The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

NEW PLAN FOR TRE WEST. INDIA MAIL,
• PACKET OLFtVICE.
TO COME INTO OPERATION ON THE IST OCTOBER NEXT,

1.-OUT ATLANTIC.-ONE LARGE STEAMER.

Out mails leave Southampton on th'e Ist and 15th of each
month, to Corunna, Madeira, and St. Thomas. Total from
Southampton to St. Thomas, 19 days 6 hours.
REMARKS ON TABLE No. 1.
The company's ships will leave Southampton on the Ist
and 15th of each month, or at farthest, on the following day,
and, so long as they are required to do so by her Majesty's
Government, will call at Falmouth to receive the outward
mails, leaving that place on the 3d and 17th of each month.
They will then proceed to Corunna, where they will remain
12 hours to replenish their coals. They will then proceed to
Funchal, Madeira, where they will remain, without anchoring,
as short a time as possible, to land mails, Sz.c., not exceeding,
at farthest, six Ilqweat,..Troin thence they will proceed to the
island of St. Thomas, which it is calculated they will reach
in about 19 days and half from the time of their leaving
Falmouth.
On reaching St. Thomas, the ship from Europe delivers
all the outward Mails to four steamers there waiting; one for
the Demerara route, as shown in table No. 2 ; one for
Jamaica and Havana direct, as shown in table No. 6; one
for Porto Rico; Hayti, Cuba, &c., as shown in table No. 4;
and the 4th for Bermuda, as shown in table No. 5.
Having thus dispersed all the outward mails, the steamer
from Europe, remains to coal, complete, and refit, after her
voyage, and she will be ready to form one of the four
steamers to assist in the dispersion of the outward mails
arriving at the end of 15 days, by another steamer from
Uurope.
Should the outward steamer not reach St. Thomas before
midnight on the 22d day from her appointed day of departure
from Falmouth, the four collected steamers at St. Thomas
proceed with the inter-colonial mails on their respective
routes ; the out mails in such case being considered missing
mails, to remain after their arrival at St. Thomas, till the
next out mails from Europe arrive and are dispersed.
The average time occupied by the steamers on their out-
ward voyages, hitherto, from Falmouth to Barbadoes or St.
Thomas, has been less than 18 days ; thus 22 days, the time
prescribed for the departure of the inter-colonial steamers,
allows two days above what may be required, and to carry
the fixed detention at St. Thomas to a greater extent, would
only be productive of inconvenience and irregularity, as re-
lates particularly to the next outward steamer arrived at St.
Thomas, after an interval of 15`slays.
' No. 2.—DEMERARA
STEAMER.STATION.—ONE LARGE
Out mails arrived at St. Thomas, as shown in No. 1, in
about 19 days 6 hours. In 22 days, therefore, from the date
of leaving England, this steamer starts for her destination to
Tortola, St. Kitts, Nevis, Mountserrat, Antigua, Guada-
loupe, Dominique, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, and
Demerara. Total going to Demerara and returning to St.
Thomas, 14 days 5 hours.
REMARKS ON TABLE NO. 2.
The arrival of the outward mails from Europe is shown in
the preceding table. This steamer receives all those mails,
or inter-colonial, which are destined for any of the places
specified in tables Nos. 2 and 3.
She leaves St. Thomas, therefore, as soon as she has re-
ceived all her mails; but, at all events, before midnight on
the 22d day after the departure of the out-mails from Fal-
mouth, as shown in the concluding remark on Table No. 1.
Two hours have been allowed for stoppage at each island on
the 'route to Demerara and back ; but as the postmasters and
others will receive orders to have the various mails made up
and ready for exchange kfire the steamer arrives, the re-
spective captains will curtail their stay at each place to the
least time required for changing mails and passengers, thus
gaining what they can at one place to compensate unavoidable
delays at another.
Proceeding thus as rapidly as possible, this steamer will, at
Barbadoes, deliver to a steamer there waiting all the outward
and inter-colonial mails for places specified in Table No. 3,
and go on herself direct to Demerara. At Demerara she will
remain to coal, until 30 days 15 hours reckoned from the time
appointed for the outward mails leaving Falmouth. She then
returns as rapidly as possible to St. Thomas, receiving by the
the way all the home and inter-colonial mails from the dif-
ferent islands, and those from Table No. 3 will be delivered
to her, also, by the branch steamer at Barbadoes.
On reaching St. Thomas she delivers the home mails to
the steamer bound to Bermuda, and if the Demerara steamer
has any spare time before her next departure for that place,
she will occupy such time in coaling, for which purpose she
is to have preference to all the other steamers then at St.
Thomas.
The mails to and from Berbice are to be forwarded overland
[ to Demerara, as formerly.

No. 3.— TRINIDAD STATION.—ONE SMALL
STEAMER.

Out mails arrive at, and are despatched from Barbadoes,
in 25 days 8 hours, to St. Vincent's, Grenada, Tobago, Tri-
nidad, Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent's, Barbadoes. This
brings the branch steamers to Barbadoes to receive them.
Total going from and returning to Barbadoes-6 days 13
hours. _ _