The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

conveying a letter to, vol. i. 249,
280, 339; Sunday agitation, vol. ii.
149 ; Mails, 273, 337 ; volunteer
corps, 334
"Edinburgh Review, vol. i. 68; reviews
" Public Education," 121, 174,
178; article on Penny Postage, 378,
390; article on " Little Dorrit " and
vol. ii.
the "Circumlocution Office," article on Lord Canning, 354
48 ;
Eldon, Earl of, vol. i. 212, 240, vol. ii.
35
Electrical Machine, vol. i. 55, 8l
Electricity, lectures on, vol. i. 55, 80,
134
Elgin and Kincardine, Earl of, vol.
ii. 308; "an excellent Postmaster-
General," 344 ; his account of
Lord Canning, 354; his character,
357, letter to R.
35.8;
H., 359;
resignation, 361
Elgin, vol. i. 288
Ellenborough, Lord, vol. ii. 35
Emery, Mr., vol. i. 306
Emigrant ships, vol. i. 221
Empson, Professor, vol. i. 268
Enclosures, charge by, vol. i. 238, 282,
295
Envelopes, vol. i. 393, 418, 419
Estcott, Mr., vol. ii. 8
Esquires in low life, vol. ii. 8 1
Estlin, Mr., vol. ii. 29
Euclid, vol. i. II, 60
Eversley, Viscount, vol. ii. 91
Excursion trains, vol. ii. 21
"
Exhibitions," School, vol. i. 91,93,
113, 127, 170
Exhibition, Great (1851), vol. i. 26;
vol. ii. 259
Express trains, vol. ii. 21
"
FACTS AND ESTIMATES," vol. i. 347,
534
Fagan, Mr., vol. ii. 154
Family council, vol. i. 191, 192, 262
Family fund, vol. i. 188-90.
Faraday, Professor, vol. i. 3, 402
Female labour, vol. ii. 403
vol. i. 12
Ferguson, James,
Fielding, Henry, vol. i. 3
Fights regulated, vol. i. 118
Fire at Hazelwood, vol. i. 95, 151;
origin of, 1 58 ; question of insurance,
158
Fire, precautions against, at Post Office,
vol. ii. 268
Fitzgerald, Lord, vol. i. 460
INDEX. 501
Flood, walk through a, vol. i.
Forge, model of a, vol. i. 45
138
Forger, a, vol. i. 40
Forster, Mr. John, vol. i. 230, 525
Forster, Mr. Matthew, a steady friend,
vol. ii. 149, 388, 394; on the Sunday
question, 157, 158; Mr. Parkes's
letter to him, 388
Foster, John, the essayist, vol. i. Fourdrinier,
141
vol. i. 224
France, revolution of 1789, vol. i.
19; peace with, 38, 134; Mrs.
Hill's uneasiness at being so near
to its coast, 133;
245;
postal revenue,
reduction of postage in, 341,
vol. ii. 93, 188, 252; Post Office
inspected by R. H. vol. i. 376 ; early
use of post-paid envelopes in, 377 ;
pillar letter-boxes, 417, vol. ii. 259;
treaty with, vol. i. 410, vol. ii. 6,
183, 214, 317 ; assistance during
Indian Mutiny, vol. ii. 293; gratuitous
conveyance of a mail, 350;
reduction in postage to France, 311 ;
proposed use of tubular conveyance
for mail, 338 ; universal delivery, 406
.Frankland, Sir F., vol. ii. 312
FVanklin, Benjamin, vol. i. 8, 12
Franks (Post Office) on newspapers,
vol. i. 240; abuses of, 240, 322, vol.
ii. 350; number of, vol. i. 321;
"Worth to some Mercantile Houses,"
355; abolished, 385, 388; official
franking, 355, 388, vol. ii. 351,
471 ; revived, vol ii. 351
Freshwater Bay, vol. i. 146
Frolich, Count, vol. i. 173
Frome, General, vol. i. 221
GAISFORD, DEAN, vol. i. 17
Gait, Mr., vol. ii. 283
Gallon, Mr. Tertius, vol. i. 499
Gallon, Captain, vol. ii. 236, 251
Galway line of mail-packets, vol. ii.
183
Gardiner, Mr., vol. i. 375
Garibaldi, vol. ii. 417
Garrick trained in careful habits, vol. i.
34 ; his house in the Adelphi, 223
Gas, streets lighted by, vol. i. 42, 160
Germany, vol. i. 253, vol. ii. 252, 259,
318, 484
Gibbon, Edward,
" the tyranny of
lawyers," vol. i. 9; "independence,
that first earthly blessing," 67; "a
man designed to think as he pleased,
&c.," 213; his early training, 217