APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XXIV.
Soldiers’ Letters. Colonial and Foreign Posts, 310—Street Nomenclature and House Numbering, 311—Early History of the Post Office, 312—Improvement in Accounts. Number of Offices, 313—Number of Letters. Returned Letters, 314—Registration, 315—Soldiers’ Remittances. Extension of Money Order System to Colonies, 316—Transference of Management of Colonial Post Offices. Foreign Posts, 317—United States, 318—Mr. Pliny Miles, 319—Treaties made easily Terminable, 320.
CHAPTER XXV.
[DISCONTENTS IN THE OFFICE (1855-9).]
Demands for higher Wages, 321—“Civil Service Gazette,” 322—Letter-carriers—Eligibility of their Position, 324—Christmas-boxes, 325—Mutinous Meeting, 326—Threats of Assassination, 327—A familiar Acquaintance, 328.
CHAPTER XXVI.
[MISCELLANEOUS PROCEEDINGS FROM 1855 TO 1859.]
Postal Guide and Postal Official Circular, 329—Date Stamps. Mr. Pearson Hill’s Stamping Machine, 330—Mr. C. W. Sikes and the Post Office Savings Banks, 331—Salaries, 333—Volunteer Corps, 334—Compulsory Prepayment, 335—Parcels Post. Tubular Conveyance, 336—Inventors, 339—Telegraph Tube Service, 340—Mr. R. Stephenson, 341—Postage on Newspapers, 342—The Times, 344—Mr. Gladstone, 345—Serious Illness, 346—Plan for distributing Newspapers, 347—Wreck of the “Violet” Mail-packet, 349—The Bey of Tunis. Number of Letters posted in Russia and Manchester. The last Attack on Penny Postage, 350—Government Franking, 351.