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48 FOREIGN POSTS.
Letters for any Foreign Port or Country, to which there are Regular Packets, will
not be forwarded by Merchant Vessels, unless so directed.
Owners, Consignees, or Charterers (resident in the United Kingdom), and the
Owners, Consignees, and Shippers of Goods on board vessels inward-bound, are
entitled to receive their letters free from sea postage, to the extent of six ounces.
In case of vessels from Ceylon, Mauritius, the East Indies, and the Cape of Good Hope,
the privilege extends to twenty ounces in weight. The Owner, Charterer, or Con-
signee, must be described as such in the address; and in case of Owners, Shippers,
or Consignees of Goods, it must appear by the ship's manifest that they have goods
on board.
A penalty of Ten Pounds is incurred by parties falsely superscribing a letter as
Owner, Shipper, Charterer, or Consignee.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
WITH THE TIME OF DESPATCH FROM GLASGOW, RATES OF POSTAGE, AND
ROUTES OF MAILS.
Newspapers must be posted within Seven Days of the date of publication, and the
postage in every instance prepaid.
For General Abstract of the Foreign Packet Stations, see previous page.
A List of Cities and Principal Places throughout the World loill be found at page 60.
Abyssinia, no regular mails. Letters should be sent to the care of an agent at
Malta or Aden.
Africa. To places not mentioned in this list there is no regular conveyance.
Letters and papers are forwarded as opportunities offer by private ships. Postage,
8d. under | oz., Is. 4d. under 1 oz., &c. Newspapers to British settlements, Id.
each; to other places, excepting Algeria, 2d. each.
Africa, West Coast of, except Madeira and Teneriffe, which see, payment obligatory,
via Plymouth on the 22d of each month, 7 20 p.m., Is. under J oz., 2s. under 1 oz.,
&c. Newspapers (except to Bathurst, Cape Coast Castle, and Sierra Leone, which
are free), 2d. each.
Alabama, North and South States of. See America, United States of.
Algeria, postage same as to France, through which country letters are forwarded.
Alexandria, via Marseilles, unless otherwise addressed, 7th and 23d cf each month,
7.20 p.m., unless these days fall upon a Saturday, in that case the mails are made
up on the following day, Is. 8d., 2s. Id., 3s. 9d., 4s. 2d., 7s. Id, under J, ^, f, 1,
and 1^ oz. respective!}'; or, via Southampton, 3d and 19th of each month, 1.20 p.m.,
except when the 3d and 19 th falls on a Saturday, and in that case they are de-
spatched from Glasgow on the previous morning, Is. 6d. under J oz., and so on;
or by French packet, via Marseilles, 18th and 29th of each month, 7.20 p.m.,
Is. 3d., 2s. Id., 3s. 4d\, 4s. 2d., 5s. 10d., under J, J, f, 1, and lj oz. respectively.
Prepayment optional by all the routes. Newspapers by French packet, or South-
ampton, 2d., and 3d. via Marseilles.
Astrakhan. See Russia.
America, United States of, payment optional, by British Mail Steam Packets from
Liverpool, ever}- Friday, 7.20 p.m., alternately to Boston and New York. These
packets return at similar periods from Boston and New York; Is. not exceeding
\ oz., and so on; or by United States Packet, via Southampton, at the same
rates. Letters addressed " By Private Ship," may also be sent by any outward-
bound vessel; postage 8d. not exceeding ^ oz. Letters may also be forwarded
by the "United States Contract Packets;" Newspapers, by Packet, Id. each; by
Private Ship, 2d. each. Note. — All Letters addressed to the United States, and
not directed to be otherwise sent, will be transmitted by the first packet, whether
British or United States, which is despatched after they are posted; but letters
specially directed " by British Packet," " by United States Packet," or by any par-
ticular vessel named, will be forwarded in accordance with the desire thus expressed
by the writers. The British Mail Packets on the New York line, will proceed direct
from Liverpool to New York, and from New York to Liverpool, without calling at
Halifax. Letters and Newspapers, however, for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and