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APPENDIX*
Letters for any Foreign Port or Country to which there are Regular Pac-
kets, will not be forwarded by Merchant Vessels, unless so directed. The
Name of the Vessel, and the Port from which she is expected to sail, must bo
included in the direction of the letter.
Letters to the following places are sent by Private ships only, unless ad-
dressed by some other route: — Cape of Good Hope, Cape Coast Castle, Fer-
nando Po, Madag iscar, New South Wales, New Zealand, Itiver Gambia, St.
Helena, and Van Dieman's Land.
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 Consignee, must be described as such on the ad-
dress ; and in case of Owners, Shippers, or Consignees of Goods, it must ap-
pear by the ship's manifest that they have goods on board.
A penalty of Ten Pounds is incurred by partiesya/seZ^ superscribing a let-
ter, as Owner, Shipper, Charterer, or Consignee.
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES,
With the time of Despatch from Greenock, 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 three previous pages.
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.
Alabama, North and South Slates of See America, United Staes of.
Algeria, postage same as to France, through which country letters are sent.
Alexandria, may be sent unpaid by the French Packets which leaves Mar-
seilles on the 1st, 4th, II th, and 21st of each month, at 5 p m ; and quit
Alexandria on the 6th. J 1th, 16 h, and 26th, at 4 p in ; or paid to destina-
tion, Is 3d, 2s Id, 3s 4d, 4s 2d, and 5s lOd, under ±, £, f, 1, and 1^ oz. re-
spectively, and so on; or unpaid by the British monthly closed mail, made
up on the 6th and 23d of each month, 5 50 p m, unless these days fall upon
• Saturday, and in that case the mails are made up on the following Sun-
day, or paid through by the same, Is 8d, 2s Id, 3s 91, 4s 2d, 7s Id, under
£, |, |> 1, and l£ oz. respectively, and so on. Letters are always sent by
this route, unKss otherwise directed ; they may also be sent by Southamp-
ton, paid or unpaid, on the 19th of each month, 7 51) a m, except when the
19th fills on a Siturday, and in that case they are despatched from Green-
ock on the previous morning. Is 6d under half an oz., and so on. Papers
by French Packet or Southampton, 2d, and 3d by the closed mail.
Astrakhan. See, Russia, Southern
America, British North. To Upper and Lower Canada by British Mail
Steam Packets, via Liverpool, and forwarded through the United States
every second Friday, 5 50 p m, during the months ot December, January,
February, and March, and on every Friday during the other eight months
of the year, Is 2d not exceeding £ oz., 2s 4d under 1 oz., and so on. This
includes the inter-colonial rate of 2d per halt oz Prepayment optional.
Newspapers Id each, to be paid on delivery. All letters and papers for
Canada are transmitted in such mails, unless specially directed to be sent
by some other route. Letters and papers for any other part of British
North America may also be sent via the United States if specially so ijd-