The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-22 00:00:00

THE INDIAN AND AUSTRALIAN MAIL

SERVICE.

The schedule showing the proposed movements of
the contrast mall steam packet, of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company a the bi-monthly
postal asinine with India, China, Australia, sic, for the
year 1863, which has been anticipated with so much interest
by the commercial public, was published yesterday.
According to this schedule the India end China mails
will be despatched from Southampton ea the 4th and 20th
of each month neat year; and the Australian mails en the
4th of every alternate month. The first India and China
mail, under the new contract, will be despatched from
Southampton on the 20th January nest, and the first Aus-
tralian mail on the 4th of March next. The first mail from
India and China will be due at Soathiunpton on the 20th
of February next, and the first Australian mail on the 6th
of April next. The first mail, under the new contract, will
leave Hong Hong on the 28th of this month, and Calcutta
on the 6th, and Sydney on the 20th of nest mouth.
The new mail packet scheme, as developed in the sche-
dule, is divided into four main lines and a branch line.
Line lis called the Alexandrian line. Line 2 the Suez and
Calcutta line. Line 3 the Bombay and China line. Line 4
the Singapore and Sydney. The branch line belongs to
line 1, and is called the Marseilles and Malta line.
The following are the ports at which the Peninsular and
Oriental mail packets will touch under the new contract,
viz , Southampton, Gibraltar, Marseilles, Malta, Alexan-
dria, Suez, Men, Gallo, Bombay, Madras, Calcutta,
Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Batavia, King George's
Bound, Adelaide, l'ort Philip, and Sydney.
The time occupied in a letter reaching Gibraltar by the
new schema will be 6 days, Malta 10, Alezaudria 14, Sues
17, Aden 22, Ceylon 34, Madras 38, Calcutta 42, Penang 40,
Singapore 42, Hong Kong 50, Batavia 46, King George's
Bound 68, Adelaide 64, Port l'hilip 67, and Sydney 70 days.
The blarstilles and Huila packet will leave Mane ill!. on
the llth and 27th of each month, and Malta aboat the 10th
and 26th of the month.

---ili;iii will ;;;Alombay about the 2ed and 18th of
each month, and will be despatched from Bombay about the
Ith and 20th of the month.

ELEcTIoN REcooNtsANcEs.—Tho followiog are
'sported u being unobjectionable :—Cork election, Carlow
eouety, Ennis election, Liverpool election, Westmeath
election, Sligo and Sligo county election, and Louth
election.

:lit Court.

OSBORNE, TUESDAY.
Her Majesty, Prince Albert, the l'rince of Lei-
minima, and the royal children were out in the grounds
yee. rday.
The Court will leave Osborne to-morrow for Windsor
Castle.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office
from the Governors of the North American Provinces and
the Governor of Victoria.

(IPROM LAST OAZETT2
FonkioN-orrice, lire. 10.—The Queen line been
graciously pleased to appoint Wyndham Moreton Dyer,
Esq., to he her Majesty's Consul at Mobile.
FOIMIGN-OFFICE, Dee. 14.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to appoint Bridges Tajlor, Esij , to be
hie Majesty's Consul for Denmark and the ()resound ; also
beers graciously pleased to appoint George Harris, Esq., to
be her Msjestes Consul General in the Lombardo-Venetian
filmes and the Austrian territories on the Adriatic.

FORZION-OFFICE:i/EC. 16.1fi1741;;;7;a4 been
grsciously pleased to appoint (Jorge Canning Backhoww,
E.q., to be her Majesty's Judge in the Mined Court est.ib.
balled at the Havanna. under the treaty of the 28th June,
1815, between Greet Britain and Spain, fur the abolition of
the slim trade, in the room of James Kennedy, Eq.,
retired.

}ORM:N-OMM DEc. 20. —The Qum' has been
pleased to approve of Mr. Juba Oreig as consul at the Cape
of Good Hope for the Sublime Ottoman Porte.
DOWNING-STRIiET, Lac. 2l.—The Queen has been
pleated to appoint Adam Murray Alexander, Esq., to be
Second Pulsar Judge of the Colony ut British Gui.na.

NEW DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS.
Towels HAMLETS.
Major William Lewis Grant.
BERKS.
Robert Gibson, Esq., and the Hon. George William Bar-
rington.
MID-LOTHIAN.
The Right Hon. Henry Viscount Melville, K.C.B.

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