——, Jas., 189-193 ——, P., 193, 194 “Chambers' Encyclopædia,” 192, 193 ——, Wm. and Robert, 31, 140 Chancellors of the Exchequer— Spring Rice (Lord Monteagle), 111, 135, 138, 145 Sir F. Baring, 138, 145, 149-153, 154, 160, 161, 162, 171 H. Goulburn, 173, 177 Sir Geo. Cornwall Lewis, 219 B. Disraeli, 247. (See also Disraeli) Gladstone, 268, 288, 289. (See also Gladstone) Chancery Lane, 21, 22 “Change of style, the,” 81 Channel Isles, 77, 156 Charing Cross and Brompton, postage between, 57 Charles II., 173 “Chartist Day,” 223, 224 Chaucer, 8, 260 Chester, 74 Chevalier, M., 159, 160 Cheverton, Mr, 198 Chile adopts postal reform, 251 China, war with, 176 Cholera at Haddington, 4 Christmas-boxes, 264 “Chronicles,” Second Book of, 72 Civil Service Commissioners and examinations, 257-261 —— war in the United States predicted, 230 Claimants to authorship of postal reform or postage stamps, 49, 53, 189-195 Clanricarde, Lord. (See Postmasters-General) Clark, Professor, 206 ——, Sir Jas., 34 ——, Thos., 7 Claude, 17, 33, 34 Clerks, duties of, under old system, 64 Coaches. (See Mail coaches) Cobden, R., 65, 109, 141; his letters to R. H., 143, 178 —— Club, 19 Coin-bearing letters, 270 Colby, General, 123 Colchester, Lord. (See Postmasters-General) Cole, Mr (Sir Henry), 114, 115, 190, 191, 198 Coleridge, S. T., 29, 60 Collection of postage in coin, 62, 63, 105 Colonial penny postage, 230 Colonies, the, 17, 188, 230 Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia, 19 Comet of 1858, the, 266 Commission on Packet Service, the, 235 —— on Railways, 291 —— to revise salaries of postal employees, 245, 246 Commissioners, Civil Service. (See Civil Service, etc.) —— of Inland Revenue, Reports of the, 63, 95 —— of Post Office Inquiry, the, 98, 99, 142, 196, 197 Committee of Inquiry (1788), 80 —— on Postage, the Select (1838), 42, 58, 65, 67-69, 103, 119, 121-130, 142, 169, 270; on Postage (1843), 142, 169 —— on canal and railway charges, 230, 231 Compulsory prepayment of postage, 269 Congestion at St Martin's-le-Grand, 256 Conservatives and Peelites, 247 Constantinople, 57 Conveyance of inland mails. (See Mails) Conway bridge, 54, 161 Cooke, Wm., R.A., 34, 300 Corn Laws, the, 81, 111, 141, 143, 169 Corporal punishment abolished at Hazelwood, 12 Correction “removed by order,” a, 175 Correspondence and building: should they agree in size? 121 Cost of conveyance of letters between London and Edinburgh, 103 Coulson, Mr, 34 Cowper, Mr E., 21 Cox, David, 18 Craik, Mrs (Mulock, Miss), 31 Creswick, Thos., R.A., 13, 34, 300 Crimean War, 140, 182 “Criminal Capitalists,” Edwin Hill, 95 Croker, J. W., 112 Cross-posts, the, 55 “Crowd” of petitions, a, 113 Crowe family, the, 30 Crump, Mrs Lucy, 112