The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

committee granted, 287 ; writes
"Letters to Lord Lichfield;" mode
of composition, 292 ; examined be-
fore parliamentary committee, 295,
316, 325; regards low postage as no
/ tax, 311; assists in preparing committee's
report, 331; examines rival
claims to the authorship of Penny
Postage, 332; learns that Penny
Postage is to be granted, 343;
writes "On the Collection of Pos-
tage by Means of Stamps," 345;
" Facts and Estimates," 347; present
at the division, 352 ; let-
ter to the Duke of Wellington,
354; in the "kitchen" of the
House of Commons, 356; interview
with Lord Melbourne, 357 ; present
in House of Lords, 360 ; described
by Miss Martineau, 361 ; testi-
monials, 363, 442; offered appoint-
consults Mr.
ment in Treasury, 365 ;
M. D. Hill thereon, 366; accepts
appointment, 369; first visit to
the Post Office, 371 hours of ; work,
374; inspects the French Post Office,
376; prepares for introduction of
penny postage, 380; visits Mr.
Baring, 385; learns who "My
Lords " are, 386 ; first day of penny
postage, 390; difficulties with the
Stamp Office, 397; obliteration of
stamps, 399; resists needless expenditure,
41 1 ; proposes to set up
pillar-boxes, 417; wins Mr. Baring's
confidence, 422; detects errors in
accounts, 429; meets with constant
opposition at the Post Office ; overworked,
43 1 ; plan of rural distri-
bution, 433, 451; sets a high value
on statistics, 434; consulted about
a twopenny rate, 435 ; applies for
office of secretary to the Post Office,
437 alarmed ; by the change of
ministry, 439 ; under Mr. Goulburn,
443 ; thwarted in his work, 444-7 ;
investigates railway charges, 452;
Lord Lowther's hostility, 459; dismissal
impending, 462 ; his mother's
death, 465; notice of dismissal,
with Sir Robert
466 ; correspondence
Peel, 469; question of publishing
correspondence with Treasury, 473 ;
offer of help from " the men of the
League," 477; cuts down personal
expenditure, 480; interview with
Mr. Stephen, 481 ; official publication
of garbled correspondence,
482 ; petitions Parliament, 483 ;
publishes all the correspondence,
INDEX. 505
484; select committee moved for,
487 ; committee granted, 492 ; letter
to Sir G. Clerk, 493; publishes
' '
State and Prospects of Penny
Postage," vol. ii. I, 14; examined
before the committee, I-io; director
and then chairman of the Brighton
Railway Company, 16 ; resigns,
23; 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
visits
Money Order Department, 56 ;
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, 1 08; his measure for
transmission of "forward letters,"
no; 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 j 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,
1 66; 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,
commission for
177; proposes a
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