TABLE No. 45.—Post Office Returns, from 1859 to 1869.

NATURE OF THE SERVICE.	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869
Inland Letters	115,806	118,973	136,109	155,227	193,075	224,077	222,593	242,578	297,972	354,253	398,210
Foreign Letters Received	17,346	26,750	22,831	30,059	24,326	26,148	26,438	31,097	35,645	31,452	32,445
Foreign Letters Forwarded	21,290	24,214	28,377	29,709	27,669	28,807	27,772	29,935	32,321	28,666	30,498
Total Letters Received and Forwarded	154,442	169,937	193,317	214,995	245,070	279,032	276,803	303,610	365,938	414,371	461,153
Colonial Newspapers forwarded in Colony	36,251	36,630	39,912	42,927	48,902	51,059	66,233	50,159	33,858	83,053	99,213
Colonial Newspapers from the Colony	8,266	10,419	12,068	12,663	12,000	14,431	13,401	13,680	11,161	11,695	12,491
Newspapers received from Abroad	33,737	70,334	85,766	97,772	65,154	70,313	70,881	77,642	50,158	57,039	82,404
Total Newspapers	78,254	117,383	137,746	153,362	126,056	135,803	150,515	141,481	125,177	151,787	194,108
Registered Letters received and forwarded included in above Return	771	514	805	807	826	788	853	760	559	1,296	2,057
Letters forwardedvidMarseiiles and Trieste, included in above Return	1,882	1,933	2,136	2,177	2,663	2,761	2,868	2,892	3,211	9,453	8,387