We believe that we may give the most unqualified contradiction
to a paragraph which has gone the round of the Radical press, stating that it Is the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to increase the rate of postage on letters to threepence. No intention of making any such proposition to Parliament exists.—Correspondent of the Standard.
Annual statement of letters, 5th January 1842: the numbers given are in some degree the result of estimate, more especially those previous to the reduction in the rates
1.—LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE LONDON GENERAL POST.
Year immediately preceding redaction viz, that ending the 4th December 1839 (Chargeable
letters only) 21,088,000 1840 49,309,000 1841 68,671,000 Increase in the last year's letters since 1840 19,362,000 Increase since reduction 47,583,000
2.--LETTERS SENT THROUGH THE LONDON DISTRICT POST.
Year immediately preceding reduction, viz, that ending 4th December 1839 13,278,000 1840 20,306,000 1841 22,820,000 Increase in the last year's letters since 1840 2,514,000 Increase since redaction 9,542,000
LETTERS DELIVERED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.
(The letters sent out of the United Kingdom are of course excluded from
this account.) Year immediately preceding reduction, viz, that ending 4th December 1839 (exclusive of franks, which are estimated at 7,000,000) 75,469,000 1840 168,768,000 1841 196,500,000
Increase in the last year's letters since 1840 27,732,000
Increase since reduction 121,031,000
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