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OVERLAND MAILS TO INDIA, CHINA, ETC.
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THE

ACCELERATION OF MAILS
(ONCE A FORTNIGHT) BETWEEN

ENGLAND AND THE EAST INDIES,

AND WICE VERSA.

BY

LIEUT. WAGHORN, R. N.
G ENERAL AGENT FOR STEAM INTERCOURSE via EGYPT AND
THE RED SEA, BETWEEN ENGLAND, INDIA, CEYLON,
CHINA, ETC.

L ON DO N
PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER AND Co.,
AND

J. M. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL.
1843.

London: Printed by Stewart and Murray, Old Bailey

OVERLAND MAILS TO INDIA, CHINA, ETC.

THE

ACCELERATION OF MAILS
(ONCE A FORTNIGHT) BETWEEN

ENGLAND AND THE EAST INDIES,

AND WICE VERSA.

BY

LIEUT. WAGHORN, R.N.

GENERAL AGENT FOR STEAM INTERCOURSE via EGYPT AND
THE RED SEA, BETWEEN ENGLAND, INDIA, CEYLON,
CHINA, ETC.

LOND ON :
PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER AND CO.;
AND

J. M. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL.
1843.
 London :
Printed by STEwART and MURRAY,
Old Bailey.
 THIS PAM PHL ET

IS DEDICATED,

WITH THE MOST HUMBLE RESPECT,

To

HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT,

AND TO

Che #onourable the Birectors of the 3East #mbia Company,

BY THEIR HUMBLE AND DEVOTED SERVANT,

THOMAS WAGHORN.
 PREFA C E.

THE object of this Pamphlet is to draw the imme

diate attention of Her Majesty's Government and
the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East

India Company to the present state of the com

munication between India, China, and England,
and to shew by plain matter of fact how it can at
once be put on a more rapid, certain, and efficient
footing for the future, to the benefit of every inte
rest that connects England with her Eastern
Empire, the Straits, and China.
OVERLAND MAILS via BOMBAY,

TO AND FROM INDIA.

THE success of the writer's endeavours at the

earliest stage, in promoting and achieving the
Overland Route to India, by which letters were
conveyed by his individual agency in Egypt be
tween England and India three whole years
before the same was taken up as a system by
Her Majesty's Government and the Honourable
the East India Company, and the high encomiums
paid to his labours by the press of England and
India, as well as the approval of the East India
and China Associations of London, Manchester,
Liverpool and Glasgow is his strong apology, if
apology be wanting, for now trespassing on the
public notice, by stating in a plain matter-of-fact
way, how and in what manner the acceleration of
the Overland Mail is to be improved for the future
8 OVERLAND MAILS TO

to the advantage of all, whether in a political,

commercial, or domestic point of view.
Briefly then to the Mails between England and
India and vice versá for the future.
It is everywhere known and acknowledged, that
the benefits already derived from the Overland
Route to India have been of the greatest possible
advantage to England; indeed it may be said with
strict regard to truth, that route has proved itself
of the deepest and most vital importance, more
especially during the late wars with China, &c.,
from the almost unheard of (or indeed to be ex
pected) regularity that each Mail came succes
sively to hand without the slightest break, as is
shewn in the Table below, until the unfortunate
loss of the “Memnon,” and again from the non
arrival of the Mail from Bombay of 26th August
last, until the 23d instant. The Table in ques
tion shews that in all winds and weathers from
the 1st December 1841, up to the receipt of the
19th June Mail from Bombay in London on 2d
August, 1843 — twenty Mails in all; that the
time in the delivery of letters between Bombay
and London averaged 39 days l l and if three
days were taken from that, being the differ
ence that the telegraphic announcement of each
is regularly seen in the “Times,” it will bring
that average of news down to 36 days l!!
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 9

TABLE, exhibiting the delivery of the Letters in London via

France, by Twenty of the last Overland Mails from Bombay,
1842-43. -

D'" P: Latest Date from Interval

Overland in London. Bombay. Days.
Mail.

1842. 1841.
4th January 7 | December . . 1 37
1842.
4th February . 8 January . I 38
4th March . . . 10 | February . 1 || 37
4th April 5 | March . . . 1 35
6th May . 5 April 1 | 34
4th June 6 May . . . . 2 35
6th July . 4 May . . . . 23 42
4th August . 4 June . . . . 18 || 47
6th September . 3 July . . . . 19 | 46
4th October . 8 August . . . 27 42
4th November 8 || October . . . 1 38
6th December . 6 | November . . 1 35
1843.
6th January . 9 | December l 39
1843.
6th February . 7 || January . 2 36
4th March . . . 13 | February 3 38
6th April 7 | March . 1 37
6th May . 8 April. 1 37
6th June . 5 May . . . . 1 35
6th July . 3 May . . . . 20 || 44
5th August 2 June . . 19 || 44

Average Interval 39
from Bombay.

