PROMISSORY NOTES AND BULLION.

RETURN to an Order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 1st April, 1844;-for,

A COPY of the RETURNS relating to the Issue of PROMISSORY NOTES in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to the BULLION in the BANK of ENGLAND, directed to be published every Four Weeks in the London Gazette, by the Act 4 and 5 Vict. c. 50, from the passing of the same Act to the present time (30 March, 1844).

CUSTOMS DUTIES.

AN ACCOUNT of the GROSS and NET RECEIPTS of CUSTOMS DUTIES collected at each Custom House, during the Year ending 5th January, 1844, as compared with similar Receipts during the previous Year.

2,437 2 3 2,200 19 2

4,115 4 11

0 0 000 1,290 1 1 000 21,083 2 6 8,956 16

0 0 0
124 1 4
940,895 17 3

5,846 5 4
000

27,763 11 5

9,482 11 3 75,930 14 4 000 11,930 12 11

0 0 0 0 0 0 000 124 19 0 69,288 4 7 11,308 5 2

000 9,794 19 2

000 43,171 10 10 148,049 19 10 32,313 0 4 2,624 14 7 0 0 0 000

621,168 1 3

4,415 10 0

ACCOUNT of the Gross and Net Receipts of each Custom House during the Year ending 5th January, 1844-continued.

ACCOUNT of the Gross and Net Receipts of each Custom House during the Year ending 5th January, 1844--continued.

1843.

POST OFFICE.

EXTRACT from a RETURN to an ORDER of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 2 April, 1844.
I.-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
(Continued from vol. lxxxiii. p. 423.)

manner.

VOL. LXXXVI.

1842.