The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-23 00:00:00

MAIL PACKET SUBSIDIES.

Mr. SEELY carried his motion to refer to a Select
Committee the contract made by the late Govern-
ment with the Messrs. Cunard and the Inman Com-
panies for the carriage of mails to the United States.
Throughout the speech of the hon. member was
plainly marked by animus against a company which
has done more within late years to uphold England's
nautical fame in America than the British fleet.
The contract had been cut to the lowest point by
the close shaving of the Conservative Government;
indeed to so low a figure that these two great com-
panies could not have accepted it, had not the
exigencies of their position compelled them to
kee p afloat the finest fleets, toward s the maintenance of
which the trifle offered by the Government was but a
help. The interference of Mr. SEELY appears to be
wholly uncalled for, and had Parliament fully un-
derstood the circumstances, the agreement made by
the late Postmaster-General would have been
heartily concurred in. What Mr. SEELY wants is
what we all desire—to get something for nothing.
It would be very nice if the Cunard and the In-
man, the North German Lloyd, and the Hamburgh
and American Companies, would, without expense
to the national exchequer, keep vessels steaming
across the ocean, at 13 and 14 knots an hour, carrying
our mails, and forcing their way in spite of sea or
weather. He seems to think that the nation can
1 get them to do so for nothing, an error which will
soon be exploded. The Hamburgh line, which he
justly says, have some of the fastest boats afloat, for
a period ceased to touch at Southampton, when the
subsidy was withdrawn, yet the hon. member dis-
cusses their vessels as if the Government could com-
mand them without payment. Mr. SEELY'S speech is
replete with erroneous statements. The subsidy paid
to companies and the postal rate have no connec-
tion. The nation may gain or lose; it may be more
profitable to have a high than a low tariff, or a
Penny may really return more to the Treasury
than a sixpenny rate, but this is a matter with which
the companies have nothing to do. What they
undertake is to start a powerful steamer at a given
hour on a certain day to and from England and
New York, the passage to be performed, and the
mails transmitted within a certain time. That this
should be done with the utmost regularity and
speed is the essence of the whole question to the com-
mercial community. A penny postage would be a
boon to the people, but the other conditions are a
necessity to both continents; indeed, rapidity of
communication ranks far before the cost of postage.
When Mr. SEELY therefore strikes at the subsidy
he damages the essential point, for there must be
an inducement, or no people in their senses would
undertake to perform so expensive and onerous a
task. The animus of his attack ou the Cunard
Company is shown throughout his speech. From
the Ist of January, he said, the commencement of
the contract, to the Bth of Feb., sixteen voyages had
bceu made by the Cunard and the Inman steamers,
nine of which exceeded time. Why did not Mr.
S&ELY add, that there never had been known in the

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Atlantic a period of such frightful gales? What
the companies undertook to do could not better be
illustrated than by this period, for they had to drive
their costly boats through seas which shook the
vessels from stem to stern so as to test their strength
and shorten their career, and that they performed
the work so well is the marvel, considering the
fee
quent accidents that happened to other vessels. Agol
he says that the Messrs. CUNARD were not bui
tell
ldil
any new steamers—and why here, also, did he not
the reason ? being well aware that the very
he was then making, had induced that con:weal to
stop such expensive work. Had he said so he viod
have effectually answered his own remarks; for eve!
the possibility of the contract being rejected Ab
once put an end to the construction of fast stearacvr:
by the greatest of all steamship companies'
without a
will get as good a service, he maintains, motion
subsidy ; yet the Hamburgh Con3paaY
their fast line from Southampton when their OD
sidy ceased, and the Cunard stopped building 1111°1
their contract was even jeopardizpp ed. He could re-
fleet on the want of patriotism of the latter CI;
pany and the novelty of a private firm placing its'
in opposition to the power of Parliament ; bet vi.o
can assure the hon. member for Lincoln, Patri°.tia
or not, that the firm alluled to have done the patio! ,
our:service he little understands in upholding its
reputation. English men-of-war do not ell' 2t °ill
York. For reasons into which some day we we,
inquire, Her MAJESTY'S ships seldom or nielx..
touch at ports of the United States. Witil°lLbele
ception, the Republic is the country most cable
to impresswith the idea of England's naval streag
yet it is the one maritime nation which never siei;
her men-of-war. But if in New York 00 il:lhat
frigate upholds the grandeur of the Union jae'' th,
flag floats over vessels of unequalled size, etre4l)°o3s.
and beauty, belonging to this and otherEaglisliPrrder
It is impossible to traverse the ocean in a Cutiai-And
without being impressed with the might of Eng"rge-
on the sea. That vessels of such tonnaga and ho
power, navigated by scientific gentlemen, an' 133,:0a
taining the exactness of a naval discipline, sm°o3o
t
be owned by a private firm, convey
passengers an exaggerated notion of ivh°o
the
es,
Navy must be of such a nation. These are acts,
not talkit little becomes a member (for an 3:joa
cultural place in England, too 1) 0 call in (Pe'
the patriotism of a company whose fame is 'rand
wide, reflecting no small credit on the country,afely
who during so lengthened a period have S.
transferred from shore to shore with extraordinary
speed and comfort the greatest number of 17.
sengera and mail bags ever carried without efuto
dent. Nor would it become the Governmen_taii,
throw overboard their most important Ocean 14itile
while enormous subsidies are continued tnwest
Peninsular and Oriental Company and the es.
,r
India Royal Mail boats.—Ang/o-American an

