Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.IN A POLICE CELL . . .  A msa;.n;o3-70-.ld;nitoirr—t-illridicrad, sod 15 yaw., I.lra IMO MI Monday night charged as ilia Marylebone-:an• Polies Slatiml, London. with being drank while in charge of hie horse and •an, won on Timer lay morning discovered by dm police lying oaths fluor quite dead,baring cut big throat ,wirl2 I nnukathi whiclf Wm Lying bY hi. ms  THE WORK OF THE POSTOFFICE The thirty•ninth annual report of ttes Post coaster-lietx•rel on th• Poet• for the year ended the 3154 March, 1893, has just been pub lashed se • Parliamentary psper. 1. states this the total revenue for Ike yeer was in loom numbers £10,344,000,as compared with £10383.00 fur 18912, being NI increase of only £161.000 Thy expenditut• was £7,518,000, se compere' with £7,134,000 for dui previous year, twine et increase of £384,000. the exPenditure. There fore there was more than double increase in the 'granny. Thil chief item was expenditure on salaries, wages, and pensions, which arsiourityl IS £4,762,000, as compared with £4,413,000 in 1891•4 being an ingrown, of £347,000. Th• soul telegraph revenue for th• year was £2,487,00% showing a decrease of £21,000 se compare( with £2,508,000 in 1891-2. The erpeaditur• for 1892-3 was £2,568,000,as compared with £2,507,00C in 1891, brine an increase of £61,000. The chief item to account forth. 111CrOSIIIM tg expenditure WM £7'  ..75,000 for salaries, wages, pension., &c., end £45,000 for telegraph montenanue, while on the other hand there is • decrease of £59,000 in the cost of telegraph construction. Taking postal au6 telegrepti serous together there 14 an incr.*. of £140,000 in revenue, and an Mayer. 01 £445,000 in etpunditure The estimated number of letter.. &c., deliverer in the United Kingdom in the 12 months ender the 31st March wee a* Lettere. 1,790,500,000, or 469 to each person; postcards. 244,400,000, or 6.4 each pereen • book packets, circulars, and sample., 535,200,000, or 149 lurch person; newspapers, 162,800,000. or 42 each person ; parcel., 52,370,000, or 14 each pursue. 'rhe railway companies rewired, for the conveyenc. of parcele, the sum if £539,442, ahl the share which fell to the Postottice was £612,609. The ougnher of !bum. registered wee 12,132,144, an ire crease of 51,776, or at the rate of 45 per cent. The nombor of trgistered puerile was 448,233, An in. 1:11111116 over the previous year r 4 67.238, or at lb. rats 0( 1765 per owe. 01 the 2,732.900,00( 1.4411.411, in.. delivered, about 85 per cent. were delivered in England and Wales, 25.96 per OWL being delivered in the London posts: cbstru. alone, 997 per omit. in Scotland, and 5 lir per cent. in Ite!and. The number of Put offices hes been increased during the year b; 524, end the aumber of public lettercboxre has been recreated by 1,771. The total numbs' of postuttious has thus been raised to 19,625 awl the number of letter boxes to 25,072. Abow 800 additional !Menem to sell postage stamps heel been issued to tradesmen and others by the Inland Kevenue Isepertment. Of the 6,357,439 letters dealt with, in the returned letter elbows 118,818 were reiseued to corrected adirmare ; 5,565,609 were returned to the menders ; 242,832 were retuned unopened to the postoffices of foreign countries ; and only 429,780 remained which could not be disposed of. The number oh en. delivered registered lettere and letters containing property dealt with wee 208,978. or 1765 more than in 1891-2, and incluied 29.387 letters con. , teining artier:4 of sulticient value to be corm . pulsordy regirtered. About 32,000 letters were ' yoeted without any addresses. end of these 1955 , contained crash, honk notes, cheques, &c., of the Waite of over £5OOO. Of the percale desk with • 91,264 wet. reissued to corrected eddresere oi returned to the venders. The systein. of froward  • . ink letter) by bapr.ss delivery, which has ape been in existence two years, 'shows a groe! in the number of eeriness of 45 per cent., thi aotual number of services being 157,000, es comptred with 108,000 in the prerious year. It will 131, observed that, although this inereass in the number of services ii ounsiderahle,  the total amount of business done is small in cow pariaon with the population, and apparently ths public finds the rapid service by ordinary pow sufficient for must of its needii. An experiment ban been tried at Huddersfield of attaching letterboon to.trsuicart circulating through the town and district, and about five thousand letters week have been collected by this means. As the facility appears to be appreciated, it is in contain. plation so extend the system to certain whet I towns where the collections Can tai convenientis made.