Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1846-04-13
STEAMSHIPS TO EUROPE.

An interesting repnrt has been submitted the House
Of Represenlatves by Mr.. IInliard Chairman Of the
Committee on the Post Office and Post Roa,s, favor.
ing the project of line of Atlantic mail sloa ners con
neced with the Post Office Department. The report
approves ihe selection OF Bremen ty the Pusl Master
General the termination of The line, and thinks, that
the choice OF Cowes IN England, touching point Is
Fortunate as IL il the only accessible and rate port
that part Of The British BY touching there rap
Nd aud direct communication will be secured with both
England and France. London may be reached in three
hours and liavre IN less than nine The report also
says that from Cowcs mails can be despatched 10 Spain
and Portugal. From Bremen the mail, III be rapidly
spread through the n,ighboring Kingdoms by railroads
extending IN various dlrectlons Returning from the
most central port OF commercial Europe The seams h ps
would there receive the letters and other communca
tons ii The people north Of The Rhine aud the Hhone,
destined tor this country while at Cowrs they would
take IN the mails Of England, France, Spain aud Pou-
gal.
The expense Of conveying sem monthly mails To and
from these points according 10 the lowest bid 400
900 per annum. The lowest bid for carrying them 10
England alone, was 1886 coo, whilst the expense OF
sending them France would have been $500 900 and
10 Germany 100000. So that the plan adopted ina =
be carried for $685. 600 less Than if the service had
be- contracted for separately. aad affords all the ad-
vanages OF such separate contracts.
The Committee are Of opinion that this line between
New York and Bremen, making semi-monihly Trims aud
touching at Cowes, will almost Immediately sustain ii>
self; and would short time after organza lion
yield profit To the department. Independent OF the nd.
vanage in securing the entire mail from Germany and
the north Of Europe, it will also receive the Asiac mail
which. the completion Of the continuous Railroad line
connecting that port with The Adriac, can be dsem-
baked al Trieste and sent overland 10 Bremen in sixty
hours. The number oi emgrants from Germany was
IA ,302 in '45, 81 ,06l OF whom embarked at Bremen
and Presumng thai the amount of correspondence will
bear some ratio to the number Of emgran,s Bremen holds
out advantages not 10 be found in oher ports
The report takes expanded view Of the commercial
advantages OF the prjectlhe importance of increasing
onr trade with the thirty millions Of Germany, demand
ing every year larger supply of the articles twenty
millions ale engaged in producing says Of our
exports which GENEROUSLY taxed in England and
France, admitted into Bremen under light charges
Our looabco pays seventy-two cents per pound in Eng
land is introduced in France under a government mo
nopoy while at Bremen it is charged merely nominal
duty. The importation of tobacco into Bremen is
santly MISUNDERSTANDING in 1916 by $500 hhds
the importation of the preceding year. The rapid in
Of the production Of tobacco in this country makes
this view highly important Besides the consumption
OF cotton in Germany is increasng aud Bremen re-
ceives much whale oil as is imported all the other
ports Of the North Sea. The committee after going in
W comparison VI ouI trade with France ard the Ger