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POSTAL DIRECTORY.
Postmastee-Geneeal foe the United Kingdom,
, LORD STANLEY of Aldeeley.
Chief Ofpicees op the Post-Office in Scotland
Secretary for Scotland, .
Chief Clerk, . . . .
Solicitor, ....
Surveyors, Northern District,
,, Southern District,
Inspector of Mails,
Accountant, . . . .
Controller of Sorting Office,
Francis Abbott, Esq.
George Gowan, Esq.
John Cay, jun., Esq., W.S.
John Warren, Esq., Aberdeen.
E. C. Burckhardt, Esq., Edinburgh
Thos. Mawson, Esq.
J. Marrable, Esq.
T. B. Lang, Esq.
II. — ClECULATION OF LeTTEES IN SCOTLAND.
1. The deliveries and despatches of letters, &c., in Scotland are, for the most part, regulated by
the hours of the day and night mails from and to London, via the Caledonian Railway, excepting
the counties of Berwick, Selkirk, and part of Roxburgh and Haddington, the south mails for
which, as well as the local letters, are conveyed by the North-Eastern and North British Railways.
The branch posts throughout the country, as a general rule, work from the arrival and to the
despatch of one or other of the London mails, diverging from the various points on the main lines
of communication between Carlisle and the south-west of Scotland, on the one hand, and Edin-
burgh, Aberdeen, and the northern counties on the other.
2. The first, or day mail, leaves the General Post-Office, London, at 8.30 a.m., arriving at the
intermediate stations between Carlisle and Aberdeen late the same night, or early the following-
morning, and at Inverness at 1.55 p.m. The return up mail, leaving Aberdeen at 4.15 p.m., pro-
ceeds southwards from Carstairs Junction with the mails despatched from Edinbui'gh and Glasgow,
respectively, at 9.10 and 8.45 p.m., arriving in London at 10 a.m.
3. The second, or night mail, leaving the General Post-Office, London, at 8 p.m., arrives at
Dumfries, Glasgow, Stirling, Perth, and Dundee, in time for a morning or early forenoon delivery ;
(in Edinburgh both the London mails are delivered together, the distribution commencing about
8 a.m.;) at Aberdeen at 12.50 p.m.; and at Inverness at 7.10 p.m., in time for an evening window
delivery. The return v]:/ mail is despatched from Inverness at 6.30 a.m., from Aberdeen at 12.13
P.M., and from Edinburgh and Glasgow at 5,50 and 5.43 p.m., respectively, arriving in London at
5.5 a.m. There is no delivery of letters in London on Sundays.
4. The postal communication between Fifesliire, Edinburgh, and the eastern counties of Scot-
land, and the north-eastern counties of England, is chiefly by the North-Eastern and North British
Eailways. The trains (convejing also the London mails for Berwickshire, Selkii-kshire, and part
of Roxburgh and Haddington shires) arrive in Edinburgh at 11.21 a.m. and 8.30 p.m., and depart at
1.45 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.
Irish Mails.
5. Letters between Scotland and Ireland are despatched and received by both the London
mails, via Holyhead. Letters for Belfast and the north of Ireland, posted in Edinburgh np to
3.30 P.M., in Glasgow up to 6.15 p.m., and in the north in time for the London up night mail,
are sent via Greenock and Belfast by steamer, leaving the former place at 8 p.m., daily, Sundays
excepted. A return mail is likewise received from Belfast and the north of Ireland at Greenock
at 5 A,M., except on Monday mornings.
Mails for the Orkney/ Islands.
6. Prom the 1st April to the 30th September the mails are despatched daily, excepting
Sunday, from Thurso, in Caithness, at 2,35 p.m., returning from Stromness at 4.45 a.m. During