The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-17 00:00:00

INDIES

Southamplon.—Comparatively none per se. The same
may be said with regard to proprietary in the West India
colonies. All that is proved is, that Southampton is a little
more favourably situated as regards correspondence than
Dal tmouth, and that letters for London will reach their des-
tination six hours sooner than from this port. When the
mail trains are accellerated, that advantage will be reduced
to 4 hours, and the small difference in time is more than
made up by this being in the middle of the great manufac-
turing and mining districts, and more proximate to Scotland
and Ireland, with which we have daily and rapid communi-
cation by steam-packets, railways, highways, and canals,
drawing to the spot a vast amount of correspondence, passen-
gers, &c., and involving the interests of a vast population.
Be it remembered, too, that letters arriving at London on
Sunday will not be forwarded to the provinces until the fol-
lowing day.
Liverpool.—" A great portion of the exports from this coun-
try to the West Indies are shipped here. There are more
manufactures seut from Liverpool to all parts of the world,
and especially to the West Indies, than through any other
port in the kingdom, and the correspondence, of course,
bears a proportion to the quantity of business. A strong
desire exists on the part of the Glasgow people that Liver-
pool should be the station. There are great facilities at
Liverpool for communicating with all parts of the kingdom
by inland navigation, railways, &e. It is the roost central
situation that could be selected. The exports to Mexico,
Columbia, Peru, Chili, and the west coasts of South America,
go almost entirely from Liverpool. We should lose a day,
and sometimes two, by the mails arriving at Sobthampton
or Falmouth".—Aikia. Mr. Lawrence concurs, and adds,
that there is considerable export from Glasgow to the West
Indies, and that the general advantage of having Liverpool
as the packet station would preponderate over any disadvan-
tage the ship-owners might sustain. It would be a gain to
all the districts communicating with Liverpool, and would
injure none.

COALS.
Southainpton.—Price of South Wales coals, con-
tracted for by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company, for their ships, delivered from de-

X s. d.
0 18 6

pets, per ton
Liverpool.—Cost of St. Helen's coals here, for
the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company's
vessels

0 9 3

Saving per ton one half, or £0 9 3
We shall hereafter offer some suggestions on the practica-
bility, were Liverpool the station, of the packets availing
themselves of " a port of call" in the south or south-west
coast of Ireland, on their way out and home, by which, when
a rail-road is constructed through Ireland from north to
south, the whole of the letters from and to that country and
Scotland might be deposited and received with a prodigious
gain of time, as compared with the working of the vessels
from Southampton,—and shall wind up our remarks by a
proposition which, we think, will tend to induce the govern-
ment to reconsider their present contract with the West
India Mail Company in our behalf.