The following Correspondence betwee the Committee of the Chamber of Commer mit of the Messageries Maritimes ded to us for publication Smaxcuar Gexzwat CHampen or COMMERCE.
Shanghai, 18th October, 1887.
of a very large number of Suny—Acting on the expressed opi community of this Port as to the inconvenience caused by the alteration lately made in the date of the departure of the French mail from Shanghai, the Committee of the Chamber of Conmnerce deem it ad-able to bring the matter officially to your notice in. the hope that you may be able to make such arrangements as will obviate the i ity which now affects the departure reckly mail.
years past it Ins been the custom that the English and French mails should be dispatched on some day of the week niutually agreed on and in alternate weeks, which gave a regular weekly interval be= tween the mails, but the recent change destroys this regularity and interval between the French lit days between English and French, The time also at which the French mail no closes is inconvenient as it does not giv sufficient time for the completion of such business as may be transacted on that day, which would probably either stop it alto: ether or cause a delay of a steamer to the Meret who would probably, if the goods were shipped, be obliged to let them go without ad The actual departure of the steamer from Woosung is not perhaps of so much importance, as the time could be made up on the voyage, but it appears to the Committee that the inconvenience arises from the short day allowed on the mail day. If the mail closed as usual on the previous evening there could be no further business, and if it were necessary to detain her at Woosung to complete her loading or for other causes, it would have no effect on busines transactions here, but it would be understood that business for the mail was closed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.