LETTERS RECEIVED AND DESPATCHED.
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APPENDIX No. ILL
Return showing the Number of Letters Received and Despatched by theExecutive Committee from October 1849, to the close of the Year 1851,
Numukr op Letters
Year.
Month.
Registered as
Despatched,
Amount Paid for Postaob
Received.
including Circulars.
and Parcels.
Per Month.
£.
s .
d .
£.
s.
d .
1849
October -
80
55
6
13
8
November
J 77
150
9
2
XI
December
762
1,019
1,103
1,308
20
6
6
36
3
I
1850
January -
458
6ri
12
0
7
February
503
55 °
6
r 9
I
March
630
2,368
48
'7
1
April - -
1,012
2,100
43
'5
8
May - -
1,101
4,600
68
I I
2
J une - -
682
3,087
47
18
r
July - -
630
1,868
24
4
9
August
445
1,944
2,306
26
8
11
September
649
23
2
0
October -
1,466
2,658
27
4
n
November
1 > 3 7 1
3,992
39
5
5
December
1,922
10,869
2,906
28,990
39
5
i
407
9
1851
January -
3,279
5 , 55 »
11,250
78
6
7
February -
13,951
97
l6
10
March
6,200
9,843
69
O
11
April - -
4,032
7,737
74
14
8
May - -
2 , 54 i
6,470
44
25
I
June - -
D 775
7,09°
46
18
7
July - -
1 > 77 °
2,833
12,352
81
12
6
August -
14,253
J 22
II
7
September
2,560
7,614
36,483
67
3
5
October -
6,539
276
3
2
November
2,423
3,004
41
11
I
December
515
40,025
1,286
131,333
r 9
4
I
O '
O
i-i
18
6
Total - -
51,923
161,631
-
-
-
1,463
14
4
The greatest number registered on the same day was 522, on the 1st March 1851, during thecorrespondence relative to space and arrangement. The greatest number despatched was 7,835, on theyth October 1851, when sending out cards of admission to Exhibitors and others for the closing of theExhibition.
Arrangements were sanctioned by the Postmaster-General to have bags made np and despatcheddirect to the General Post Office three times a-day. To give the public, Exhibitors, and others, whohad business to transact, the benefit of this arrangement, a letter-box was fixed in the Transept, inwhich, on an average, 400 Letters a-day were deposited. The letter-box used for this purpose formedpart of the Belgian Exhibition, being an ornamental cast iron one, such as is in common use in thestreets of the towns of Belgium and other countries on the Continent. (Official Catalogue, Bel-gium, 363.)
James J. Wade, llcyistrar.
N.B.—In addition, the number of Letters Received and Despatched from the Office of the Royal Com-missioners to the same date was:—
Received.
Despatched,
1850 -
740
00
O
1851 -
- 820
1,176
Total -
- 1,560
1,956
II. R. Lack.