[INDEX]
A
Abbott, Mr., vol. ii. [300]
Aberdeen, Earl of, vol. ii. [217], [218], [222]-[225], [287]
Accounts. See [Post Office]
Admiralty, vol. ii. [369]. See also [Packet Service]
Ady, Joseph, vol. ii. [82]
Airy, Sir G. B., correction of statement about M. Biot, vol. i. 499;
R. H.’s letter to him, 506;
letters to R. H., 507, 509;
signs R. H.’s recommendation for the Royal Society, vol. ii. [359];
present at his funeral, [431]
Alarum water-clock, vol. i. 83, 157
Algeria, vol. ii. [311]
Algerine ambassador, vol. i. 172
Allen, Ralph, vol. ii. [9]
Alton, vol. ii. [276]
Amiens, peace of, vol. i. 19, 38
Angas, Mr. G. F., vol. i. 221
Anson, General, vol. i. 279
Applegarth, Mr., vol. i. 224
Architecture, study of, vol. i. 61, 128
Argyll, Duke of, vol. ii. [349];
Government loans to railways, vol. ii. [279], [280];
Civil Service examination, [303];
his character;
facility of composition, [355];
signs recommendation of R. H.’s admission to Royal Society, [359];
provisionally Postmaster-General, [361];
letters to R. H., [344], [356];
R. H.’s letters to him, [280], [302], [330];
out of England at the time of R. H.’s funeral—his affection towards him, [430]
Arithmetic, mental, vol. i. 92, 128
Armstrong, Sir W., vol. i. 242
Armstrong, Mr., vol. ii. [49], [72]
Arnold, Dr., vol. i. 100, 101, 115, 124
Arnott, Dr., vol. i. 210
Ashburton, Lord, vol. i. 279, 469;
evidence before Parliamentary Committee (1838) 310, 317, 321;
letter to R.H., 362
Ashford, Mary, vol. i. 85
Ashley, Lord (Earl of Shaftesbury), presents a memorial from Bath, vol. ii. [108];
motion for abolition of Sunday duty, [155], [156], [158], [160], [163];
writes to R. H., [156];
partial retractation, [150], [159]
Ashurst, Mr., vol. i. 294, 486
Assassination, threats of, vol. ii. [327]
Assay Office, Birmingham, vol. i. 55
Astronomy, vol. i. 57-59, 68, 69, 495-508
Attwood, Mr., vol. i. 150
Auditing, Post Office, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. [186], [313]
Australia, colonisation, vol. i. 217, 219;
correspondence, 485, vol. ii. [10], [396];
mails, [242], [289]-[292], [310], [373], [480];
postage charges, [243], [310], [371]
Austria, postal reform, vol. ii. [35], [252]
Ayr, vol. ii. [230]
B
Baines, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. [331], [346]
Baines, Mr. Frederick, vol. ii. [251]
Ballaghaderin, vol. i. 413
Bancroft, Mr., vol. ii. [92]
Banning, Mr., vol. ii. [54], [307]
Banwell, vol. i. 306
Bar Beacon, vol. i. 97
Barbauld, Mrs., vol. i. 54
Baring, Sir Francis (Lord Northbrook), vol. i. 355, 371, 374, 376, 380, 381, 384, 386, 390, 391, 392, 401, 406, 411, 416, 424, 426, 428, 429, 432, 434, 435, 450, 451, 466, vol. ii. [358], [384];
first interview with R. H., vol. i. 365;
gives R. H. appointment in Treasury, 369;
doubts of prepayment and use of stamp, 382, 396, vol. ii. [86];
does not care for a little unpopularity, vol. i. 389;
long hours of work, 385, 398, 415, 417, 431;
remark on the French Government, 410;
friendship with R. H. and trust in him, 422, 423, 437-441, 490,
vol. ii. [388], [397], [411];
budget of 1841, vol. i. 436;
resigns office, 439;
consulted by R. H., 475-477;
presents R. H.’s petition, 483;
defends publication of correspondence, 485;
moves for return on rural distribution, 486;
speeches in House of Commons, 489, vol. ii. [351], [397];
congratulates R. H. on his appointment, vol. ii. [225];
opinion of R. H. [388]-[390], [411];
heads deputation to Lord Palmerston, [395];
letters to R. H., vol. i. 369, 439, 475, vol. ii. [86];
letters from R. H., vol. i. 440, 542, vol. ii. [85]
Barth, Mr., vol. ii. [179], [462]
Bath, vol. ii. [108]
Bates, Mr., vol. i. 294
Beasley, Mr. Michael, 57, 61, 62, 79, 134;
his “utility,” 63
Beecher, Major, vol. ii. [360]
Belgium, postal reform in, vol. ii. [94];
postal treaty, [252], [318]
Belper, Lord, vol. ii. [66]
Benevolent Society, vol. i. 109
Bentham, Jeremy, reads “Public Education,” sends two Greeks to Hazelwood and a contribution to the Magazine, vol. i. 171;
visits Bruce Castle, 172;
suggests “a sucker from Hazelwood School,” 180;
his “greatest happiness” principle, 193;
concentration of responsibility, vol. ii. [405]
Bentinck, Mr., the last of the assailants of Penny Postage, vol. ii. [350]
Bentley, Dr., vol. ii. [235]
Berlin, vol. ii. [340]
Biot, M., vol. i. 499
Birmingham riots, vol. i. 2, 11, 33, 47;
Philosophical Institution, 12, 80;
Mercury newspaper, 17;
volunteers, 38;
gun-making, 38;
tokens, 40;
police, 42;
exhibitions, 75;
Hampden Club, 139;
New Hall Hill meeting;
legislatorial attorneys;
exclusive musical society, 149;
represented in Parliament, 150;
Sunday question, vol. ii. [109], [128];
brass trade, vol. ii. [272];
pneumatic tubes, [340];
raises a statue to R. H., [387], [389], [428]
Blair, Dr., vol. i. 98
Blomfield, Bishop, vol. ii. [116]
Board of Trade, vol. ii. [251], [281]
Board of Works, vol. ii. [269]
Bodkin, Sir W., vol. ii. [327]
Bokenham, Mr., vol. i. 385, 400, vol. ii. [62], [120]-[141], [155], [180], [190], [260], [327], [330], [453]
Bookbinding, vol. i. 54
Book post, a kind of, in France in 1839, vol. i. 376;
established in England, vol. ii. [65], [87], [382], [397];
Foreign and Colonial, [244], [311]
Booth, Mr., vol. ii. [281]
Booth the forger, vol. i. 40
Boulogne, vol. ii. [294]
Bowring, Dr. (Sir John), vol. i. 174, 382
Bradley, the letter-carrier, vol. ii. [79]
Brankston, Mr., vol. i. 308
Brebner, Mr., vol. ii. [171]
Brewin, Mr., vol. i. 301, 305, 308
Brierley Hill, vol. i. 282
Bright, Mr. John, vol. i. 477
Brighton, vol. ii. [22], [269], [285]
Brighton Railway. See [Railways].
