Excerpt from Irish Transatlantic Packet Station: Report of the Dublin Committee Considered, and Mr. Whiteside's Statement Reviewed, With Remarks on the Relative Advantages of the Shannon and Galway Bay

The Report of the Committee appointed last August in Dublin, to inquire into the expediency of forming an Irish Transatlantic Packet Company, has now been' some weeks before the public, and the readers of that impor tant document cannot fail to observe the intelligence and general impartiality with which the inquiry of the Committee has been conducted, and, what is of equal if not still greater importance, the prudent conclusions with which they have terminated their labours. The Committee, it appears, have collected information from every source, andiafter a deliberate and calm inquiry, they have arrived at the conclusion, that the general question of the expediency of a Packet Station on the coast of Ireland admits of no reasonable doubt; that the mode in which the subject had been treated by the late Packet Station Com mission did not possess the confidence of the country; that topics of paramount national importance have been over looked; and the interests of this great commercial empire, no less than those of the whole civilized world, demand the early realization of this project. As regards the expediency of forming an Irish Steam Packet Company, with a capital of 00, as suggested by the Dublin Meeting, it should be remembered, that two powerful Companies at present exist in Liverpool alone, subsidized by their respective governments, having a well appointed fleet of steamers, and that for a new association to rush into unequal compe tition with companies so sustained, would be most unwise.

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