Such are the facts of the last twenty mails up

to this date, and now we will proceed to their
acceleration for the future; the plan for this should
be as follows, or something very like it:—
10 OVER LAND MAILS TO

THE INDIAN SIDE HOMEWARDS.

THE CALCUTTA LINE. — The Peninsular and

Oriental Steam Navigation Company to continue to
do that agreeably to their own arrangement with
the Honourable East India Company, made in
the year 1841, to the following effect, and signed
by James Allan, Secretary to that Company.
The writer begs to quote an extract of the Secre
tary's letter as copied from the Times of 17th Octo
ber, 1843, acknowledging that arrangement on the
part of the Peninsular and Oriental Company:—
“In order to prevent further misconception on the subject of
the understanding existing between the Hon. the East India
Company and the Oriental Steam Navigation Company, allow
me briefly to state, for the information of the mercantile com
munity and the public generally, the following facts, namely:
“In the year 1841 the Court of Directors of the East India
Company concluded an arrangement with the Oriental Steam
Company, to the following effect:
“That, in consideration of the important public objects to
be obtained by opening a regular steam communication between.
Calcutta, Madras, and Suez, touching at Bombay if required,
and employing vessels of 520 horse power and 1600 tons bur
den for the object, the sum of 20,000l. in the shape of a pecu
niary contribution would be granted by the East India Company,
payable on the following conditions:
“20,000l. payable the first year, commencing when the first
vessel should be placed on the line.
“20,000l. for the second year, provided six voyages between
Calcutta and Suez were performed; and the continuance of the
grant after the second year was to be dependent upon the per
formance of twelve voyages annually.”
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 11

To carry out that important object, the Peninsu

lar and Oriental Steam Company have already the
Hindostan of 1800 Tons, and 520 horse power on
this line, and Bentinck of 1800 tons and 520 horse
power, now on her way out to India for same line,
and are thus timed to leave Suez on their way
to Ceylon, Madras, and Calcutta :—
Bentinck ......... 24th December, 1843.
Hindostan......... 24th January, 1844.
Bentinck ......... 24th March, *>

Hindostan......... 24th April, 5*

Bentinck ......... 24th June, *9

The writer begs most humbly to suggest to the

Honourable the Court of Directors of the East
India Company, to set aside either one of their
two steamers on the Bengal side, named the Queen
and Tenasserim, each 760 tons and 220 horse power,
to run between Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, Aden,
and Suez, in those months of each year the Pen
insular and Oriental Company’s steamers do not,
until that Company get a third steamer of their
own, to make the voyages according to their own
arrangement with the Honourable East India
Company in 1841, already quoted. The Penin
sular and Oriental Company's steamer Hindostan,
up to the present, has made very rapid passages
both ways between Suez and Calcutta, touching
at Ceylon, Madras, and Aden, and has given every
satisfaction to the public.
THE BoMBAY LINE.—Steamers of the Honour
12 OVERLAND MAILS TO

able East India Company to leave Bombay every

fortnight, namely, on the 26th and 11th of every
month for Aden,-their other steamers (see list of
the steamers for Service below") to be divided
between Bombay and Aden. Those at Aden to
be in readiness to go between Aden, and Suez, to
prevent coal stoppages at Aden.t
THROUGH EGYPT.—The mails to be sent in the
quickest way to Alexandria, without reference to
passengers, and H.M. steamers at Alexandria, to

* List of Honourable East India Company's Steamers that are at

once available for Mails between Bombay and Suez, changing
at Aden.

Steamers' Names. Where Built. Tonnnage. I'

OWer.

Acbar . . . . . Glasgow . . 1841 1143 350

Atalanta . . . . London . . 1835 616 210
Berenice . . . . Glasgow . . 1835 664 230
Cleopatra . . . . London . . 1839 770 220
Semiramis . . . . Bombay . . 1840 1000 300
Sesostris . . . . . London . . 1839 876 220
Victoria . . . . . Bombay . . 1839 714 230
Zenobia . . . . . Waterford . 1837 684 280

The best of these vessels to work in the S.W. monsoon, the

others the N.E.

