[214] Including £163,837 for postage charged on Public Departments.
[215] Including £149,202 for postage charged on Public Departments.
_Conveyance of Mails by Railway _Amount required in England and Wales, viz._:-- 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
MANUFACTURE OF POSTAGE-LABELS AND ENVELOPES.
--------+--------------------------------------------------+--------- _Number | |_ Amount of | |required Persons | | 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 | " Perforating " | 100 1 | Foreman of Embossing Machines, 42_s._ per week | 109 1 | Packer, at 25_s._ per week | 65 3 | Tellers, from 18_s._ to 30_s._ per week | 211 6 | Assistant-Telling Boys, from 7_s._ to 12_s._ per | | week | 127 24 | Boys for working Machines, from 4_s._ to 12_s._ | | 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. | | ------ | Total amount required for the | -- | Manufacture of Postage-Labels | 41 | and Envelopes | 27,840 --------+--------------------------------------------------+---------