Her Majesty's Mails: An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-officeS. Low, son, and Marston, 1864 - 348 páginas Postwesen, Postbetrieb, Postverkehr ; Geschichte ; Grossbritannien und Nordirland. |
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a-year amount appointed arrangements arrival bags banks book-packets carriage carried charged classes clerks coach colonies Committee conveyance conveyed correspondence cost course delivered delivery of letters Department depositor deposits despatch district Dublin duties Earl Edinburgh England English envelopes establishment Euston Square Station expense foreign Government hand Hill's Holyhead Home Secretary horses hour House of Commons improvements increase inland inquiry Ireland journey letter-carriers Liverpool London Lord Lord Lichfield mail-coaches mails measure ment messengers miles Money-order Office newspapers number of letters ordinary packets paid paper Parliament passed penny postage persons Post-Office authorities Post-Office officials postage-stamps postmaster Postmaster-General prepayment present principal proposed Queenstown rates of postage received reform Report revenue salary savings scheme Scotland Secretary sent shilling Sir James Graham Sir Rowland Hill sorters sorting stamps town travelling post-office Treasury United Kingdom
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Página 74 - ... to travel this terrible country, to avoid it as they would the devil; for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down.
Página 162 - When some new gunpowder plot may be in the wind, some doubledyed high treason, or imminent national wreck not avoidable otherwise, then let us open letters — not till then. "To all Austrian Kaisers and such like, in their time of trouble, let us answer, as our fathers from of old have answered : — Not by such means is help here for you.
Página 55 - Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
Página 77 - The mails are generally intrusted to some idle boy, without character, mounted on a wornout hack, and who, so far from being able to defend himself or escape from a robber, is much more likely to be in league with him.
Página 1 - So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
Página 74 - They will here meet with ruts, which I actually measured, four feet deep and floating with mud, only from a wet summer. What, therefore, must it be after a winter ? The only mending it receives is tumbling some loose stones, which serve no other purpose than jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner.
Página 75 - The Edinburgh stage-coach, for the better accommodation of passengers, will be altered to a new genteel two-end glass coach machine, hung on steel springs, exceeding light and easy, to go in ten days in summer, and twelve in winter...
Página 162 - But it is a question vital to us that sealed letters in an English post-office be, as we all fancied they were, respected as things sacred ; that opening of men's letters, a practice near of kin to picking men's pockets, and to other still viler and far fataler forms of scoundrelism. be not resorted to in England, except in cases of the very last extremity.
Página 74 - ... to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Página 111 - Office assumes the new and Important character of a powerful engine of civilization; capable of performing a distinguished part in the great work of national education, but rendered feeble and inefficient by erroneous financial arrangements.