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Gazolte under the authority of Government, will be discgolhood from this date but all put is orders and notificatious appearing
J. ROBT: MORRISON, Acting Secretary and Treasurer.
By order,
stonmeres should teach Calcutta in 42 days. Now; lif from this be deducted the proposed saving of time, which is all, or nearly all on this side of Aden, then days, as at present--not in 45 days, as in the case the mail by the steam route will reach, not in 47
of the Hindostan not in 40 days, as proposed in, the improvements now suggested, but in 35 or 36 days. He would move as an amendment that the words "Bombay and Suez." omitted, because, as the re- solution stood,
giving those places too great it was an advantage over Madras and Calcutta.
The Chairman thought the most judicions courge would be to abstain from suggesting any particular course for the adoption of the Government [Hear, hear] An impression had gone abroad in the City that the...... present meeting was called for the purpose of aiding a particular company. That was not the case the only object was to have a more speedy communication with India. He thought the object of the hon. gentleman might be obtained by not naming either Suez or Bombay.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. thought nothing could be more improper, their only object was to impress upon the Government and the Tenders will be received at this: Office for Bills to be drawn by H. M. Plenipotentiary in China, tion, withont at all dictating to them as to the means East India Company the importance of this accelera- on the Right Hon'ble. the Governor General of by which the acceleration should be accomplished, Council, for two Laes of Companys He totally disclaimed any intention of diclating either (2,00,000) in sots of Co. R. 10,000 pay- to the Government or the East India Company. It able at Fort William thirty days after Sight, in was for the Government
and the East India Company exchange for Mexican, or other Republican dollars alone to decide as to the means by which the accelera of equal Standard, payable into this Treasury on tion was to be accomplished. All the meeting had to. or before the 1st proximo. The Bills will be do was to give expression to an opinion which had been delivered on the 2nd, or on receipt of the dollars.deliberately framed, that if it were possible to shorten the time occupied in carrying on the communication between England and Bombay, it would be a matter of the greatest importance both to this country and to India. It was not their object to suggest the means by which this could be accomplished, but they left to others the development of the views which they enter tained. He would therefore read at length the various resolutions which would be proposed to the meeting, in order that those present might understand precisely the Mr. Elliott then withdrew his amendment, and the objects which they had in view. The hon. gentleman original resolution was declared by the chairmanjo bo quently proposed to the meetings then read the various resolutions as they were subse-carried by a large majority,"
By order,
CHAS. E. STEWART. Treasurer and Financial Secretary. Treasurers Office, Government House, Victoria, 9th January, 1844.
ENGINEER CONTRACT. - Notice is hereby given, that Tenders will be received at this Office until the 27th inst. at noon, from such persons as may be will- ing to contract for cutting and levelling ground in the Barrack Square
Chuck- Chew, according to the plan which may be
Some minutes clapsed, but no one same forward to propose any of the resolutions,
The following resolution was agreed to without a dis- sentient voice:
seon marked out on the ground. The resolutions, that it would be better that he should at ing; and that the chairman be requested to transmit
ders are to specify the price required for each portion of ground marked
out, and the number of laborers engaged to be daily employed on it until completion.
EDWARD PINE COFFIN, €. G.
Commissariat, Victoria, 20th January, 1844.
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That memorials to the Hon. East India Company and the President of the Board of Control be prepared and transmitted by the chairman, on behalf of the meet-
copies of the resolutions and memorial to the Right Hoi. Bir Robert Peel, the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Postmaster- General, the President of the Board of Trade, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and to solidit their minence for the speedy carrying into effect of in improvement of such vital importance to the commercial and manufacturing interests of this country."
