_London Gazette_, 113, 114 London Penny Post, 183, 247, 342 London Threepenny Post, 252 London Twopenny Post, 252 Loss on certain branches of Post Office business, _see_ Deficit Maberley, Colonel, 29, 184 Magazine Post to Canada, 346 Magazines, transmission by post, 150, 152, 154, 155, 159, 346 Mail-coach, introduction of, 21 Mail matter, classification of, 75, 152, 191, 244 Mail order business, 196 _Maîtres de poste_, 37, 39 Manley, John, 13, 383 _Maryland Journal_, 65 Master of the Posts, 2, 12 Menai Bridge, additional rate for, 339 Merchant Adventurers, 8 Merchant Companies, 8 _Mercurius Publicus_, 112 Military post routes, 40, 42, 43 Millerand, A., 92, 93 Monopoly, postal, 7, 9,13, 60, 80, 255, 259, 325, 330, 340, 358, 380-4 Monsell, W., 133 Muddiman, Henry, 112, 113 Mulock, Sir William, 57, 146, 147 Murray, Robert, 247 Neale, Thomas, 60, 62, 391-8 Net revenue, _see_ Revenue, net New England colonies, 59 Newsbooks, 111, 112 Newsletters, 111 Newspaper rate, _see_ Rates of postage Newspaper Stamps, Select Committee on, 1851, 122, 127 Newspaper supplements, 171, 172, 181 Newspapers, average weight of, 132, 142, 308; cost of transmission, 175, 176; franking of, 148; free transmission of, 51, 56, 57, 139, 140, 142, 143, 144; "class," 124, 125; political, 167, 168; provincial (protected), 142, 146, 150, 151, 166, 169, 177; transient, 137, 152 Nicholas, Sir Edward, 113 North German Union, 108, 213, 214, 228, 257 _Nuncii_, 1, 2, 377 Old Age Pensions, payment of, 357 Open post, 222, 320 note Oxenbridge, Clement, 13 _Oxford Gazette_, 113, 114 Pacific mails, 75 Packet post, _see_ Post for the packet Packet postage, 339 Page, W. J., 49, 52 Palmer, John, 20 Paper duty, 117, 119 _Papiers d'affaires_, 93, 239 Parcel Post, international, 185, 204, 206, 277; local, 207, 208; loss on, 190, 219, 295, 334 Parcel Post Act, 1882, 188, 288 Parcel rate, _see_ Rates of postage Parcels, cost of transportation, 188, 218, 219, 311, 321, 325, 331; average weight of, 33, 190, 216, 325 Paris, University of, 78, 79 _Parliamentary Intelligencer_, 112 Parnell, Sir Henry, 24 Pattern Post, _see_ Rates of postage (samples) Penalty frank, 192 Penny Post (London), 183, 247, 342 Penny posts (local), 250 Penny postage, uniform, introduction of, 23 Penrose Overstreet Commission, 156, 157 Periodicals, transmission by post, 150, 152, 154, 155, 159 Pitt, William, 21, 344 Political newspapers, 167, 168 _Poor Man's Guardian_, 120 Popish Plot, 14