The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

498
vol. ii. 388, 397, 41 1 ; budget of
1841, vol. i. 436; resigns office, 439;
consulted by R. H., 475-7 ; presents
R. H.'s petition, 483; defends
publication of correspondence, 485 ;
moves for return on rural distribution,
486; speeches in House of
Commons, 489, vol. ii. 351, 397 ;
congratulates R. H, on his appointment,
vol. ii. 225 ; opinion of R. H.
388-90, 41 1 ; heads deputation to
Lord Palmerston, 395; letters to
R. H., vol. i. 369, 439, 475, vol. ii.
86; letters from R. H., vol. i. 440,
542, vol. ii. 85
Earth, Mr., vol. ii. 179, 462
Bath, vol. ii. 108
Bates, Mr., vol. i. 294
Beasley, Mr. Michael,
134;
57, 6l, 62, 79,
his "utility," 63
Beecher, Major, vol. ii. 360
Belgium, postal reform in, vol. ii. 94;
postal treaty, 252, 318
Belper, Lord, vol. ii. 66
Benevolent Society, vol. i. 109
Bentham, Jeremy, reads "Public Education,"
sends two Greeks to Hazel-
wood and a contribution to the
Magazine, vol. i. 171; visits Bruce
Castle, 172; suggests "a sucker
from Hazelwood School," 180; his
"greatest happiness" principle, 193;
concentration of responsibility,
vol. ii. 405
Bentinck, Mr., the last of the assailants
of Penny Postage, vol. ii. 350
Bentley, Dr., vol. ii. 235 .
Berlin, vol. ii. 340
Biot, M., vol. i. 499
Birmingham riots, vol. i. 2, 1 1, 33, 47 ;
Philosophical Institution, 12, 80;
Mercury newspaper, 17; volunteers,
38; gun-making, 38; tokens, 40;
police, 42; exhibitions, 755 Hampden
Club, 139; New Hall Hill
meeting ; legislatorial attorneys ;
exclusive musical society, 149 ;
represented in Parliament, 150;
Sunday question, vol. ii. 109, 128;
brass trade, vol. ii. 272; pneumatic
tubes, 340; raises a statue to R. H.,
387, 389, 428
Blair, Dr., vol. i. 98
Blomfield, Bishop, vol. ii. 116
Board of Trade, vol. ii. 251, 281
Board of Works, vol. ii. 269
Bodkin, Sir W., vol. ii. 327
Bokenham, Mr., vol. i. 385, 400,
vol. ii. 62, 120-41, 155, 180, 190,
260, 327, 330, 453
INDEX.
Bookbinding, vol. i. 54
Book post, a kind of, in France in
1839, vol. i. 376 ; established in
England, vol. ii. 65, 87, 382, 397;
Foreign and Colonial, 244, 311
Booth, Mr., vol. ii. 281
Booth the forger, vol. i. 40
Boulogne, vol. ii. 294
Bowring, Dr. (Sir John), vol. i. 174, 382
Bradley, the letter-carrier, vol. ii. 79
Brankston, Mr., vol. i. 308
Brebner, Mr., vol. ii. 171
Brewin, Mr., vol. i. 301, 305, 308
Brierley Hill, vol. i. 282
Bright, Mr. John, vol. i. 477
Brighton, vol. ii. 22, 269, 285
Brighton Railway. See Railways.
Brindley, vol. ii. 250
Bristol, vol. i. 307, vol. ii. 57
British Association, vol. ii. 244
Brooks, Mr., vol. ii. 91
Brougham, Lord, interested in Hazelwood,
vol. i. 173; intends to found
a school on the Hazelwood Plan,
180; R. H. prepares for him " Home
Colonies," 202; approves of Owen's
plan, 210; R. H. addresses to him a
letter on pauper education, 218;
character described by R. H., 219;
interest in Penny Postage, 288,
vol. ii. 225; presents City petition
in its favour, vol. i. 289 ; conduct on
R. H.'s dismissal, 467, 468, 473;
story of "I is the "
plaintiff, 492;
takes part in the Sunday question,
vol. ii. 149, 159; speech on R. H.'s
retirement, 398
Brown, Mr. (Sir William), vol. I, 310,
3I7 336, vol. ii. 198
Bruce Castle, vol. i. 181, 201, 204, 214
Bunsen, Chevalier, negotiates postal
treaty, vol. ii. 208, 252; at the
Queen's drawing room, 245
Burdett, Sir Francis, vol. i. 180, 240
Burgoyne, Sir John, vol. i. 277
Burke, Edmund, vol. ii. 398, 431
Burns, Robert, vol. i. 19
Burritt, Mr. Elihu, vol. ii. 319
Butler, Samuel, vol. i. 2
Caermarthen, vol. ii. 190
Calcutta, vol. ii. 272, 293
Cambridge, University of, vol. i. 67
Campbell, Thomas, vol. i. 149
Campbell, Lord, vol. ii. 330
Canada, vol. ii. 244, 316