ARRIVAL OF THE S 3 "INDIA" FROM NEW 1 u--0,
—The Anchor line steamer India, Captain 11- D. gunrceo
has just returned from New York, bringing a large raorn'a
of American produce, 45 steerage and intern
23 saloon passengers. Cabin passengers: Miss Wiley'
I O,
Mollis
b,
Miss Cushing, Mr James Mollison, Mr WO' . Bob
Mr Matthew Mollison, Miss Robb, Mr Jaltle; A, WS
Miss Mary King, Captain Meehan, Rev. Mr f,ioperr
Ind and family, Rev. R. Shippers, Mr J'..,.'-v.`song:
Mr F. L. Messenger, Mr S. Carskey, Mr. Id. ' c ;
,nO.O in
ediate,
Miss Catherine Hunt, Mr Alex. Lochhead. At a -
rsa Pre
of the passengers, at which Joseph Shipper' it li.
sided, the following resolution, offered by the Rev' ..ny
nSihmipopuesniy, apuadssseedeo
:Ile, d by the Rev. T. M. Ind, were 'ors
tat'
Paseet to
Resolved, that we,
of the steamship India, tender our cordial than"beir
Captain Munro, his fellow-officers, and crew, ior toe
watchful care and courteous attention, which_ and
rendered our voyage across the Atlantic Safe
trop,
pleasant, and we heartily commend them to thee
Pala test
ago of the travelling public. The India is th Orb
addition to the Anchor fleet. This large and 61113'
Win°
in
rs
vessel is of iron, bark rigged, and built by gees- • ed the
Simons and Co., of Renfrew, last year, being launch
inches,
2d of July, 1868. Her length cn deck is 315 feet 6 .10
and over all 330 feet 2 inches. She has a breadth oi hebt
of 36 feet, a depth of hold of 22 feet 4 inches, a loaderettg_,,,
of 20 feet 6 inches, and is 2,500 tons burden Brish Inthee'rA
surement. She has three decks, the depth hetweenf these
respectively being 7 feet 6 inches. Upon each e" kis of
noes
decks are iron plate stringers of large size and
bull
is
to materially strengthen them. The tic
u
berhotte7
wrought iron plates 14 inches in thickness on
which decreases but three-eighths of an inch l° iinY %%a
tion. Her floors are of double angle iron, of
ordinary
doublewidt hr
iavnedt
ed. thickness,she s lore t
extentafintdtel:lewr
with
bix
plates are to 9' Peatg,„t
bulkheads, which are of iron, one-half and five-eighthirsh%
an inch in thickness from engine-room to after hold' 11,
water tanks are capable of containing 4,000 gallons
ofeaacoo
and the apparatus for condensaticn has a 01%00' ear
erater-ilPf
ag„gtl3-
gallons and upward every 24 hours. The 6teeri r
has all the modern improvements and great streroced
l'roperly rigged, one half being provided w
ing over the
lowering apparatus, are six lifeboats hangipg cifectia;
upper deck. She is fitted with compound inchesdirect-s la
eines, aving four cylinders—two being of 72 ideS
diameter- with a stroke of piston of three feet. Ts"tiog
these there are steam pumps, fire pumps, steam 11,ar' sod
apparatus, and all else that vessels of this chas;oenoo-
service require in abundance. She has ample ac being
dation' for 120 cabin passenr., the state rooma„rstol,
roomy and comfortable, and the' saloon, richly dee" being
is 90 feet in length, one of the articles of furniture „he
an excellent piano. The American papers assert thlotlae
Anchor Line will establish a connection hetvreen
Mediterranean and the United States in summer' dpa
A 1, 24th,
meeting of the shareholders of the fill B
Bay Company has been called for Wednesday, t'faersoce
to consider Lord Granville's proposal for the trans„sosda.
of the Hudson's Bay territory to the Dominion of
hall sar-
Lord Granville proposes that the compani a-rotoent,
render to her Majesty all their rights of govern''
of Drl-
property, &c., in Rupert's Land and other Partsd to the
tish North America, which will be tran,ferre
Dominion of Canada upon Canada paYing the d compass.ri
£300,000 in compensation for their territory and ..i,htS
It is proposed that the company shall retain their
IT ib'Pow;
of trade, their. stations, and blocks of land adjoineg_ 000
and they shall, moreover, be allowed to ctirWithiA
twentieth of the land in every township or distr.. r settle
what is called the Fertile Belt, as it is set otlt I.°, ~,0 the
ment. Nor are any exceptional taxes to be law '.'
company's land, trade, or servants. # and Pilled
LADVERTISEMENT.I-110110Way'S ointment thesgeMany aggravating sores stand ready to pounce upon the
