INDEX 



349 



Marine sorting, 189, 190 

 Martineau, Dr., 229, 230 

 Mathews, C, 63, 261 

 Matrimonial questions, 209, 210 

 Mellersh, H., 104 

 Merewether, Mr., 52 

 Miller, P., 91 

 Mining disaster, 146, 147 

 Mistaken identity, 33, 34 

 Montagu, gallant defence of the, 



130, 131 

 Moore, G-., 227 

 Moore (mail-guard), 48 

 Mosel, wreck of the, 138, 139 

 Mosey, Mr., 69, 71 

 Muffins inletter-b..x, 220 

 Musgrave, T. M., 132 

 * Mushroom ' anchors, 274-277 

 Mysterious addresses, 214, 215 



N. 



Nash, G., 189 

 Nerve, loss of, 50, 51 

 New York mails, 191, 192 

 Newcastle : 



Bridges, 244-246 



Bessy Surtees, 245 



Postmasters, 247 



Post-office, 247 



Coaching inns, 247 



Time-gun, 248 

 Newman, J. H., 47 

 Night mail-coaches, 327 

 Nobbs, M. J., 29, oi, 229 

 Norman, Capt., 130, 131 

 Norwood, W., 86 

 Nosebag by apparatus, 98 

 Nott, Gen. Sir W., K.C.B., 153 



O. 



Obelisk at Westminster, 40 

 Octogenarian, an, 77 

 One-legged postman, 68 

 Ord of Caithness, 250 

 Osbaldeston, Squire, 252, 2ri3 



P. 



Page, H. R., 309 

 W., 310 



Palmer, J., 5, 27, 98 

 Parcel coaches, 25, 94, 95 



Parcels, proposed rural rates, 329 



Old-time, 256, 257 

 Parliamentary train, 241, 242 

 Paterson, Mr., 91 

 Paterson's Road Book, 100, 118 

 Pat's spelling, 212 



Posting, 212 

 Passages leading to post-offices, 



70, 71 

 Passengers by mal-coach, 27-29 

 Payne, J., 87, 88 

 Pellatt, G., 104 

 Peninsular and Oriental Company, 



100, 105, 107 

 Penniless with a five-pound note, 



144 

 Penny postage, practicable by 



coach, 312, 313 

 Penzance, 129, 140 

 Percival, J., 158 

 Period of mail-coaches, 243 

 Pickering snowed up, 58 

 Pillar letter-boxes, 318-320 

 Pincher, H. (post-boy), 83 

 Portskewet ferry, 148-150 

 Post-coaches, 177 

 Postal families, 11, 12 

 Postmaster styled 'deputy,' 104 

 Postmen-poets, 215, 216 

 Postmistresses : 



An octogenarian, 77 



Devonport, 120, 121 



Some offices under, 132, 133 



Penzance, 140 



Buxton, 141 



Sheffield, 202, 203 



Enniscorthy, 279, 280 

 Postwomen, remarkable, 158, 159 

 Preece, W. H., C.B., F.R.S., 277 

 Preston mail, 28, 184 

 Price, Ann, 158, 159 

 Price family, 11 

 Primrose Hill Tunnel, 282, 283 

 Printer, an old, 64 

 Purcell, J. S., C.B., 318 



Q. 



Quarantine at Southampton, 103 

 Queen's Hotel, 37, 38 

 Queenstown, 267-270 

 Quicksilver coach, 117, 119 