The Chairman then stated that it had been suggest. ed to him, as no one had been asked to move any of the once propose them separately to the meeting. The hon. gentleman then put the first resolution :—
"That the present arrangements for the transmis sion of the mails vid Egypt and the Red Sea, to and from India, China, Ceylon, Singapore, and Australia, are defective in two essential points, namely, the non- arrival of the mails from India usually until after the outward mails have been despatched, and the non-ar- rival of the outward malls at Calcutta, and other pla. The fourth resolution, nominating the committee, was ces in India of similar distance, until after the depar- then put from the chair, and carried without opposition. ture from thence of the homeward mails for Europe; This committee consists of the Chairman, D. Barkley, that much inconvenience to the public interests results. Esq., J. Cook, Esq, C. J. Hutt Esq., and A. De Ar. from the consequent delay in the interchange of corroyane, Esq., with power to add to their number, to take respondence; and that any wear which proposes to measures for furthering the objects of the meetings and io remedy these defects is deserving of the prompt allen- tion and encouragement of the Government and the the 1st of December next, public
COMMUNICATION WITH INDIA, AND CHINA.-A meet- ing of bankers, merchants, shipowners, and others terested in opoming a more speedy communication with India, was held on Tuesday, at the Hail of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, for the purpose of considering what measures should be adopted for accelerating the arrival and despatch of the overland mails, both to and from The resolution was carried unanimously. China and British India. The arrangements contera- The Chairman then proposed the second resolution. plated include measures for insuring the arrival in Lon. "That it appears to this moeting, that if, by the em- don of the inward mails on or before the 1st of every ployment of steam vessels of superior power and speed month; to allow from six to eight day's interval for re- to those at present used to transmit the mails between plying to letters by the outgoing mail of the same Suez and Bombay, such an acceleration can be obtain. month, thus gaining one month in the communicationed as to remedy the inconvenience pointed out in the with India, China, &c. By arrangen,ents to be made preceding resolution, and give the opportunity of reply in India, a month may be also gained in despatching ing to letters from India by the outgoing nails of the the mails from the east, and these arrangements also same month, not only to London, but the manufactur- formed part of the subject under consideration. ing towns and districts of the kingdom, an advantage of great importance would be gained for this country as well as for our Indian empire and our Australian
The chair was taken at twenty minutes after one o'clock by J. Abel Smith. Esq,, M.P.
The Chairman said he had been requested to take the chair, and the only motive which induced him to do so was the feeling that the objects, for the promotion of which this meeting had been called, were of the utmost consequence both to India and to England. No one who considered the subject could entertain any doubt as to the importance of rapid communication between England and India. One great reason why. Indian objects and Indian interests did not occupy their due share of public attention was mainly the result of tho lengh of time which the communication with India oc- cupied. It must be admitted, and it was, indeed, a dai- ly increaming conviction, that the prosperity of India was of vital importance to the prosperity of England. might be amar di by those who were not acquaint- cd with the subject that the object of the meeting name to accelerate the arcival of by three or four was an object of every portance, but it should be abered that the
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Mr. Elliott agreed with everything that had been said as to the importance of accelerating the Indian mailes, and he should not have addressed the meeting had it not been for the occurrence of the word Bom- boy in the resolution. He had no hostile feeling against the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Company. On the contrary, he thought that a large debt of gratitude was due to them, both from the Indian and the English publie for the exertions they had made to accelerate the communication with India. It was his wish to see them in the possession of such a contract as would enable them to exert their enterprise and skill so as' to secure a rapid communisation with Englan
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A vote of thanks to the Chairman was put and carried by acclamation, and he having briefly acknowledged the compliment, the meeting brokeup. - Colonial Gazette,
ALTERATION Of the India MAILS.—The following important notice was issued on Wednesday by the com- mand of the Right Hon. Lord Lowther, and put up at the General Port-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand and the branch offices —
"General Post-office, September 6, 1849. "Her Majesty's Government having decided that Southampton shall be made the port of arrival and departure for the Peninsular, Mediterranean, Oriental and West India mails, instead of Falmouth, the follow- ing are the arrangements which have been sanctioned, and which will come into operation on and from the 19th inst., on which day the next packet to the West Indies will be despatched from Southampton. The respective mails to be forwarded by the packets from Southampton will be made up in London, and trans- mitted from London to Southampton by the morning instead of the evening mail, as at present, upon the un- dermentioned days-viz:-
"PENINSULAR MALLS-vie Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz and Gibraltar, every Thursday:
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ARDAN — viz., Malts Greece, and the lon the 1st of the month, and the Thursday 15th of the month.
AND INDIA The 1st of the month. INDIA, MEXICO, CARTHAGENA, &C.— 17th of the month.
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