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A Hundred Years by Post A Jubilee Retrospect By: James Wilson Hyde (1841-1918) |
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A JUBILEE RETROSPECT BY J. WILSON HYDE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROYAL MAIL: ITS CURIOSITIES AND ROMANCE' [Illustration] LONDON SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON AND CO., LIM.
St. Dunstan's House
FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C. 1891 [ All rights reserved ]
Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty, at the
Edinburgh University Press.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY CECIL RAIKES, M.P. HER MAJESTY'S POSTMASTER GENERAL, THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE, BY PERMISSION, RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
The following pages give some particulars of the changes that have taken
place in the Post Office service during the past hundred years; and the
matter may prove interesting, not only on account of the changes
themselves, but in respect of the influence which the growing usefulness
of the Postal Service must necessarily have upon almost every relation
of political, educational, social, and commercial life. More especially
may the subject be found attractive at the close of the present year,
when the country has been celebrating the Jubilee of the Penny Post. EDINBURGH, December 1890.
CONTENTS. PAGE Frontispiece MAIL COACH IN THUNDERSTORM. PAST AND PRESENT CONTRASTED, 1 LIBERTY OF SUBJECT AND PUBLIC OPINION, 5 ABUSES OF POWER, 7 SLOW DIFFUSION OF NEWS, 17 Illustration ANALYSIS OF LONDON TO EDINBURGH
MAIL OF 2D MARCH 1838, facing 22 STATE OF ROADS AND INSECURITY OF TRAVELLING, 27 FOOT AND HORSE POSTS, 33 Illustration THE MAIL, 1803, facing 40 THE MAIL COACH ERA, 40 Illustration THE MAIL, 1824, facing 46 Illustration MODERN MAIL "APPARATUS" FOR
EXCHANGE OF MAILS, facing 58 Illustration THE MAIL COACH GUARD, facing 74 DEAR POSTAGE, 80 Diagrams ROUNDABOUT COMMUNICATIONS, 84, 85 STREETS FIRST NUMBERED, 88 POSTMASTERS AS NEWS COLLECTORS, 91 Illustration THE BELLMAN, facing 92 MAIL PACKET SERVICE, 96 Illustration HOLYHEAD AND KINGSTOWN PACKET
"PRINCE ARTHUR," facing 102 PENNY POSTAGE, 111 Illustration HANDBILL USED IN PENNY POSTAGE
AGITATION, facing 112 VARIOUS BUSINESS OF THE POST OFFICE, 119 STAFF OF THE POST OFFICE, 123 Illustration TONTINE READING ROOMS
GLASGOW, facing 126 VALUE OF EARLY NEWS BY POST, 130 DIFFUSION OF PARLIAMENTARY NEWS BY THE TELEGRAPH
AND PRESS, 136 RESULTS OF RAPID COMMUNICATIONS, 139
[Illustration: Frontispiece. MAIL COACH IN THUNDERSTORM.
( From a print, 1827. )]
A HUNDRED YEARS BY POST.
Were a former inhabitant of this country who had quitted the stage of
life towards the close of last century to reappear in our midst, he
could not fail to be struck with the wonderful changes which have taken
place in the aspect of things; in the methods of performing the tasks of
daily life; and in the character of our social system generally. Nor is
it too much to say that he would see himself surrounded by a world full
of enchantment, and that his senses of wonder and admiration would rival
the feelings excited in youthful minds under the spell of books like
Jules Verne's Journey to the Moon , or the ever entertaining stories of
the Arabian Nights . It is true that he would find the operations of
nature going on as before. The dewdrop and the blade of grass, sunshine
and shower, the movements of the tides, and the revolutions of the
heavenly bodies; these would still appear to be the same... Continue reading book >>
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