The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

418. See also Penny Postage and
Post Office.
Letter-Boxes (hall door), vol. ii. go.
See Pillar Letter-Boxes.
Letter carriers, union of two corps of,
vol. i. 258, 373, 375, vol. ii.
lop, 103,
247, 271 ; improved condition of,
190, 345, 381 ; life insurance and
burial fund, 304-7 ; discontents, 321 ;
eligibility of their position, 309, 324 ;
Christmas boxes, 325, 328; mutinous
meeting, 326
Lewins, Mr. W. vol. ii. 367
Lewis, Sir G. C., passage in " Notes
and Queries," vol. i. 239 ; commission
of inquiry into Sunday labour,
vol. ii. 160 ; mail service to Kington,
277 ; R. H.'s device of government
railway loans, 279-81 ; Post Office
insurance fund, 305
Lewis, Dr. vol. ii. 303
Libraries, Post Office, vol. ii. 308
Lichfield, vol. i. 138, vol. ii. 191
Lichfield, Earl of, Postmaster-General ;
his Post Office Consolidation Act,
vol. i. 281 ; opposed to penny postage,
279, 288, 293, 314, 325, 351, 427,
vol. ii. 3 ; goes into a passion over it,
vol. i. 359 ; R. H. 's letters to, 292, 293
Life insurance of Post Office staff,
vol. ii. 304-7
Lines, Mr., vol. i. 74, 391
Liverpool, R. H.'s first visit, vol. i.
140 ; newspapers in 1834, 218 ; testimonials,
442, vol. ii. 400 ; speech
at a public dinner, vol. ii. 53 ; committee
of the town council, 54 5
district system, 272 ; mutual guarantee,
307 ; pneumatic tubes, 340
Lloyd, Mr. James, vol. ii. 387
Loans to railway companies. See Rail-
ways.
Locke, Mr., vol. ii. 159, 281
London, R. H.'s early visits, vol. i.
58, 134-6, 145, 200; removal to,
180-2, 200 ; daily newspapers, 218 ;
deliveries, 269, 282, vol. ii. 34, 258,
272 ; petition for Penny Postage,
vol. i. 280, 289 ; number of Post
Offices, 376, vol. ii. 314; amount of
correspondence, vol. ii. 94, 270 ;
Sunday agitation, 118; grant of its
Freedom, 428 ; represented by its
chief magistrate in Westminster
Abbey, 430. See also Post Office.
Londonderry, Marquis of, vol. ii. 91
Longton, vol. ii. 400
Lord's Day Society, foolish deputation
from, vol, ii. 113 ; its course of
slandering, 129, 136, 154, 155 ; a
INDEX. 509
proof of conscious weakness, 149 ;
Professor Henslow's reply to, 145
Lord Mayor's English, vol. i. 144
Lords of the Treasury, vol. i. 386
Lowe, Mr. (Viscount Sherbrooke),
vol. ii. 280, 347.
Lowther, Viscount (Earl of Lonsdale),
vol. i. 436, 439, 448, 462, 465, 492,
vol. ii. 6l ; member of committee
(1838), vol. i. 287; votes against
Penny Postage, 327 ; Postmaster
General, his cold and suspicious manner,
444, 458; his ignorance, 453,
vol. ii. 10 ; plan of registration, vol. i.
455. 456, 459. 476; his pride
offended, 459, 476 ; claims to the
origination of Penny Postage, 488
Lyons, vol. ii. 311
M.
MABERLY, Lieut. -Colonel, vol. i. 374,
386, 424, 426, 428, 430, 444, 455,
487, 491, vol. ii. 48, 49, 55, 56, 58,
63, 64, 65, 71, 73, 75, 84, 89, 113,
120, 121, 122, 129, 177, 185,
201 ; examined before parliamentary
committee of 1838, vol. i. 300,
32, 313, 314, 3i6, 323; vol. ii.
IO ; his opinion of Penny Postage,
vol. i. 326, vol. ii. 10 ; examined
before Committee of Enquiry, 1843,
vol. ii. i, 3, 5,
of his retirement,
7, 10; question
vol. i. 362, 427,
437, vol. ii. 41, 43, 74, 96, 98, 99,
103-5, l( >5-9, 194-200, 206, 209,
210, 215,
457,461 ;
218, 219, 221, 437, 445,
appointed to the Board
of Audit, 224 ; his selection of heads
of departments, 266
Macaulay, Lord, vol. i. 333, vol. ii.
151; a man of "imperfect sympathies,"
vol. i. 199; an error in
his history, 500 ; R. H. sends him a
document about Titus Oates, vol. ii.
261; "defiance of Post Office re-
gulations," 315 ; funeral, 431, 432
Madeira, vol. ii. 318
Magistrate, School, vol. i. no
Magna Charta, vol. i. 145
Mails. See Railways.
Mail-bag apparatus, vol. ii. 237
Malmesbury, Earl of, vol. ii. 149
Maltby, Dr. vol. i. 173
Malthus, Mr., vol. i. 173, 188
Manchester in 1821, vol. i. 160 ; Chamber
of Commerce, 301, 307 ; postage
to Lyons, vol. ii. 311 ; pneumatic
tubes, 340 ; correspondence equal
that of Russia, 350