Prime Ministers— Lord Melbourne, 111, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 139, 141, 144, 145, 171, 173, 291 Sir Robert Peel, 143, 177, 180, 181, 182, 184, 211 Lord John Russell, 211, 212, 280, 281, 296 —— Palmerston, 299 W. E. Gladstone, 289. (See also Chancellors of the Exchequer) Prince of Wales, the, 280, 299 Princess's portrait, a, 279 “Principles of Currency,” Edwin Hill, 95 Printing press, the rotatory, 21, 22, 71 Private penny post, M. de Valayer's, 157, 158, 186-188 Profitless expenditure, 51, 60-62, etc. Promotion by merit, 257, 258, 262 Prophecies and prophets, 80, 130 Protection applied to correspondence, 54, 161 Protestant despoiler, a, 88 Prussia adopts postal reform, 251 Public buildings barricaded, 224 “Public Education,” 14 Pulteney, Sir Wm., 66 _Punch_, 136, 180, 184, 299, 303-305 Pump, story of a, 146, 147 Puritans, the, 4, 6 _Quarterly Review_, the, 112, 187 Queen Adelaide, 19 —— Anne, 76 —— Caroline's trial, 87 —— Victoria, 39, 40, 64, 66, 119 Queen's head: postage stamp, 95, 167, 199, 205, 208, 294 Quincey, De, 16, 35 Radical Row, 144 Radnor, Lord, 113, 135 Raikes Currie, Mr, M.P., 120, 127 Railway, London and Brighton, etc. (See other headings) Railways, supersede coaches, 89, 109; conveyance of mails by train dearer than by coach, mails first go by rail (1838), 109; heavy subsidies to, 170, 171, etc.; sorting of letters on, 227, 228; applications made to, acceleration of night mails, companies demand increased payments, twenty-one separate contracts, trains limited to P.O. service, 231-235; improved communication, 257 Ramsey, Mr, 221 Rea, Mr E., 252 “Recollections and Experiences,” E. Yates, 154, 280, 285 Recovery of gross revenue, 122, 165 Reform Bill of 1832, the, 23, 98 “Reformer, the,” 195 Registrars' districts without post offices, 64, 65 Registration of letters, 99; fees, 178, 270 “Registration, The Transfer of Land by,” 19 Relays of horses, 82 Relief to Hong Kong officials, 228, 229 Rennie, Sir J., 261 Report of the Committee of Inquiry (1788), 80; of the Committee on Postage (1843), 169 Reports of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, 63, 95; of the Commissioners of Post Office Inquiry, 98, 196, 197; of the Select Committee on Postage (1838), 42, 58, 64, 65, 67, 69, 103, 123-126, 129, 130 “Results of Postal Reform,” 286, 307-311 Revenue from coaches, increase of, 102 ——, National, 72, 97 ——, Postal, 42, 43; in seventeenth century, 72, 73, 102, 108, 109, 122, 126, 165, 169, 175, 176, 252; foreign, 102, 156 Revolution, the French, of 1789, 14, 17; of 1848, 158, 221 Richmond, the Duke of, 137 Rintoul, R. S., the _Spectator_, 116, 117; his daughter, 117 Riots at Birmingham, 7 Ritchie, Mrs Richmond, 34 Roberts, David, R.A., 32