Resolutions were passed yesterday by a public meeting at the
Lon- don Tavern, in favour of establishing a company for the conveyance of letters, newspapers, and periodicals, and for providing such accommoda- tion to passengers, as shall insure a constant and certain monthly com- munication betReen Great Britain and the three Presidencies of India and Ceylon, and whose future views may be directed to the extension of that communication to the Straits, China, the Mauritius, and Australia. It was also decided that the route by way of Egypt and the Red Sea offers the quickest and most eligible channel of communication between India and Ceylon. Sir John Rae Reid, Mr. Timothy Curtis, Sir John Rennie, and other gentlemen of influence and wealth, took part in the proceedings. Sir Robert Wilmot Horton was in the chair.
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