Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e Peninsular Company, which wasthe parent concern, was started in 1837, while the steamers whichthe Company took over had been running for some years pre-viously as far as Lisbon only—the first of them, the WilliamFawcett, of 206 tons and 60 horse-power nominal—as early as1829. The new Company tjuickly succeeded in establishing apostal service from Falmouth to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,and Gibraltar. This
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . e Peninsular Company, which wasthe parent concern, was started in 1837, while the steamers whichthe Company took over had been running for some years pre-viously as far as Lisbon only—the first of them, the WilliamFawcett, of 206 tons and 60 horse-power nominal—as early as1829. The new Company tjuickly succeeded in establishing apostal service from Falmouth to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz,and Gibraltar. This was the beginning of its extensive mailservices via Egypt, namely, to India, China, Japan, and Australia. THE MAlilXE. 457 The Hindostan, in 1842, was the first steamer despatched bythe Company via the Cape, for the purpose of numint^ betweenSuez and Calcutta, and in less than three years afterwards thechain of mail communication with India and China was com-pleted, Australia beinw also brought within the sphere of theCompanys operations in 1851. In the earlier days the Overland Route through Egypt, whichdetermined the operations of the Company, was a very primitive. JIODEI, OF TUK FAWCETT.(By permission of I he Icninsidar and Oriental SleciM Xaliijalion Comixtny.) affair. It had been pioneered by Lieut. T. Waghorn, , buthad never been of any real value until the P. & O. Company, bytheir enterprise, settled the question of sea conveyance. Afterlanding at Alexandria,^ the first part of the transit was by theMahmoudieh Canal, the great work of Mehcmet Ali, for con-necting Alexandria with the Nile, by means of which the profhiceof the Delta was diverted to that port from Rosetta, the formeremporium of trade. This journey of 48 miles was accomplishedin a biir mastless canal boat, in form not unlike the dahubeahs The Australian Mail Service was interrupted by the Crimean War, and .subse-quently passed for a time into the hands of the Eastern and Austral
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