The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

Railways cost of conveyance of mails,
vol. i. 329, 412, 452, vol. ii. 181,
182, 189, 257, 296 ; examination of
officers, vol. ii. 18 ; enforcement of
penalties, causes of accidents, 19 ;
variety of signals, 20 ;
and express trains, 21 ;
mania," 23 ; Parliament
excursion
"
railway
and the
railways, 25 ; competition, 26 ; need
of legislation, 66, 227-31, 276, 282;
Commission of 1865, 69, 283, 491;
notices, 91 ; to be brought into the
heart of London, 217, 464; committee
of 1853, 228 ; acceleration of
mails, 58, 231-37,273; premiums for
punctuality, 235, 273 ; general contracts,
275 ; Government loans, 278-
282, 474 ; Government purchase,
283 ; arbitration, 284 ; true interests,
22, 23, 285 ; London and Brighton,
vol. i. 90, vol. ii. 16-26, 52, 60, 285 ;
South-Eastern, 23, 25 ; South-Western,
24, 276 ; North-Western, 176, 232,
274 ; Great Northern, 182, 232 ;
North British, 273 ; Gloucester and
Hereford, 277 j Shrewsbury and
Hereford, 277
Rathbone, Mr., vol. ii. 92
Rea, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. 318
Record, The, vol. ii. 115
Registration. See Letters.
Reports, Postmaster-General's Annual,
vol. ii. 264, 267, 310, 351
Revenue (General) uninjured by judicious
reductions of taxation, vol. i.
242, 244, 255, 535 ; postal revenue.
See Post Office.
Ricardo, Mr. J. L., vol. ii. 83
Ricardo, Mr. Moses, vol. ii. 337
Rice, Mr. Spring (Lord Monteagle), vol.
i. 218, 220, 267, 278, 289, 348, 365,
460, vol. ii. 1 88, 469 ; R. H.'s interview
with, vol. i. 263, 265 ; includes
Penny Postage in the budget, 348,
Miss Mar-
351, 355 ; described by
tineau, 361
Richmond, Duke of, vol. i. 288
Rintoul, Mr., vol. i. 278
Robbery, Attempted, of a letter-carrier,
vol. ii. 79 f a > Western mail,
See also Letters.
Robinson, Mr. H. C., vol. i. 36
Robinson Crusoe, vol. i. 10, 51
189.
Rochefoucauld, La, vol. i. 192
Roebuck, Mr. J. A., early friendship
with R. H., vol. i. 214; on the
Sunday question, vol. ii. 129 ;
official franking, 351
Roman road, vol. i. 98
Romilly, Sir Samuel, his sole in-
VOL. II. L L
INDEX. 513
heritance, vol. i. 2 ; effect of the
French Revolution, 21 ; reform of
the criminal law, vol. ii. 35
Romilly, Mr. Edward, vol. ii. 224
Rousseau, J. J., vol. i. 124
Roy, General, vol. i. 94
Royal Observatory, vol. i. 95
Royal Society, vol. ii. 359, 420
Rugby School, vol. i. 100, 115
Ruling Machine, vol. i. 53
Russell, Lord John (Earl Russell), vol.
i. 278, 355, 400, vol. ii. 38, 98, 103,
171, 174; extract from his "Recollections,"
vol. i. 343; announces adoption
of Penny Postage, 345 ; the
Sunday question, vol. ii. in, 118,
121, 127, 133, 135, 147, 156, 157,
15?
Russia, vol. ii. 118; postal reforms,
vol. ii. 13, 35, 252 ; number of
letters (1855), 350
S.
SABDEN, vol. i. 324
Salaries demand for increase of, vol. i.
413, 450, vol. ii. 55, 63, 321, 326, 327 ;
statistics for arriving at, vol. i. 414,
433, vol. ii. 65 ; scale of, vol. ii. 89,
245, 296 ; commission for revision
of, vol. ii. 89, 184, 221, 246-9;
salaries of higher officers, 333 ; of
Postmaster-General and Secretary,
345 ; of officers generally, 345
Sargant, Mr. W. L., his account of
Mr. T. W. Hill, vol. i. 15, 16 ; of
Hazelwood School, 93, 123
Save, Professor, vol. i. 173
Savings Banks, vol. ii. 331, 364-7, 383
Scholefield, Mr., vol. i. 339
School, opened at Hill Top, vol. i. 47;
Hazelwood, built, 128; opened, 129;
on fire, 151; "a sucker from it,"
1 80; Bruce Castle opened,
Hazelwood, given up,
181 ;
202 ; moral
tone, 15 ; teaching, 15-18, 63, 6 $-7,
91-4, 127, 212 ; theatre, 77 ; survey
ing, 85, 94 ; system of government
87, 100-28; punctuality, 89, 120;
"exhibitions," 91, 113, 127, 170;
benevolent society, 109 ; band of
music, 112, 122; "a little world,"
113; magazine, 116, 171; "school
fund," 119; described by Mr. Sargant,
Basil
15, 16, 93,
Hall, 122 ;
123; by Captain
becomes famous,
130, 170-4, 178; its fame
cessive, 174; number of pupils,
School Boards, vol. ii. 417
ex-
178