Crusaders and others, 40, 41 Cubitt, Sir Wm., 235, 240 Cupar-Fife, testimonial from, 295 _Daily News_, the, 30 _Daily Packet List_, the, 251 Darian Scheme, the, 238 Davenport, Mrs, 4 Davy's, Sir H., mother and Penzance, 31 “Dead” letters, 220; auction sale at office of, 271 Deal, 44 Debating society, a youthful, 9 “De Comburendo Heretico” Act, 81 Decrease of price: increase of consumption, 101, 104 —— of prosecutions for theft, 83, 219 Definition of local penny post area, 75, 76 Degree of D.C.L. (Oxon.), 299 De La Rue & Co., Messrs, 95, 201 Deliveries, acceleration and greater frequency of, 256 “Denis Duval,” Thackeray, 83 Denman, Lord, 36 Denmark adopts postal reform, 251 Deputation to Lord Melbourne, 133, 134 Deputy Comptroller of the Penny Post, 84 Designs for postage stamps, 197 _Détenu_, a, 35 Dickens, Chas., 31, 163, 164, 277 “Dickinson” paper, the, 197 “Dictionary of National Biography,” the, 192, 193 “_Dictionnaire du XIXe Siècle_,” 79, 186, 298 Dilke, C. W., antiquary, journalist, etc., 29 Dillon, Mr (Messrs Morrison and Dillon), 115 Dining in hall, 31 Discontent at P.O., 262-265; at tentative rate, 162 “Discourse on Our Digestive Organs,” a, 132 “Dismal Science,” the, 28 Disraeli, B. (Lord Beaconsfield), viii., 247 Distribution an only function, 106 Districts, London divided into, 74, 255 Docker's mail-bags exchange apparatus, 239 Dockwra, Wm., postal reformer, 71; inventor of local penny posts, introduces delivery of letters, divides city and suburbs into postal districts, opens over 400 receiving offices, introduces parcel post, etc., his rates lasting till 1801, then raised to swell war-tax, 74, 75; falls victim to Duke of York's jealousy, loses situation, ruined by law-suit, pensioned, pension revoked, he sinks into poverty, 76; his penny post falls upon evil days, 83; remarks on his dismissal, 80, 179, 213 Dodd, Rev. Dr, 46 Donati's comet, 266 Dover Castle, 18 Doyle, Sir A. C., “The Great Shadow,” 10 Drayton Grammar School, 1 Dubost, M., 157 Dublin, 83, 206, 228 Dudley, 50 Duncannon, Lord, 138, 139, 141 Duncombe, T., M.P., 114, 212 Dundee, 189, 190, 191, 250 Dunoon, 297 Duty stamp on newspapers, 46, 47, 95 Eagerness for postal reform among the poor, 124 Eclipse, Mr Wills and the, 266 Economy, how best secured, 253 Edgeworth, Maria, 34, 35, 163 Edinburgh, 54, 58, 59; one letter to, 66, 78, 83, 85; cost of letter conveyance to, 103; a mail-coach's postal burden, 115, 116, 233; postal revenue larger than that of Portugal, 252 _Edinburgh Review_, the, 112 Edison, 261 Education, impetus given to, 166-168 Edwards, Mr E., 15 Egerton-Smith, Mr, 295 Egypt, postal rates to, 56 Eight hours movement, an, 253 Elcho, Lord, 245 Elgin, Lord. (See Postmasters-General)