The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

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THE NEW MAIL SERVICE TO TH
INDIES, CALIFORNIA, &c.

An official table of the routes arranged by the Lor
of the Admiralty with the West lndi
Company has just been published
ments for the bi

fail Steam-ship

The new arrange-
,

Mails made up on the 2d and lith of each month for
be delivered at that colony respectively in
_ is a considerable improvement on the old
which never used to supply Jamaica with its cor-
respondence under 28 to 30 days.

Nevis, Antigua Gaudaloupe, Dominique, Marti..
nique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Demerara, Berbice, French.
and Dutch Guiana, St. Vincent, Grenada, Curacoa, Tri-
nidad. and Tobago, will be made up and despatched on
the 2nd and 17th of every month, and their conveyance
from St. Thomas will be accomplished by intercolonial
packets specially appointed for that service. The time
occupied in reaching Demerara (the extreme point of the
route), will be 21 days 21 hours, homeward in 22+ days,
little over three days being allowed for replies, thus
eking the ter. 47-1- T •

The mai
serrat,

s, Tortola, St. Kitt's, Mont-

...e course of pos, a days. ..rinidad will be
reached in 21 days 17 hours, while the homeward trip will
occupy 22i- days. three days being allowed for

thus making the course of post also 274 days.
to the whole colonies will be about a week each way, as
tho communication shortens with Europe a whole packet.

tionately quicker time, according to their respective geo-
graphical positions, and will have a greater period allowed
for their return correspondence, while the course of post

will remain th

Kitts in 17

same, thus Barbadoes will be reached in
20 A.nti2ua in 18i and so on.
From the 2d of August next there will be a semi-
monthly communication opened with the Isthmus of

Panama and Spanish Main, instead of monthly as here-
tofore, and the packets will leave on the 2d and 17th of
every month for Chagres, taking their course to St. Thomas,
Santa Martha, Carthagena, Chagres, and Greytown (Mos-
quito.) Homeward the route will he precisely the same,
excepting that the call at Santa Martha will be omitted.
The time to be occupied on the voyage to Chagres is
fixed at 23 days and 23 hours, including all stoppages.
Homeward a similar period will be occupied. The time
allowed at Chagres for preparing return mails, transferring
and receiving cargo, inclusive of the time of the packet's
trip to Grey Town, will be 14 days 8 hours, making the
course of post between Southampton and Cliagres 621
days. The voyages to Chagres have hitherto extended
over a space of 35 to 37 days, and the course of post has
been about 80 days, so that at least 10 or 12 days will be
,he saving in time both on the out and home trip, and the
will in consequence be diminished about 20

of post

There c

be no dou

t that the advantages thus cor

templated of a quickened communication to and from the
West Indies and Spanish American ports will prove of
vast benefit to the mercantile community, not only of this
country, but of Europe generally. At the expiration of a
year, however, a further improvement will be effected, by
means of which the voyages to St. Thomas, now to occupy
16 days 18 hours, will be performed in 12 days, and the
Isthmus of Panama will be brought within 18 days of
Southampton, instead of 24 under the contemplated, and
35 days under the old arrangements. Jamaica will then
be reached in 16 or 17 days, Vera Cruz in 20 days, and all
the ports embraced in the scheme will proportionately be
brought nearer to Europe.
A semi-monthly communication with California will

now be opened, and mails, passengers, and merchandise,
can henceforth be transmitted by the West India steamers
on the 2d and- I ith of every month. For San Francisco
letters can be sent in about 55 days via Panama, and a
like period will be occupied on the return voyage.

Passengers for California will hare the option of pro-
eding by either the Panama or Nicaragua route, as the

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The Norfolk papers relate a case of incendiarism at
Lynn, in that county, which resulted in the partial de-
struction of a stack of hay. A labourer, named Grix, has
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NEW MODE OF TREATING CHOLERA IN INDIA.—The
Indian Times describes a new mode of curing the cholera
which has been adopted by the civil surgeon of Howrah,
in every instance as yet with complete success. The

treatment consists in making the patient inhale a certain
quantity of oxygen gas. About fifteen European seamen,
who had been brought into the hospital in various stages
of the disease, have been perfectly recovered by the means.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—On Saturday, Commissioner
Holroyd delivered judgment on an application by the trus-
tees of the Dartford Savings' Bank, to have paid to them
the whole amount of the assets of the late actuary's estate
who had become bankrupt, and who owed the bank
c 9.130, his estate not me-. £1 'lO. -

ad,3(,,,, and the other
creditors having claims to the extent of £1,200. The
Jci that Jardine, the bankrupt, had re-
-130 by virtue of his office as actuary. and

trustees contend

ived the £!
let they we

T
4, IN m. 4th, c. 14, s. 3. The learned cornmiFfi;oner
delivered a very lengthy judgment, entering very ela-
borately into the various legal arguments brought for-
ward. He concluded by stating :—Notwithstanding
the bankrupt was originally appointed " actuary and
cashier," and although he has stated in his examination
that he considered the terms identical, and that his duty

was to attend on the Saturday, and to receive deposits
and to pay money out within the office hours mentioned
in rule 12, and that he performed this duty for a se
years, I cannot say that he received any monies by
of his office of actuary, so as to give to the trustees the
preference which they seek over the other creditors of the
bankrupt. I think that the monies which he received on
the Saturdays at his house, within office hours, must be
considered as having been received by him by permis-
sion of the respective committeemen whose duty it was
to have attended to receive such monies, and not by virtue
of hfs office of actuary. If gentlemen who lend their
names to these societies, and consent to act as mana-
gers or committee-men, wish to be free from responsibility
for the acts of the subordinate officers, they should be
very cautious bow they lightly neglect to conform to the
rules imposing certain obligations upon their time and at-
tendance. For, if a committeeman whose duty it is to
attend upon any particular Saturday to receive deposits
stay away, and allow the actuary to act for him, it is by
no means improbable that the actuary in so receiving mo-
neys might be regarded as the servant of the committee-
man for whom he was acting, so as to make such com-
mitteeman personally liable under rule 25, as for moneys
actually received by the committeeman, considering the
receipt of the moneys in such case by the actuary as the
receipt of the committeeman himself. The bankrupt, as
an officer of the bank, was authorised to receive moneys
from persons residing out of the town of Dartford ; bnt
I am of opinion that the words " the officers," as
used in conjunction with and before the words, " and
committee," in thatrand several other of the rules,
mean
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officers of the institution, as the clerk, secretary, and
actuary, who, under rule 10, are appointed by " th coffi-
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established for the safe custody and increase of small
savings belonging to the industrious classes of the coun-
try, and the many instances which unhappily have lately
occurred of defalcations by officers of savings-banks and
other like institutions, have induced me to give a more
lengthened judgment in this case than I
otherwise have conside

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Ind there is

still one further point which I feel boUnd to mention,
but, as it was not raised before me by the assigness,
I shall not at present do more than shortly advert to it.
If, in the course of the inquiry in this case, it appear
that the sum which the trustees of the savings-bank say is
due to them for money received by one of their officers by
virtue of his office be in respect of money which such
officer has feloniously embezzled, it becomes a serious
question whether the trustees of the bank can seek civil
redress before the matter has been heard and disposed of
before the proper criminal tribunal, in order that the
justice of the country may be first satisfied in respect of
the public offence.