+ The changing the Honourable East India Company's

steamers at Aden will relieve them of much wear and tear, and
often save much time between Bombay and Suez both ways, as
delay need only be the time of changing (say three hours)
mails, passengers, and parcels, &c., instead of staying two
and three days to coal, as at present.
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 13

start at once with the dispatches and mails for

Marseilles on their way to London. They will
often come through Egypt, and be despatched in
36 hours, and their arrival at Suez can be always
known on board H.M. steamer at Alexandria,
12 hours before the mail gets there, through the
Pasha's telegraph from Cairo to Alexandria, which
His Highness always allows at the disposal of
H.M. Consul General, his Representative, and the
agent of the Honourable East India Company.
MEDITERRANEAN LINE.—H.M. steamers should
always be in waiting at Alexandria for the des
patches and Mail viá Marseilles to London.*
The letters and Passengers via Southampton to
come and go as they do now by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steamers, touching at
Malta and Gibraltar.
The Mails to and from India on the Suez side,
should always remain in the hands of the Honour
able East India Company, for the following reason:
which cannot be contradicted, and which certainly
must carry conviction with it to every unpreju
diced mind. It is this: that no private Company

* From Alexandria to Marseilles, in fine weather, Her

Majesty's steamers should come direct without touching at
Malta, in order to save a small distance, and often a gain of
nearly twenty hours: for when the steamers from Egypt arrive
late in the afternoon, a delay takes place (particularly in
winter) till noon next day: still, in cases of adverse weather,
they can be ordered to call at Malta.
14 OVERLAND MAILS TO

can with certainty be contracted with on the

Indian side, to fill up the breaks down which any
unforeseen accidents may occasion, for any private
Company on the Indian side must have recourse
to the Government of India only to do the needful
in such cases. A private Company cannot hire
Steamers anywhere in India: the position of an
East India private Company becomes then, very
different, from that of a West India Company. The
West India Mail Packet Company this year filled
up the loss occasioned by one of their Steamers by
hiring the “Trident” from the General Steam
Navigation Company of London. This cannot be
done in India, where there are no Steamers to be
hired sufficiently large for the purpose, and there
fore the Government of India, to prevent delays
and disappointment to the public and private
interests centred in such intercourse, must (be
yond any doubt) do the needful themselves; and
this appears and will continue to be the writer's
conviction, as sufficient reason without offering
any other, why the Mails on the Suez side should
remain in the hands of the Honourable the East
India Company.
It is far from the writer's wish to offer any opi
nion except from absolute fact about the Overland
Route to and from India, particularly where it
would operate against the views of any parties;
but in his fervent and sincere desire to see that
Route go on progressing for the benefit of the
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. I5

varied and united interests of India and England,

he feels, sincerely feels, that the public generally
will be best served by keeping the Mail system in
India in the direction of the Honourable East
India Company, and he craves Her Majesty's
Government, particularly the Department of the
Admiralty, not to deem him obtrusive in suggest
ing the way on this side the Isthmus how Her
Majesty's Steamers should be regulated at Alex
andria and Marseilles, for this important service.
With the most humble respect to the Right
Honourable the Lords of the Admiralty, it would
appear that five of Her Majesty's best Steamers
should be appointed for the service of the des
patches and Mails between Alexandria and Mar
seilles, viz. two at Marseilles; two at Alexandria,
and another spare one at Malta in case of a break
down.
Up to the present time, the merchants of Eng
land and India and the public at large, owe a vast
debt of obligation to Her Majesty's Government
and the Honourable East India Company for the
prompt manner they each came forward at the in
stigation of each successive President of the
Board of Control, to concentrate and establish the
present system; and there can be no doubt, that
through such governing authorities as the country
now has, so paramount an object, as the accelera
tion, rapidity, and certainty of the Overland Mail
to and from the East will be sure to have their co
 l
16 OVERLAND MAILS TO

operation and assistance, in uniting with the

Honourable East India Company to its fullest
extent, when based upon an improved foundation
for the future.

Regarding the Pasha of Egypt, and the transit

through that country, the writer now begs to be
allowed to offer some truths.

