Particulars of the regular Monthly Mail Steam Conveyance, and of the additional lines of communication, now established by the PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

WITH THE EAST, &c.

The Company book passengers, and receive goods and parcels, as heretofore, for CEYLON, MADRAS, CALCUTTA, PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG KONG, by their Steamers, starting from SOUTHAMPTON on the 20th of every month, and from SUEZ on or about the 8th of the month.

The next extra steamer will be despatched from Southampton for Alexandria, on the 3rd October next, in combination with an extra steamer, to leave Calcutta on or about the 20th September. Passengers may be booked, and goods and parcels forwarded, by these extra steamers, to or from SOUTHAMPTON, ALEXANDRIA, ADEN, CEYLON, MADRAS, and CALCUTTA.

BOMBAY.

The Company will book passengers throughout from SOUTHAMPTON to BOMBAY by their steamers leaving England on the 20th May, and of alternate months thereafter, such passengers being conveyed from ADEN to BOMBAY by their Steamers appointed to leave BOMBAY on the 14th May, and of alternate months thereafter, and affording, in connection with the Steamers leaving CALCUTTA on the 3rd May, and of alternate months thereafter, direct conveyance for passengers, parcels, and goods from BOMBAY and WESTERN INDIA.

Passengers from BOMBAY can also proceed by this Company's Steamers of the 29th of the month to MALTA, thence to ALEXANDRIA by Her Majesty's Steamers, and from SUEZ by the Honourable East India Company's Steamers.

MEDITERRANEAN.

MALTA, on the 20th and 29th of every month.
CONSTANTINOPLE, on the 29th of the month.
ALEXANDRIA, on the 20th of the month.

(The rates of passage money on these lines have been materially reduced.)

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.

VIGO, OPORTO, LISBON, CADIZ, and GIBRALTAR,
On the 7th, 17th, and 27th of the month.

N.B.-The Steam-ships of the Company now ply direct between CALCUTTA, PENANG, SINGAPORE, and HONG KONG, and between HONG KONG and SHANGHAE.

For further information and tariffs of the Company's recently revised and reduced rates of passage-money and freight, and for plans of the vessels, and to secure passages, &c., apply at the Company's Offices,

122, LEADENHALL ST. LONDON,

AND

ORIENTAL PLACE,
PLACE, SOUTHAMPTON.

COLONIAL AND ASIATIC

REVIEW.

JANUARY TO JUNE, 1853.

VOL. II.

London:

JOHN MORTIMER, PUBLISHER, 141, STRAND;

AND SOLD BY

PELHAM RICHARDSON, CORNHILL;

TRELAWNEY SAUNDERS, CHARING CROSS;

J. MENZIES, EDINBURGH; MURRAY AND SON, GLASGOW.

MDCCCLIII.

Directors of the East India Company and their Civil Servants

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