Brindley, vol. ii. [250]
Bristol, vol. i. 307, vol. ii. [57]
British Association, vol. ii. [244]
Brooks, Mr., vol. ii. [91]
Brougham, Lord, interested in Hazelwood, vol. i. 173;
intends to found a school on the Hazelwood Plan, 180;
R. H. prepares for him “Home Colonies,” 202;
approves of Owen’s plan, 210;
R. H. addresses to him a letter on pauper education, 218;
character described by R. H., 219;
interest in Penny Postage, 288, vol. ii. [225];
presents City petition in its favour, vol. i. 289;
conduct on R. H.’s dismissal, 467, 468, 473;
story of “I is the plaintiff,” 492;
takes part in the Sunday question, vol. ii. [149], [159];
speech on R. H.’s retirement, [398]
Brown, Mr. (Sir William), vol. i. 310, 317, 336, vol. ii. [198]
Bruce Castle, vol. i. 181, 201, 204, 214
Bunsen, Chevalier, negotiates postal treaty, vol. ii. [208], [252];
at the Queen’s drawing room, [245]
Burdett, Sir Francis, vol. i. 180, 240
Burgoyne, Sir John, vol. i. 277
Burke, Edmund, vol. ii. [398], [431]
Burns, Robert, vol. i. 19
Burritt, Mr. Elihu, vol. ii. [319]
Butler, Samuel, vol. i. 2
C
Caermarthen, vol. ii. [190]
Calcutta, vol. ii. [272], [293]
Cambridge, University of, vol, i. 67
Campbell, Thomas, vol. i. 149
Campbell, Lord, vol. ii. [330]
Canada, vol. ii. [244], [316]
Canning, Earl, vol. ii. [242], [275], [358];
pillar letter-box at Allahabad, vol. i. 417;
postage rate during Crimean War, 436;
Postmaster-General, vol. ii. [213];
question of R. H.’s promotion, [215]-[225];
railway legislation, [229];
Packet Service Commission, [238]-[240], [370];
promotion by merit, [249], [301];
his character, [263], [353]-[355];
appointed Governor-General of India, [353];
article on him in the “Edinburgh Review,” [354];
letters to R. H., [218], [224];
R. H.’s letters to him, [215], [217], [225], [460], [478]
Canning, Lady, vol. ii. [222]
Canterbury, vol. i. 136, 218
Cape of Good Hope, vol. ii. [289]
Cardwell, Mr. (Viscount Cardwell), vol. ii. [228]
Carlyle, Mr. vol. i. xiv., vol. ii. [411]
Cartwright, Major, vol. i. 150
Caxton Exhibition, vol. i. 229
Census, First, vol. ii. [260]
Chadwick, Mr. Edwin, vol. i. 210, vol. ii. [336]
Channel Islands, vol. ii. [259]
Chantrey, Sir Francis, vol. i. 145
Charter House, vol. i. 101
Chartists, vol. ii. [84]
Chester, vol. i. 140
Chetwynd, Mr., vol. ii. [333]
Christmas-boxes, vol. ii. [325], [328].
Circular Delivery Company, vol. ii. [405]
Circumlocution Office, vol. ii. [48]
Cirencester, vol. i. 301
Civil Service Commission. See Commission
Civil Service Examinations. See [Competitive Examinations]
Civil Service Gazette, vol. ii. [322]-[324]
Clanricarde, Marquis of, vol. ii. [51], [56], [57], [59], [66], [70], [72], [78], [90], [92], [97], [98], [108], [109], [111], [113], [120]-[129], [131]-[136], [138], [139], [141], [145], [147], [149], [150], [157], [158], [160], [173], [174], [176], [181]-[187], [194], [203], [204], [209], [213], [214], [218], [241], [259], [358];
appointed Postmaster-General, vol. ii. [38];
appointment of R. H. as his secretary, [39], [40], [45], [46];
abused by mail-cart driver, [47];
not afraid of a novel course of action, [55];
appealed to by R. H., [49], [54], [55], [58], [60], [64], [72]-[75], [96], [99], [100]-[106], [162]-[164], [168], [170], [175], [193], [196];
confidence in R. H., [59], [99], [165], [174], [195], [199], [200], [201], [216], [222];
ceases to be Postmaster-General, [200];
letters to R. H., [102], [445];
letters from R. H., [437], [443], [453];
speech on R. H.’s retirement, [398]
Clark, Dr., vol. i. 401
Clark, Mr. Francis, vol. i. 278
Clark, Mrs. Francis (Caroline Hill), marriage, vol. i. 47;
her fine character, 195;
departure for Australia, vol. ii. [143];
R. H.’s letter to her, [335]
Clark, Mr. Thomas, vol. i. 47
Clayton Tunnel, vol. ii. [22]
Clerk, Sir George, Bart., vol. i. 444, 445, 447, 454, 465, 485;
announces in Parliament R. H.’s dismissal, 467;
Chairman of Committee of Inquiry, 492;
R. H.’s letter to him, 493
Clerks, Post Office, classification of, vol. ii. [179], [184], [249], [308];
improved condition of, [179], [190], [257], [308], [345], [381];
clerks in charge, [180]
Clowes, Mr. W., vol. i. 230
Coach Company, project for, vol. i. 205, 520
Cobbett & Co., vol. i. 21
Cobden, Mr., offers to assist in publishing R. H.’s pamphlet, vol. i. 276;
examined before Parliamentary Committee, 301, 307, 324;
consulted by R. H., vol. ii. [73], [166], [170], [197];
letters to R. H., vol. i. 382, 477, 478, vol. ii. [31], [194], [198];
