Note 655 — VIII CONCLUSION
Reading edition
The following particulars relate to the British Packet Service in 1860:—
Packets.Contract Payments.Other Payments.Sea Postage.Profit or Loss.
££££
Dover and Calais}18,6004,10079,000+56,300
Dover and Ostend
Peninsular5,0008004,000-1,800
North American189,500400112,000-77,900
West Indian}
Pacific293,5008,900103,600-198,800
Brazilian
West Coast of Africa30,000—4,500-25,500
Cape of Good Hope38,000—9,300-28,700
Australian90,2004,30030,300-64,200
East Indian163,00017,300111,000-69,300
On the whole service the figures were827,80035,800453,700-409,900
—Annual Report of the Postmaster-General, 1860, Appx. H, pp. 34-7.