@html@files@42983@42983-h@42983-h-0.htm.html#page16" class="pginternal">16, 18, 57. Roads. See Post-roads. Royal Mail Steamship Company, 132. Royal Post, 3, 6. Sailing Packets, abuses in connection with, 127 et seq.; British and foreign vessels, 123; cost of, 128, 134; customs difficulties, 125; number of, 120, 121; ownership transferred to Admiralty, 129, 130; steamships, 121-123, 131; subsidies for, 130, 131-134; use of private ships, 120 note, 123, 124. To Cape of Good Hope, 120; Deal and the Downs, 110; East Indies, 120; France, 111, 115, 116; Gibraltar, 116; Holland, 115-117; Ireland, 109, 110, 121; Malta, 116; Isle of Man, 110; Mauritius, 120; Mexico, 120; Portugal, 115; Scotland, 109-110; South America, 120; West Indies, 118 et seq. St. Martin's-le-Grand, 57. Sample Post. See Pattern and Sample Post. Savings Bank Department, 73, 76; annuity and assurance facilities, 74-77; criticism by "Economist," 75 note. Scotland, Post Office in, 31, 32, 34, 59. See also Post-roads, Rates, and Sailing Packets, Scotland. Scudamore, 203-205, 208. Shipping list, 48, 49. Single letters, 13 note. Smith, Llewellyn, 81. Special delivery. See Delivery. Speed, 14; in sixteenth century, 98; in seventee The Riverside Press |