congratulates R. H. on his appointment, [225]
Colbourn, Zerah, vol. i. 92, 512
Colby, General, vol. i. 268, 319, 332
Colchester, Lord, vol. ii. [291], [316], [324], [334], [344];
“an excellent Postmaster-General,” [344];
his character, [356], [358]
Cole, Mr. (Sir Henry Cole, K.C.B.), vol. i. 210, 374, 426, 436;
his ingenuity, 295;
editor of Post Circular, 339;
his valuable services, 447
Coleridge, S. T., his Pantisocracy, vol. i. 213;
paid poor woman’s postage, 239
College, R. H.’s plan for establishing a great one, vol. i. 87, 104
Colonial Postage, vol. ii. [241]-[245], [310], [316], [317], [371]
Commission, South Australian, vol. i. 220
Commission of Revenue Inquiry, vol. i. 246, 258, 315, 527
Commission of Post Office Inquiry, vol. i. 259, 268-274, vol. ii. [60]
Commission of Post Office Inquiry in the East Indies, vol. ii. [245], [317]
Commission for Regulating Salaries, vol. ii. [89], [184], [221];
its report, [246]-[249], [301]
Commission on Sunday Labour, vol, ii. [160]
Commission, Lord Canning’s (Packet Service), vol. ii. [238], [370], [402]
Commission on Railways, Royal, vol. ii. [69], [283], [416], [491]
Committee, School, vol. i. 108, 116
[Committee], Mercantile, vol. i. 294, 353, 462, 474, 484, vol. ii. [29]
Committee of Enquiry, Select (1843), vol. i. 489, vol. ii. [1], [50]
Committee on Postage, Select (1837-8), vol. i. 287, 295
Committee on Railway and Canal Bills (1853), vol. ii. [228]
Common Council of London, vol. i. 280, 289, vol. ii. [428]
[Competitive] Examinations—their evils, vol. ii. [249], [300], [303]
Compton, Mr., vol. i. 4
Conference of Teachers, vol. i. 114
Congresbury, vol. i. 306
“Constitution,” “Origin of the,” vol. i. 115
Contract Work, economy of plan of, vol. ii. [286]-[288], [403]
Conway, vol. i. 297
Coode, Mr., vol. i. 209, 210
Cooke, Mr. T. B., vol. ii. [311]
Cornwall, Mr., vol. ii. [48], [211]
Corporal Punishment, vol. i. 112
Cotton, Sir R., vol. ii. [312]
Court Dress, vol. ii. [207]
Court of Justice, School, vol. i. 107, 109, 110
Covent Garden Theatre—its loyal audience, vol. i. 143
Cowan, Mr., vol. ii. [113]
Cowper, Professor, vol. i. 224, 524
Cowper, Mr. E. A., vol. ii. [337]-[339], [489]
Creswick, Mr., vol. i. 118
Crimean War—proposed increase of postal rate, vol. i. 435;
soldiers’letters and remittances, vol. ii. [310], [316]
Croker, Mr. J. W., vol. i. 377
Cube Roots, vol. i. 92, 512
Cubitt, Sir William, vol. ii. [236], [237]
Cunard, Sir Edward, vol. ii. [186], [371]
Cupar-Fife, vol. i. 442
Currency, vol. i. 40
Currie, Mr. Raikes, vol. i. 268, 325, 327, vol. ii. [216], [225], [461]
D
Daily News, vol, ii. [241]
Dalhousie, Earl of, vol. ii. [188]
Davidson, Mr., Vol. i. 309
De Foe, vol. ii. [424]
De La Rue, Dr. Warren, vol. i. 419, 501, 508
De Lys, Dr., vol. i. 499
De Morgan, Professor, vol. ii. [88]
De Quincey, Thomas, interested in Hazelwood, vol. i. 173;
reviews “Public Education,” 174, 178
Denman, Mr. (Lord Denman), vol. i. 150
Deal, vol. i. 276
Derby, Earl of, vol. ii. [200], [203], [206], [228], [241]
Derbyshire, R. H.’s Tour in, vol. i. 137
Devonport, vol. ii. [289], [314]
Dickens’, Charles, reply to the “Edinburgh Review,” vol. ii. [48];
article on the Post Office, [192];
article on the Money Order Office, [253]
Dickinson, Mr., vol. i. 316
Diet, Experiments in, vol. i. 143, 147
Dilke, Sir C., vol. i. 210
Dilke, Sir C., vol. ii. [272], [375]
Dillon, Mr. John, vol. i. 300, 313
Disraeli, Mr. (Earl of Beaconsfield), vol. ii. [174]
Dockwra, Mr., vol. ii. [9]
Donovan, Mr., vol. i. 401
Dover—Castle, vol. i. 133;
proposed tubular conveyance to, vol. ii. [338]
Drawing, R. H.’s prize for, vol. i. 74
Drouet, Mr., vol. ii. [252]
Dublin in 1821, vol. i. 160;
postal service, vol. ii. [258], [274], [337], [340]
Dubost, Mr., vol. ii. [93]
Dudley, vol. i. 282
Duncan, Viscount, vol. ii. [108]
Duncannon, Lord (Earl of Bessborough), vol. i. 268, 272, 289, 290, 357, 360
Duncombe, Mr. Thomas, vol. ii. [28], [38]
Dundee, vol. ii. [269]
Dunlop, Mr., vol. i. 308
E
Early Rising, vol. i. 143
East Indies, vol. i. 303. See also [India]
Easthope, Sir John, vol. ii. [120]
Ebrington, Lord (Earl Fortescue), vol. ii. [336]
Edgeworth, Mr. Lovell, vol. i. 160, 162-167
Edgeworth, Miss, R, H.’s debt to her, vol. i. 50, 164, 421, 502;
introduction to her, 163;
reads “Public Education,” speaks of her father, 165;
letter to R. H., 421;
scientific errors, 502
Edgeworth-Town assisting school, vol i. 160, 162-167.
