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VI CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XVI.
TOINT SECRETARYSHIP (1846-8).
The " Edinburgh Review " and Mr. Charles Dickens, 48 Restrictive Minute, 49
Cabals, 51 Snowed up, 52 The Post Office a vast Machine, 53 Liverpool
Town Council, 54 Lord Clanricarde's Boldness, 55 Bristol Post Office,
57 Lieutenant Waghorn, 59 A Bundle of old Clothes by Post, 61
Applications for Increase of Salary, 63 Statistics, 64 Book Post. Proposed
System of Promotion, 65 Railway Legislation, 66 Money Order
Department, 70 Offensive Minute. Mr. Cobden's Advice, 73 Savings in
Stationery, 76 Arrears of Money Orders, 77 Carelessness in Remittance, 78
Attempted Robbery, 79 Frauds, 80 Esquires in Low Life, 8l Joseph
Ady, 82 Telegraph, 83 Chartists, 84.
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER XVI.
General Progress. Letter to Mr. Baring, 85 Number of Letters from 1839 to
1847, 86 Book Post. Professor De Morgan, 87 Evasion of Postage, 88
Scale of Salaries. The Interpretation of a Fortnight's Holiday, 89 Letter-
boxes, 90 Railway Notices. Sir Erskine May, 91 United States, 92
France, Revolution of 1848, 93 Belgium, 94.
CHAPTER XVII.
EFFORTS FOR IMPROVEMENT IN POSITION (1848-9).
Discordant action in the Post Office, 95 Claim for Promotion, 96 Lord John
Russell on Penny Postage, 98 The Ministry in Danger, 99 Great Increase of
Expenditure, 100 Formal Application for Promotion, 101 The Chancellor
of the Exchequer's unreasonable Demand, 103 Health again fails, 105.
CHAPTER XVIII.
SUNDAY RELIEF (1849-50).
Sunday Labour in Post Office, 107 Bath Post Office, 108 Closing of Money
Order Offices, 109 Other Measures of Relief. "Forward Letters," no
Minute on Reduction of Sunday Labour, in Lord's Day Society, 113
Treachery in the Camp, 115 Bishop of London, 116 City Meeting, 118
Publication of Minute, 121 No Compulsion. Extracts from Private Journal,
123 Hon. and Rev. Grantham Yorke. Insubordination, 128 Slanders of
Lord's Day Society, 129 The first Sunday on the new Plan, 131 Anonymous
Letters, 134 Lord John Russell, 135 Further Slanders of the Lord's
Day Society, 136 Railway Sorting, 137 Suburban Sunday Delivery, 138
General Thompson and Dr. Vaughan, 139 Meetings of Surveyors, 140
Further Sunday relief, 141 Cabals, 143 Demand for total Abolition of
Sunday Labour, 144 Mr. Wallace. Visit to Greenock, 148 Mr. Matthew
Forster, 149 The Times, 151 Lord Ashley's Motion, 155 No Sunday
Deliveries, 158 Commission on Sunday Labour, 160.