Note 269 — APPENDICES.

The £45,000 and £110,000 charged for Government postage (exclusive of that of the Post Office itself) for the year 1838 and the present time, do not show the whole amounts received, the charges on the official foreign correspondence being omitted from the first amount, and that for the official bye and cross post letters from both. In the “Second Report of the Select Committee on Postage” (Appendix, p. 115) is a table showing with greater accuracy the amounts received for postage on the official inland correspondence for each year from 1833 to 1837. The amounts given above, however, will suffice for comparison.