Edinburgh, vol. ii. [258], [302];
cost of conveying a letter to, vol. i. 249, 280, 339;
Sunday agitation, vol. ii. [149];
Mails, [273], [337];
volunteer corps, [334]
“Edinburgh Review,” vol. i. 68;
reviews “Public Education,” 121, 174, 178;
article on Penny Postage, 378, 390;
article on “Little Dorrit” and the “Circumlocution Office,” vol. ii. [48];
article on Lord Canning, [354]
Eldon, Earl of, vol. i. 212, 240, vol. ii. [35]
Electrical Machine, vol. i. 55, 81
Electricity, lectures on, vol. i. 55, 80, 134
Elgin and Kincardine, Earl of, vol. ii. [308];
“an excellent Postmaster-General,” [344];
his account of Lord Canning, [354];
his character, [357], [358];
letter to R. H., [359];
resignation, [361]
Elgin, vol. i. 288
Ellenborough, Lord, vol. ii. [35]
Emery, Mr., vol. i. 306
Emigrant ships, vol. i. 221
Empson, Professor, vol. i. 268
Enclosures, charge by, vol. i. 238, 282, 295
Envelopes, vol. i. 393, 418, 419
Estcott, Mr., vol. ii. [8]
Esquires in low life, vol. ii. [81]
Estlin, Mr., vol. ii. [29]
Euclid, vol. i. 11, 60
Eversley, Viscount, vol. ii. [91]
Excursion trains, vol. ii. [21]
“Exhibitions,” School, vol. i. 91, 93, 113, 127, 170
Exhibition, Great (1851), vol. i. 26; vol. ii. [259]
Express trains, vol. ii. [21]
F
“Facts and Estimates,” vol. i. 347, 534
Fagan, Mr., vol. ii. [154]
Family council, vol. i. 191, 192, 262
Family fund, vol. i. 188-190
Faraday, Professor, vol. i. 3, 402
Female labour, vol. ii. [403]
Ferguson, James, vol. i. 12
Fielding, Henry, vol, i. 3
Fights regulated, vol. i. 118
Fire at Hazelwood, vol. i. 95, 151;
origin of, 158;
question of insurance, 158
Fire, precautions against, at Post Office, vol. ii. [268]
Fitzgerald, Lord, vol. i. 460
Flood, walk through a, vol. i. 138
Forge, model of a, vol. i. 45
Forger, a, vol. i. 40
Forster, Mr. John, vol. i. 230, 525
Forster, Mr. Matthew, a steady friend, vol. ii. [149], [388], [394];
on the Sunday question, [157], [158];
Mr. Parkes’s letter to him, [388]
Foster, John, the essayist, vol. i. 141
Fourdrinier, vol. i. 224
France, revolution of 1789, vol. i. 19;
peace with, 38, 134;
Mrs. Hill’s uneasiness at being so near to its coast, 133;
postal revenue, 245;
reduction of postage in, 341, vol. ii. [93], [188], [252];
Post Office inspected by R. H. vol. i. 376;
early use of post-paid envelopes in, 377;
pillar letter-boxes, 417, vol. ii. [259];
treaty with, vol. i. 410, vol. ii. [6], [183], [214], [317];
assistance during Indian Mutiny, vol. ii. [293];
gratuitous conveyance of a mail, [350];
reduction in postage to France, [311];
proposed use of tubular conveyance for mail, [338];
universal delivery, [406]
Frankland, Sir F., vol. ii. [312]
Franklin, Benjamin, vol. i. 8, 12
Franks (Post Office) on newspapers, vol. i. 240;
abuses of, 240, 322, vol. ii. [350];
number of, vol. i. 321;
“Worth to some Mercantile Houses,” 355;
abolished, 385, 388;
official franking, 355, 388, vol. ii. [351], [471];
revived, vol ii. [351]
Freshwater Bay, vol. i. 146
Frölich, Count, vol. i. 173
Frome, General, vol. i. 221
G
Gaisford, Dean, vol. i. 17
Galt, Mr., vol. ii. [283]
Galton, Mr. Tertius, vol. i. 499
Galton, Captain, vol. ii. [236], [251]
Galway line of mail-packets, vol. ii. [183]
Gardiner, Mr., vol. i. 375
Garibaldi, vol. ii. [417]
Garrick trained in careful habits, vol. i. 34;
his house in the Adelphi, 223
Gas, streets lighted by, vol. i. 42, 160
Germany, vol. i. 253, vol. ii. [252], [259], [318], [484]
Gibbon, Edward, “the tyranny of lawyers,” vol. i. 9;
“independence, that first earthly blessing,” 67;
“a man designed to think as he pleased, &c.,” 213;
his early training, 217
Gibson, Mr. Milner, vol. ii. [198]
Gilchrist, Dr., vol. i. 174
Gladstone, Mr., budget of, 1854, vol. i. 436;
budget of 1853, vol. ii. [214];
R. H.’s promotion, [215]-[225];
Government railway loans, [279], [280];
Savings Banks, letter to Mr. Sikes, [332];
newspaper postage, [345]-[347];
foreign and colonial postage, [372];
support to R. H. and confidence in him, [362], [376], [377], [379];
R. H.’s resignation, [378];
R. H.’s high regard for him, [379];
pension and parliamentary grant to R. H., [388]-[391], [399];
treasury minute, [391], [411];
R. H.’s letters to him, [384], [393], [399];
his letters to R. H. [362], [400];
description of R. H.’s services and plan, [411], [419].
