Note 14 — CONCLUDING REMARKS.

An instance of the value of these contract steamers, otherwise than in the postal service, occurred at Ceylon, on the breaking out of the insurrection in that island. The Governor, not having troops sufficient at hand to quell it, this Company’s contract steamer, “Lady Mary Wood,” (subsidiary vessel on the China line), proceeded to Madras, and brought up a detachment, which mainly contributed to the prompt putting down of that insurrection. The recent destruction of a number of piratical vessels on the coast of China by this Company’s armed steamer “Canton,” is another instance of their value on distant stations.