The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-22 00:00:00

7HE POST-OFFICE.

The business of the Post-office, as all the world knows, is
constantly expanding. In 1861-2 the amount of postage
collected by country post masters was £129,658, against
£132,403 in 1860-1; the amount collected in the metropo-
lis in 1861-2 was £114,190, against £114,098 in 1860-1; the
amount charged against public departments in 1861-2 was
£177,941, against £155,915 in 1860-1; the amount collected
by postmasters and agents abroad in 1861-2 was £180,796,
against £lOB,lBO in 1860-1; the amount of the stamps
charged to postmasters in 1861-2 was £2,235,525, against
£2,128,080 in 1860-1; the amount of the stamps charged to
Inland Revenue office in 1861-2 was £666,583, against...
£647,029 in 1860-1 ; the commission on money orders rev,:
lised in 1861-2 £130,510, against £122,733 in 1860-1; and
the miscellaneous receipts in 1861-2 amounted to £14,181,
against £14,615 in 1860-1. The total receipts in 1862, after
deducting £16,789 for returned, refused, and missent let-
ters, were consequently £3,552,696, against £3,407,063
(after deducting £16,020 for returned, refused, and missent
letters) in 1860-1, The balances and bills outstanding March
31, 1861, amounted to £196,604, against £276,824, March
31, 1860; and the advances out of revenue for Noted ser-
vices were X 568,763 in 1861-2, against £481,480 in 1860 -1. As
regards the expenses incurred by the department, the chief
offices in London, Dublin, and Edinburgh figured in 1861-2
for £524,513, against £488,921 in 1860-1; the surveyors of
the United Kingdom for £11,150 in 1861-2, against £11,151
in 1860-1; the provincial establishments in England and
Wales for £131,414 in 1861-2, against £450,776 in 1860-1;.
the Irish establishments: for £50,097 in 1861-2, against.
£50,908 in 1860-1; the Scottish establishments for £69,160
in 1861-2, against £72,039 in 1860-1; the establishments in
the colonies and agents abroad for £12,758 in 1861-2, against
£16,070 in 1860-1; the conveyance of mails in the United
Kingdom for £853,907 in 1861-2, against 758,546 in 1860-1;
buildings and repairs for £65,460 in 1861-2, against £51,319
in 1860-1; and the manufacture of postage labels for £27,475
in 1861-2, against £27,129 in 1860-1. There are the home
postal charges properly so-called, and their gross amount
was £2,078,934 in 1861-2, against £1,937,100 in 1860-1;
the greatest economy appears to be observed with regard to
establishment expenses, which were reduced in 1861-2 as
compared with 1860-1, the general increase of expenditure
arising wholly in the additional outlay incurred in the car-
riage of mails. The packet service, which was formerly
included in the Navy Estimates, now figures in the Post-
office accounts, and the amount expended under the head, of
contracts was £932,914 in 1861-2, against £1,038,961 in
1860-1, while "other expenses' amounted to £12,629 in.
1861-2, against £3,682 in 1860-1. The non-effective charges
of the packet services were £17,871 for superannuation
allowances in 1861-2, against £44,987 in 1860-1, and £4,632
for compensation allowances in 1861-2, against £4,147 in
1860-1. The balances and bills outstanding March 31,
1862, amounted to £535,667, against £196,604 outstanding
March 31, 1861, and the advances out of revenue for voted
services were £272,395 in 1861-2, against £568,763 in
1860-1.

PLYMOUTH, Friday. The steamship Golden
Fleece brought up in Mount's Bay on Thursday afternoon,
with boilers injured and under jurymasls, having left Cal-
cutta on the 25th May, and the Cape of Good Hope on the
22d Sept. She was detained in Simon's Bay by the injuries
she received in the severe gales encountered on her passage
from India—her captain, it will be remembered, being
killed by an accident during these gales. She brings a few
whome2lsadl late
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minister,
Master, s Lieut.altesn
mails, and about CO passengers, among
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T. 0. Underwood, Madras Army; Lieut. F. Pierson. R.A ;
G7Ltirheeuent Fy
engineer
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Lieut,
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Claxton,
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AxSitiaot Salmon,
Capt. J. Smith,
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Royal ; Capt. Russell, Madras Army;
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leers; Lieut. T. htoorshead, 7th Royal Fusilegers ;
Her news from the Cape has been forestalled by the arrival
of the Union Company's Cape Royal Mai
which reached Plymouth three weeks n
leaving Table Bay on the same day as
the
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left Simon's Bay, the delay of the latter vessel being occa-
sioned by her disabled condition. A letter by the Golden
Fleece speaks of the gale (reported by the Norman as prevail-
ing at the Cape on Sept. 21 and 22) as terrificond confirms the
report of the total loss of the brig Susan, laden for Walwick
Bay, and the American bark Lucy Johanna. The Swedish.
ship Amphitrite also had a narrow escape, and owed her
preservation to the prompt assistance rendered her by the
Port Captain and her agents (Anderson, Saxon, and Co.)
LINCOLN'S INN, Nov. 17, 1862.—The uni4er-
mentioned gentlemen were this day called to the degree of
barrister-at-law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn,
viz. : Edward Gilbert Herbert, Esq., LL.B., London.
(holder of the Studentship of Michaelmas Term, 1862) ;
Thomas George Fardell, Esq., 8.A., Oxford; George
Moody, Esq., M.A., Cambridge ; John Ross Coulihart,
Esq. ; John Booth, Esq., M,A., Oxford; Edward Howorth
Allen, Esq., 8.A., Oxford ; John Knill Jope lichens,
Esq., M.A., Oxford ; Thomas Tindal Methold, Esq., 8.A.,
Cambridge; Edward John Foster, Esq., 8.A., Oxford;.
Marshall Hall, Esq. ; Horace Waddington, Esq., Mc.aAna:
Oxford ; George Isaac Foster Cooke, Esq.,
AB.A()xford ;
Cam-
bridge; Clifford Evans Fowler Nash,
Esq" Oxfordß.i' ; Ken-
Walter Morshead, Esq , B.C.L. and M.
en; Burrell, Esq
yon Charles Shirecliffe Parker,
Pugh Evans, Esq., M.A.,
Oxford;
Lloyd Murray
rrayßrowne,
8.A., Cambridge; and Thomas
8.A., Oxford ; Woodyer MerrickciBB:ll.
jucr4akmtoensY,SEterslqin. ;g,LEeswgi's
Esq., 8.A., Oxford.
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that
catastrophe had caused the failure of several
"maim at Bologna and Ancona.