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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
home
contracts
dwindle
into
insignificance
before
those
of
the
foreign
service.
The
foreign
packets
travel
over
the
immense
distance
of
3,000,000
of
statute
miles
each
year.
As
the
cost
of
the
whole
service
is
nearly
a
million
pounds
annually,
the
average
charge
per
mile
is
6s.
4d.
The
average
speed
of
the
foreign
packets
is
ten
miles
an
hour.
The
principal
contracts
are
those
for
the
Indian
and
Chinese
mails,
entered
into
by
the
Peninsular
and
Oriental
Steam-navigation
Company,
and
for
which
the
sum
of
253,000l.
is
paid
yearly.
In
this
service,
packets
sail
four
times
a
month
from
Southampton,
and
other
mails
are
met
at
Marseilles
at
the
like
intervals.
A
fleet
of
steamers,
of
not
less
than
1,100
tons,
are
engaged
for
a
system
of
relays
established
in
the
Mediterranean,
and
also
between
Suez
and
Bombay,
Suez
and
Calcutta,
and
Bombay
and
China.
The
Australian
mails
are
carried
out
to
Ceylon
in
the
Indian
packets,
when,
on
arrival
at
that
point,
another
fleet
of
steamers,
engaged
from
the
same
company
on
a
supplementary
contract
of
134,672l.
a-year,
carry
them
between
Point
de
Galle
and
Sydney.
An
additional
line
of
packets
to
the
Antipodes,
viâ
Panama,
will
be
run
in
January,
1865.
The
West
Indian
are
the
worst
paying
of
all
the
foreign
mails,
costing
twice
as
much
as
they
yield.[168]
The
Royal
Mail
Steam-packet
Company
is
paid
the
enormous
sum
of
270,000l.
a-year
for
their
conveyance.
The
North
American
mails
are
carried
by
Messrs.
Cunard
&
Co.
for
the
sum
of
176,340l.
a-year.
Eight
steam-vessels
are
employed
by
this
firm,
leaving
Liverpool
once
a-week,
and
travelling
also
between
New
York
and
Nassau
once
a-month.
Sir
Samuel
Cunard
himself
contracts
for
the
Canadian
mails,
receiving
the
yearly
sum
of
14,700l.
These
supplementary
packets
sail
from
Halifax,
on
the
arrival
of
the
Cunard
steamers
from
Europe,
to
Bermuda
and
St.
Thomas,
and
also
to
Newfoundland.
The
Canadian
contract
costs
less
than
any
other
on
the
foreign
service.
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