introduction of the penny postage system, sudden increase of letters, [75];

hostility of the department to railways, [76];

its outcry against arbitration, [ib.];

extracts from Postmaster-General’s Second Report, [77];

its fallacies, [79];

misrepresentations, [80];

Mr. Edward Page’s Report, [83];

its omissions, [86] to [92];

number of horses necessary if the Post Office reverted to mail coach conveyance, [94], [95];

mails could not be carried across the Isthmus of Suez but for the railway, [96];