"The following tabular statement gives the particulars of the ocean mail service of Great Britain, now carried on almost exclusively by steamships. The numbers in the margin, running from 1 to 15, will point out the different lines in the recapitulation at the close. LINE OF COMMUNICATION, | CONTRACTORS, AND CONTRACT PRICE. | PLACES CONNECTED. ---------------------------------+-------------------------------- 1.--Liverpool and Isle of Man. | Liverpool and Douglas, Isle of _Mona Isle Steam Co._ Twice a | Man. week. $4,250 per annum. | | 2.--England and Ireland. _City of| Holyhead and Kingstown, near Dublin Steam Packet Co._ Twice a | Dublin. day. $125,000 a year. | | 3.--Scotland and Shetland. | Aberdeen, Wick, Kirkwall, _Aberdeen, Leith and Clyde | (Orkney,) and Lerwick, Shipping Co._ Weekly, $6,000 a | (Shetland.) year. | | 4.--England, Spain, and | Southampton, Vigo, Oporto, Gibraltar. _Peninsular and | Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. Oriental Steam Navigation Co._ | Three times a month. $102,500. | | 5.--Mediterranean, India, and | Southampton, Malta, Alexandria, China. _Peninsular and Oriental | Suez, Aden, Bombay, Calcutta, Steam Navigation Co._ Twice a | Singapore, Hong Kong, and month to India--monthly to China.| Shanghae. $1,121,500. | | 6.--England and United States. | Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston; _Sam. Cunard._ Weekly. $866,700. | and Liverpool and New-York. | 7.--North America, (Colonial.) | Halifax, Newfoundland, Bermuda, _Sam. Cunard._ Monthly. $73,500. | and St. Thomas. | 8.--West-Indies, Mexico and | Southampton, Kingston, South-America. _Royal Mail Steam | (Jamaica,) St. Thomas, Vera Packet Co._ Semi-monthly to the | Cruz and Aspinwall; Southampton, West-Indies and Gulf of Mexico, | Lisbon, Madeira, Teneriffe, St. and monthly to Brazil. | Vincent, Pernambuco, Bahia, Rio $1,350,000. | Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos | Ayres, and St. Thomas. | 9.--England, France, and Belgium.| Dover and Calais. Dover and _Jenkings and Churchward._ Daily | Ostend. to Calais; thrice a week to | Ostend. $77,500. | | 10.--Channel Islands. | Southampton, Jersey, and _South-western Railway Company._ | Guernsey. Thrice a week. $20,000. | |