Note 15 — CONCLUDING REMARKS.

The enormous extent of the correspondence conveyed by this Company’s steamers may be inferred from the fact that the mail for India and China, forwarded from Southampton by the “Indus,” on the 20th instant, consisted of 157 chests, amounting, in bulk, to within a fraction of twenty tons, exclusive of 13 bags for the Mediterranean. To this must be added the mail despatched from London on the 24th, viá Marseilles, to be taken up by the same vessel at Malta, averaging 120 smaller chests. Each of the chests or cases forwarded viá Southampton is computed to be capable of containing 10,000 single letters; therefore, allowing that a portion of them is occupied with newspapers, the number of letters must be very great.