The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-10 00:00:00

CITY OF DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.

The half-yearly meeting of the City of Dublin Steam
Company was held at the company's office, Eden-quay,
Dublin, on Friday last, and a satisfactory repcirt read, stating
the increasing business and progress of the company.
The report stated, that the contract which the company
had entered into for the conveyance of one of the mails to Li-
verpool had rendered it necessary that no further delay should
take place in providing means for obtaining additional vessels
to carry on the increasing intercourse on their several lines,
and also in connexion with the inland navigation by the canal
and river Shannon. The directors stated, that they had
matured a plan by which a new company would be formed
in alliance with the old company ; the business of the former
being to build such vessels as might be required by the latter ;
the whole being based on a contract to be entered into be-
tween the two companies, and by which the old company
undertake permanently to charter such vessels, with a condi-
tion of continued maintenance and insurance—the proprietors
of the new company to have equal personal privileges in the
old company's vessels with their own proprietors.
The report stated, that it was intended that The Prince,
then at the North Wall, and The Princess, should be the first
property of the new company, by which arrangement a pro-
fitable return would at once accrue to the new proprietors.
With respect to the proprietors' personal privileges, the
directors had determined on giving the advantage of half-fares
on board the vessels actually carrying the mail and her Ma-
jesty's pendant, with entire free passage in all not actually
having the mail on board.
Priority of subscription to the new shares, at par, is given
to the proprietors in the old company.
Mr. WILLIAMS stated, that dividends had been paid by the
City of Dublin Company to the amount of £213,941 is. 3d.,
in addition to which, within the last ten years, the amount of
repayment to shippers and importers, in reduction of freights;
amounted to no less a sum than £86,305 13s. 6d., besides the
parliamentary and reserve funds which had been appropriated
to the building and purchase of ships and other property by
the company. Mr. Williams read some passages of a letter
from Sir John Burgoyne, on the subject of the happy orga-
nisation of the company in the combined action which united
the interior of Ireland with the Liverpool navigation, and by
which means, as the inland navigation acted as a feeder to the
latter, the produce was conveyed to Dublin, for shipment to
Liverpool, on the most moderate terms.
The report was favourably received, and the announcement
of the new company, as growing out of the necessity for
providing means to meet the increased intercourse of the
company, met the entire approbation of the meeting.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
CIRCULATION OF THE CHRONICLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,-Our attention has been called to a statement in the
Courier, of this day, from the official return, which professes
to give the number of stamps issued to each of the Liverpool
papers in the months of January, February, nd March.
This return, as regards the Chronicle, is gr y inaccurate.
We are stated to have taken out only thirtee housand stamps
during that quarter,—namely, four thou nd in January and
nine thousand in March, whereas, ought to have had
credit for thirty-one thousand, bein the number taken out
and paid for by our agents, Messrs. Wrigley and Son, of
Bury. We subjoin a copy of their invoice, the original of
which we submit to your inspection :
January 7, 4OOO
„ 12, 6OOO
„ 21, 4OOO
Feb. 4,
, 18, 4OOO
March' 4, 4OOO
„ 14,
„ 18, 4OOO
Total —31,000
This number, divided by thirteen (the number of publica-
tions in the quarter), exhibits a weekly average of 2382. The
actual sale of the Chronicle during that period has been 2288
weekly.
We are unable to account for the blunder in the stamp re-
turn, nor can we ascertain its cause until we hear from our
agents, to whom we have written on the subject. But similar
injustice has been done on previous occasions to more than
one of our local contemporaries, and in imitating their example
by placing the matter correctly before the public, we only
perform an act of justice to ourselves and that-portion of the
public by whom the Chronicle has been a) liberally supported.
We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
ROSS and NIGHTINGALE.
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