“Home Colonies and Extinction of Pauperism,” etc., 109; home colonies in Belgium and Holland, 109 Hong Kong post office, 228; clerks' holiday, 229 Honours, testimonials, etc., 294, 302 Hood, “Gentle Tom,” 178, 179 Hostility of P.O. (See Opposition, etc.) Hourly deliveries, 107 House of Commons, 43, 72, 96, 111, 113, 114, 116; Committee on Postage, 121-130; debates on Penny Postage Bill, 135, 138, 178, 224 House of Lords, 43, 96, 111, 136, 139; passes Penny Postage Bill, 141, 224 _Household Words_, 163, 266 Huddersfield, 268 “Hudibras,” 5 Huguenot Knight, Millais', 7 Hume, J., M.P., 133, 134, 212 Hungarian refugees, 37 “Hungry 'Forties,” the, 61, 169 Hunt, Leigh, 35, 110 Hutchinson, Mr, 234 Hydrographer to the Admiralty, the, 278 Iceland, 15 Iddesley, Lord. (See Northcote, Sir S.) Impetus to education and trade, 166-169 Improvement in locomotion, x. Improvements in Money Order system, account-keeping, holidays, 219; in life insurance and other funds, 219, 220; in lot of letter-carriers, sorters, etc., 253, 254, etc. Income, a poor man's daily, 42 Increase of employment, pay, and prosperity, 101; of postal expenditure, 109, 170, 171, 172; of deliveries, 256; of facilities and speed in conveyance, 69, 257 Indian Mutiny, the, 282; P.O. becomes self-supporting, 253 Indignation at R. H.'s dismissal, 177-179 Industrial emancipation, Gladstone on, vii., viii. Inglis, Sir R. H., M.P., 138 Inland letters most profitable part of P.O. business, 169 —— Revenue Board, the, 119, 188, 197 _Inquirer_, the, 297 “Intercourse, Liberation of,” x., 125 “Invasion of the Crimea, The,” Kinglakes, 35 Ireland, 44, 54, 66, 73, 74, 77, 133, 233 Irish famine, the, 81 —— haymakers and harvesters, 133 —— in Manchester, 65 Iron horse more formidable than foe on battlefield, 137 Jamaica Bill, the, 144 James II., 76, 77 Jansa, Herr, 37 Jefferson, President, 14 “John Halifax,” Miss Mulock, 31 John O' Groat's, 234 Johnson, post official, 84 ——, Dr, 112 Jones, Loyd (Lord Overstone), 39, 124 _Journal de St Pétersbourg, Le_, 252 Joyce, Mr Herbert, “The History of the Post Office,” 42, 45, 55, 56, 63, 70, 71, 72, 76, 92 Jubilee, Queen Victoria's first, 39 —— of the Uniform Penny Postage, 57, 120 Jullien, M., 14 Kaye, Sir J., 195 Keats, John, 29 Kelly, Messrs (“The London Directory”), 301 Kidderminster, 3, 7, 300, 303 King Edward's head (postage stamp), 199 Kinglakes, the, 35 Kinkel, Gottfried, 38 Knight, Charles, 32; publishes “Post Office Reform,” 96; first to propose use of impressed stamp, 107, 158, 168, 189 Kossuth, 37 Kubla Khan, 72 Lachine Rapids, 238 Labouchere, H. (Lord Taunton), 138 Lamb, Chas., 29 Lambeth, 76 Land's End, 234 Larousse, “_Dictionnaire du XIXe Siècle_,” 79, 186, 298 Larpent, Sir Geo., 296