England Wales Summary.-GREAT BRITAIN AND ISLANDS IN THE BRITISH SEAS. COMPARATIVE POPULATION.* This Return includes only such part of the Army, Navy and Merchant Seamen as were at the time of the Census within the Kingdom on shore. + For the purposes of comparison with the Total of 1811, the Population of the Channel Islands, as taken in 1821, has been omitted. GREAT BRITAIN, .. POSTAGE. RETURNS CONNECTED WITH THE GENERAL POST OFFICE, UNDER THE OLD SYSTEM, THE FOURPENNY RATE, AND THE PENNY RATE. 1.-LONDON GENERAL POST. RETURN of the NUMBER of CHARGEABLE LETTERS which have passed through the LONDON GENERAL POST (Inwards and Outwards) since the first General Reduction of Postage on the 5th December, 1839, dividing the Time, as far as practicable, into Periods of Four complete Weeks each, and distinguishing, as regards each Period, the Unpaid, Paid, and Stamped, and Total Number of Letters; also, a Return of the Estimated Average Number for Four Weeks of the Year immediately preceding the Reduction, distinguished in like manner. 462,647 2,875,427 386,150 2,986,517 423,930 2,980,970 410,399 2,630,895 367,831 2,354,932 337,176 2,288,040 351,234 2,181,296 291,973 2,229,952 308,686 2,201,756 1,671,736 | 4,182,178 267,743 2,119,278 1,910,581 4,297,602 296,285 2,096,097 1,992,219 4,384,601 2,102,281 2 January. 3,004,266 30 January.. 3,338,074 27 February 333,433 370,080 406,173 1,974,684 2,047,120 4,355,237 2,204,919 2,108,074 4,683,073 5,031,452 2,349,958 2,275,321 3,372,667 27 March 435,388 3,404,900 419,984 942,430 3,665,193 1,188,229 3,813,445 1,439,334 3,971,864 1,535,137 4,057,062 3,461,278 23 May 19 June 24 April 449,338 464,697 20 June.. 18 July.. 12 September 10 October 7 November 5 December 4 December 1839. Estimated Average for Four Weeks, Unpaid 1,358,651, Paid 263,496, Total, 1,622,147. The Fourpenny Rate came into operation on the 5th December, 1839; the Penny Rate, 10th January, 1840; Stamps, 6th May, 1840. 485,986 17 July 484,987 14 August 466,264 11 September 479,709 9 October.. 468,896 November 2,449,606 2,722,109 5,640,611 2,266,492 2,762,572 5,440,333 2,290,108 2,802,938 5,498,886 2.-LONDON DISTRICT POST. RETURN of the NUMBER of LETTERS which have passed through the LONDON DISTRICT POST (exclusive of all General Post Letters), since the first General Reduction of Postage on the 5th December, 1839, dividing the Time, as far as practicable, into Periods of Four complete Weeks each, aud distinguishing, as regards each Period, the Unpaid, Paid, and Stamped, and Total Number of Letters; in like manner. also, a Return of the estimated Average Number for Four Weeks of the Year immediately preceding the Reduction, distinguished 1839. Estimated Average for Four Weeks, Unpaid 800,573, Paid 220,813, TOTAL 1,021,386. The Penny Rate came into operation, as respects this post, on 5th December, 1839; Stamps, 6th May, 1840. |