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Bengal Past & Present

1915

In 187o de Lesseps placed a bust of Wiag;liwn at the Suez entrance of the Canal with the following graceful tribute :- " Erected in homage to the memory of the generous though unfortunate man who alone without any help by a long series of labours and heroic efforts practically demonstrated and determined the adotion of the postal route through Egypt and the communication between the East a [...] 217 Chairman of the court of Directors to go to India by way of Egypt with dipatches for Sir John Malcolm and more especially to report upon the practcability of the Overland Route and the navigation of the Red Sea. [...] Between the years 1831 and 1834 he supervised the carriage of the mails and passengers hiself ; he managed to convey them from Bombay to England in forty-seven days without the advantage of steamers in the Mediterranean or railways on the Conti nent. [...] But as the bills are drawn in currency I do suppose as all the gentlemen on whom bills are drawn are determined not to submit to the imposition of disbursing the bills in any particular silver specie that the French Council by the tenor of the bills will be obliged to take the current coin of the place. [...] The increase of dividend balloted for and carried against the Directors the Company's affairs will point out to have been a wrong measure and the expectation of wealth from these parts will not be nearly answered for the investment is not more than equal to that of the last year ; and as for the treasury it has with difficulty disbursed the ordinary expence of the Government.
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Pages
113
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120279
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The Manipur Rebellion of 1891
1-2 unknown view
The Old Overland Route Across Egypt to India
211-221 unknown view
The Letters of Mr. Richard Barwell—V
222-256 unknown view
Burials at Calcutta
257-283 unknown view
Leaves from the Editor’s Note-Book
284-297 unknown view
Members’ Note-Book
298-i unknown view

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