Scotland > 1852, 1857 - Directory to noblemen and gentlemen's seats, villages etc. in Scotland > 1852

28.6
POSTAGE DIRECTOEY.
TIME OF THE DESPATCH AND ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN MAILS
IN EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.
This Table can easily he adapted to any other part of Scotland, by a reference to the
Mail Routes, page 266.
a France
h Belgium ....
c Holland ....
d Hamburg, Denmark, &c.
^Peninsular Packet via Soutliamp-
e < ton, Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain,
( &c
?India Overland Mail, via Mar-
/' •< seilles, Malta, Alexandria,
{ China, &c.
rindia Overland Mail, via South -
g < ampton, Mediterranean, Mal-
( ta, &c
, (French Mediterranean Packet, via
"' X Marseilles ....
West India Packets, via South-'
ampton, British and Foreign
West Indies, California, Vene-
zuela, New Granada. Mexico
is only despatched on the 1st ;
and Havannah, Honduras, and
j Nassau (Bahamas), on the
16th. Chili and Peru, though
I despatched by both mails, only
I forwarded from Panama with
1^ the one leaving here on 16th
,. (Brazil and Buenos Ayres Packet,
'' \ via Southampton
Despatched.
Both London Mails
Daily, London Day Mail, 8 p.m. .
(Tuesday and Friday, London Night)
\ Mail," 11 30 a.m. Box. cl.l] 15a.m.)
(Monday and Thursday, London Dayl
t Mail, 8 p.m. Box. cl. 7 20 P.M. )
6th, 16th, and 26th of every month.
Night Mail ; but if they fall on a
Saturday, then next day .
7th and 23d of every month. Day")
Mail ; but if they fall on a Satur- >-
day, then next day . . . )
19th of every month. Night Mail; buti
if it falls on Saturday, letters must >■
be posted on the previous day . )
(1st Service, 4th, 14th, and 24th ; 2d,)
J 6th, 16th, and 26th; 3d, 18th, andf
j 28th of every month, 8 P.M. ; if a?"
\ Saturday, on the previous day . }
1st and 16th of every month, Night'
> Mail ; but if the 1st or 16th is
Saturday, on the following day .
When Due.
Daily.
Daily.
Tuesday and
Thursday.
Sunday and
Wednesday.
7th, 17th,
and 27th.
6th, 23d.
27th.
M
British North America. — Canada,
sent by British Packet through
the United States, imless speci-
ally addressed otherwise ; Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, are
sent via British Packet to Bos-
ton, unless specially addressed
via. New York, by British Pac-
ket or United States Packets
Newfoundland and Bermuda only
sent by Boston Packet
_^United States of America
m Cape of Good Hope
(Ship Letters (for Postage see
'^ \ page 280) ....
('8th of every month, Day Mail ; if a
< Saturday, on the following day, by
( Night Mail _, _ .
British Packets, via Liverpool, to Bos-']
ton and New York alternately, every |
Friday at 8 P.M., except during the \
months of December, January, Feb-
ruary, and March, then every alter-
nate Friday .... J
United States Packets sail from Liver- j
pool and Southampton alternately. [
Despatched from E. & G. on Tues- '
days; if bySouthampton,lst London
mail ; if by Liverpool, 2d do. Let-
ters for United States, not specially
addressed, ai'e sent by the first pac-
ket that is despatched, whether Bri-
tish or United States
?13th, London Day Mail; if a Satur-T
( day, next day . . . . )
If not specially addressed by a particu-""
lar ship, from a pnrticular port, are
forwarded to London by first Mail,
and sent by first opportunity. If
specially addressed, they are sent
accordingly . . ...
6th, 21st.
17tt.
Every
Thmsday.
Uncertain.
Last or first
day of month.