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FOREIGN POSTS. 47
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN MAILS.
A single rate of Postage is given for each country. — See also Alphabetical List,
page 48.
There being no bags despatched for London on Saturday, when any of the dates
for the London, Southampton, or Dover Packets fall upon that day, reference must
be made to the Alphabetical List for information whether the Letters should be posted
on the previous Friday, or on the ensuing Sunday.
Letters for Foreign Countries, the prepayment of which is required, ichen put into the
unpaid box, or left at the office with less than the full postage, are sent to the Dead Letter
Office, and returned to the loriter, when his address can be ascertained.
FOREIGN MAILS.
FROM DOVER TO
MAILS MADE DP VS GLASGOW.
' , . _ ( Daily, except Saturday, 1.20 p.m.
Calais, France, } and 7.20 p.m.
Ostend, Belgium, ----- Daily, except Saturday, 7.20 p.m.
Indian, closed Mail, via Marseilles, - - 7th and 23d of each Month, 7.20 p.m.
'7th of May and 7th of every alter-
Australia, ------ J nate Month, 7.20 p.m., if addressed
(7th i
(_ vl
via Marseilles.
FROM SOUTHAMPTON TO
r ., c . , -,., ,. f 6th, lGth, and 2Gth of every Month,
Lisbon, Spam, and Gibraltar, - - - -j 120
Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, Egypt, Ceylon,) „, , lntl - ,, ,, .. „.
t ,- j ^u- ojri j '^ 3d and 19th, of every Month, 1.20 p.m.
India, and China, ) ,
. , ,. f 3d of May and 3d of every alternate
Australia, - j Month, 1.20 p.m.
1) British Colonies in West Indies (except"")
Honduras), Foreign Colonies in West Indies |
(except Havauna), Venezuela, California, }■ 1st and lGth of every Month, 1.20 p.m.
New Granada, Chili and Peru, Grey Town |
(San Juan de Nicaragua), J
(2) Mexico and Havanna, - 1st of every Month, 1.20 p.m.
(3) Honduras and Nassau, - - - lGth of every Month, 1.20 p.m.
Lisbon, Madeira, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and) Ctl ? i\r «i 1 on
,-,,', , T1 ' ' ' ' c 8th of every Month, 1.20 p.m.
Falkland Isles, ) J
FROM PLTMOUTI1 TO
Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Mauritius, Cev-) 1(1 ,i /•„.„- t\t„„*i, n on
,' t j- a • i/-, i -Jr ,- t loth of every Month, 7.20 p.m.
Ion, India, Ascension, and Cape de V erds, J - *
Madeira, Teneriffe, and West Coast of Africa, 22d of every Month, 7.20 p.m.
FROM LIVERPOOL TO
British North America and United States, every Friday during the year, 7.20 p.m.
MAILS BY PRIVATE SHIPS.
Ship Letters.— The single rate to places beyond sea, when conveyed by private
ship, is 8d. under half an ounce; Is. 4d. under an ounce; 2s. 8d. under two ounces;-
and so on.