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Piron, M., vol. i. 341, 377, vol. ii. 94,
1 88, 225
Pitt, William, vol. i. 19, 200
Place, Mr. Francis, vol. i. 277
vol. i. 210
Playfair, Dr. Lyon,
Plymouth, vol. ii. 129, 133
Political economy, discussions on,
vol. i. 23, 198
Political Economy Club, vol. ii. 416
Polk, President, vol. ii. 93
Polytechnic Institution, vol. i. 426
Porter, Mr., vol. ii. 187
Portugal, its gross postal revenue,
vol. ii.
3i8
252 ; its slowness to reform,
Post cards, vol. ii. 382
"Post Circular," vol. i. 339
Postmaster-General, office should be
permanent, vol. ii. 404
Postmasters, emoluments ot, vol. i.
433, vol. ii. 245 should be ; empowered
to appoint their clerks, 247 ; appointment
of, 248, 299, 405 ; in
arrear with accounts, vol. i. 454, vol.
". 313
Postage. See Letters.
Post Office Consolidation Act, vol. i.
vol. ii.
281 ; number of offices, 376,
313, 314 ; London district offices,
vol. i. 258, 269, 376, vol. ii. 62,
loo, 258, 271, 381 ; rural offices,
vol. i. 430, 433, 451, 486, vol. ii.
182, 260, 381 ; "a vast machine,"
vol. ii. 53, 233, 271 ; errors in
accounts, vol. i. 249, 298, 429-30,
448, 449, 475, 490, vol. ii. 5, 50, 78,
87, 1 86, 187 ; errors as regards
packet-service accounts, vol. i. 449,
460, 485, vol. ii. 4, 185, 238, 402 ;
audit, vol. i. 454, vol. ii. 186, 313 ;
statistics, vol. i. 414, 434, vol. ii. 55,
65; chief office, vol. ii. 216, 268-70;
widows' and orphans' fund, 306 mu-
;
tual guarantee, 307 ; libraries, 308 ;
volunteer corps, 334 ; revenue (before
1839), vol. i. 244, 256, 283, 286, 534,
vol. ii.382; (after 1839), vol. i. 416,
432, 459, 460, 464, 468, vol. ii. 5,
33, 85, 1 88, 295, 297, 382, 392, 397,
417; causes of increased expenditure,
vol. i. 411-13, 4!9> 42 7 vol. ii.
295 ; R. H.'s calculations as to
recovery of revenue, vol. i. 256,
325, 347, 396, vol. ii. 214, 297 ; true
mode of arriving
at net revenue,
vol. ii. 237, 298, 466 ; every branch
ought to be self-supporting, 371,
402 ; postal union, 404 ; monopoly,
vol. i. 238, 246, vol. ii. 405 ; effect
of school boards on the revenue, 417;
INDEX.
"
Post Office reform,"
283
vol. i. 262, 276,
Postage of government departments,
vol. i. 355, 388, vol. ii. 351
"Postal Guide" and "Postal Official
Circular," vol. ii. 329
Pratt, Mr., vol. i. 352
Prepayment. See Letters.
Pressly, Sir Charles, vol. i. 400, 429
Priestley, Dr., T. W. Hill one of his
congregation, vol. i. 1 1 ; his house
destroyed by rioters, 33 ; his
greatest-happiness principle, 193
Prince Consort. Gift to the Post
Office Library, vol. ii. 308
"A Princess Royal," vol. i. 420
Prince of Wales presents Albert
Medal to R. H.,
Gold
vol. ii. 400
Printing-machine, vol. i. 224-30, 525-8,
vol. ii. 76
Pritchard, Mr., vol. i. 280
Pritchard, Professor, vol. i. 504
Promotion, vol. ii. 65, 184, 191, 246-51,
298-302, 321, 376
Prussia, postal reform in, vol.
252, 406 ; treaty with, 208
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ii. 35,
Public Education, " written by M. D. H.
and R. H. vol. i. 103 ; preface to it,
105 ; makes Hazelwood famous, 130,
170, 178; read in M.S. by Miss
Edgeworth, 165 ; praised byBentham,
171; reviewed by Jeffrey and De
Quincey, 174, 178
Punctuality school, vol. i. 89, 113, 120;
premiums offered to railway companies
for, vol. ii. 235, 273 ; to
steam-ship companies, 292 ; R. H.'s
household, 422
Q.
"QUARTERLY REVIEW," vol. i. 377;
vol. ii. 192
Queen Victoria abandons her privilege
of franking, vol. i. 388 ; disapproves
of Lord Ashley's motion, vol.
ii. 158; her "Drawing Room," 245;
confers a K.C.B. on R. H. 359, 422;
Lady Hill's address to her, 394 ;
to the House of Commons,
message
395
R.
RADCLIFFE, Mrs. vol. i. 79
Radnor, Earl of, vol. i. 346, vol. ii.
344