Note 150 — APPENDIX, No. 2.
Reading edition
In 1856 the Eastern mails were only forwarded twice a-month, viâ Marseilles. They are now forwarded four times a-month, or forty-eight times a-year. From and after the 1st of February, 1868, they will be despatched weekly, or fifty-two times a-year. The average number of boxes despatched on the three nights of each month, when the Australian mail is not forwarded, is 178; on Australian mail night the number is 374.—C. P. R.