examined by Commission to revise postal employees' salaries, 245; good work done by Commission, 246; Conservatives and Peelites, R. H. becomes Secretary to the P.O., 247; his love of organisation, 248; encourages staff to independence of opinion: excellent results, new post offices erected and old ones improved, provision against fire made, building, etc., transferred to Board of Works: consequent increase of expenditure, 249; publication of “Annual Reports” begins, 250; minor reforms made, postal reform adopted by many countries, 251, 252; R. H. advocates economy by better organisation, a medical officer appointed, 253; secures better terms for employees 253, 254; his doctor's footman, 254; London divided into districts, 255; R. H. on Civil Service examinations, 257-261; era of peace, discontent and threatening anonymous letters, libels by dismissed officials, worse threats, R. H.'s coolness, uneasiness of colleagues, 262-265; lecture on the annular eclipse, 266; P.O. volunteer corps, is introduced to inventor of Post Office Savings Bank scheme, 267; reform by gradual instalments, 268; compulsory prepayment of postage, 268, 269; again recommends parcel post, pattern post established, registration fee reduced, and compulsory prepayment at last obtained, 270; decrease of losses, tricks and evasions, 271; old opponents friends, Messrs Bokenham, Page, etc., 275-277; R. H. and Garibaldi, 278; R. H. and a Danish professor, 279; on successive Postmasters-General, 280-285; final breakdown in health, resignation, 285; pen-portraits and appreciations, 286-289; letters of sympathy, 290; joins Royal Commission on Railways, his early lesson in Astronomy, prepares his autobiography, 291; his remarks on own career, 292; his spirit at a _séance_, 293; honours, testimonials, etc., 294-302; two stories of a torn coat, 297; strange addresses, “Mr Owl O'Neill,” etc., 298; vases from Longton, pictures from Liverpool, statues, etc., 300; photographs, etc., presentation of the Freedom of the City of London, 301; death, his two noblest monuments, two Jubilee celebrations, 302; his fittest epitaph, 303-305; “Results of Postal Reform,” 286, 307-311 Hill, Sarah (Lea), 4, 7, 8, 10 —— —— (Symonds), 4, 6 ——, Thos. Wright, 5, 6, 7, 10, 15, 16, 17, 94, 138, 291, 297 “Hillska Scola,” a, 14 Hinks, Rev. Wm., 297 “History of England, The,” Macaulay, 238 “History of Our Own Times, The,” Justin M'Carthy, 75, 92, 133 “History of the Post Office, The,” H. Joyce, 42, 45, 55, 56, 63, 70, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76, 92 “History of the Thirty Years' Peace, The,” H. Martineau, 40, 41 Hodnet, Shropshire, 1 Hoffay, Mr, 245 Hogarth, 81 Holland, 109. (See also Netherlands) Holyhead, 54, 233