Robespierre's Secretary, 14 “Robinson Crusoe,” 5 Roebuck, J. A., M.P., 36, 43 Rogers, S., “the banker poet,” 32 Roget, Dr, “The Thesaurus,” 35 Romance in a culvert, 23; in a coach, 89, 90 Romantic lawsuit, a, 159, 160 Romilly, Sir S., 10 “Rowland Hill Benevolent Fund, The,” 302 “Rowland Hill: where he is,” 298 Rufini, 37 Rural distribution, 166, 167, 170, 172, 255 Russell, Lord John (Earl Russell), 36, 134, 135, 205. (See also Prime Ministers) Russia adopts postal reform, 251, 252; number of letters in 1855, 253 S. G. O.'s Letters, 169 Sabden, 65 Sabine, Sir E., 34 St Alban's and Watford mails, 227 St Colomb, Cornwall, 71 St Helena, Napoleon at, 27, 28 St Martin's-le-Grand, 153, 154, 163, 228, 243, 248, 250, 253, 256, 262, 263-265, 277, 293 St Peter, 279 St Priest, M., 158 Salisbury, Lady, 141 Saltney, Gladstone at, 289 San Francisco, 57 Sardinia, 187, 188, 251 Sargent, Mr. W. L., 16 Saturday night deliveries, 227 Savages in England, 11 Savings Bank. (See Post Office, etc.) Saxony adopts postal reform, 251 Say, three generations, 158 Scholefield, Mr, M.P., 113 Schoolmistress, an ill-informed, 294 Scotland, 54, 66, 73, 74, 297 _Scotsman_, the, 117 Scott, Sir Benjamin, 302 ——, Sir Walter, 50, 66, 78, 79, 99, 295, 296 Secretary to the P.O., Scotland, 211 “Sedition made easy,” 112 “Seminaries of Useless Knowledge,” 294 Settembrini, 37 Seven miles an hour! Preposterous! 79 Seymour, Lord (Duke of Somerset), 120, 128, 138 Shaftesbury, Lord, 48 Sheffield, near Rotherham, 84 Sherman, Mr, 293 Shiel, Mr, 114 Shrewsbury, 2 Siberia, postal rates to, 57 Sibthorpe, Colonel, M.P., 136 Sikes, Sir Chas., 267 Simplicity _versus_ complications, 105 Smeaton, 261 Smith, Mr B., M.P., 36 “Smith, John,” and friend's fraud, 58, 60, 69 ——, Mr J. B., M.P., 36, 143 ——, Southwood, Dr, 28 ——, Sydney, 1, 89, 131 Smithfield and the martyrs, 157 Smuggling letters, 66-69, 121, 133 Smyth, Admiral, 34 Snooks! 203 “Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,” the, 139 —— of Arts, the, 299 “Some Memories of Books,” a story from, 59 Somerset House, 94, 95 Somerville, Mary, 117 Sorters, improvement in their lot, 253, 254 Sorting in travelling post offices, 92, 227, 228 Southampton, the press-gang at, 11 South Australian Commission, the, 19, 148 —— Kensington Museum, the, 191, 302 South-Western Railway Co.'s offer, 215 Spain, 14; adopts postal reform, 251, 252 Spanish gentlemen to the rescue, 29 _Spectator_, the, 116 Spencer, Herbert, 261, 262 Spirits called from the vasty deep, 293 Spring Rice. (See Chancellors of the Exchequer) Spy, taken for a, 18 Squire's firewood, the, 3 Stamp obliteration, 241 —— Office _versus_ P.O., 202 “Stamped covers, stamped paper, andstamps to be used separately,” 197