Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1862-06-04 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

THE POSTHFFICE.  The Postmaster-General's eighth annual report has just been published, and furnishes some interesting statistics on the subject of postal communication in the United Kingdom. As compared with 1860, the total number of letters delivered shows an increase of 29,000,000, and as contrasted with the year previous to the introduction of penny postage (1839) an increase (omitting franks) of 617,000,000, making the present number of letters nearly eight-fold the number in 1839. Upwards of 72,300,000 newspapers were delivered last year, and ',earl 12,300,000 book packets. Less than 1 per cent, of the letters posted in the United Kingdom were charged additional postage on account of their not having been prepaid; nevertheless, at the chief office in Linden, including the amen offices in the Eastern Central District, as much as £35,000 was received last year for unpaid postage. The number of registered letters last year was about 1,5.50,000. The number of money orders issued during the year in the United Kingdom was 7,580,455—in England and Wales one to every three persons, in Ireland one to every eleven, and in Scotland one to every five. On the lath of September, 301 Post-office Savingsbanks were opened in England and Wales. In the interval between the 17th of May and the 16th of September, the regulations for the conduct of the banks were perfected. There are now 1,795 Post 'office banks in England, 129 in Wales, 299 in Scotland, 300 in Ireland, and nine in islands. From a table showing the amount and nature of business transacted in the Postoffice banks, it appears that in the United Kingdom there have been 91,965 depositors, £735,253 16s. 4d. deposited, and 40,650 17s. lid. withdrawn. The gross revenue of the Post-office was, in 1860, £3,389,355; in 1861, £3,530,557. To this sum of £3,530,557 must be added £134,571 for impressed stamps on newspapers (collected by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue), making a total of £3,665,128.  The actual expenditure of the Post-office was, in 1860, £2,983,972; in 1861, £3,154,527. The expenditure pioperly appertaining to the year (partly estimated) was, in 1860, £2,422,231; in 1861, £2,501,013.  Taylor and his wife were brought up for final examination at the City Police Court, on Friday, when the scientific evidence as to the cause of the deaths of the three children was taken. It was clearly established that in none of the cases was death the result of natural causes, but neither the surgeons who made the post mortem examinations, nor the analytical chemists to whom the stomachs and viscera were submitted, were able to form a definite conclusion as to the means by which death had been produced. Professor Taylor, like the other professional witnesses, could only hazard a speculation, and that was, that the children bad been either suffocated, or destroyed by some poisonous vapour, such as that of eLloroform. The two prisoners were committed for trial on the charge of murder. Mr. Meller, the Stipendiary Magistrate, adding.—" The depositions upon the other charges will be sent up, and any course which the authorities may think requisite, will be taken hereafter in reference to them."  A very fine steamer, named the Kersonese,' is now lying at No. 4 tip, in the Bute-docks, Cardin, loading with coo; destined for the Southern ports. She is to run the blockade, or at least attempt it, ant is manned with a very smart crew of picked hands. She will sail from Catdiff in a few.day a, and we have strong faith in her being able to accomplish her purpose.