Postal contribution to war-tax, the, 47, 55, 76
—— districts, London divided into, 74, 255
—— rates. (See Postage “single,” etc., and other headings)
—— reform and reformers, 70-90, 100, 108, 127, 129, 144, 180, etc.
Postmasters-General— Lord Lichfield, 120, 139 —— Lowther, 120, 178, 182 —— Clanricarde, 212, 213, 214, 215-219, 224, 229, 230, 280 —— Hardwicke, 247, 248, 268, 286, 281 —— Canning, xi., 181, 235, 281, 282, 284 Duke of Argyll, 184, 234, 241, 259, 283 Lord Colchester, 220, 238, 267, 283 —— Elgin, 283, 284, 299 A later Postmaster-General, 284, 285
Prepayment of postage, 49, 105, 106, 107, 124, 160, 162, 189, 196, 202, 203, 228, 268, 269, 270
Press, the, generally favours postal reform, 116; on R. H.'s dismissal, 177. (See also newspapers)
Prime Ministers— Lord Melbourne, 111, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 141, 144, 145, 171, 173, 291 Sir Robert Peel, 143, 177, 180, 181, 182, 184, 211 Lord John Russell, 211, 212, 280, 281, 296 —— Palmerston, 299 W. E. Gladstone, 289. (See also Chancellors of the Exchequer)
Private penny post, M. de Valayer's, 157, 158, 186-188
Protection applied to correspondence, 54, 161
Queen's head: postage stamp, 95, 167, 199, 205, 208, 294
Railway, London and Brighton, etc. (See other headings)
Railways, supersede coaches, 89, 109; conveyance of mails by train dearer than by coach, mails first go by rail (1838), 109; heavy subsidies to, 170, 171, etc.; sorting of letters on, 227, 228; applications made to, acceleration of night mails, companies demand increased payments, twenty-one separate contracts, trains limited to P.O. service, 231-235; improved communication, 257
“Recollections and Experiences,” E. Yates, 154, 280, 285
Registrars' districts without post offices, 64, 65
Registration of letters, 99; fees, 178, 270
“Registration, The Transfer of Land by,” 19
Report of the Committee of Inquiry (1788), 80; of the Committee on Postage (1843), 169
Reports of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, 63, 95; of the Commissioners of Post Office Inquiry, 98, 196, 197; of the Select Committee on Postage (1838), 42, 58, 64, 65, 67, 69, 103, 123-126, 129, 130
——, Postal, 42, 43; in seventeenth century, 72, 73, 102, 108, 109, 122, 126, 165, 169, 175, 176, 252; foreign, 102, 156