AN ABSTRACT, and c., and c.

No. I. THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

No. II. Contract for an accelerated Conveyance of the India and

No. III. Contract for conveying Mails between Suez and Aden,

No. IV. Contract for conveying the Bombay Branch of the India Mails between Southampton and Alexandria.

DISCONTINUANCE OF THE ABOVE ARRANGEMENT.

ABSTRACT OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. Efficiency of Performance of the Mail Service.

APPENDIX.

CONCLUDING REMARKS.

AN ABSTRACT
OF THE
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE
OF THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS,
APPOINTED SESSION, 1849,
TO INQUIRE INTO THE CONTRACT PACKET SERVICE;
IN SO FAR AS THE SAME RELATES TO THE
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY;
WITH AN
INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT AND REMARKS.
Presented to the Court of Directors.
ABSTRACTED AND PRINTED FOR THE INFORMATION OF
THE PROPRIETORS OF THE COMPANY.
November, 1849.

As the circumstances connected with the origin and progress of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and particularly with its employment in the Contract Mail Packet Service, are but imperfectly known to a great proportion of the present Proprietors; for their better information it has been deemed advisable by the Directors to authorise the printing and circulation of the following Statement and Abstract.

References, it will be found, are occasionally made to parts of the proceedings of the Select Committee of the House of Commons, which have not been printed in this pamphlet, because they would have rendered it too bulky for convenient perusal. But those who may wish to examine these proceedings at length, can procure the Parliamentary Blue Book at Hansard’s offices for the sale of Parliamentary Papers.