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Mails between London and Dublin

Parcel Posts

Railway interest promoted by postal communication

General contracts with railway companies

State of the law between the Post Office and railway companies

Application from northern towns respecting Mails to the Continent

Travelling post offices

Postal accommodation at Manchester early in last century

Precautions against injury to officers of the Department when travelling on railways

Distance that Mails are now carried; with cost of conveyance

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Colonial and foreign letters

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As many letters posted in Manchester and its suburbs as in the whole of Russia
Registered letters

Liberia

German Postal Union

United States, Portugal, and Spain
Netherlands and New Granada

Reduction in postage of letters sent by private Ship

Conveyance of mails by Foreign Ships

Improvement in Brazilian service

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British Post Office at Constantinople

REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE:

Gross revenue

Expenditure

Railway arbitrations still pending
Packet service

Net revenue

STAFF OF OFFICERS:

Number of officers

Revision of force and scale of salaries

Medical Report

Qualifications of letter carriers

Decreased illness among clerks in Circulation Department

CONTENTS OF APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.:—
Table showing to the nearest unit what per-centage of the letter carriers in
London, employed in the first morning delivery of each day during the first
six weeks of 1856, 1857, and 1858 respectively, completed their deliveries
at stated times

APPENDIX B.:

Estimated number of chargeable letters delivered in the United Kingdom in the year immediately preceding the first general reduction of postage on the 5th day of December 1839, and in each complete year subsequent thereto; also (in the first year) the number of franks

APPENDIX C.:

Estimated number of book-packets and chargeable newspapers delivered in the
United Kingdom in the years 1856 and 1857

APPENDIX D. :—

Estimated number of free newspapers delivered in the United Kingdom in the years 1856 and 1857

APPENDIX E. :

Number and amount of money orders issued and paid in the United Kingdom during the last 19 years

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APPENDIX F.:

Statement showing the amount of money orders issued and paid at certain
towns during the years 1856 and 1857

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APPENDIX G.:

Gross revenue, cost of management, and net revenue of the Post Office of the
United Kingdom for the last 21 years

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APPENDIX H. :—

Amount of postage collected at certain towns of the United Kingdom (including
postage stamps sold by the Post Office and by the Office of Inland Revenue)
during the years 1856 and 1857

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APPENDIX I. :—

Bill to make further provision for the conveyance of Mails by Railways; with
explanatory remarks

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APPENDIX J. :—

Reply to memorial from Liverpool, Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds, Bradford,
Hull, and Sheffield, as regards a later arrival in London of their Day Mails -

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APPENDIX K. : —

Extract from a Report by Mr. Gay respecting the postal accommodation at
Manchester early in last century

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APPENDIX L. :

Medical officer's Report for the year 1857

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APPENDIX M. :

Medical officer's Report on the sanitary condition of the dwellings of the letter carriers

APPENDIX N. :—

Unfounded complaints against the Post Office

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