when an accident weakens any part, or over-fatigue moue _uriaitoll
to wet or cold have irritated the nerves, rendered
131:partial
sensitive by the distended condition of the veins, and t.,„teor ill
obliteration of their valves. This ointment is most
gc,, after
curing all cases of ulceration, abscesses, and bad nie then' *ll
every other means have faled,
utterly unendurable. Soon after the applicaLion of t
,Zatiet
coolness and comfort are obtained in the affected part,iluopeftil, as
finds himself more at ease, and daily becomes Mort: ~,..,„ des
and the sufferings frohe
o,_tinent
wfoirtdeparting pains a visible growth of granal ;•11."
• ado°
COOP .24
[ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Dyspepsia(lndigestion), oh,
liver
by
Consumption,
hiptieovne,ryinstigiellanreervoorinlys,abgilflocus, stonl accele-
rated by druo• graviavteedureanbra 1,4 17,0,
of every description, but per e
0.. ~ a moved °,..70
Earry's healerestoring Revalenta Arabic& Fo 41, t',Js. su,n 'O,
thousands of cases which had been considered h0Pe00,09,10...
°ugh, "alma, also diairhcea, htemorrhokls, Wei ts diPbt"-
11a.talency, nervousness, biliou-ness, fevers, sore tbros.
_..., the
ria, catarrhs, colds, influenza:noises in the beadneaaa,e%.' i...-
Fttatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, . _ 7eadsc,.
%lA.* aleeplessneFs, acidity, palpitation, heartoorm.„: eon 0..
sicknlrtightvon
a oility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea, and
pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofti2t.,„.ess thu
of the chest, pains at the lof the stoniach an eeTtorod bY
Du Barry's Food. Cure No 68.413—"
shoulders, &c. We quote a few --The Popes heel'il-re.%66--The
especially sinc, to Da
health of the Holy Father is excellent,
ing all other remedies, he has confined himself eunnitir; Ja pi ate:
tarry's Ilevalenis, Arabica Food, of which he ells.,.br ebeneficla_t
fe_l at every meal. It has produced a snort? nelt,o ex Cafe
Erect on his health. and his Holiness caray! °f ". Car.
food too highly.—From the Gazette" aukdi,' hart
`FouleY,
No. 46,270—Mr. James Roberts, 'lungs No.
wood liver
Rome, July V, Ifbandov,
Surrey, of thirty yea-a' diseased lungs, sPittingn—Lord SOTS
ded.pment, and partial deafness. Cure No. 1,7
s,s, dypps!a•
de Deems, Lord-Lieut. of Waterford, of inan.Y Y,F ,„ dyopePs'
No. 49,8a—"Fifty years' indescribable agonY ir,°— apasras,
sickness,e and vomiting.—Maria Joly.'
nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flstuleq 0,403.--*
D are of the many unsavoury and more than s op.p.,
, is moat Mum'
to which. without auth r't Ba n Liebig's Won'
ciously attached. o' y,
ro
iis • 1211°'
linP°rit-anl iititatioLs
In tins, at is. lid.; 1 lb. 25. 9d.; 2 lbs. 4s. 6d.; 5 lbS• „,b0000"
225. ; •., 4 lbs, 40s, —Also Du BARRY's ItsvALENTA ARS LT2"B for 24
LATE POWDER is packed in tin canisLers ; :or 13 cups 7, I i cuPe
55s.—being
Cas at 3s. 6d., fo-.• 48 cups at 65., for 288 cops et Os.;
_ed 658. titiS
3.°T of Post Ogle!
about one penny pee cup. The
ent free of carriage in England on receip
don; er. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77,
Ord
and all Grocers and Chemists.
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Regent-street, Lon

Births.
GRENFELL—On the 22d inst., at 29, South-street, Dire.
Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of a son. Marian
WILBRAHAM—On the 19th inst., at Dublin, Lab'
Wilbraham, of a son.
FARR—SMITH— Marriages.
On the 20th inst., at St. John's, LanPatlll.
Dr. Archer Farr, to Elizabeth Medora, youngest dtsugu
ter of George A. Smith, Esq., Marlowes, 111331P-
sted, Hertfordshire
MirnnAy—JONES— On the 20th inst., at South Norvir°°`;
Matthew Murray, Esq , to Florence, eldest daughter 0.1
the late Richard Jones. Es • f The Lawns, Selhursl,
South Norwood. °

Deaths.
CARR-0 n the 21st inst., Francis Carr, of 1,
court, and Stock Exchange, London, aged 34.
ar I• W.
JERVIS —0 n the 17th inst., at Dublin, Sir Henry Ai -*
Bart,
Jervis, Bart., aged 76. i of
SELIVIN —On the 20th inst , Sir John T. Selwin,,
Down Hall, Harlow, Essex, aged 86. ra. the
w Wicxw— On the 22d inst., at 2, Cavendish-Wl"
Earl of Wicklow, aged 81. Warnford•
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