The post office and its story an interesting account of the activities of a great government department

Brindisi, 215 Brisbane, 216 Bristol, 21, 279, 280 Britannia, 213 British Central Africa— Postal Service, 255 Postmaster's duties, 257 British Islands packet services, 217 British Post Offices abroad, 205 Brontë, Charlotte, 67 Brussels, 191 “Bull and Mouth,” 27, 50 Bullion, carriage of, 209 Burdett, Sir Francis, 34 Burravoe, 81 Buxton, Right Hon. Sydney, M.P., 201, 262 Cable conveyors, 60 Cadiz, 81 Cairo, 215 Calais, 220 Caledonian Railway, 73 Camels as carriers of mails, 246, 254 Campania, 213 Campbell, Lord, 23 Campbeltown, 285 Canada— Parcel Post, 84 Money Orders, 131 Imperial Penny Post, 258 Canary Islands, 237 Cape Colony— Money Orders, 131 Ocean mail service, 214, 216 Post Office stones, 255 Cape Grisnez, 191 Card system for accounts, 244 Cardiff, 279 Carlisle, 75 Cash on Delivery System, 253 Cats in Post Office, 95 Central News Agency, 165 Central Telegraph Office— Building, 67 Transmitting centre, 159 First office, 161 Interior, 163 Sunday arrangements, 169 Staff, 173 Chamberlain, Right Hon. Joseph, M.P., 51, 247, 263 Channel Fleet, letters to, 116 Channel Islands— Cable to, 156 Mail service, 218 Chesham, 104 China— Mails to, 220 Post Office, 244 Articles refused, 328 Christian World, 298 Christ's Hospital, 58 Civil Service, secret of success in, 272 Clerical Establishment, 268 Clerks of the Roads, 45, 125 Clifden, 178 Cloak Lane, 43 Coaches, 22 Coaching inns, 98 Coin by post, 125, 127 Coke, Lady Mary, 304 Coldbath Fields Prison, 85 Coleridge, S. T., 33 Colonial Office, 51 Compensation, 59 Comptroller and Accountant-General, 265 Concentrator switches, 168 Connaught, 218