage, 350, 351; opposes immediate adoption, 351, 355; supports abolition of franking, 355; does not intend to advance penny rate, 449; misstates postal revenue, 449, 460, 485, vol. ii. 5; R. H. appeals to him, vol. i. 469, vol. ii. 36; his reply, vol. i. 469; R. H.'s rejoinder, 471; speech on motion for committee of enquiry, 491; subscribes to R. H.'s testimonial, vol. ii. 32, 36; resigns, 37; the "Peelites" compensate R. H. for his injustice, 226; squanders force, 412

Penalties, enforcement of, vol. i. 90, vol ii. 19

Peninsular and Oriental Company, vol. ii. 292, 293

Penny postage; claimants to invention of, vol. i. 332, vol. ii. 51, 392-394, 493; accepted by government, vol. i. 343-345; obstacles to its full success, 347; included in the budget, 348-353; Bill passes the House of Commons, 355-356; the House of Lords, 359-360; plans for collecting, 381, 387; to begin on January 10th, 1840, 386; first day of, 390; question of twopenny rate, 435, 436; last attack on, vol. ii. 350; results of, 380, 438; ocean Penny Postage, 241. See also Letters and Post Office.

Perkins, Messrs. vol. i. 402, 407

Perpetual motion, vol. i. 45

Persian Ambassador, vol. i. 172

Petitions in favour of Penny Postage, vol. i. 280, 288, 289, 307, 339, 349, 356; R. H.'s petition, 483; mercantile committee's, 484

Phillips, Professor John, vol. i. 503

Phillips, Professor Richard, vol. i. 400-402

Pickford, Messrs., vol. ii. 3

Pillar letter-boxes, first used in France, one set up at Allahabad, vol. i. 417; R. H. introduces them into England, 417, vol. ii. 259; number of, 314

Piron, M., vol. i. 341, 377, vol. ii. 94, 188, 225

Pitt, William, vol. i. 19, 200

Place, Mr. Francis, vol. i. 277

Playfair, Dr. Lyon, vol. i. 210

Plymouth, vol. ii. 129, 133

Political economy, discussions on, vol. i. 23, 198

Political Economy Club, vol. ii. 416

Polk, President, vol. ii. 93

Polytechnic Institution, vol. i. 426

Porter, Mr., vol. ii. 187

Portugal, its gross postal revenue, vol. ii. 252; its slowness to reform, 318

Post cards, vol. ii. 382

"Post Circular," vol. i. 339

Postmaster-General, office should be permanent, vol. ii. 404

Postmasters, emoluments of, vol. i. 433, vol. ii. 245; should be empowered to appoint their clerks, 247; appointment of, 248, 299, 405; in arrear with accounts, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. 313

Postage. See Letters.

Post Office Consolidation Act, vol. i. 281; number of offices, 376, vol. ii. 313, 314; London district offices, vol. i. 258, 269, 376, vol. ii. 62, 100, 258, 271, 381; rural offices, vol. i. 430, 433, 451, 486, vol. ii. 182, 260, 381; "a vast machine," vol. ii. 53, 233, 271; errors in accounts, vol. i. 249, 298, 429-430, 448, 449, 475, 490, vol. ii. 5, 50, 78, 87, 186, 187; errors as regards packet-service accounts, vol. i. 449, 460, 485, vol. ii. 4, 185, 238, 402; audit, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. 186, 313; statistics, vol. i. 414, 434, vol. ii. 55, 65; chief office, vol. ii. 216, 268-270; widows' and orphans' fund, 306; mutual guarantee, 307; libraries, 308; volunteer corps, 334; revenue (before 1839), vol. i. 244, 256, 283, 286, 534, vol. ii. 382; (after 1839), vol. i. 416, 432, 459, 460, 464, 468, vol. ii. 5, 33, 85, 188, 295, 297, 382, 392, 397, 417; causes of increased expenditure, vol. i. 411-413, 419, 427, vol. ii. 295; R. H.'s calculations as to recovery of revenue, vol. i. 256, 325, 347, 396, vol. ii. 214, 297; true mode of arriving at net revenue, vol. ii. 237, 298, 466; every branch ought to be self-supporting, 371, 402; postal union, 404; monopoly, vol. i. 238, 246, vol. ii. 405; effect of school boards on the revenue, 417;

"Post Office reform," vol. i. 262, 276, 283

Postage of government departments, vol. i. 355, 388, vol. ii. 351

"Postal Guide" and "Postal Official Circular," vol. ii. 329

Pratt, Mr., vol. i. 352

Prepayment. See Letters.

Pressly, Sir Charles, vol. i. 400, 429

Priestley, Dr., T. W. Hill one of his congregation, vol. i. 11; his house destroyed by rioters, 33; his greatest-happiness principle, 193

Prince Consort. Gift to the Post Office Library, vol. ii. 308

"A Princess Royal," vol. i. 420

Prince of Wales presents Albert Gold Medal to R. H., vol. ii. 400

Printing-machine, vol. i. 224-230, 525-528, vol. ii. 76

Pritchard, Mr., vol. i. 280

Pritchard, Professor, vol. i. 504

Promotion, vol. ii. 65, 184, 191, 246-551, 298-302, 321, 376

Prussia, postal reform in, vol. ii. 35, 252, 406; treaty with, 208

"Public Education," written by M. D. H. and R. H. vol. i. 103; preface to it, 105; makes Hazelwood famous, 130, 170, 178; read in M.S. by Miss Edgeworth, 165; praised by Bentham, 171; reviewed by Jeffrey and De Quincey, 174, 178

Punctuality--school, vol. i. 89, 113, 120; premiums offered to railway companies for, vol. ii. 235, 273; to steam-ship companies, 292; R. H.'s household, 422

Q.

"Quarterly Review," vol. i. 377; vol. ii. 192

Queen Victoria--abandons her privilege of franking, vol. i. 388; disapproves of Lord Ashley's motion, vol. ii. 158; her "Drawing Room," 245; confers a K. C. B. on R. H. 359, 422; Lady Hill's address to her, 394; message to the House of Commons, 395

R.

Radcliffe, Mrs. vol. i. 79

Radnor, Earl of, vol. i. 346, vol. ii. 344

Railways--cost of conveyance of mails, vol. i. 329, 412, 452, vol. ii. 181, 182, 189, 257, 296; examination of officers, vol. ii. 18; enforcement of penalties, causes of accidents, 19; variety of signals, 20; excursion and express trains, 21; "railway mania," 23; Parliament and the railways, 25; competition, 26; need of legislation, 66, 227-231, 276, 282; Commission of 1865, 69, 283, 491; notices, 91; to be brought into the heart of London, 217, 464; committee of 1853, 228; acceleration of mails, 58, 231-237, 273; premiums for punctuality, 235, 273; general contracts, 275; Government loans, 278-282, 474; Government purchase, 283; arbitration, 284; true interests, 22, 23, 285; London and Brighton, vol. i. 90, vol. ii. 16-26, 52, 60, 285; South-Eastern, 23, 25; South-Western, 24, 276; North-Western, 176, 232, 274; Great Northern, 182, 232; North British, 273; Gloucester and Hereford, 277; Shrewsbury and Hereford, 277

Rathbone, Mr., vol. ii. 92

Rea, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. 318

_Record_, The, vol. ii. 115

Registration. See Letters.

Reports, Postmaster-General's Annual, vol. ii. 264, 267, 310, 351

Revenue (General) uninjured by judicious reductions of taxation, vol.