The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the

Schuster, Mr., vol. ii. 285
Scotland, charge on letters to, vol. i.
238, 249, 297, 381 ; Sunday labour,
vol. ii. 109, 112, 148, 157; mails,
232-4, 273, 338 ; life insurances,
307 ; early history of Post Office, 352
Screw steamboat, vol. i. 84
Scudamore, Mr., vol. ii. 312, 333
Severn, the, vol. i. 131
Seymour, Lord (Duke of Somerset),
vol. i. 268, 287, 327-30, vol. ii. 185
Shakespeare corrected, vol. i. 91
Shaw-Lefevre, Sir J., letter to R. H.,
vol. i. 209 ; South-Australian commissioner,
220 ; his account of Mr.
Goulburn, 443
Shoemakers' Society, vol. i. 308
Short-hand, vol. i. 13
Shrewsbury, vol. i. 4, 131, 132, 140, 141
Sibthorpe, Colonel, vol. i. 352, 467,
vol. ii. 98
Sikes, Mr. C. W., the originator
Post Office Savings Banks, vol.
of
ii.
331, 364, 366; his disinterestedness,
Mr. Gladstone's letter to him, 332
Small-pox, vol. i. 305
Smith, Adam, vol. i. 23, 198
Smith, Mr. Egerton, vol. i. 442
Smith, Mr. John, vol. i. 180
Smith, Mr. Robert, vol. i. 272, 385,
vol. ii. 139, 258
Smith, Dr. Southwood, vol. i. 214,
vol. ii. 76
Smith, Rev. Sydney, ridiculed Penny
Postage, vol. i. 361 ; letter to R. H.,
vol. ii. 14
Smyth, Admiral, vol. i. 498
Social Community, scheme for a, vol. i.
207, 210
Society, Mutual Improvement,
INDEX.
vol. i.
68, 72 ; literary improvement, 69 ;
philosophical, 80 ; one founded by
Sir J. Shaw-Lefevre and R. H., 209,
226
Society of Arts, vol. ii. 336, 400
Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge, vol. i. 201, 219
Soldiers' letters and remittances, vol.
ii. 253, 310, 316
South-Australian Association and Commission,
vol. i. 216, 219-24; vol. ii.
426 ; mail service, 289
Southey, Robert, hatred of Bonapart-
of the
ism, vol. i. 19 ; description
Charter
213
House, IOI ; Pantisocracy,
Spain, Postal reform in, vol. ii. 13,
35, 252 ; treaty with, 318
Spearman, Sir Alexander, vol. i. 228,
vol. ii. 279, 333
Spectator, The, vol. i. 278
Spencer, Earl, advice on publication
of correspondence with Treasury,
vol. i. 474, 477
St. Germans, Earl of, vol. ii. 99
St. Priest, M., vol. ii. 93
Stamps Newspaper stamps impressed
at the Stamp Office, vol. i. 226 ; first
suggested by Mr. Knight, 265 ; for
letters proposed by R. H., 265, 270,
345 > adhesive, 271, 346 ; stamped
covers, 271, 383, 393 ; objection to
use of stamps, 314, 316, 378,382,396,
vol. ii. 86 ; devised in France, vol. i.
377 ; machinery for manufacture of,
392, 406-9; prepayment by stamps
begins May 6th, 1840, 396 ; supply in-
sufficient, 397 ; forgery and frauds,
399-401 ; obliteration,
number issued, 407 ;
399-404 ;
electrotype
imitations, 426; introduced
Spain
into
and Russia, vol. ii. 13
Stamps, general distribution of, by
Post Office, vol. i. 429
Stamping, illegibility, vol. ii. 330 ; Mr.
Pearson Hill's machine, 331
Standard, The, vol. ii. 120
Stanley of Alderley, Lord, vol. ii. 281 ;
R. H. has not his confidence, 361,
362, 376, 378, 412; disapproves of
contract system, 364 ; not deficient
in courage, 368, 371 ; establishes
pattern post, 368 ; letter to
R. H. on his resignation, 384 ;
R. H.'s answer, 385 ; letter to
Treasury, 385 ; speech in House of
Lords, 386
" State and Prospects of Penny Post-
age," vol. ii. i, 13
"States," letters for Government, &c.,
vol. ii. 107
Stationers, deputation of, vol. i. 348
Statistics, Postal, vol. i. 414, 434, vol.
. 55. 65
Steamboat, plan for working one by a
screw, vol. i. 84 ; by the hydrogen
of sea water, 210; R. H.'s first
sight of, 135 ;
mer,
run only in the sum-
1 60, 1 68
Stephen, Sir James, vol. i. R. H.'s opinion of, 482
443, 481 ;
Stephenson, George, vol. i. 242, vol. ii.
250
Stephenson,
vol. ii. 341
Robert, controversy with,
Sterling, life of, vol. i. xii., vol. ii.
411
Stonehenge, vol. i. 131, 146
Stourbridge, vol. i. 57, 133
Street nomenclature, vol. ii. 311