Last woman burnt, 9 Lea, Provost, 4; Sarah (see Hill, Sarah); William, 4 Ledingham, Mr, 207 _Leeds Mercury_, the, 117, 226, 267 Lefevre, J. S. (First Lord Eversley), 19 Leitrim, 77 Letter, adventures of a, 148, 149 —— boxes, door, 106, 107, 131, 256 —— carriers, 41, 62, 63, 105, 106; improvement in lot of, 220, 253, 254, etc.; letter-carrier and footman, 254; amalgamation of two corps of, 255, 256; the right sort of men as, 258, 275 —— folding a fine art, 52 —— smuggling, 66-69, 121, 133 “Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge,” 60 “Letters of George Birkbeck Hill,” Mrs L. Crump, 112 Letters subjected to protective rates, 54; refused, mis-sent, etc., loss on, 62; no delivery before Dockwra's time, 74; losses of, 146, 147, 221; number of, after reform, 133, 165, 168, 169, 239; after extension of rural distribution, 255; sorted _en route_, 227; strangely addressed, 297, 298 Lewins, Mr, “Her Majesty's Mails,” 66 Lewis, Sir G. C. (See Chancellors of the Exchequer) Liberation of Intercourse, x., 125 Lichfield, Lord. (See Postmasters-General) “Lie Waste,” the, 11 “Life endurable but for its pleasures,” 219 “Life of Lord Granville,” Lord Fitzmaurice, 184 “Life of Sir Rowland Hill, and History of Penny Postage,” G. B. Hill, x., 38, etc. Limited Liability Act, the, 32 Lines, Mr, 162 Liverpool, 24, 39, 68, 83, 227, 294, 300, 301 _Liverpool Mercury_, the, 117, 295; _Post and Mercury_, 52 Lloyd, Mr Jas., 300 Local posts, 53, 74, 75, 76, 83, 84 Lombard Street office, 74 London and Brighton railway, 38, 182-184, 185 —— divided into postal districts by Dockwra, 74; by Rowland Hill, 255 ——, pop. one-tenth, correspondence, one-fourth of the United Kingdom, 255 _London School Magazine_, 17 London University, 130 Londonderry, 54 Long distance runs in the 'forties, 232 Longton, Staffordshire Potteries, 300 Lonsdale, Lord. (See Postmasters-General) “Lord Queen's Head,” 299 “Lord's Day Society's” mistaken action, 223 Lords of the Treasury, 190, 220 Losses of letters, etc., 146, 147, 220, 221, 271 Loughton, 50 Louis Philippe, King, 157 Louis XIV., 187 Lowther, Lord. (See Postmasters-General) Lubeck adopts postal reform, 251 Lyell, Sir Chas., 34 Lyon, Mr W., 301 Maberly, Colonel (Sec. to the P.O.) disapproves of postal reform, 121, 122, 150, 155, 173, 214, 215; Yates on, 154; commands at P.O. on “Chartist Day,” at time of Sunday labour question, 223; leaves P.O., 247; excellent appointments, 248 MacAdam, 85 Macaulay, 112, 114, 131, 226, 238, 273 Macdonald (_Times_), 22 Mackenzie family, the, 5 Madrid, 78 Mahony, Mr, M.P., 120 Mails, the, by land—coaches, 64, 79, 82-90, 98, 103, 170; railways, 109, 115, 122, 227, 240; cost of conveyance of, 109, etc., 230-235