The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

PM:PERI/M.—ln the last week of March there wer
8,56.763 paupers in receipt of relief in England and
Wales against 962,201 in 1868. This is equivalent to a
deerea4 uf 96,448, or 1013 per cent. The metropolis
has for pine time past shown • steady dim tion ill
pisuperisin, 53 consecutive weeks of diminished pauper
-
lan having been happily experienced.
THE LoNDOX LETTER CARRIERS.—A return to the
House of Lints gives 110Ule particulars relative to that
hard-worked and ill-paid class of public servants, tlic
letter carriers, or palearian post trotters of the metro.
polis. There are 1,591 carriers on the permanent staff,
their weekly wages varying f i.i 2s. tid. to XI 3s. sd.
The exact time during which the carriers of letters are
on duty, is believed not to exceed eight hours at the
utmost. The average amount of salary yaid to 524
letter receivers in the London district El, 15e. a year;
the poundage on sale of labels, £7 I4s. Gd., and the
average amount of money-order poundage paid to 186
of the letter receivers for money-order business,
! £39 10s. The average number of de,patches from each
receiving-house ii, the day is six, and the number of
reghteial letters from each receiving-house, seven per
week. The allowance to each receiver for fitting up
his place for the accommodation of the public is El.
SeittlTS.-141-st year (1858) 27,370,104 gallons of proof
ViTiti were distilled in the United Kingdom, 6,731,871
in England, 12,403,626 in Maitland, and 8,2.15,367 in
Ireland. Duty to the amount of E 9,195,164 was paid on
23,686,761 gallons of spirits, the duty being at the rate
of 80. and 60. 21. per paha. 6,071,144 gallons of proof
spirits were " perniitteil out" of distillers' stocks, and
ogll
wino
of
outßitr‘i(ll
re'brandy,'ctihestocks., .
2262 of
spirits 1,6
u
gallons of ruin were received into rectifiers
stocks in England. 474,139 gallons of British
compounds and spirits of wine were penuittal
out of rectifiers stocks for exportation to foreign
parts under drawback in the year 185$. The
total quantity of prod spirits permitted out from dis-
tillers' stocks for exportation to foreign parts from the
whole of the United Kingdom was 1,1516,409 gallons.
9,005,536 gallons of spirits were in bonded stores on the
31st of December. 58,911 gallons of 'nett:Ale alcohol
were sold by the Excise, and 518,264 gallons sent out by
licensed vendors.

LICENMED TRADEl4.—Certain trades cannot be carried
on in this kingdom without • licence. The following is
a list of such trades and the total amount of revenue de-
rived from the licences issued by tloverninent —viz., sue-
tioneets, £43,589 ; brewers (in number 40,418). £31,029;
beer, eider. and perry dealers (106,604), £304,668; malt-
Biers (6,157), £11,636; welt roasters (12), £445; dealers
in roasted malt (21), £210; papennakers (326), £1,642;
soarnakers (294), £1505; distillers (22,) £1.963; red,'
6ers (99), £1,636; chymists using stills (182), £110;
spirit dealers (63,255), £660,667; retailers of " sweets"
(9,666), £10,412; tea dealers (114,319), £34,663; tobac-
conists (212,950), t 70,887 ; vinegar makers (61), rs 48 ;
wine dealers (27,446),
068,766 ; postmasters (24,743),
£137,496; stage-coach proprietors (7,013), £10,606;
hackney carriage proprietors (5,474), £5,474. The gross
1 total revenue from all thews licences amounts to
I £1,425,102, in the whole of the IJnitell Kingdom.

NATIOYAL Durr.—E711,311,583 is the gross total
amount of the Mime received by the Commissioners for
the Reduction of the Putmile Debt on account of
saving's-bank and friendly Kicieties from Aligil•it, 1817.
to November, 1858. The gross amount of all sums paid,
to the trustees was £40,939,473. The Commissioners,
in the year 1858, granted £71,197 immediate, and an
deferred annuities. The total stuck at the aeciount of
the Military Savings-bank on the sth of January
was 1:286,120.