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to be sent by either route, which would
dinrinish the mass now
forwarded fortnightly by British Packet.
6.
With regard to the general publie
the Southampton line is of
So
long
as
any
020
real service.
mail route is open, however
disadvantageous it may
be,
some people
mon-
will always post by it, a Jew mercantile persons still send letters and papers via Southampton, apparently under the idea that it is a cheap route, and in ignorance of the fact that, by the sunseeding French Mail they could, for the same have their correspondence delivered
or generally.
sooner
• money,
as Doon,
By the mercantile
classes the Southampton route is almost
entirely disused, as the following figures, relative
to yesterday's British Packet mail will shew:
Ordinary letters
Books
Registered letters
via Brindisi 123th. 1502.
Number of Registered letters Number of Papers
7.
It may
25
Li
10
13 13
83
Viä Southampton. 4th 1009:
4.
"
み
14
2466
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be concluded therefore that,
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soldiers' and sailors' letters being duly provided for, the Southampton be abolished.
&
vonte
can
advantageously
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All correspondence from Hongkong - for the United Kingdom by British Packet_ would then be forwarded viâ Brindisi, no?
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