The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

DAVID MACIVER and Co., 12, Water-street

For GREENOCK and GLASGOW,
With Goods and Passengers.
Cabin.. 205.. • Steward's Fee.. 2a.—Steerage.. 58.
THE GLASGOW AND LIVERPOOL STEAM
SHIPPING COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS

ACHILLES,
`.4k.„ Captain HUGH MAIN, and
VIVIONM• FIRE. KING, Captain M'KELLAR,
Sail regularly from the Clarence Dock,
LIVERPOOL, to GLASGOW.
The undernoted or other first-class Steam-Ship is
intended to sail as follows, from LIVERPOOL:
SEPTEMBER.
ACHILLES.... Thursday, the 28th... at 1, Afternoon.
For further particulars apply to
THOMAS MARTIN and BURNS and Co.,
7, Water-street, Liverpool.
GEORGE and JAMES BURNS,
Buchanan-street, Glasgow ; or to
ARCHIBALD BLACK,
Custom-house-place, Greenock.
And at the Railway Stations, London, Birmingham,
Manchester, &c.

ACCELERATION OF THE OVERLAND EAST
INDIA MAILS.
AT a MEETING of MERCHANTS and others in-
terested in the OVERLAND MAILS communi-
cation with India, China, &c., held pursuant to Adver-
tisement at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street,
London, on TUESDAY, September 19, 1843,
JOHN ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., in the Chair,
The following resolutions were agreed to, namely :-
1. That the present arrangements for the transmission
of the Mails, via Egypt and the Red Sea to and from
India, China, Ceylon, Singapore, and Australia, are de-
fective 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-arrival of the
Outward Mails at Calcutta and other places in India of
similar distance until after the departure from thence of
the Homeward Mails for Europe—that much inconveni-
ence
to the public interests results from the consequent
delay in the interchange of correspondence, and that any
measure which proposes to remedy these effects is de-
serving of the prompt attention and encouragement of
Government and the public.
2. That it appears to this meeting that if, by employ-
ment of steam-vessels of superior power and speed to
those at present employed to transmit the mails between
Suez and Bombay, such an acceleration can be obtained
as to remedy the inconvenience pointed out in the pre-
ceding resolution, and give the opportunity of replying to
letters from India by the outgoing mails of the same month,
not only to London but to all the great manufacturing and
commercial towns and districts of the United Kingdom,
an advantage of great importance would be gained for this
country as well as for our Indian Empire and Australian
Colonies.
3. That the memorials to the Honourable East India
Company and tiresident of the Board of Control be pre-
pared and be sigoed.and transmitted by the Chairman on
behalf of the meeting, and that the Chairman be requested
to transmit copies of the resolutions and, of the memori-
als to the Right Hon. Sir. Robert Peel, the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the kostmaster.Gene-
ral, the. President of the Board of:Trade, and the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty ; and to solicit the exer-
cise of their influence, for the speedy carrying into effect
of an improvement of such vital importance to the com-
mercial and manufacturing interests of the country.
4. That the Chairman with the following Gentlemen—.
JOlll, ABEL SMITH, Esq., M.P., Chairman
A. DE ARROYAVE, Esq.,
Jo sir BAGSHAW,. Esq.,
DAVID BARCLAYi Esq.,
JAMES COOK, Esq.,
GEORGE CARR GLYN, Esq.,
C. F. HUTT', Esq.,
HONOURABLE J. T. LESLIE MELVILLE,
—be a Committee, for preparing and furthering
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