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Rh railway accidents. In the previous year, 82 were killed, and 183 injured by railway accidents. The number of passengers conveyed on all the railways in the kingdom during the year, amounted to 85,391,095, being an increase of 17 per cent. over the previous year; value of passenger traffic £7,960,764, an increase of 16 per cent., and value of goods traffic £7,020,695, an increase of 10½ per cent. over the previous year. Aggregate revenue of all railways for 1851, close on £15,000 Sterling, an increase of 13½ per cent. on the receipts of 1850.

gross receipts of the British Post Office for the year ending January 5, 1851, was $11,323,420; cost of management, $7,303,925; net revenue, $4,019,490. The estimated total number of letters in 1850, was 347,069,071 ; number of money orders, 4,439,713, and the amount of them, $42,472,490.

rapid increase in the export of tea from this port appears from the following table:

1844, . 1845, . 1846, . 1847, . Quantities ex., lbs. 1,558,453 9,388,422 . 10,073,578 . 13,313,599 34,334,052 Progressive inc., lbs. 7,829,969 685.156 3,240,021 Remarks. ,

Year of Alum's bankruptcy.

The prices for the black teas most esteemed in the English market, have averaged lower than in any former year; how far these prices may prove sufficiently remunerative to the producers, has not been very certainly ascertained. We exported hence,

lbs. Value at In 1846, .... 10,073,578 £422,263 In 1847, .... 13,313,599 382,019 Increased quantity,. . 3,240,021 Diminished value, £40,244

so that with more than three million pounds of tea additional, the whole export has been estimated at £40,000 less than the smaller quantity of the preceding year.

In green teas the competition with the Americans has kept