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Irish Transatlantic Packet Station. Report of the Dublin Committee [Transatlantic Packet Station Committee] Considered, and Mr. Whiteside's Statement ... Advantages of the Shannon and Galway Bay - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... IRISH TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION. The Report of the Committee appointed last August in Dublin, to inquire into the expediency of forming an Irish Transatlantic Packet Company, has now been some weeks before the public, and the readers of that important document cannot fail to observe the intelligence and general impartiality with which the inquiry of the Committee has been conducted, and, what is of equal if not still greater importance, the prudent conclusions with which they have terminated their labours. The Committee, it appears, have collected information from every source, and after a deliberate and calm inquiry, they have arrived at the conclusion, that the general question of the expediency of a Packet Station on the coast of Ireland admits of no reasonable doubt; that the mode in which the subject had been treated by the late Packet Station Commission did not possess the confidence of the country; that topics of paramount national importance have been overlooked; and the interests of this great commercial empire, no less than those of the whole civilized world, demand the early realization of this project. As regards the expediency of forming an Irish Steam Packet Company, with a capital of £500,000, as suggested by the Dublin Meeting, it should be remembered, that two powerful Companies at present exist in Liverpool alone, subsidized by their respective governments, having a well appointed fleet of steamers, and that for a new association to rush into unequal competition with companies so sustained, would be most unwise; that without the support of the state, granted for the transmission of the mails, (an object fully justifying the appropriation of national funds,) it would be most hazardous; that the safest course appeared to be, to tes...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852. Excerpt: ... IRISH TRANSATLANTIC PACKET STATION. The Report of the Committee appointed last August in Dublin, to inquire into the expediency of forming an Irish Transatlantic Packet Company, has now been some weeks before the public, and the readers of that important document cannot fail to observe the intelligence and general impartiality with which the inquiry of the Committee has been conducted, and, what is of equal if not still greater importance, the prudent conclusions with which they have terminated their labours. The Committee, it appears, have collected information from every source, and after a deliberate and calm inquiry, they have arrived at the conclusion, that the general question of the expediency of a Packet Station on the coast of Ireland admits of no reasonable doubt; that the mode in which the subject had been treated by the late Packet Station Commission did not possess the confidence of the country; that topics of paramount national importance have been overlooked; and the interests of this great commercial empire, no less than those of the whole civilized world, demand the early realization of this project. As regards the expediency of forming an Irish Steam Packet Company, with a capital of £500,000, as suggested by the Dublin Meeting, it should be remembered, that two powerful Companies at present exist in Liverpool alone, subsidized by their respective governments, having a well appointed fleet of steamers, and that for a new association to rush into unequal competition with companies so sustained, would be most unwise; that without the support of the state, granted for the transmission of the mails, (an object fully justifying the appropriation of national funds,) it would be most hazardous; that the safest course appeared to be, to tes...
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