Her Majesty's Mails / An Historical and Descriptive Account of the British Post-Office

by William Lewins

Conveyance of Mails by Railway in England and Wales, viz.:—		Amount required for 1864‑5.
		£
By the	Birkenhead Railway	2,500
"	Bristol and Exeter	9,875
"	Chester and Holyhead	30,200
"	Cockermouth and Workington	104
"	Colne Valley	15
"	Cowes and Newport	23
"	Cornwall	5,500
"	Great Northern	9,877
"	Great Western	49,829
"	Great Eastern	21,367
"	Knighton	120
"	Lancaster and Carlisle	18,206
"	Lancashire and Yorkshire	6,900
"	Leominster and Kington	300
"	Llanelly	40
"	London, Brighton, and South Coast	1,890
"	London, Chatham, and Dover	94
"	London and North Western	82,416
"	London and South Western	21,620
"	Manchester and Altrincham	60
"	Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire	2,600
"	Maryport and Carlisle	841
"	Midland	35,190
"	Monmouthshire	91
"	London, Tilbury, and Southend	25
"	North Eastern	39,177
"	North Staffordshire	712
"	North Union	4,878
"	Oystermouth	40
"	Oldham and Guide Bridge	20
"	Seaham and Sunderland	70
"	Shrewsbury and Hereford	2,031
"	Shrewsbury, Borth, &c.	2,180
"	Shropshire Union Railway	2,085
"	South Devon	7,479
"	South Eastern	23,635
"	South Staffordshire	45
"	South Yorkshire	18
"	Stockton and Darlington	1,311
"	Taff Vale	1,000
"	Tenbury	8
"	West Cornwall	1,500
"	West Hartlepool	17
"	Whitehaven Junction	364
"	Allowance for probable variation of Awards or Agreements	19,313
		405,566
	The Irish Railway Service (the principal recipients being the Great Southern and Western £30,982, Midland and Great Western £15,208, Belfast and Dublin Junction £5,917, Dublin and Drogheda, £4,485) requires	86,833
	The Scotch Railway Service (the principal items being the Caledonian £28,497, the Scottish Central £13,068, the Scottish North Eastern £12,000, and the Great North of Scotland £7,584) requires	79,754
	Total for conveyance of Mails by Railway	£564,102

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[APPENDIX (G).]
MANUFACTURE OF POSTAGE-LABELS AND ENVELOPES.

(From the Estimates of 1864-5.)

Number of Persons.		Amount required for 1864‑5.
		£
1	Controller	500
1	Assistant-Controller	300
1	Assistant-Superintendent of Postage Stamping	200
1	Clerk	120
1	Superintendent of Printing Label-stamps	175
1	Superintendent of Perforating Label-stamps	100
1	Foreman of Embossing Machines, 42s. per week	109
1	Packer, at 25s. per week	65
3	Tellers, from 18s. to 30s. per week	211
6	Assistant-Telling Boys, from 7s. to 12s. per week	127
24	Boys for working Machines, from 4s. to 12s. per week	433
	Allowance to the Accountant's Department for keeping the Accounts, to the Receiver-General's and to the Warehouse-keeper's Departments	1,050
	Total Salaries, &c.	3,390
	Poundage to Distributors and Sub-Distributors	4,600
	Paper for Labels and Envelopes, Printing and Gumming Labels, and Folding and Gumming Envelopes	18,500
	Postage and Carriage of Parcels	450
	Tradesmen's Bills	400
	Miscellaneous Expenses	500
	Estimate of additional expenditure for increase of business	nil.
41	Total amount required for the Manufacture of Postage-Labels and Envelopes	27,840

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[APPENDIX (H).]

The following important document, published by Sir Rowland Hill on his resignation of the Secretaryship of the Post-Office, and circulated privately, is deserving of careful study, as giving the results of the penny-postage reform up to the latest date:—