Glasgow “family boxes,” vol. i. 302;
testimonial to R. H., 442;
R. H.’s visit, vol. ii. [148];
Bridewell, [171];
mails, [273], [337];
library, [308];
pneumatic tubes, [340]
Globe, The, vol. ii. [120]
Godby, Mr., vol. ii. [191], [194]
Gordon, Mr., vol. i. 395, 416
Gouger, Mr., vol. i. 216
Goulburn, Mr., vol. i. 350, 439, 446, 455, vol. ii. [5], [14], [33], [358];
motion against Penny Postage, vol. i. 351;
“talks nonsense,” 436, 490;
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 441, 443;
suspends Mr. Baring’s minute, 452;
appealed to by R. H., 454, 456-459, 463-465;
does not answer R. H.’s letters, 465;
dismisses R. H., 466-471;
publishes garbled correspondence, 482;
condemns R. H. for publishing the whole correspondence, 485;
excuses his own conduct, 488;
answered by Mr. Baring, 489
Gould, Mr., vol. ii. [268]
“Grace Dogger” packet, vol. ii. [312]
Graham, Sir James, vol i. 473;
has Mazzini’s letters opened (“Grahamizing” ), vol. ii. [28];
packet-service account, [238]
Granville, first Earl, vol. i. 410;
second Earl, his speech on the parliamentary grant to R. H., vol. ii. [398], [399];
present at his funeral, [431]
Grasset, Mr., vol. ii. [93]
Graves, Mr., vol. ii. [347]
Gravesend, vol. i. 282
Gray, Dr., vol. ii. [29]
Greeks at Hazelwood, vol. i. 171, 172
Green, Mr. J. R., vol. ii. [356]
Greenock, vol. i. 260, 527, vol. ii. [148]
Gregory, Mr., Evidence before Railway Commission, vol. ii. [283];
report on tubular conveyance, [337]-[339], [489]
Grenfell, Mr. P., vol. ii. [17]
Grey, Earl, vol. ii. [244]
Grote, George, interest in Hazelwood School, vol. i. 172, 173;
a supporter of penny postage, 263, 279
Guarantee, mutual, vol. ii. [307]
Guards, mail, vol. i. 161, 453, vol. ii. [89], [257]
Guest, Dr., vol. i., 12, 55
Gunboat, French, vol. i. 38
Gunpowder, vol. i. 242
H
Habeas Corpus Act suspended, vol. i. 22, 139;
damned in ignorance, 144
Hagley, vol. i. 62, 97, 134
Hall, Captain Basil, vol. i. 173;
Describes Hazelwood in “Edinburgh Review,” 122;
letter to R. H., suggests gummed envelopes, 418
Hampden, John, vol. i. 1
Hampden Club, vol. i. 139
Hamburg, treaty with, vol. i. 382
Hardinge, Viscount, vol. ii. [222]
Hardwicke, Earl of, vol. ii. [213], [228], [229], [238], [358];
Postmaster-General, vol. ii. [203];
a disciplinarian, [204], [207];
“two kings in Brentford,” [205], [209];
“intends to be Postmaster-General,” [206];
dinner party, [207];
peculiar spelling, [210];
patronage, [211];
dislike of “Hill’s book-post,” [245]
Hare, Mr. Thomas, vol. i., 24, 223
Harmony, New, vol. i. 206
Harness, Colonel, vol. i. 452
Harrowby, Earl of, vol. ii. [149]
Hatchard, Mr., vol. ii. [190]
Hawes, Mr. (Sir Benjamin), vol. i. 483;
interest in Penny Postage, 288;
a member of the Ministry of 1846, vol. ii. [37];
induces R. H. to accept appointment, [41], [216], [461];
R. H.’s letter to, [43], [166], [437]
Hayter, Mr. (Sir William), secretary to the Treasury—R. H. and he “get on swimmingly,” vol. ii. [114];
the Sunday question, [114], [117], [118], [121], [154];
learns from R. H. the abuses as to promotion, [184];
forgets his own regulations—R. H.’s letter to him, [299];
Post Office Mutual Insurance, [305]
Hazelwood. See [School].
Head, Sir Francis, vol. ii. [192]
Health of Post Office staff, vol. ii. [302]
Henderson, Dr., vol. ii. [29]
Hennessy, Mr., vol. ii. [398]
Henslow, Professor, vol. ii. [145]
Henson, Mr. G., vol. i. 305, 308, 309
Herald, Morning, vol. i. 483, vol. ii. [115], [120], [123], [160]
Hermit’s Cave, vol. i. 169
Herries, Mr., vol. i. 435
Herries, Sir W., vol. ii. [218], [222]-[224]
Herschel, Sir William, vol. i. 58, 497
Highgate, vol. i. 282
Hill, James, “a substantial freeholder,” vol. i. 2
Hill, John, tract on “A Penny Post” (1659), vol. ii. [29]
Hill, John, a volunteer against the young Pretender, vol. i. 3, 6
Hill, Mr. Alfred; writes an historical sketch of the Post Office, vol. ii. [310]
Hill, Mr. Arthur; a young trader, vol. i. 50;
a young actor and author, 77;
injures his eyesight, 127;
visits the Edgeworths, 160;
his brother’s successor in the school, 203;
the Arthur Hill lifeboat, 203;
constant aid to his brother, preface, 234, 292, 487, vol. ii. [99], [111], [116];
his eighty-first birthday, [430]
Hill, Mr. Edwin; a night alarm, vol. i. 37;
makes a model forge, 45;
at the assay office, 55;
his courage, 154;
family arbitrator, 187;
a partner in the school, 187;
joins Sir J. Lefevre’s society, 210;
helps in the printing machine, 225;
superintendent of stamp machinery, 392, 405;
invents envelope-folding machine, 419;
attestations to his services, 539;
consulted by his brother, vol. ii. [99]
Hill, Mr. Frederic, vol. i. 169, 263, vol. ii. [213];
in his boyhood fond of calculating, vol. i. 128;
his great services as an inspector of prisons, 215, and vol. ii. [171];
consulted by his brother, vol. ii. [99];
consults Mr. Cobden, [166];
appointed assistant-secretary to the Post Office, [176], [196];
reforms the system of mail packet contracts, [240], [369]-[373];
adjusts the salaries of the rural postmasters, [245];
his views on patronage and promotion, [246];
manages the Money Order Department, [253], [463];
his measure for early deliveries, [258];
aids his brother in the more difficult part of his duties, [265];
his able and zealous assistance, [266];
originates the annual reports, [267];
remodels the central office, [268];
his evidence before the Royal Commission on Railways, [283];
