and Foreign postage, from time to time payable for the letters lastly hereinbefore mentioned, to be paid by the sender on the tender or delivery of such letters to the post office.

And we further direct, that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight (not being letters transmitted to or from the United Kingdom, or letters on which the rate of ten pence hereinafter mentioned will be chargeable), conveyed by the post between the island of Malta and any port or place situate in or upon the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, the Archipelago, the Black Sea, or in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Spain, Portugal, or Italy, or in France, in the Mediterranean, or any port upon the northern coast of Africa, there shall be paid one uniform rate of British postage of five pence.

And that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight (not being letters transmitted to or from the United Kingdom, or letters on which the rate of ten pence hereinafter mentioned will be chargeable), conveyed by the post between any ports or places in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France (in the Mediterranean), Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, the Black Sea, the Archipelago, the Adriatic, or the Mediterranean, or between one port or place in any such country or sea, and any other port or place in any other such country or sea, all being to the east, or all being to the west, of the island of Malta, without passing through Malta, there shall be paid a rate of British postage of five pence.

And that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, conveyed by the post between any of the last-mentioned ports or places, passing through Malta, there shall be paid a rate of British postage of ten pence.

And that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, conveyed by the post between any ports or places in Spain or Portugal, or Italy or France (in the Mediterranean), and any port or place in Greece, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, the Black Sea, the Archipelago, the Adriatic (whether passing through Malta or not), and between any port or place in the Mediterranean, situate to the westward of Malta, and any other port or place in the Mediterranean, situate to the eastward of Malta (whether passing through Malta or not), there shall be paid a rate of British postage of ten pence.

And we further direct, that, for the purposes of this warrant, the port of Venice, and all other ports and places in or upon the Adriatic Sea, shall be deemed and considered to be situate to the eastward of Malta.

And we further direct, that on every letter conveyed by the post (not being letters transmitted to or from the United Kingdom) between any port or place in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, the Archipelago, the Black Sea, or in Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal, Italy, France (in the Mediterranean), or upon the northern coast of Africa, and any port or place in the East Indies, viâ Syria or Egypt, there shall be paid the like rate of postage as would, under this warrant, be payable on such letters if posted or delivered in Syria or Egypt, respectively, in addition to the Red Sea or Persian Gulf packet rate payable under the said Act.

And we further direct, that the PostmasterGeneral may cause the postage on all such lastmentioned letters to be paid on the same being put into the post office.

And we further direct, that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, passing through the United Kingdom, between any of the countries

or places hereinafter mentioned, there shall be charged and taken, in addition to any Foreign rates to which such letters may be liable, the several and respective rates of postage following (that is to say):

On every such letter passing between France, or foreign countries viâ France, and any part of Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward's Island, or Newfoundland, a rate of British postage of two shillings.

And on every such letter passing between France or foreign countries, viâ France, and any port in Her Majesty's colonies (the above-mentioned places in North America, and places in Her Majesty's dominions in the East Indies, and the Mediterranean, excepted), or any foreign countries, a rate of British postage of one shilling and eight pence.

And on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, passing between any of Her Majesty's colonies, through the United Kingdom, or between any place in Her Majesty's dominions in the East Indies, or the Mediterranean, and any foreign country, through the United Kingdom, there shall be paid the rate of postage payable by law on the transmission of such letters to the United Kingdom, and also the rate payable for the conveyance of such letters from the United Kingdom to the place to which the same shall be addressed; and, if passing through any foreign country, the Postmaster-General may charge the foreign rates of postage on such letters, in addition to the British rates payable on the same.

And we further direct, that the PostmasterGeneral may cause the postage, as well British as Foreign on such last-mentioned letters, to be paid on the same being put into the post office.

And we further direct, that on every letter transmitted, conveyed, or passing as in this present warrant before respectively mentioned, exceeding half an ounce in weight, there shall be charged and taken progressive and additional rates of British postage, according to the scale of weight, and number of rates in the said Act contained, as to letters estimating and charging each additional British rate, at the sum which any such letter would be charged with under this warrant if not exceeding half an ounce in weight; and that it shall be lawful for the Postmaster-General, in all cases in which he is hereinbefore authorized to require the British or Foreign postage to be paid on letters at the time of being posted, to require any such additional rates of British postage, and any additional Foreign postage, from time to time payable on the letters lastly hereinbefore mentioned to be paid by the sender, on the tender or delivery of such letters to the post office.

And we further direct, that such printed newspapers, printed prices current, printed commercial lists, and printed courses of exchange as are hereinafter mentioned, may be sent by the post free of postage, or liable to postage according to the regulations and rates hereinafter set forth (that is to say):

British or colonial newspapers from or passing through the United Kingdom to France or Algeria, by packet boat, free.

By private ship, one penny each.

French newspapers from France to any part of the United Kingdom, halfpenny each.

Such printed British prices current, commercial lists, and courses of exchange, as are allowed to circulate by post unstamped in the United Kingdom, to France or Algeria, one penny each.

Printed colonial and foreign prices current,

commercial lists, and courses of exchange, to France, and the colonies of France, one penny each.

Printed foreign prices current, commercial lists, and courses of exchange, from France or Algeria to the United Kingdom and Her Majesty's colonies, one penny each.

Newspapers between the United Kingdom and Spain, viâ France, halfpenny each.

Newspapers from Greece to the United Kingdom, viâ France, halfpenny each.

Newspapers between Greece and the United Kingdom by French Mediterranean packet boats, viâ Marseilles, one penny each.

Newspapers between other countries and the United Kingdom, through France (those forwarded by the monthly closed mail to and from the East Indies and the Mediterranean excepted), two pence each.

Newspapers between the United Kingdom or the colonies, and the East Indies or the Mediterranean, by the monthly closed mail, viâ Marseilles, three pence each.

Newspapers between France or Algeria and Malta, one penny each.

Newspapers between France or Algeria and any of Her Majesty's colonies, or any foreign country, passing through the United Kingdom, one pennyeach. Newspapers between Gibraltar or Malta and Alexandria, one penny each.

Newspapers between any ports, islands, or places situate upon the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Archipelago, or in Greece, Turkey, Syria, or Egypt (except between any of Her Majesty's colonies by British packets), one penny each.

Newspapers between any port or place in the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic Sea, or the Archipelago (the British colonies excepted) and the East Indies, one penny each.