It must remain fresh in the memory of all

who feel interested in the Overland Route how
nobly His Highness Mehemet Ali acted, by allow
ing and even furnishing escorts for the safety of
mails and passengers through Egypt during the
Syrian campaign, when the late Government were
at War with him, and his Port of Alexandria
blockaded by our fleet. And it should not be
forgotten also, that in October, 1839, when the
news of Sir John (now Lord) Keane's successes
at Guznee, &c. arrived at Alexandria, one day
after H.M. steamer had left that Port for Malta,
that His Highness permitted the writer the use of
his own steamer Generoso to convey that mail and
its then important despatches to Malta, by which,
through the Admiral at Malta, they were sent viá
Marseilles, to London. Other innumerable in
stances are on record of his fostering protection to
British subjects travelling in the countries where
his power extends, showing that our political
influence in the estimation of the Pasha is of no
small importance; and as to the present transit
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 17

through Egypt, since the Pasha has taken the

same into his own hands as per notification below,"
* NoTIFICATION.

Regulations to facilitate the transit of all kinds of merchandize

through Egypt, either from Europe and Turkey to India,
or India to Europe and Turkey.
Art: 1. In order to avoid confusion and to render more ex
peditious the service of the transit, the government of His
HIGINEss will provide at Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez, distinct
warehouses, separate from the chief custom-house, where will
be deposited all packages which are to pass Egypt in transit.
The Government shall also appoint officers specially charged to
superintend the transit service.
Art. 2. All goods deposited in the transit depôt shall be ac
companied on the part of the receivers with a declaration, which
shall specify the marks, contents, and value; and after being
so sealed or leaded (plombée) by officers appointed for this pur
pose, the said goods may be sent to their destination.
Art. 3. Goods passing in transit shall be sent, on arriving at
Cairo, to the warehouses reserved for this service, in order to
verify if the seals or leads are unbroken.
Art. 4. At the port of embarkation the custom-house officer
will give a certificate that the transport abroad has been effected;
and this document will serve as a discharge for the custom
house officer where the importation shall have taken place.
Art. 5. Passengers' luggage which shall be deposited at the
transit depôt, to pass through Egypt, may pass free, without
being opened; but such as have not been deposited will be sub
ject to examination, if the custom-house officers require it.
Art. 6. The transit dues will be a half per cent, on the de
clared value, and must be paid at Alexandria for all goods dis
embarked at this port, as well as for those disembarked at Suez.
In case of evident fraud in the declared description or valuation
of the merchandise, the custom-house officers, after having
B
18 OVERLAND MAILS TO

signed by his Prime Minister Boghos Bey, the

same is far better done than it could be in the
hands of any private individual or company, par
ticularly over the Desert of Suez. The Pasha of
Egypt, therefore, has established to himself a debt
of obligation from our authorities, and until some
means are devised to return that obligation, it
cannot be denied that our enlightenment and
civilization have been outdone, for whether from
the crowned head, from the Pasha, or from the
peasant, an obligation received can only be repaid
by an acknowledgment of it.
As regards the Overland Route to and from
India, it is the sole object the writer, many years
ago, long toiled for, through good and bad report,
to hasten and perfect; and he will always con
sider it an honour to advocate its adoption within
the month; and by the present plan, the Mail

established the fraud, by opening the packages, shall impose a

duty of 10 per cent. It is understood that goods entered for
home consumption shall pay the customs established by the
treaties. -

Art. 7. In order to preserve the route between Cairo and

Suez as free as possible from disorder and smuggling, and that
the Government may answer for the safety of it, it is prohibited
for any individual to take charge of the transport of merchan
dise or luggage of passengers in transit, without special permis
sion, and a guarantee for the good conduct of the persons
employed in the service.
BoG Hos JUSSUFF.

Alexandria, 26th May, 1843.

 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 19

should leave Bombay on the 26th, instead of the

1st ; that will give five days in answering in
England; the changing Steamers at Aden two
days more—seven days; the acceleration through
Egypt two days more—nine days; and often a
day more by avoiding Malta—say ten days. Such
being the fact, no one can doubt that the letters,
eleven times out of twelve will arrive in England
time enough to be answered by the ensuing Mail
to India.

In the fortnight's intercourse between Bombay

and Suez, the passengers, which are a great
source of profit, will doubly increase, for on many
occasions the monthly Steamers from Bombay
could not take half the applicants for passages for
want of room, and this should be borne in mind
by the Honourable East India Company.
The main object of a fortnightly communication
will, of course for the future, prevent the present
unprecedented delays in the receipt of dates and
intelligence from Bombay, since the Overland
Route has been established; the last arrival in
England being from the 2d August to 23d Oct.,
in all a lapse of 82 days, which ought for the
future to be specially guarded against, detrimental
as it is, to every interest connected between this
country and India, and although it may not in the
general course of things happen again to such an
extent, still for the benefit of the Government,
the Court of Directors, the Merchants, and the
20 OVERLAND MAILS TO’

individual, the obviation of such delay should at

once be put beyond all doubt; and indeed the
writer may without contradiction assert that the
almost daily increasing interest between this
country and China is another proof that such
breaks in dates are very detrimental to everything
connected therewith: and the only way to obviate
it upon a positive certainty, is for the Honourable
East India Company to employ their own Steam
ers before mentioned for such important service
every fortnight between Bombay and Suez,
changing at Aden in all cases, for the extra gain
of two days there, before pointed out.

