The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-22 00:00:00

betwe ern differs lit places it t the United Kingdom, 2,838
liters de' livered in the United Kingdom
miles.
The number of 1
during last year w. 5i4- millions, viz., 462 millions ill
England, 48 millions . ire land, and 51 millions in Scotland.
Taking the average t. Voss ghout the three kingdoms, the
proportion of letters to
the population was 19 to each per-
son ; the rate being the 'Highest in England, where it was
22. In Ireland it was telly 8, and in Scotland 17. In
Liverpool the proportion fk' as high as 27 to each person ;
in Birmingham, 28; I\l 'ltrehester, the same; in Dublin,
' 34; in Edinburgh, 36; anal i n London, 43. As compared
with 1859, the total nnmi.'er-o, f letters delivered shows an
increase of 19 millions ; and 1, s contrasted with the year
previous to the introduction of t, e penny postage (1839), an
increase (omitting franks) of AS millions ; making the pre-
sent number of letters consid' IvA bly more than sevenfold
that of 1839. During the last 6 ve years the rate of increase,
as contrasted in each instance N rith the rate in the preceding
year, has been as follows :—L V5l, 41 per cent. ; 1857, 51
per cent. ; 1858, 3 per cent. ; i '.859, 41 per cent. ; IS6O, 31
per cent. ; average, nearly 41 pe. • cent.
The whole number of letters > sow delivered in the same
district in which they are posted ‘49 as high as 11 millions
and a half. The whole number of ' hitters, general and local,
delivered in the London district la: t year was 137 millions,
being an increase of 6 per cent. the number in 1859.
About 1-50th of the letters deliver Pal in the United King-
dom were from places abroad.
The number of registered letters . last year was nearly
1,500,000, or one registered letter to ) about 400 ordinary
letters. This number shows an incr( a se of about 6 per cent.
on the previous year, while the incr vs .se in ordinary letters
was only 31 per cent. Tho increase f registered letters in
the London local post was yet great( sr., being upwards of 20
per cent.; but the proportion of au '.O h. letters is still very
small, being only one registered let to) • to about 1,700 ordi-
nary London district letters.
Nearly 71,000,000 newspapers wee to delivered last year,
and about 11,700,000 book packets, being an increase of
about 450,000 newspapers and 700,C0U book packets. In the
London local post there was an inc-,,ersse of about 300,000
newspapers (or more than 11 per co- at.,), and an increase of
more than half a million book packs Its. Nearly two million.
letters were returned to the writ( irs last year, owing to
failure in the attempts to deliver th( tm , being about 45,00')
more than in the previous year. T; tia is equal to one in
about 286 of the whole number of ratters, which is nearly
the same proportion as that of last yes a.; and three-fourths
of the non-deliveries were owing to ,the letters being ad-
dressed either insufficiently or inoot rectly ; more than
10,000 letters having been posted with out any address at
all. The amount of property found rxi. letters which could
neither be delivered, nor, for want of at ' address in the in-
side, be returned to the writers, was aboi tt £460. The num-
ber of postage labels found loose in the .'otter boxes, bags,
&c., in England and Wales alone was nu. 're than 50,000.
About 390,000 newspapers wers undelivereel, being one of
about 182.
During the last year 94 additional money order offices
were opened in England and Wales, and 18. in Ireland,
while in Scotland, although seven new offices were opened,
six were closed, owing to the small extent of their business.
Thus the whole number of money order offices is now 2,594,
exclusive of colonial money order offices in connection with
the United Kingdom.
The gross revenue of the Post-office in 1860, exclusive of
that derived from impressed stamps on newspapers (col-
lected by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue) was as
follows :—Postage : Eng1and,X2,716,557; 1re1and,X250,443;
Scotland, £300,662; total, £3,267,662. Commissions ofl
money orders: England, £103,923 ; Ireland, £8,516 ; scot-
land, £9,254 ; total, £121,693. The gross revenue properly
appertaining to the year 1860, adjusted with reference to tho
balances due to and from the colonies and foreign countries,
was £3,382,900, to which must be added for impressed stamps
on newspapers, £141,810, making a total of £3,524,710. The
above sum of £3,382,900 shows an increase of £83,075 on

the adjusted gross revenue of 1859, being an increase at the
rate of 21 per cent., as compared with an increase of nearly
61 per cent. in the previous year, and with an average of
about 41 per cent. in the last five years. The actual ex-.
penditure in 1860 was as follows :—Salaries, pensions, &c.,
£1,024,000; buildings, repairs, &c., £45,477; conveyance
of mails by railway, £190,223 ; conveyance of mails by
coaches, carts, &c., And wages of mail guards, £170,951;
conveyance of mails by mail packets and private ships
(when paid for by the Post-office), £4,576; manufacture of
postage stamps, £31,431$ ; miscellaneous, £134,346—t0ta1,
£1,919,011.

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MANCHESTER--Nov. 21.

English wheat firmly held, and business consequently
was limited. Foreign was taken very sparingly, and wag
slightly cheaper. Floor in dull demand, and the turn
lower. Oats declined Id per 451bs and oatmeal 6d per load.
Indian corn and beans at late values.