A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World

A ready and safe communication with these important places, and at the same time with all the most eastern parts of Asia, with all the Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and with all...

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From Maria Henrique to Cruces is only about nine miles. In the intermediate spaces are several savannahs, and, according to the Spanish maps, a very considerable river, called R...

Let the fact be urged in the strongest manner, that a communication once a month, to any given place, will never pay, nor answer any great or good purpose. Mails, or rather lett...

[Footnote 2: Should the Colombian Government obstinately and ignorantly oppose the transmission of mails across the isthmus from Chagres to Panama, or propose to shackle this po...

Halifax to New York 520 3-1/2 New York to Havannah 1140 6-1/2 Stop at Havannah, say 2 Havannah to Halifax, by New York. 1660 10 ---- ------ Totals 3320 22

Capital required by new plan £476,500 By present system:-- 28 sailing-packets,[11] at £9500 £266,000 2 do. vessels, S. America, £5,000 10,000 4 steamers, _above_ £20,000 86,000...

On the arrival of the British packet at Barbadoes, a fast-sailing schooner should be despatched, as at present, with the outward (p. 040) mails from Great Britain for St. Lucia,...

Geo. Miles. Days Rialejo to Owhyhee 4,100 22 Owhyhee to Canton 5,200 28 Stop at Canton " 2 Canton to Owhyhee (circuitous) 5,900 39 Owhyhee to Rialejo do. 4,700 29 ------ --- Tot...

The course of post under this arrangement between London and Alexandria, would be 45 days; between London and Constantinople, the same; between London and Bombay, 90 days; Londo...

Crews, in all 40. Captain per annum £400 1st Mate 112 2d do. 68 Master 112 1st Engineer 173 2d do. 122 3d do. 88 Engineer Extra 173 3 Engineer Boys, average 39 4 Apprentices, at...

To the above should be added all the specie sent both by Great Britain and the United States to the Eastern World, particularly to China, to purchase cargoes, from the States al...

Falmouth to Barbadoes, 43 voyages, 20 each, at 40_l._ £38,000 Falmouth to Rio de Janeiro, 48 voyages, 10 each, at 55_l._ 26,200 Falmouth to Halifax, 48 voyages, 20 each, 960 yea...