OUTWARD MAILS TO INDIA.

THE time for despatching these Mails from Lon

don outwards to India vid Marseilles, should be
as now, 4th of every month, direct to Alexandria
without stopping at Malta; the stopping to and fro
at Malta to be done by the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's Steamers with the heavy Mails viá
Southampton, without any reference or contin
gency at all to the Marseilles line to and from
Alexandria. The next fortnightly Mail to leave
London vić Marseilles on 19th of every month for
Alexandria direct. This system will allow 38
days in answering between Bombay and London,
which is ample according to this plan in every
month of the year.
 1NDIA, CHINA, ETC. 2I

Much detail regarding the Calcutta, Bombay

and China lines, could be added, but that need
not take up more space in this pamphlet. The
writer's notes under those heads for this certain
system, are ready when required by Her Majes
ty's Government or the Honourable East India
Company.

THE LINE TO CHINA.

HAvING now done with the Indian line, I beg to

say a few words about its extension to China, and
to make myself clearly understood how that line
should be worked to the benefit of England, and
our Authorities and Merchants in China, I will at
once take the liberty of addressing myself in this
pamphlet to the Right Honourable the Earl of
Aberdeen as Foreign Minister for England, be
cause all our political interests in China are more
or less under his Lordship's special charge, and
when otherwise, with the Cabinet. -

“My LoRD,-Briefly permit me the honour to

address your Lordship on the subject of a Monthly
Steam intercourse with England and China.
22 OVERLAND MAILS TO
|
“That line of communication, my Lord, is al
ready partially established on its way to China
vid Calcutta as far as the Island of Ceylon, and
therefore, it is from Ceylon to China that it should
claim your Lordship's attention as soon as leisure
will permit.
“The policy and importance of this extension
none can doubt, and the practicability of affecting
improved arrangements for transmitting the China
correspondence, will readily be gathered by
briefly inspecting the Annexed Statement on this
branch of the subject furnished to me by Mr. Wise,
whose calculations for performing the voyage from
Hong Kong to Suez direct, or vice versá, have
recently been corroborated by the voyage of the
Honourable East India Company's Steamer
“Acbar.”
“Perhaps no individual has paid more attention,
and given more time to these matters, my Lord,
than Mr. Wise, and in my most humble opinion,
his conclusions are essentially correct in all their
bearings.
“In conclusion, I have endeavoured in this pam
phlet, so far as my practical ability would permit,
to propose a clear unbiassed system how the mails
should be worked for the future general benefit
between our Eastern Empire and England, and
with every sentiment of respect to your Lordship,
to Her Majesty's Government, the Honourable
East India Company, and the Merchants of Eng
 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 23

land and the East, I beg to remark that my hum

ble energy is always at the command of each in
carrying out the greatest boon that this country
ever gave to India, viz., The Overland Route.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord,
Your Lordship's most
Obedient humble Servant,
THOMAS WAGHORN.
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the
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also
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France)
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date
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date
from
date
Latest
Interval
Date
Days.
China.
Days.
Singapore.
Calcutta.
Madras.
Days.
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London.
in
all,
1841.
1841,
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*
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 26 OVERLAND MAILS TO

THE OVERLAND ROUTE via TRIESTE.

ALTHOUGH at present not absolutely called for, it
is not out of place to state here, that a more rapid
and efficient route between London and Alexan
dria is now attainable by the way of Trieste.
The writer considers it his duty to mention
this to Her Majesty's Government and the Hon.
East India Company, because political circum
stances may occur at no very distant time, to place
our Overland Route through France in jeopardy,
or even stop it altogether: the following is the
best and nearest Route at present.
A quicker route to EGYPT vià TRIESTE, without going through
FRANCE; the German mile at 35 minutes.
hours.
London to Ostend by Steamer from Blackwall Railway . 13
Ostend to Liege and Cologne by Railway . e e 10
Cologne to Treves • • . . • s 10
Treves to Carlsruhe by Sarre Louis and Zineybrucken
273 miles e s • - . • e 16
Carlsruhe to Stuttgard by Pforzheim 103 miles . . . 6
Stuttgard to Kempten by Bieberach and Menningen
21 miles • • o • o • • . 12

Kempten to Inspruck by Fussen and Nusserent 20 miles. 12

Inspruck to Trieste by the Brenner Niederndorf, Lan
garone, and Pordenone 544 miles . . • • 31#.

