The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-20 00:00:00

FIFTH ESPORT OP THE POSTMEETEE-
6ENEJtAL.

This morning was issued the fifth report of the
postmaster-general on the poet-oleos.
Lord Colchester divides the report into eight sections,
treating of the extension of the inland service; thenazaber
of Were; newspapers and books; money orders; soloWial
peels; foteiga poste ; revenue and expenditure; the staff of
caws; and " mimellancions" fuss. The report, with the
appendix, occupies fifty pages. We select some interesting
statements.

Lest year the number of poet-offices in the United King-
dom wee increased by 134, making the whole prow:lt number
11,235, of which 808 ere hued post-oftloes, and 10,429 sab
poet-ollicee.

When the arrangements consequent upon the late revision
of oar postal accommodation Atoll have been completed,
(and this has now nearly been done), no house in London,
enter in some exceptional ease, will be more than a quarter
of a mile from a money order office, or more than a furlong
from either a receiving Milos or a mad letter-box ; and in the
neighbourhood of the Royal Exchange, where the greatest
number of letters is posted, the maximum distanoe will be
atoll lees.

To superadd, sa far as practicable, the convenience of a
reoriring-office to that of a road letter-box, it has been
arranged to supply any shopkeeper in the neighbourhood of a
letter-box who, for the sake of the usual poundage and the
inerassed publicity to his shop, may be willing to undertake
the trouble, with a supply of petage•atampe, with printed
postal notices for exhibition, and with copy, for public

reference, of the British Postal Guide. The whole num-
ber of additional road letterboxes put up last year
was 486; making a present aggregate of 1,168. That
the public have largely availed themselves of the IV
increased facility of postal communication In the London
district consequent on the recant improvements is shown
by the great increase in the number of district lettere.
During the ten years previous to 1867, when the Im-
provement. effected, though continuous and important,
were oompandirely small, the anneal rate of brumes
was somewhat lees then a million and a half; while,
!Ithe lest two years, the increase has been as follower
t 1867, 4,239,000; in 1838, 6,270,000; and since the
oreemencement of 1869 the rate of increase hes been still
higher. The augmentation of this class of letters dudes the
lest two yeses hes thus afforded an increase of about 48,0001,
per annum In the gees revenue.
Lord Colchester expresees his pleasure in nothing the ex-
tensive compliance by the public with the wishes of the
Ml=that the addressee of le.tere to London or Its
Itsood should include the initials of the postal die-
trim in which they ere to be delivered; end in its desire that
when, es in the :London reoeiving alum there are two
separate liner bones for different claims of letters, eme
should be taken, in posting, to drop the letters into the right
box. By realism of tate kind on the pert ot the pablie fo
co-operate with the department, the sorting, despatch, gad
ultimately the delivery of Waste, are much expedited.
As compared with 1867, there la in the delivery of lettere
an itemise of nineteen mileions ; and as compered with the
year previous to the introduction of w
pennypostage (1839) an
Increase (omitting franke) of 447 millions; making the
present number of later. nearly sevenfold het it was fn
1889. Of the whole number of lettere last year, away a
quarter were delivered in London and the suburban district;
and, counting there also which were despatched, nearly one
half premed through the London oleos. The numbers of
letters given in the foregoing statements include Mont, and
foreign lettere delivered in the Ceded Kingdom. as well es
inland letters. The great bulk, however, are island; the
colonial and foee'gu forming lees than one fiftieth of the
whole number delivered. The number of registered lettere
last year was nearly 1,300,000; or one registered letter to
' about 400 ordinary letters.
The number of newspapers delivered in the United Kiev
dom last year was about the same es In each of the two pa-
Ilona yews, namely, about 71,000,000. The remark will holds
good that the proportion of newspaper sad books sent
through the post between this country and plows abroad'is
meth greater than that of letters; for while of lelbrs the
portion, es already tested, is lees than one-fiftieth of the
whole, of aawspopere sad books it is about oneesixteeneb.
The amber of lettere retuned to the writers lot year
owing to the failure in the attempts to deliver theta, else
about 1,700,000 , tieing tee same within 8,000 as In the
previoes year. Tiwi Is equal to about lin 300 of therein&
munlier. Owing to the KIM roue, about 670,000 meth-
papers also were unieliveted; being 1 in 124 of the whirls
number.
There were about 7,260,000 of book packets last year
being an Menem of more than one-fifth of the preview;
year; still, however' owing to the great decrease of news-
pipers met by poet eines the abolition of the compulsory
stamp, the total weight of the mails is probably le./ now
than it was four:yeara ago.
Daring the last ear 127 new money order Aloe were
opened, vie., 104 in England and Wales 14 in Ireland, and
9in Peollend, making the whole number, 2,360. exclusive of
two colonial money order offices in connexion with the
United Kingdom. The inmates in the number of money
ordere last year (about 4 per cent.) is greater than that in
1857, though less then the average of the lest five yea;
the greatest increase was in Ireland, and the loot in Scot-
land. The money order system, though now productive of
a large meat in England and Scotland, is still carried on at
a lore in Ireland ; this lest result being attributable in part
to the larger propordoe shore of money orders for small
sumo ; a class of orders which does not defray it. cost.

THE INDIAN REBELLION.—A supplement to the
Gauge of Friday was published yesterday evening. •It
count* of official deepatchee received by the Secretary. of
State for India, and relating to mlitary operations against
the rebels. The dates range over the whole ..f last year,
and it is therVore hardly nose cry to say that the pubes In-
(treat of the &tiffs has become merged fa later sccounta.
Jusice le done to the name of Major Martin, accidentally
omitted from Major-Omen' Sir J. Hops Great's despatch of
the operations of the royalty Milted,. It appears that, so
long ago as the 10th June, 185; Major Munn, of the 4th
Irregular Cavalry, was of great 'puke In suppteliog two
gun. in a severe action at Delhi; that he was under
heavy tire throughout the engagement, and brought his
force fr,,m the geld after the conclusion of the tight. Gan.
Grant, in a despatch datei Nov. 1,
maybepai the Meager-
tenor, and begs that Major Martin brought under the
notice of the Horse Guard*.
THE INDIAN MOTINT.—A voluminous return
has just been Word of the names or numbers of all the re-
gular and irregoler regiments which have mutinied or meal-
freed • dlepoiutun to mutiny tins the let of January,
1857. Much detailed infonnetton is also glum as to the
mot time when symptoms of dissit-coon were observed,
their nature, the number of officers and men pre-
vent with the regimsnt at the time, and so forth,
while remarks are in each ems subjoined by the
cammandiog officer. The Bengal eatehlishment is
taken first. It appears that in all sixty-four regiments on
this establielaroset mutinied or manifested a diepeition to
mutiny. The following are the regimeats of native infan-
try, the whole or a large portion of which absolutely mu-
tated :—The 19th, 52nd, 34th, 7th, Rill, 17th, 37th, 40th,
9th, 44th, 64114 67th, 23rd, 62nd, 6th, 36th &Kb, 61ot,
46th, 45th, 571 h, 14th, 61st, 66th, 16th, 30th, 72nd. In
the Peshawar distric, eleven regiments either ron4inied or
mthifeated a disposition to do so, the greeter number heft
regiment* of native infantry. Eight regiments or puts of
regiments only in the Bombay army are returned in the pre-
sent list as having joined la the rebellion.
Islas or MAN TELEGRAPH. Some short time
ago, announced that steps were being taken for the pur-
rss of laying down an Herter ableb,t,r,en the
the Isle
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