A View of the Present State of the Question as to Steam Communication with India: With a Map, and an Appendix, Containing the Petitions to Parliament, and Other Documents |
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Page 65 - To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
Page 39 - Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee that it be left to his majesty's government, in conjunction £ with the East India Company, to consider whether the communication should be in the first instance from Bombay or from Calcutta, or according to the combined plan suggested by the, Bengal steam committee.
Page 24 - She may furnish the raw commodity, which the local advantages of England enable that nation more beneficially to work up. Here too, England will gain a double advantage by securing in India, at once a field for raising the raw material, and a market for the consumption of manufactured goods.
Page 40 - Sea;" and as to carrying that object into effect, they were of opinion that it should be left to the British " government, in conjunction with the East India company, to consider whether the communication should be, in the first instance, from Bombay or from Calcutta, or according to the combined plan suggested...
Page 50 - notes and observations" of a magistrate of the county of Middlesex, upon the minutes of evidence taken before a select committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis.
Page 74 - It was the recommendation of the Committee of the House of Commons, that the expense should be equally divided between the Company and the British Government.
Page 69 - 1. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee that a regular and expeditious communication with India, by means of steam- vessels, is an object of great importance both to Great Britain and to India.
Page 63 - Resol ved, -(that it is the opinion of this committee, that by whatever line the communication be established, the net charge of the establishment should be divided equally between his majesty's government and the East India Company, including in that charge the expense of the land conveyance from the Euphrates on the one hand, and the Red Sea on the other, to the Mediterranean.
Page 67 - ... inducing you to pass an Act, the principal enactments of which are at irreconcileable variance with the preamble, while the preamble is at open war with the truth; but, as the means of protection, for himself and others, against dangers such as that which they...
Page 38 - KNOWLEDGE of Europe. It is the one thing needed in India to enable her to advance as under the dominion of England she ought to do in the scale of Nations, and this can only be done effectually by approximating the two countries in the manner proposed.