An item reported that in England plans were made to increase the communication with China. The connection with Bombay was no to be changed and from there were on the first day of every months steamboats of the East India Company to depart towards Suez with mail, passengers and stored, while the British government intended to supply steamships to bring mail and so on from Alexandria, Egypt towards Marseille, France making it possible that the mail would arrive the 3rd or 4th day of very month at London.
A second so-called direct line was to be maintained by the Easy Indies steamship company which signed a contract with the admiralty for this purpose. In this service was each tenth day of the month a steamship to depart from Calcutta via Madras and Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and to arrive 25 days later at Suez. Egypt was responsible for transporting the mail from Suez towards Alexandria and from was she brought with the steamboats Oriental of Great Liverpool of the earlier company towards Southampton.. So it would be possible to have twice in the month a connection with India, via Bombay or direct towards Calcutta.
From Calcutta was a monthly service with China planned by steamships of the same company on the line Ceylon and Ceylon and to visit Pinang and Singapore. These ships were at Punto Gallo, Ceylon to transfer the mail destined for England to the steamships coming from Calcutta and in return to take the mail for China and other destinations from the steamships coming from Suez. With this measure it would be come possible to send correspondence between London and Calcutta in 40-42 days and between London and Hong Kong in 48 days. The line towards Calcutta was to start next January. With Mehemet Al seemed to be a contract signed to assure a regular and fast sending of the mail in Egypt.
