The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-06 00:00:00

The contract between the government and the European
and Aus'ra.lian Royal Mail Conipan• trvtiles• with the
programme of the mail service to be t r the corn
pane for the ensuing year, was published ou Thursday.
According to the programme the first steamer will leave
Southampton, with a mail to be conveyed via Egypt, on
the 24th of February next ; and the supplementary mail,
via Marseilles, is to leave London on the 2nd of March

next.
The steamer is to reach Alexandria March Bth, leave Suez
on the 11th, reach Melbourne April 19:h, and Sydney the
22nd Subsequently the Australian mail will leave South-
ampton on the 12th of the month, reach Alexandria on the
24th, leave Satz on the 27:h, reach Melbourne on the sth
of the second mcnth subsequently, and Sydney on the 9th.
The usual time allowed LI. replies at Sydney will be f rrty.
eight hours.
The first steamer will leave Sydney with a mail for Eng-
land via Egypt on the 11th of April next. it be due
in London via Marseilles on the 30th of May next, and at
Southampton at midnight on the sth of June. The Aus-
tralian mail packet will in all cases leave Sydney on the
llth of the month, arrive at Melbourne on the 13th, leave
Melbourne on the 15th, arrive at Su z on the 20th or 21st
of the following month, leave Alexandria on toe 23rd or
24th, arrive in London on the 29th or 30 h, and at South.
amnton on the 4.h or 5.11 of the succeeeing month.
The Australian mail packets will stop a day and a half
at Melbourne on their outward voyage, and two days on
their voyage homeward. They will occupy twelve days
between Southampton and Alexandria, three days between
Alexandria and Suez, thirty-nine days between Suez and
Melbourne, and four days (including stoppage) bet Ween
Melbourne and Sydney.
The whole distance hetween London and Melbournd via
Marseilles will be performed in 49 days, and the distance
between London and Sydney will be performed in 52 days.
The mail contract bitween the European and Australian
Royal Mail Company and the government has been ratified
on the part of the company by John Orr Ewing, of Ratho;
Walter Buchanan, of Sbandon ; Allan Gilmour, of Eagles-
ham ; John Sterling, of Kippingdarie; Johu amber, of
Tiolme ; James Galbraith, of Glasgow ; Mel Black, of
Dunnon ; John rfeuldsworth, of Glasgow ; William Cor:10,
of Glasgow ; Thomas Augustus Gibb, of London ; and
Robert Smith and John Pender, of Manchester. They agree
to provide not less than six steamers to perform their con-
tract. These employed between Southampton and Alexan-
dria are to be 1,600 tons burden and 400-horse power, and
those between Satz and Australia are to be 2,200 tons and
530-horse power. They are to p-ovide also steamers to
convey the Australian mails between Malta and Marseilles
of 500 tons burden and 200 horse power. The mail packets
are to touch at Point de Galle on their outward voyars,
and at King George's Sound and Point de Galle on the
homeward one. The A'exandria packets are to touch at
Malta. The company are compelled to deliver the mails
from Sydney at Southampton in 51 days, exclusive of time
occupied in stopping at Melbourne, crossing the isthmus of
Surz, and calling at King George's Sound, and from South-
ampton to Sydney in 54 days, exclusive of similar stoppages.
If they fail to do so, they are to farfeit £5O tor the first day
after time, £lOO for the second day, £l5O for the third
day, and so on. For every day under the 51 and 54 days
respectively in which they convey the mail between the two
ports, they are to receive a premium of £3O a day. If the
company fail to have a s'eamer ready to put to sea with the
mails at the appointed time at any one of the mail ports, they
are to forfeit £lOO a day. The company are bound to pro-
I vide accommodation on board their packets for any naval
officer or post office official who shall be appointed to take
charge of the mailson board. The company are bound also
to convey a cr rtain number of naval and military officers,
civilian-, non-commissioned and warrant officers, seamen.
marines., and soldiers, if required to do so. The stun to be
paid to the company by the government for the conveyance
of the Australian mails is to be £lB5 000 a year, which is
to include the mail service between Southampton and
Sydney, and between Malta and Marseilles. Alpropertionate
part is to be paid at the completion of every entire voyage.
The government are allowed to purchase or charter the
company's packets if they please. The contract is to last
five years. Should the company fail to perform their con-
tract they must pay a Nnal'y of £25,000.

