CHAPTER XVI.

JOINT SECRETARYSHIP (1846-8).

The "Edinburgh Review" and Mr. Charles Dickens, 48--Restrictive Minute, 49--Cabals, 51--Snowed up, 52--The Post Office a vast Machine, 53--Liverpool Town Council, 54--Lord Clanricarde's Boldness, 55--Bristol Post Office, 57--Lieutenant Waghorn, 59--A Bundle of old Clothes by Post, 61--Applications for Increase of Salary, 63--Statistics, 64--Book Post. Proposed System of Promotion, 65--Railway Legislation, 66--Money Order Department, 70--Offensive Minute. Mr. Cobden's Advice, 73--Savings in Stationery, 76--Arrears of Money Orders, 77--Carelessness in Remittance, 78--Attempted Robbery, 79--Frauds, 80--Esquires in Low Life, 81--Joseph Ady, 82--Telegraph, 83--Chartists, 84.

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XVI.

General Progress. Letter to Mr. Baring, 85--Number of Letters from 1839 to 1847, 86--Book Post. Professor De Morgan, 87--Evasion of Postage, 88--Scale of Salaries. The Interpretation of a Fortnight's Holiday, 89--Letter-boxes, 90--Railway Notices. Sir Erskine May, 91--United States, 92--France, Revolution of 1848, 93--Belgium, 94.