Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1859 Excerpt: ... THE EARL OF HARDWICKE. As in the instance of his immediate predecessor in the office, the Lord Privy Seal in the Earl of Derby's administration had previously occupied ministerial rank in the more responsible position of her Majesty's Postmaster-General. It is observable, moreover, in regard to the Lord Privy Seal of 1858, that, although six years ago entirely new to office as a minister of the Crown, the noble earl then displayed those business capacities, and that general sagacity as an administrator, which enabled him during ten months to preside most creditably to himself over the delicate and complicated machinery of our vast postal organization. True, doubtless, that the nominal and ostensible chief at St. Martin's-le-Grand is relieved from considerable anxiety by that extraordinary aptitude for his position which constitutes Secretary Rowland Hill (among all the officials upon our various governmental establishments) the very archetype and model specimen of "the right man in the right place:" yet a statesman of less shrewd perceptions than Lord Hardwicke might have failed to appreciate so very readily those high qualities, that instantaneous grasp of detail, that instinctive tact in combination, which render the author of the penny postage the genius loci at that central point in the perpetually whirling maze, hither and thither, of the million atoms of the world's correspondence. Whatever difficulties it may have encountered elsewhere, the new system, inaugurated by the regime of Rowland Hill, certainly found no obstructive in the person of the Postmaster-General under Lord Derby's first administration. The Right Honourable Charles Philip Yorke, fourth Earl of Hardwicke, born fifty-nine years ago, on the 2nd of April, 1799, was the eldest son of the...
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