The Passage and Conveyance.
JUNE 1, 1849.
BY STEAM-PACKETS.
Strangers are particularly requested to attend to the following recommendation.—We have always made it a point to delay the publication of our Guides to as late a period as we well could (often to a degree of inconvenience), in order that our readers may be furnished with an accurate statement of the precise time of the several passage-vessels starting to or from the island: but this, instead of an advantage, often proved a disappointment: for perhaps a change of hours unexpectedly took place within a week or fortnight afterwards, in consequence of some new regulation in the time of the railways, or from some motive on the part of one or other of the steam-packet companies. We therefore particularly advise strangers to make inquiry at the local inns, on board the packets, or at the railway or booking offices, in all cases where it is of important consequence to know exactly to a minute.
Between Southampton, Cowes, Ryde, & Portsmouth.
| FROM | MORN. | AFT. |
| South'n to Cowes at. | 3½ 8.40 10.40— | 1¾ 4.40 7 |
| Ryde and Portsmo. | 8.40 10.40— | 1¾ 4.40 |
| Portsmouth to Cowes | 8.40 10— | 2 4½ 6½ |
| Southampton | 8.40 10— | 2 4½ |
| Ryde to Cowes | 9¼ 10½— | 2½ 5 7 |
| Southampton | 9¼ 10½— | 2½ 5 |
| Cowes to Ryde | 10 12— | 3½ 6¼ |
| Portsmouth | 6¾ 10 12— | 3½ 6.15 |
| South'n. | 8¾ 10.40 12— | 3¾ 6¼ 8¾ |
| South'n to East Cowes | 3½ 10.40— | 1¾ 4.40 |
| E. Cowes to South'ton. | 8.35 11.50— | 3.35 6 |
On Sundays the passages are less frequent.
Portsmouth, Portsea, Gosport, and Ryde.
From Gosport at 8.10, 9.45, 10.50, 11.50, 1½, 2½, 5¼, 6.35. From Portsea at 8.15, 9.50, 10.55 11.55, 1.35, 2.35, 5.25, 6.40. From Portsmouth each passage five minutes later.
From Ryde at 7.20, 9, 11, 12, 1¼, 2½, 4¼, & 6.
ON SUNDAYS:
From Portsmouth at 8, 3, and 5.
From Ryde at 9, 4, and 6.
In the height of the season, steamers leave Southampton for Cowes on the arrival of every Railway train,—and Cowes for Southampton in time to meet every Train: and between Portsmouth and Ryde run about every hour from 7 to 7.
From Lymington—the Glasgow runs to Yarmouth three or four times a-day: the Solent every morning to Cowes, whence she proceeds on alternate days to Southampton and Portsmouth—and by suiting her time to that of the other steamers, maintains a daily communication between all these places.
The steamers from Portsmouth, Southampton, and Lymington, tow horse-boats across.
During summer, Steamers frequently make trips round the island, usually in about seven hours.
Regular Sailing Passage-boats.
From Cowes to Newport, daily: the hours depending upon the state of the tide.
From Wootton to Portsmouth at 9 and 4 (3 or earlier in winter), daily: and from Portsmouth at 9 and 2½.
From Bembridge to Portsmouth and back, every other day, or oftener, in summer.
To Poole the sailing-hoys run twice a-week, calling off Cowes and Yarmouth.