Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE LIFE
OF
SIR ROWLAND HILL
K.C.B., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.R.A.S., ETC.
AND THE
HISTORY OF PENNY POSTAGE.

BY
SIR ROWLAND HILL
AND
HIS NEPHEW
GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L.

AUTHOR OF
"DR. JOHNSON: HIS FRIENDS AND HIS CRITICS," ETC.

_IN TWO VOLUMES._

VOL. II.

LONDON:
THOS. DE LA RUE & CO.
110, BUNHILL ROW.

1880

(_The right of Translation and Reproduction is reserved._)

PRINTED BY
THOMAS DE LA RUE AND CO., BUNHILL ROW,
LONDON.

CONTENTS OF SECOND VOLUME.

BOOK II. (_Continued._)

CHAPTER XII.

COMMITTEE OF ENQUIRY (1843).

"State and Prospects of Penny Postage," 1--Examined before the
Committee, 2--The "Fallacious Return," 4--Charge for the Packet
Service, 5--Treaty with France, 6--Colonel Maberly's Evidence,
7--Dockwra, Allen, and Palmer, 9--Australian Letters and India,
10--Committee's Report, 12--Spain and Russia, 13--Letters from
Sydney Smith and Miss Martineau, 14.

CHAPTER XIII.

RAILWAY DIRECTION (1843-6).

Director and then Chairman of the Brighton Railway Company,
16--Examination of Railway Officers, 18--Enforcement of Penalties,
19--Three Codes of Signals. Safety of the Line, 20--Excursion and
Express Trains, 21--Postal facilities for Brighton, 22--Value
of Shares. Resignation of Chairmanship, 23--Offer from the
South-Western Company, 24--Parliament and the Railways, 25.

CHAPTER XIV.

NATIONAL TESTIMONIAL (1844-6).

United States, 27--Mazzini and Sir James Graham, 28--"A Penny
Post," by John Hill, 29--Subscriptions to the Testimonial,
29--Income Tax Commissioners, 30--Mr. Cobden and the Anti-Corn Law
League, 31--Presentation of Testimonial, 32.

CHAPTER XV.

APPOINTMENT TO POST OFFICE (1846).

The New Ministry, 37--Lord Clanricarde Postmaster-General, 38--Mr.
Warburton, 39--Appointment offered, 40--Mr. Hawes, 41--A Painful
Dilemma, 42--Letter to Mr. Hawes. Appointment accepted, 43--Promise
of Promotion, 46.

CHAPTER XVI.

JOINT 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, 81--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.