The effect of these combined measures is most strongly exemplified in the service to the Cape of Good Hope and Natal; the loss on which was reduced in six years from about £28,000 to about £5,400 per annum. In short, I believe that the large annual loss involved in the foreign and colonial packet service was actually reduced during the time that the department was in my brother's hands by more than £200,000; £100,000 being saved by reduced expenditure, and the like sum gained by increased yield from the correspondence; while the cost to the British taxpayer was further diminished by the extension of arrangements previously adopted for calling upon the colonies, once exempt from all expense of transmission, to bear their just share of the charge. _Increased Punctuality._ Whilst thus successfully striving for increased economy, my brother also took measures for improving the service. By a system of exact accounts he obtained quarterly tables showing at a glance how each line of packets stood with respect to punctuality, together with the length of its quickest and of its slowest voyage; so as to have ground of comparison with subsequent performances. He also introduced into all new contracts a stipulation for penalties to be levied in cases of over time. Lastly, while the Annual Report was in his hands, he was careful that, whenever a service was performed with great credit, the Postmaster-General's Annual Report should contain due notice of the fact. The directors showed the value they attached to such recognitions by quoting them in their reports to the shareholders. To complete this matter, I may here state that so striking was the effect gradually produced by these various measures, that, in the last quarter during which the department was under my brother's superintendence, viz., that ending September 30th, 1867, there were, as I learn, only twenty instances of a packet arriving after its time; while those of arrival before time were no less than two hundred and twenty-seven. _Large Expenditure Prevented._