Stamps and Taxes (Inland Revenue) Office, 119, 188, 197 ——, postage. (See Postage stamps) Stanfield, Clarkson, R.A., 32, 300 Stanley Gibbons & Co., Messrs, 201 —— of Alderley, Lord, 284, 285 Stationery and walking-sticks, 272 Statues at Birmingham, Kidderminster, and London, 300 Steamship Co.'s. (See Packet Service) Stephenson, Geo., 110, 260 Stockholm, 14 “Story of Gladstone's Life, The,” 133 Stow & Co., 217 Stowe, John, 1 Stracheys, the, 5 Strangely addressed letters, 297, 298 Street letter-boxes, 147, 156, 187 _Sun_, the, 226 Sunday labour relief measures, 222-227 Survivals of the Old System, 255 Sweden, 14, 251 Swift, Dean, 52 Swindon, 266 Switzerland adopts postal reform, 251 Symondses, the, 2, 4, 5 Taunton, Lord. (See Labouchere, Mr) “Taxes on knowledge,” 47, 97, 189 “Taxing” letters, 49, 105, 106, 116, 125 Taylor, R. (Marian martyr), 294 Telegraphs, State purchase of, 267, 268, 293 Telford, 85, 261 Tentative fourpenny rate, 133, 161 Tenth January 1840, scene at the General Post Office, 162 Testimonials and honours, 294-302 Tettenhall Road and the culvert, 23 Thackeray, 30, 31, 34, 35, 83 Thayer, M., 221 Theft, story of a, 274 “There go the Corn Laws!” 141 “Thesaurus, The,” Dr Roget, 35 Thompson, Colonel Perronet, 143, 225 —— Sir H., 34 Thomson, Poulett, M.P. (Lord Sydenham), 120, 128 Thornley, Mr Thos., M.P., 24, 120 Throckmorton, Mr, 24 Thurso, 54 Tichborne claimant, the, 194 Tilly, Sir J., 284 _Times_, the, 116, 129, 216, 226 Tipping the little Hills with gold, 184 Torn coat, two stories of a, 297 Torrens, Colonel, 19 ——, Sir R., 19 Tottenham, 14 Travelling in France in the 'thirties, 158 —— post offices, 92, 227, 228 Travers, Mr J., 115 Treasury, the, invites public to send in designs for stamps, 194, 197, 249, 251, 286 Trevelyan, Sir Chas., 245 —— Sir Geo., 273 Trial by jury at school, 12 Tripolitan ambassador, the, 14 Trollope, Anthony, 277, 278 Turner, J. W. M., R.A., 18, 33, 34 Tuscany adopts postal reform, 251 Twenty-one separate contracts, 234 Two sympathetic door-keepers, 135, 136 “Two Letters,” Gladstone's famous, 37 Two thousand petitions, 113 Twopenny post, the, 84, 161, 255 —— rate, proposed and carried, 129 Tyburn, 46 Tyson, Mr, 52 Umbrella, story of an, 33 Unclaimed money and valuables, 219, 220 Uniformity of postal rates, 105, 108, 125, etc. “Union of my children has proved their strength, the,” 94 —— Steamship Co., the, 236 United States, 56; mails to, 68, 69; civil war predicted, 230; adopts postal reform, 251, 252 Unjust accusations, P.O., 272 Unpaid letters in 1859, 269 Uselessness of postage stamps before 1840, 49, etc. Valayer, M. de, 157, 158, 186-188 Vases from Longton, 300 Vaughan, Dr, 225 Victorian women, the early, 117, 118