The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

INDIA, AUSTRALIA, AND CHINA MAILS.

The Lords of the Admiralty have just published
permanent tables of routes tor the contract packets belong-
ing to the Peninsular and Oriental Compeny. The packets
are to leave Southampton en the 4th and 20th of the month,
Marseilles, the 11th and 27th ; Bombay, the 4th and 20th;
Calcutta, for England, the 6th and 20th ; Hong Kong, the
11th and 27th ; and Sydney, the 20th ; Port Phi.lip, the 24th ;
and Adelaide, the 27th of every alternate month. The
packets are to arrive at Southampton on the sth and 21st of
the month; at Marseilles, from abroad, on the 14th and
30th; at 80mb..., from Pont de Galle, on the 2nd and
18th ; at Calcutta, from England, on the 2nd and 16. h ; at
Hong Kong, on the 10th and' 4th ; and nt Adelaide, or. the
Bth ; Port Philip, on the 11th ; and at Sydney, on the 14th
of every alternate month. The coaling atatinns of the
Packets are to be Southampton, Malta, Alexandria, Suez,
Aden, Point de G tie, Madras, Calcutta, Si gapure, Hong
Kong, Penang, Batavia, an t at all the Australian ports,
except Port Philip. The following are the number of days
on which the mails arc to be conveyed by the packets to
their several destinations from Southampton, viz., Gib-
raltar, 6 days; Malta, 131; Aden, 22i; Ceylon, 34;
Madras, 38; Calcutta and Singapore, 42; Bombay, 41 ;"
Hong Kong, 50 ; King Georg:'s S iund, 58; Adelaide, 64;
Port Phillip, 621; and Sydney, 70. The stoppage of the
packets, at Alexandria, to wait for mails by other
packete, is to vary from 3 to 8 days ; at Suez,
from 5 to 6 days, •t Point de Gallo the stoppage is to ex-
tend to 5 days. Between October and Marsh the packets
may touch at Cosner, in the Red Sea. Front Miy to
August the packets from Hong Kong and Caleitt:a are to
leave 5 days earlier, and between November and February
they are allowed to reach Hong Kong 5 d tys later than
the above specified time, and 4 days extra is allowed the
homeward Sydney packet to reach its destination during
the prevalence of the ads erse trade wind. The Admiralty
and Oriental Company have power to order the Bombay
and Hong Kong packets to call at other placiv than Point
de Galle, Penang, and Singapore; and the Admiralty have
power to require eke homeward Australian packet to pro-
ceed direct from Kiln °core e's Sound to Point de Galle.
According to the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
monthly list of their fleet and oftierre, just published, they
have 47 shire. 40 rernmandere, 139 chief, second, third,
fourth, and fifth officers, 29 surgeons, 31 pursers, super-
cargo', and tlorks, and 123 engineering officers.

• A mnil communication between England and Bombay
direct is nut ine:uded in tine Peninsular and Oriental Corn-
pany's contract. The communication can only be made,
therefore, rid Ceylon.

APOTHECARIES' llALL.—Nameacif gentlemen who
passed their I' ttlfilination in the se4:oce and practice
of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs-
day, Sept. 1, 1833 :—Win. Younge Jeeves, Sharron Grange,
Yorkshire ; Samuel Thorne, Manchrst. r ; Charles \Vert
Hobert., Bristol ; Fergus Ferguson, : George Kirk,
Middlesborough-on Tree; Jobs Wihigin Dadley,
Patrington, Yorkshire ; William Johnson Dlll6Oll Ilutchiu
1190, Yorkshire.
QUEEN CHRISTINA OF SPAIN and the Duke de
Riaimarce, serompanied by the etiuotems de Cgstillij ‘, the
Countess de Yirta Alegre, his Excellency Don X .vier do
Isturitz, and a numcreu+ male, visited, yeater 'ay, the
Diorama of the Ocean Mail, at the Gallery of Illuatrati9n
in Regent-street.