1103
For changing at 60 stations at 5 min. per change . 5
-

As above, London to Trieste © e . 1153

or 4 days 193 hours.
A first rate Steamer at 9 miles an hour
can go from Trieste to Alexandria, and
vice versá in • - • - 5 days.

Time between London and Egypt - 9 days, 193 hours.

 INDIA, CHINA, ETC. 27

The time for changing is stipulated by Govern

ment for persons bearing the passport of Couriers.
The Austrian Government will grant our Couriers
all the privileges enjoyed by their diplomatic ones.
The most perfect secrecy would be secured, to
gether with a shorter conveyance free altogether
of France by a treaty with Germany, &c.
The Railroad is now complete from Ostend to
Cologne, and thus it will be perceived, that part of
the distance from London, 240 miles can be done
in 23 hours !! The writer had the honour to be
consulted about this line of route to Trieste by
the East India House in October last year, and
arrived at the above data of route through the
kindness of the Austrian ambassador in London:
the only alteration in the present line would be
the substitution of Trieste for Marseilles, with the
spare steamer at Corfu, instead of at Malta.
From a particular circumstance, the Honourable
East India Company had determined to send the
writer at their expense to bring Indian despatches
from Trieste to London, but owing to some official
routine at the Foreign Office, it was not carried
into effect. However, such are the facts of the
case, and they are stated here to show that if the
route vić Marseilles be interrupted, that by Trieste
can be instantly adopted.
THOMAs WAGHoRN.

34, CoRNHILL, LONDON,

1st November, 1843.
 London:
. ... Printed by STEwART and MURRAY,
Old Bailey.
 -

MESSRS. WAG. HORN AND CO.”

Continental, Capptian, Knoia, and China agent,
CHIEF OFFICE, 34, CORNHILL, LONDON.
-

MESSRS. WAGHORN & CO. beg to inform the Public of England

and the East, that they have transferred all their stock in Egypt, includ
ing Horses, Carriages, Steam, and Track Boats, Hotels, and Station
Houses on the Desert, to the Agents of His Highness the Pasha of Egypt,
under whose auspices the transit and passage system through Egypt will
be far more improved than it was in the power of WAGHoRN & Co. to do
in their individual capacity.
That Firm now confines itself to giving the best possible information to
passengers bound to any part of the continent of Europe, Turkey, Greece.
Egypt, India, Ceylon, and China; also Letters of Introduction and Credit
to their various agents (see List below.)
They have contracted also, with the Agents of His Highness the Pasha
for the certain transit through Egypt of all kinds of GOODS, MER
CHANDIZE, and PARCELS to and from all parts of the East.
They effect INSURANCES at Lloyds, in London, and execute COM
MISSIONS and ORDERS of all descriptions.
Heavy BAGGAGE of PASSENGERS proceeding Overland to India
and China, immediately forwarded by fast sailing Ships, consigned to
Waghorn & Co.'s Agents at the port of destination.
Every possible information given to all enquirers, especially about
PASSAGE and OUTFIT.
All letters punctually answered by return of Post.
The best information afforded respecting Hong Kong and our newly
acquired Depots in China.
The Rates of Parcels to India and China can be had on application
personally or by letter at 34, Cornhill. For Parcels homeward apply to
and send the same through Waghorn & Co.'s Agents at the respective
Ports and Presidencies of India and China. -

Waghorn and Co., will endeavour to the best of their ability to con
tinue to serve the interests of all who may apply to them: they have
always Overland Trunks made to size as per Bombay Government Regu
lations, Air Beds, Life Preservers, &c., on view with the Hand Book for
India, and Overland Guide, specially for the use of Passengers bound to
the East. -

- List of AGENTs. - -

IN ENGLAND, &c. ' " ". IN EGYPT, INDIA AND

- PARIs, Mr. H. BENNETT, late CHINA
LONDON, Messrs. WAGHoax Messrs. Devox & Co. 6, Rue - -

a Co. 84. Cornhill. de la Paix. - ALEXANDRIA, CAIRO and

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