CHAPTER XVIII.

SUNDAY RELIEF (1849-50).

Sunday Labour in Post Office, 107--Bath Post Office, 108--Closing of Money Order Offices, 109--Other Measures of Relief. "Forward Letters," 110--Minute on Reduction of Sunday Labour, 111--Lord's Day Society, 113--Treachery in the Camp, 115--Bishop of London, 116--City Meeting, 118--Publication of Minute, 121--No Compulsion. Extracts from Private Journal, 123--Hon. and Rev. Grantham Yorke. Insubordination, 128--Slanders of Lord's Day Society, 129--The first Sunday on the new Plan, 131--Anonymous Letters, 134--Lord John Russell, 135--Further Slanders of the Lord's Day Society, 136--Railway Sorting, 137--Suburban Sunday Delivery, 138--General Thompson and Dr. Vaughan, 139--Meetings of Surveyors, 140--Further Sunday relief, 141--Cabals, 143--Demand for total Abolition of Sunday Labour, 144--Mr. Wallace. Visit to Greenock, 148--Mr. Matthew Forster, 149--The _Times_, 151--Lord Ashley's Motion, 155--No Sunday Deliveries, 158--Commission on Sunday Labour, 160.