The Press.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

INDIA MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

The following is a statement of the now India
mail arrangements which will come into operation
next year :
Mails made up in London: For Bombay—end,
4th,• 12th,* 17:h, and 20tho of the month. For
Calcutta-2nd, -kb,* 9th, 17th, Wth,* and 2.5 th of
the month.

Telegrams+ due in London : From Bombay-14th
and 30th of the month. From Calcutta-10th and
25th of the month.

Mails are due in London, vizi Marseilles: From
Bombay-4th and 18th of the mouth. From Cal-
cutta-14th and 29th of the month.

Bombay letters via Southampton should bo posted
if possible on the 12th of the month, as they are not
likely to be detained in Egypt. If posted on the
4th or 20th, there will be a detention of above a week
in that country.
• These malls will be made up in the morning. All the rest
will be made up at night.
+ These telegrams will be due from Malta. Should they come
from Cagliari they will be one day later, and if from Trieste or
Auweillee, two (toys later. The Bombay news by telegram from
Malta will be twenty-one da)s old, and the Calcutta news thirty-
three days old.

A SCREW STEAMSHIP, the Earl of Carrick, 590
tons, bound from Ayr to Liverpool, was totally lost
on Sunday night last off the Isle of Man. The un-
fortunate vessel struck upon a reef of rocks off Marby
Point, near Douglas, Isle of Man, and soon after
became a total wreck. She had, in addition to the
crew, one passenger on board, but, with the excep-
tion of two of the crew, all were drowned.

EDUCATIONAL FRANCHISE.
A PETITION in favour of an educational franchise,
signed by many leading men of the day, was recently
presented to Lord Palmerston. The following is the
form or the petition .

Your lordship having announced your intention to bring
in a measure in the session of lwei for altering the repre-
sentation of the Commons, we, the undersigned, earnestly
recommend to
,our lordship, in preparing any plan for
this object, to give your best consideration to the fitness of
granting, for the benefit of the whole community, a sub-
stantive voice in the Legislature to those °lasses who have
had the advantage of a liberal education.
;2. We can see no better way of giving effect to this
principle than by conferring on them, as such, a distinct
and separate representation, so that '.heir votes may not
be swamped, as they would be if only enfranchised as
units in large popular constituencies.
3. With that view, it would be advisable to esamine the
practicability of amalgamating in separate territorial con-
stituencies the different classes and professions thus pro•
posed to be enfranchised. We say in territorial, not pro-
fessional constituencies, that the members so obtained
may be as much as possible free from the exclusive in-
fluences of any single class or profession.
4. If these views be of sufficient value and importance
to be taken into account in preparing any new measure of
reform, practical effect can only be given to them by a
number of such members being introduced into the House
of Commons sufficient to give them a fair weight in its
deliberations.
5. Your memorialists beg leave herewith to transmit a
pamphlet on this " Educational Franchise," containing
two tables bearing on the subject. which were most care-
fully prepared front the best available authorities four
years ago, and which will therefore, they believe, be found
sufficiently correct to serve as guide for further lures.
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