introduces contract work, [286];
a supporter of promotion by merit, [301];
draws up a plan for life insurance, [305];
tries to introduce the contract system into the savings banks, [364];
his reward for faithful services, [374];
wishes to employ female labour in the office, [403]
Hill, Mr. Howard, his untimely death, vol. i. 8, 14, 195, 203;
his fine character, 196
Hill, Mr. Matthew Davenport, vol. ii. [91], [465];
life of him by his daughters, vol. i. preface xiv.;
describes his father, vol. i. 9, 19,
and his mother, 30;
account of the Birmingham riots, 33;
a night alarm, 37;
a young trader, 49;
reforms his father’s school, 63, 87, 88;
gives lessons at another school, 64, 65;
advice on a point of law, 86;
goes to the bar, 87, 126;
drills boys for “exhibition day,” 91;
writes “Public Education,” 103;
discussions with his brother, 105, 106;
lectures on electricity, 134;
defends Major Cartwright, 150;
M.P. for Hull, 220, 240;
introduces his brother to Mr. Parker, 243;
talk with Lord King, 362;
letter on Mr. Baring’s offer, 366, vol. ii. [456];
article in “Edinburgh Review,” vol. i. 378, 390;
assists his brother on his dismissal, 467, 469, 473, 477
—and in the Sunday agitation, vol. ii. [116], [118];
letter on his brother’s illness, [361];
his brother’s letters to him, vol. i. 175, 179, 185, 191, 220, vol. 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 [185]8, [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 [185]3-[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
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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]-[398]
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]-[251], [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. i. 242, 244, 255, 535;
postal revenue. See [Post Office].
Ricardo, Mr. J. L., vol. ii. [83]
Ricardo, Mr. Moses, vol. ii. [337]
[Rice], Mr. Spring (Lord Monteagle), vol. i. 218, 220, 267, 278, 289, 348, 365, 460, vol. ii. [188], [469];
R. H.’s interview with, vol. i. 263, 265;
includes Penny Postage in the budget, 348, 351, 355;
described by Miss Martineau, 361
Richmond, Duke of, vol. i. 288
Rintoul, Mr., vol. i. 278
Robbery, Attempted, of a letter-carrier, vol. ii. [79];
of a Western mail, [189].
See also [Letters].
Robinson, Mr. H. C., vol. i. 36
Robinson Crusoe, vol. i. 10, 51
Rochefoucauld, La, vol. i. 192
Roebuck, Mr. J. A., early friendship with R. H., vol. i. 214;
on the Sunday question, vol. ii. [129];
official franking, [351]
Roman road, vol. i. 98
Romilly, Sir Samuel, his sole inheritance, vol. i. 2;
effect of the French Revolution, 21;
reform of the criminal law, vol. ii. [35]
Romilly, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. [224]
Rousseau, J. J., vol. i. 124
Roy, General, vol. i. 94
Royal Observatory, vol. i. 95
Royal Society, vol. ii. [359], [420]
Rugby School, vol. i. 100, 115
Ruling Machine, vol. i. 53
Russell, Lord John (Earl Russell), vol. i. 278, 355, 400, vol. ii. [38], [98], [103], [171], [174];
extract from his “Recollections,” vol. i. 343;
announces adoption of Penny Postage, 345;
the Sunday question, vol. ii. [111], [118], [121], [127], [133], [135], [147], [156], [157], [159]
Russia, vol. ii. [118];
postal reforms, vol. ii. [13], [35], [252];
number of letters (1855), [350]
S.
Sabden, vol. i. 324
Salaries—demand for increase of, vol. i. 413, 450, vol. ii. [55], [63], [321], [326], [327];
statistics for arriving at, vol. i. 414, 433, vol. ii. [65];
scale of, vol. ii. [89], [245], [296];
commission for revision of, vol. ii. [89], [184], [221], [246]-[249];
salaries of higher officers, [333];
of Postmaster-General and Secretary, [345];
of officers generally, [345]
Sargant, Mr. W. L., his account of Mr. T. W. Hill, vol. i. 15, 16;
of Hazelwood School, 93, 123
Säve, Professor, vol. i. 173
Savings Banks, vol. ii. [331], [364]-[367], [383]
Scholefield, Mr., vol. i. 339
[School], opened at Hill Top, vol. i. 47;
Hazelwood, built, 128;
opened, 129;
on fire, 151;
“a sucker from it,” 180;
Bruce Castle opened, 181;
Hazelwood, given up, 202;
moral tone, 15;
teaching, 15-18, 63, 65-67, 91-94, 127, 212;
theatre, 77;
surveying, 85, 94;
system of government 87, 100-128;
punctuality, 89, 120;
“exhibitions,” 91, 113, 127, 170;
benevolent society, 109;
band of music, 112, 122;
“a little world,” 113;
magazine, 116, 171;
“school fund,” 119;
described by Mr. Sargant, 15, 16, 93, 123;
by Captain Basil Hall, 122;
becomes famous, 130, 170-174, 178;
its fame excessive, 174;
number of pupils, 178
School Boards, vol. ii. [417]
Schuster, Mr., vol. ii. [285]
Scotland, charge on letters to, vol. i. 238, 249, 297, 381;
Sunday labour, vol. ii. [109], [112], [148], [157];
mails, [232]-[234], [273], [338];
life insurances, [307];
early history of Post Office, [352]
Screw steamboat, vol. i. 84
Scudamore, Mr., vol. ii. [312], [333]
Severn, the, vol. i. 131
Seymour, Lord (Duke of Somerset), vol. i. 268, 287, 327-330, vol. ii. [185]
Shakespeare corrected, vol. i. 91
Shaw-Lefevre, Sir J., letter to R. H., vol. i. 209;
South-Australian commissioner, 220;
his account of Mr. Goulburn, 443
Shoemakers’Society, vol. i. 308
Short-hand, vol. i. 13
Shrewsbury, vol. i. 4, 131, 132, 140, 141
Sibthorpe, Colonel, vol. i. 352, 467, vol. ii. [98]
Sikes, Mr. C. W., the originator of Post Office Savings Banks, vol. ii. [331], [364], [366];
his disinterestedness, Mr. Gladstone’s letter to him, [332]
