Stanhope, Charles, 8, 17, 24. Stanhope, Lord John, 8, 10, 135. Stanley, Lord, 83-85, 203. Steamships. _See_ Sailing Packets, Steamships. Strangers' Post. _See_ Foreigners' Post. Sunday posts, 55, 79, 80. Tankerville, Earl of, 42-44. Telegraphs, cost to Government of, 205, 206, 208, 209; finances, 216, 218; government ownership proposed, 203-205; international agreement, 211-214; messages sent, 202, 215; monopoly, 207-208; press messages, 209, 217; private companies, 202, 203; railway interests in, 206, 207, 209; rates, 202, 203, 209, 210, 213; relations with Marconi Company, 213, 214; underground lines, 211. Telephones, call offices, 224, 227; exchange areas, 224; finances, 236; government, 220, 221, 225, 228; inter-communication, 224, 229, 232, 234; licences, 220-222, 224; municipal, 226, 228-230, 235; purchase agreement, 232 _et seq._; rates, 227, 230, 232, 234, 235; trunk lines, 221, 225; underground wires, 231, 232, 234; way-leave powers, 221, 223, 224, 232, 235. Threepenny Post, 52-54. Thurloe, 23, 24. Travellers' Post, 89; abuses by postmasters, 93; by travellers, 91, 91 note; trials of travellers, 91. Triple letters, 13 note. Tuke, Sir Brian, 4-7. Tweedmouth, Lord, 81. Tweedmouth settlement, 81, 82. Twopenny Post, 52-54, 149. Unions. _See_ Employees, Postal Unions. United Kingdom Telegraph Company, 203, 206, 208. United Telephone Company, 220, 222. Universal Private Telegraph Company, 208. Wages, 4, 6 note; arrears in, 8, 25, 92, 99. _See also_ Employees. Walpole, Spencer, 81. Ward, 87. Warwick, Earl of, 18, 19. White Star Steamship Company, 133. Windebank, 16, 17. Witherings, Thomas, 11, 13-19, 24, 111, 112, 135, 137, 138. York, Duke of, 25, 30. The Riverside Press PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON & CO. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. U. S. A. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of the British Post Office, by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon