“Post Office Reform,” 40, 63, 64, 99, 101, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, 143, 192, 196, 213 —— —— Savings Bank, the, 220, 267 —— —— surveyors, the, 222 —— Offices, etc., great increase in number of, 156 —— ——, Registrars' districts without, 64, 65 —— officials fear increase of business, 121 Postage “single,” “double,” “treble,” etc., 49-52, 55, 57 —— stamps, 49, 51, 53; impressed and embossed, 95; description of adhesive, 107, 135, 160; delay in issue, 170; their collection, misleading accounts in the “Encyclopædia Britannica,” and elsewhere, 185-193, etc.; envelopes, M. de Valayer's private post, 186; doings of Sardinian P.O., 187; stamps on newspaper wrappers, 107, 158, 189; stamps useless without uniformity of rate and prepayment, 189, etc.; R. H.'s proposals, 196, 198, etc.; adhesive stamps recommended in “Post Office Reform,” and “Ninth Report of the Commissioners of Post Office Inquiry,” official approval of prepayment by stamps, 196; Treasury invites public to send in designs, results disappointing, why monarch's portrait was chosen, 199; precautions against forgery, 197-199; description of stamp-making, 200; Messrs Perkins & Co. make stamps first forty years of new system, are succeeded by Messrs De La Rue, stock nearly destroyed by fire, 201; changes of colour, 201, 208; why issue delayed, 202; eagerly adopted when issued, where to stick Queen's head? anecdotes, 203; uncancelled stamps, the Mulready envelope, 204; cleaning off obliterations, 205-208; public interested, many experiments and suggestions, 206, 207; the black penny becomes red, 208; public prefer adhesive to embossed, absurd fables, 209 _Postal Circular_, the, 251 Postal contribution to war-tax, the, 47, 55, 76 —— districts, London divided into, 74, 255 _Postal Guide_, the _British_, 251 Postal Parliament, a, 222 —— rates. (See Postage “single,” etc., and other headings) —— reform and reformers, 70-90, 100, 108, 127, 129, 144, 180, etc. —— revenue. (See Revenue, etc.) —— Service, advantages of, 254 —— Union, the, 276 Postmaster-General on crutches, a, 221 Postmasters-General— Lord Lichfield, 120, 139 —— Lowther, 120, 178, 182 —— Clanricarde, 212, 213, 214, 215-219, 224, 229, 230, 280 —— Hardwicke, 247, 248, 268, 286, 281 —— Canning, xi., 181, 235, 281, 282, 284 Duke of Argyll, 184, 234, 241, 259, 283 Lord Colchester, 220, 238, 267, 283 —— Elgin, 283, 284, 299 A later Postmaster-General, 284, 285 Postmen. (See Letter-carriers) Potatoes at Kidderminster, 3, 7 Prepayment of postage, 49, 105, 106, 107, 124, 160, 162, 189, 196, 202, 203, 228, 268, 269, 270 Press-gang, the, 10, 11 Press, the, generally favours postal reform, 116; on R. H.'s dismissal, 177. (See also newspapers) Priestley, Joseph, 6, 7