Small-pox, vol. i. 305
Smith, Adam, vol. i. 23, 198
Smith, Mr. Egerton, vol. i. 442
Smith, Mr. John, vol. i. 180
Smith, Mr. Robert, vol. i. 272, 385, vol. ii. [139], [258]
Smith, Dr. Southwood, vol. i. 214, vol. ii. [76]
Smith, Rev. Sydney, ridiculed Penny Postage, vol. i. 361;
letter to R. H., vol. ii. [14]
Smyth, Admiral, vol. i. 498
Social Community, scheme for a, vol. i. 207, 210
Society, Mutual Improvement, vol. i. 68, 72;
literary improvement, 69;
philosophical, 80;
one founded by Sir J. Shaw-Lefevre and R. H., 209, 226
Society of Arts, vol. ii. [336], [400]
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, vol. i. 201, 219
Soldiers’letters and remittances, vol. ii. [253], [310], [316]
South-Australian Association and Commission, vol. i 216, 219-224; vol. ii. [426];
mail service, [289]
Southey, Robert, hatred of Bonapartism, vol. i. 19;
description of the Charter House, 101;
Pantisocracy, 213
Spain, Postal reform in, vol. ii. [13], [35], [252];
treaty with, [318]
Spearman, Sir Alexander, vol. i. 228, vol. ii. [279], [333]
Spectator, The, vol. i. 278
Spencer, Earl, advice on publication of correspondence with Treasury, vol. i. 474, 477
St. Germans, Earl of, vol. ii. [99]
St. Priest, M., vol. ii. [93]
Stamps—Newspaper stamps impressed at the Stamp Office, vol. i. 226;
first suggested by Mr. Knight, 265;
for letters proposed by R. H., 265, 270, 345;
adhesive, 271, 346;
stamped covers, 271, 383, 393;
objection to use of stamps, 314, 316, 378, 382, 396, vol. ii. [86];
devised in France, vol. i. 377;
machinery for manufacture of, 392, 406-409;
prepayment by stamps begins May 6th, 1840, 396;
supply insufficient, 397;
forgery and frauds, 399-401;
obliteration, 399-404;
number issued, 407;
electrotype imitations, 426;
introduced into Spain and Russia, vol. ii. [13]
Stamps, general distribution of, by Post Office, vol. i. 429
Stamping, illegibility, vol. ii. [330];
Mr. Pearson Hill’s machine, [331]
Standard, The, vol. ii. [120]
Stanley of Alderley, Lord, vol. ii. [281];
R. H. has not his confidence, [361], [362], [376], [378], [412];
disapproves of contract system, [364];
not deficient in courage, [368], [371];
establishes pattern post, [368];
letter to R. H. on his resignation, [384];
R. H.’s answer, [385];
letter to Treasury, [385];
speech in House of Lords, [386]
“State and Prospects of Penny Postage,” vol. ii. [1], [13]
“States,” letters for Government, &c., vol. ii. [107]
Stationers, deputation of, vol. i. 348
Statistics, Postal, vol. i. 414, 434, vol. ii. [55], [65]
Steamboat, plan for working one by a screw, vol. i. 84;
by the hydrogen of sea water, 210;
R. H.’s first sight of, 135;
run only in the summer, 160, 168
Stephen, Sir James, vol. i. 443, 481;
R. H.’s opinion of, 482
Stephenson, George, vol. i. 242, vol. ii. [250]
Stephenson, Robert, controversy with, vol. ii. [341]
Sterling, life of, vol. i. xii., vol. ii. [411]
Stonehenge, vol. i. 131, 146
Stourbridge, vol. i. 57, 133
Street nomenclature, vol. ii. [311]
Sunday observance agitation, vol. ii. [107]-[161], [305], [446]-[456]
Surveying, Land, vol. i. 85
Survey, Trigonometrical, vol. i. 94, 175, 221
Survey of mail-packets, Admiralty, vol. ii. [370]
Surveyors, Meeting of Post Office, vol. ii. [140];
reports from, [267]
Sweden slow to adopt postal reform, vol. ii. [252]
Swinford, vol. i. 413
Switzerland, vol. ii. [252], [406]
Symonds family, the, vol. i. 1, 4, 141
Symonds, Mr. Arthur, vol. i. 210, 281
T.
Talma, vol. i. 144
Taxation, reduction of. See [Revenue].
Telegraph brought to the Post Office, vol. ii. [83];
Government purchase, [251], [418];
pneumatic tube service, [340];
female labour, [403]
Testimonials to R. H. from Wolverhampton, vol. i. 363;
Glasgow and Cupar-Fife, 442;
Liverpool, 442, vol. ii. [400];
Longton, [400];
national, [27]
Thayer, M., vol. ii. [94]
Theatre, School, vol. i. 75, 77, 91
Theodolite, improved use of, vol. i. 95
Thiers, M., vol. i. 410
Thomas á Becket, vol. i. 136
Thompson, General, vol. i. 477, vol. ii. [139]
Thornley, Mr., vol. i. 287, 327, vol. ii. [185], [198]
Thornton, demanded wager of battle, vol. i. 86
Thrale, Mrs., vol. i. 54, 106
Tilley, Mr. (Sir John), vol. ii. [119], [122], [125], [134], [139], [181], [185], [193], [203], [331], [374], [453];
his duties as assistant-secretary, [264];
mentioned in Sir C. E. Trevelyan’s letter, [301];
interested in life assurance of officials, [304];
gave R. H. earnest support up to 1860, [360];
managed Savings Bank Department, [364]
Timm, Mr., vol. i. 401
Times, The, vol. ii. [76];
strong support to Penny Postage, vol. i. 331, 334, 340;
Sunday agitation, vol. ii. [116], [117], [120], [132], [151];
colonial postage, [242];
competitive examinations, [249];
attack on R. H., [344];
reduction of postage on newspapers, [345]-[347];
R. H.’s resignation, [389]
Torrens, Colonel, chairman of South Australian Commission, vol. i. 220, 224;
an intimate friend of R. H., vol. ii. [426];
a gallant soldier, [427]
Trafalgar, vol. i. 39
Travelling post office, vol. i. 205, 241, vol. ii. [137], [236]
Tremenheere, Mr., vol. ii. [31]
Trevelyan, Sir Charles, vol. i. 447;
friendliness towards R. H., vol. i. 445, 457, vol. ii. [30];
one of the Treasury Commission on salaries, vol. ii. [221], [301];
letters from, [224], [301]
Tripolitan Ambassador, vol. i. 172
Trollope, Mr. Anthony, vol. ii. [288]
Truro, First Lord. See [Sir T. Wilde].
