New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-11
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Is coupScsiou Win the matter Of ne withdtAwal
u IN su1sdiss of Government, asd NE consequent
diuooutssscs Il 10 Aslantic ssEvice psrformed BY
IL oo,ss stsaners, ~ took occasion 70 refer, in
our Isus q lev days snce to TIE commercial i'd
yaasaee which Great Bsitains well organized and
ccuetaptly enlarging system Of ocean mail steamng
seouies lbr her W presumed that this feature Of
nesh pol3cy 4 not carried out but 1t some cost for
Il 4 Wqeih Is however reasonably great, but We did
not then haSe To- data at command to supply tho
reqaisite affirmation - to what that coat was.
Since thea o extract pertinent to the subject from
Tie London Shipping Gazette has fallen under our
observatcn and We learn from Il that Great Britain
pays for her ocean mail service the present year the
sum Of I'VE millions Of dollars and 80 willing Is she
to dsburse for this account that every
y offered for the establishment Of new lines three
hundred and fity thousand dollars having just been
added to the above amount for the benefit Of the Gal
way line. That Government has lately entered into
new contract with the Peninsula and Oriental Com
psny for branch service from Malta to Corfu, and has
undertaken to SEQ through no less an enterprise than
steam mail route acyoss The Pacific, via the isthmus
Of Darien- something Of scheme when the vast
distance to BE- traysed, the entrepots for coaling 70
be established and supplied ON faro islands and the
Costly and numerous steamers for stocking the line
are considered
Among the numerous lines to be looked after are
those dischargng the service for the west coast Of
Africa and the Cape, for the Brazis and the Pacific
coast Of America, for the Indian Ocean and the
Mediterranean. The Subsidies allowed to all these
Ines are exceedingly heavy compared with what arc
paid to the comparatively prosperous lines between
English ports, the United States and Canada but
altogether, Independently Of the new lines referred
70 above, they cot the Government five millions Of
dollars per annam, and what is the consequence
Why. that the country is reaping benefits hundred
fold the value Of their coat as England is constituted
the center Of the whole world for from that little
Island ramiy 70 it's remotest regions the feet messen
gers Of commerce. the instruments OF individual and
Of general interests and convenience. The steamers
sweep the whole watery expanse Of the earth, and
constantly concentrate ct the little point on its sur
face for the especial enrching Of which they were
established and are supported they are eecting
The design, for they give to Great Britain supreme
commercial power which can only be rivalled by
calling into action the same agencies.
y Her numerous lines Of steamers have made EGG.
land the distributing depot Of the ocean mails Of the
world, and enable her commerce to command advan-
tages which cannot be competed with for, space
uctAA6 pENNsACAly tl1ue 10 GOu
summed in overcoming it. Great Britain ID brought by
20 much nearer to market as time is saved and GER
tanty il secured Ia reachingi it. She can be ahead Of
the United States, and other nations in almost every
market Of consumption or production in the world,
and this advantage was wisely considered worth pay
ing for. Hence tho persevering and liberal spirit
with which she is carrying out her system Of ocean
steam service, and by which her position as monarch
OF the commercial world is being indisputably and
firmly established that she will be able to dictate
tyannical laws Of trade to all other nations with far
more presumption and independence than has hereto
fore characterized her policy It is very true that
great harm is directly done by permitting England to
discharge the mail service between her shores and
our own, but the act Of dscountenance to steam mail
lines in the withdrawing Of subsidies from the Collins
steamers, indicates that our Government is not as
wide awake to the importance Of extending all posi-
BILE encouragement to such enterprises Of citizens as
It should be- and as the course Of events will tend to
make it. Steam lines should be helped until they can
lake care Of themselves almost all will be able to
within greater or less time.