Boy messengers— Qualifications, 339 Explanations, 341-346 Bradshaw, 231 Bright's Bell, 155 Brighton, 75, 99, 100 Brindisi, 215 Brisbane, 216 Bristol, 21, 279, 280 _Britannia_, 213 British Central Africa— Postal Service, 255 Postmaster's duties, 257 British Islands packet services, 217 British Post Offices abroad, 205 Brontë, Charlotte, 67 Brussels, 191 “Bull and Mouth,” 27, 50 Bullion, carriage of, 209 Burdett, Sir Francis, 34 Burravoe, 81 Buxton, Right Hon. Sydney, M.P., 201, 262 Cable conveyors, 60 Cadiz, 81 Cairo, 215 Calais, 220 Caledonian Railway, 73 Camels as carriers of mails, 246, 254 _Campania_, 213 Campbell, Lord, 23 Campbeltown, 285 Canada— Parcel Post, 84 Money Orders, 131 Imperial Penny Post, 258 Canary Islands, 237 Cape Colony— Money Orders, 131 Ocean mail service, 214, 216 Post Office stones, 255 Cape Grisnez, 191 Card system for accounts, 244 Cardiff, 279 Carlisle, 75 Cash on Delivery System, 253 Cats in Post Office, 95 _Central News Agency_, 165 Central Telegraph Office— Building, 67 Transmitting centre, 159 First office, 161 Interior, 163 Sunday arrangements, 169 Staff, 173 Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, M.P., 51, 247, 263 Channel Fleet, letters to, 116 Channel Islands— Cable to, 156 Mail service, 218 Chesham, 104 China— Mails to, 220 Post Office, 244 Articles refused, 328 _Christian World_, 298 Christ's Hospital, 58 Civil Service, secret of success in, 272 Clerical Establishment, 268 Clerks of the Roads, 45, 125 Clifden, 178 Cloak Lane, 43 Coaches, 22 Coaching inns, 98 Coin by post, 125, 127 Coke, Lady Mary, 304 Coldbath Fields Prison, 85 Coleridge, S. T., 33 Colonial Office, 51 Compensation, 59 Comptroller and Accountant-General, 265 Concentrator switches, 168 _Connaught_, 218 Consols— Popularisation of, 140 Amount held in Post Office, 141 Facilities for purchase, 141 Reduction of interest on, 143 Constantinople, 84, 130, 328 Continental Mail, 75, 222 Cooke, 155 Cornwall, 75 Cowper, William, 21 “Creed” system, 155, 166 Crimean War, 130 Cuba, 328 Cunard Company, 212 _Daily Mail_, 108, 193 _Daily Telegraph_, 245 Date stamping, 61 _David Copperfield_, 281 Dead Letter Office, 109, 118 Deal, 33 Denmark, 328 De Quincey, Thomas, 28, 102 De Saint Marceaux, 230 Diamond Jubilee Reforms, 84, 246, 258 Dickens, Charles, 28 Dickson, Mrs. Elizabeth, 314 Dieppe, 220 Dockree support system, 88 Dockwra, 35, 290 Don Manuel Alvarez Espriella, 210 Dover, 220 Dover Road, 19, 208 Dryden, 45 Dublin, 218 Duncan, Rev. Henry, 138 Dunfermline, 287 Eastbourne, 284 East India Company, 247 Edinburgh, 23, 32, 36 _Edinburgh Castle_, 216 Edison Telephone Company, 183, 184 Egypt, 84, 215, 336 Electric stamping machines, 61 Electric Telegraph Company, 161