Truro, Second Lord, vol. ii. [386]
Tubular conveyance, vol. ii. [337]-[340], [402], [489]
Tunis, Bey of, vol. ii. [350]
Turner, J. M. W., vol. i. 135
U.
United States, Contraband letters to, vol. i. 303;
postal reform in, 336, vol. ii. [27], [35], [93], [187], [319];
negotiations with, [92], [244], [318];
mail-packet charges, [310];
unjustly blames England, [319]
Uriconium, vol. i. 141
Uxbridge, vol. i. 282
V.
Vallance, Mr., vol. ii. [337]
Valayer, M. de, vol. i. 377
Vaughan, Rev. Dr., vol. ii. [139], [144]
Vernier pendulum, vol. i. 201, 517
Vickers, James, vol. ii. [312]
Villiers, Mr. C. P., describes R. H.’s “great disinterestedness,” vol. i. 263;
a supporter of Penny Postage, 263, 467, vol. ii. [166];
a member of the committee of 1838, vol. i. 287;
present at the funeral, vol. ii. [431]
“Violet” mail-packet, wreck of, vol. ii. [349]
Voluntary work, vol. i. 116
Volunteer Corps, Post Office, vol. ii. [334]
Von der Heydt, Mr., vol. ii. [252]
W.
Waghorn, Lieutenant, vol. ii. [59]
Wakefield, Mr. E. G., vol. i. 216, 219, 278
Wallace, Mr. Robert, vol. i. 272, 330, 331, 334, 337, 338, 360, 361, 436, 480;
an early Postal Reformer, 245, 246, 257-260;
national testimonial to, 260, 529, vol. ii. [147];
moves for committee, vol. i. 278, 287;
chairman of committee, 295;
his casting vote carries uniform rate, 328;
never claimed authorship of Penny Postage, 332, 344, 446, vol. ii. [493]
Walliker, Mr., vol. ii. [178]
Walsall, vol. i. 301
Warburton, Mr. Henry, a supporter of Postal Reform, vol. i. 263, 288, 299, 327, 477;
writes report of committee of 1838, 333, 337;
his house, 333;
deputation to Lord Melbourne, 342;
“a moral-force man,” 358;
presides at presentation of testimonial, vol. ii. [32];
communicates with the Government about R. H.’s acceptance of office, vol. ii. [37], [43], [45], [56], [164], [166], [170], [198], [200], [206], [460];
letters to R. H., vol. i. 343, 344, vol. ii. [38];
R. H.’s letter to him, vol. ii. [457]
Warwick, vol. i. 42, 150
Water-clock alarum, vol. i. 83
Water-wheel, vol. i. 44
Waterloo, illumination for, vol. i. 135
Watson, Mr., vol. i. 403
Watson, Sir Thomas, vol. ii. [377]
Watt, James, vol. i. 23, vol. ii. [433]
Wellington, Duke of, vol. ii. [25], [30], [250];
letter to Mr. Moffatt, vol. i. 353;
R. H.’s letter to, 354;
votes for Penny Postage Bill, 359;
urges adoption of R. H.’s plan as a whole, vol. i. 359, 362, vol. ii. [9];
funeral, [261];
maintains that soldiers are not given to letter-writing, [310]
West, Benjamin, vol. i. 136
West Indies, packet service, vol. ii. [288];
each Government manages its own Postal Service, [317]
Westminster Abbey, vol. ii. [430]
Weymouth, vol. ii. [87]
Wheatley, Mr. Henry B., vol. ii. [29]
Wheatstone, Professor, vol. i. 210
Whitmore, Mr., vol. i. 220
Wight, Isle of, vol. i. 145, 146, 168
Wilberforce, Mr., vol. i. 4, 172
Wilberforce, Bishop, vol. ii. [149]
[Wilde], Sir Thomas (Lord Truro), vol. i. 467;
undertakes R. H.’s case before Parliament, 469, 480, 482, 483;
moves for Select Committee, 487;
congratulates R. H., vol. ii. [225]
Wilkes, John, vol. i. 40
William the Third, vol. ii. [261]
Williams, Mr., “a tradesman and a scholar,” vol. i. 52
Williams, Mr. (door-keeper to the House of Commons), vol. i. 352
Wilson, Mr., vol. ii. [213], [280], [293]
Wolseley, Sir Charles, vol. i. 149
Wolverhampton, vol. i. 34-8, 42, 46, 140, 282;
testimonial from, 363
Wood, Sir Charles (Viscount Halifax), vol. ii. [37], [43], [57], [73], [75], [87], [113], [114], [118], [121], [142],
[155], [156], [157], [173], [175], [176], [184], [213], [214], [215];
question of R. H.’s promotion, [72], [97], [165], [166], [168], [194], [196], [197], [200];
unreasonable demands, [100], [103], [104], [132]
Wood, Mr. John, vol. i. 315, vol. ii. [214]
Wrottesley, Lord, vol. ii. [244]
Y.
Yatton, vol. i. 307
Yorke, Hon. and Rev. Grantham, vol. ii. [128]
Yorkshire Penny Bank, vol. ii. [365]
Young, Mr. Thomas, vol. ii. [96]
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