offered appointment on the South-Western Railway, 24; receives the national testimonial, 29; takes the longest holiday he had ever known, 38; offered appointment as secretary to the Postmaster-General, 39; letter to Mr. Hawes, 43; accepts the appointment, 45; enters upon office, 47; encounters obstructions, 49; snowed-up, 52; speech at Liverpool, 53; undertakes Money Order Department, 56; visits Bristol, 57; assists at the Treasury, 59; vexations tell upon his health, 60; encounters unpopularity in the office, 63; proposes a book post; also a system of promotion, 65; proposes railway legislation, 66; reforms Money Order Office, 70, 178; resists an offensive minute, 73; a special constable, 84; establishes book post, 87; claims promotion, 95-106; reduces Sunday labour, 108; his measure for transmission of "forward letters," 110; receives deputation from Lord's Day Society, 113; attacked by Sabbatarians; treachery in the Post Office, 115; objects to the use of compulsion, 120; slandered by Lord's Day Society, 129; complete success of his measure, 135; device for railway sorting, 137; establishes meeting of surveyors, 140; reports on demand for total abolition of Sunday labour, 145; visits Glasgow and Greenock, 148; defended by the _Times_, 151; Lord Ashley's motion, 155; health again failing, 163; claims promotion, 164; consults Mr. Cobden and Mr. Hume, 166; interview with Sir C. Wood, 169; asks for appointment of Mr. F. Hill as assistant-secretary, 170; his father's death, 176; his limited staff of clerks, 177; proposes a commission for revising salaries, 184; manages the Railway Department, 193; seeks Mr. Cobden's aid; visits towns in West Riding, 194; claims promotion, 196; consults his friends in Parliament, 198; "a mysterious allusion in Mr. Cobden's letter," 199; Lord Hardwicke Postmaster-General, 203; Court-dress, 207; discussion with Lord Hardwicke, 209; does not expose his lordship's spelling, 210; Tory ministry thrown out, 211; Lord Canning Postmaster-General, 213; letter to Lord Canning, 215; promotion or resignation, 217; dangerous state of health, 219; meets Mr. Gladstone, 222; sole secretary, 224; proposes railway legislation, 227; accelerates northern mails, 231; replies to attacks, 235; his minute on the true revenue of the Post Office, 238; reduces Colonial postage, 241; his evidence before the Commission for Revising Salaries, 246; upholds promotion by merit; dislikes competitive examinations, 249; purchase of telegraphs, 251; accelerates deliveries in London district, 258, 272; arranges secretarial duties, 264; establishes conference of secretary and assistant-secretaries, 265; gives more power to the heads of departments, 266;