264 THE COACHING AGE. 



In the hope that some ladies may find it of service 

 to them, I will point out the course they should adopt 

 in order to avail themselves of the Post-Ofiice system. 



Any holders of stock in the public funds, residing 

 within the United Kingdom, may have their 

 dividend warrants sent to their addresses, by post, on 

 filling up and sending to the Chief Accountant of the 

 Bank of England a form, of application, which may be 

 obtained at the Bank of England, or at any of its 

 branches, or at any money-order ofiice ; and all such 

 applications for the transmission of warrants should 

 ;be lodged at the Bank for the several quarters before 

 -the 1st of December, the 1st of March, the 1st of June, 

 and 1st of September. 



With the substitution of railways as the postal con- 

 veyance in lieu of the road-mails, practically unlimited 

 space was at the command of the Post-Office authorities 

 in the railway mail -vans, and thus they, were able to 

 carry the immensely increased correspondence con- 

 sequent upon the introduction of the penny post. 



The speed, also, of the railways entirely changed 

 the relative position of London and the country 

 towns, so far as related to distance ; places 100 miles 

 from town, and which could only be reached by Coach 

 in little less than twelve hours, could, by rail, be 

 reached in three or four : hence the establishment of 

 day-mails from London to places thus situate, as also 



