Bradlaugh, Charles, intervenes for promotion of eleven men passed over, 283-85, 296, 305 Breakdown, Causes of, 217n Bribery, Personal, replaced by class, 246, 382 British and Irish Magnetic Company reported shilling rate unremunerative, 33 British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company formed, 39-40; messages carried by, and receipts, 50-51; Government purchase of, 58 British Telegraph Company, 39-40 British telegraphy, History of, 37-41 Brodrick, Thomas, member of Bradford Committee, 213, 214 Brown, R. H., Interference for, 296 Burbridge, R., member of Bradford Committee, 213, 214 Business methods not applicable in State service, 215, 222, 229-30 Business ventures, State control of, an untenable doctrine, 378, 390-91 Buxton, Sydney, moved a Select Committee on Post Office Servants, 241-42; on case of T. Reilly, 308; on number of applications by members of the Commons, 316 Cable between Dover and Calais, 39 Cameron, Dr. Charles of Glasgow, and rates for messages, 5; resolution offered by, 105n; remarks on, 105-7; opposed, 107; on increase of business without increase of cost, 107-8; his resolution passed, 108; increase of mileage and operators under, 108; Bill to give effect to, and results, 108-10; argument of, 380 Campbell, John, Intervention by, to reopen case eight years old, 314 Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, on election pledges, 10, 242-43 Capital, Very little new, invested after 1865, 40-41 Capital invested, how raised, 89; sums on which revenue would have paid interest, 90, 104 Cavendish, Lord Frederick, debate on Fawcett revision of wages, 132; letter on agitation in postal service for increased wages, 133-34 Chamberlain, Joseph Austen, on promotions and concessions, 203-5; would not throw responsibility on House of Commons, 206-7; had personally considered all complaints made to him, 207; petty grievances, 208-9; members had asked him to protect them from pressure of employees, 209; opposed to thrusting details on a Committee, 210; proposed to get advice of business men on scale of wages of four classes, 210; names the Bradford Committee, 213; asks for a non-party vote, 234-36; replies to Mr. Nannetti's interventions, 293-94; on decentralization of administration in Post Office, 318-20, 383-84; rule for making applications, 319-20; on wages of postmen at Newton Abbott, 329; refuses to force retirements, 339; on duties of secretaries of the Treasury, 361-62; on pressure for expenditure, 368-69 Chambers of Commerce, British, Demands of, for lower charges on telegraphic messages, 3-4, 81; agitation by, for State purchase of telegraph properties, 13 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Influence of, weakened, 364, 384-85 Charges, lower, and better service, Promise of, 19; irrespective of distance, 19