Ellis, Mr Wm., 115 Elmore, A., R.A., 34 Emery, Mr, his evidence, 124 Emigrants and emigrant ships, 20 Employees, number of, in London, 259 “Encyclopædia Britannica,” the (ninth edition), mistakes in article on Post Office, 186-189, 193, 196, 201 “Engaged to marry your Prince of Wales,” 279 England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland, letters in, 66, 138. (See also Number of letters) Envelopes, 51, 52, 186, 187 Eothen, 35 Episode of a wedding ring, 302 Epping, 50 Ericsson, 262 “Essays of a Birmingham Manufacturer” (Sargent), 16 “Esther, The Book of,” 72 Estlin, Mr J., 297 Etymology, lecture on, 266 Euclid's Elements, 5 Evasions, losses, and thefts, 57-60, 66-69, 106, 146, 147, 272-275 Every division should be self-supporting, 125 Examinations, Civil Service, 257-261 Exchange of bags apparatus (Docker's), 239, 240 Excursion and express trains, etc., 183 Executions outside Newgate, 10 Expenditure, increase of, 109, 170-172 Extension of penny postage to Colonies, 230 Facilitating life insurance for staff, 219 “Facts and Estimates as to the Increase of Letters,” 135 Faggot vote, a new kind of, 3 “Fallacious return,” the, 174 Faraday, 206, 207 “Feats on the Fiords,” 15 Fergusson, Sir Wm., 34 Field, Mr E. W., 32 “Fifty Years of Public Life,” 198 Fire at Hazelwood, 18 First letter posted under new system, 162 Fitzgerald, Lord, 175 Fitzmaurice, Lord, 184 Foot and horse posts, 79 Footman prefers public to domestic service, 254 Forchammer, Professor, 279, 280 Ford, Onslow, R.A., 300 Foreign letters, reduction in postage of, 165; foreign postal revenues, 156, 252, 253 —— pupils, 14 Forging gun barrels, 10 Forster, Mr M., M.P.; Mr J., M.P., 36 Forth bridge, the, 261 Forty miles an hour, 232 Four ounces weight limit, 108 France, 14, 18, 35, 36, 79, 87; old postal system, 155-157; travelling in during the 'thirties, 158; adopts postal reform, 251, 266 Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, 37 Francis, Mr J. C., 93, 95 Franco-German War, the, 265 Frankfort adopts postal reform, 251 Franking system, the, 42-44, 45, 48, 49, 100, 107; proposed return to, 211 Franklin Expedition, the, 40 Frauds and Evasions. (See evasions, etc.) Freedom of the City of London, 301 Free library, etc., at Wolverhampton, 25; at Hampstead, 33 —— trade and protection, ix., x., 24, 101 —— traders favour postal reform, 140 Fremantle, Sir T., 120 French Post Office, the, 155-158, 221 —— revolutions. (See Revolution, etc.) Frenchman, a brave, 265 Fry, Elizabeth, 117 Funeral of the Duke of Wellington, 239 Gallenga, 37 Galton, Sir D., 235, 267 Garibaldi, 37, 278, 279 Gavin, Dr, 253 _Gazette_, the, 261 George I., 74; III., 47, 188 German Postal Union, the, 252 Germany, street letter-boxes in, 156 Gibbets, 11 Gibraltar, 56