PHILADELPHIA AGAIN TRITIMPHA arrival of
the new British steamer City of , •r‘ the Dele-
ware, has put our Philadelphia cotemporaries in the highest
spirits. She made the passage from the Mersey to the
Delaware in twelve days, which, the Bulletin thinks, "is a
degree of speed not to be surpassed by the Collins and
Cunard steamers at this season of the year." But, unhappily
for our Philadelphia brethren, although they had news of
the steamer's arrival in the river, they could not get her
mails. It was twenty-four hours after her arrival, was
announced before her mails were delivered. It is a splendid

triumph for Philadel-,,hia, to have an arrival with four day's
later news from Europe, but the eclat is rather dimmed by
the circumstance of their not being able to get at the news
after it had arrived.

IMPROVED WRITING INK.—What a delicious treat it is
to be blest with free, flowing writing ink. We have often
been disposed to quarrel with our very finger ends when
compellel to use some of those abominable quesi-fluids
call-d iuk. Mr. E. T. Hull, of South John street, has pro-
duced an ink, which we have tried, and we do not hesitate
to pronounce it one of the best kind we ever used. It flows
freely from the pen, and is amongst other things distinguised
by its affinity and intensity of colour. Northern Daily
Times, 24th Oc'ober, 1853.—501 d iu Bottle=, 6d, ls, and 2s
each.—Adut.

IMPURE WATER.—During a series of lectures at th e
Polytechnic Institution, in London, by Mr. Pepper, on
this all-important subject (whose lectures have afforded
so much interest and instruction), he particularly urged
the absolute necessity of the adoption of some stringent
measures in order to',insure, as far as possible, a wholesome
supply to the public, and particularly cautioned persons
predisposed to cholera infection against the use of water
in its naturally sophisticated state, because all water,
from whatever source received, cannot be free from other
substances, such as 'clay, flinty matter, chalk, sulphate of
lime, nitre, common salt, sulphate of potash, animalculm,
&c., and urged, in conjunction with Professor Faraday,
the absolute necessity of filtration, in order to remove
such mechanical impurities. There can be no doubt,
however, that when the Liverpool water is properly
gltered, it will be found to be among the best descriptions
of water supplied to the public. It is much to be lamented
that fraudulent venders of feeble and ineffective imitations
of' valuable inventions are numerous in large towns and
cities ; we would recommend our friends, therefore, to
inspect the warehouses of (Messrs. Saunders and Co,,
Parker-street, Church-street. It is but justice to their
inventive genius tOpronounc, their filters far superior to
anything of the kind ever offered to the public, being
unique in structure, judicious in development of power
and action, and reduced to a price with the reach of all
classes.
PamesicE.—How much regret, pain, and evil may be
avoided by timely forethought ! If it be desirable to
economise time and money, is it not still of greater impor-
tance to look to your health ? During this inclement
season we strongly advise the use of the Aromatic Spice
Plasters on the chest. Coughs, colds, asthmas, shortness
of breath, pain or tightness of the chest, affections of the
lungs. &c., are effectually relieved, and in many cases
entirely prevented, by the timely application of these
invaluable plasters to the chest, which are far superior to the
common warm plasters, and in many cases entirely supersede
the use of internal remedies. No person during the winter
ought to be without one ; persons about to travel by rail-
road, &c., in particular. 6J, Is, and 13 61 each. To be had
only from F. G. Jones, Chemist, :3, Paradise street, and 94,
London road, one door from Seymour street; where also
may be had the _Horehound and Squills, so celebrated for
coughs, &c , in bottles, is Lad, 24 9d, and 4s 63. Mr.
Jones can show any party interested a number of testimo-
nials of the great benefit derived from the Aromatic Spice
Plasters and the Horehound and Squills, in affectons of the
chest.—Advt.
CAUTION TO TUE PUBLIC.—NO sooner is a medicine well
established in public favour than a host of imitatios spring
up. The Essence of Horehound and Squills, Pectoral
zenges, and Aromatic Spice Plasters, are sold only at 5,
Paradise street, and 94, London road, and one agent in
most towns in the kingdom.—Advt,

AS MANTLES and JACT;ft,;77-, ,ti,,.
SO
very generally worn thi `-iznn.
J. MAC LENNAN, 36, ClltTit. , ~..,:.:.,. h LT,
OPPOSITE PARKER-STREET),
Has made arra gemests to have a Case of Paris M A NTLEg
and JACKETS, in Velvets, Reversible Cloths, and all the
other Fashionab'e Materia's, delivered Every Week for the
next Two Months; therefore, those Ladies desirous of
having the Fashions as soon as they make their appearance
in Paris. combined with moderation in prices, are respect-
fully solicited to inspect the Stock.
JUST RECEIVED, from London, Two Cases contain-
ing about 700 MANTLES, commencing at the extraord.n-
arily Low Price of 4s. i id. each.

SHAWL AND MANTLE WAREHOUSE,
OPPOSITE PARKER STREET.

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