The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-08 00:00:00

OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE.

The Worcester (U. S.) Spy contains the following
I from Elihu Iturritt, anted London, Nov. 5 :—•. Let
me beg you to admit into some corner of your paper a few
thoegme on ocean penny postage ; a subject whisk must
interest, dueetly end deselly, many of your remiss% and
millions on both aides sif ems Atlantic. Perhaps you are
aware that the project of redwing the transitobargeorietters
from any port of threat Britain to any pest boymad the sea,
to one peony, or two cents, has been mooted in this country
for several years. It has now assumed the character of a
measure of urgent necessity and vast importance, and is
alms* to be brought forward in parliament, backed by
dome the unanimous sympathy and suffrage of all political
webs sad of all classes of society. in fact, no eppo-
Slims to Ude great postal reform has manifested itself in
nay qmstesa lt seems at once to conciliate and win to its
advent" all interests. The sudden and immense emigra-
tion to Anstrtlia, within tho last few months, with the old
gulf stream of human beings Sowing with undiminished
current towards America, has brought the subject home to
millions, during she lint year, who thought it did not
affect them betore. The poorer and industrial classes of
society, who supply the largest tributaries of this swift-
running river of emigration, look for the realisation of
Ocean Penny Postage as a boon of inestimable value.
The commercial close of the community begin to under-
stand its importance, and to urge its adoption. Every
interest, every influence, every disposition and, tendency
of the times, is in its t But, to make an Ocean
Penny Postage universal, co-exlinsive with the globe,
the sympathy and concurrence of the people and govern-
ments of all maritime countries in Christendom are requi-
site. For, to realise completely the system proposed, what.
ever be the distance or direction, or under whatever flag a
letter may be conveyed, the single service of its mere transit
from any port of one country to any port of another, must
be performed for one penny. If the British mail rickets
perform this service on a letter from any port of Great
Britian to any port beyond the sea at which they touch for
ono penny, the American mail packets must do the same.
The French steamer that conveys a letter across the Medi-
terranean, or the German across the Baltic, or the Danish
across the Sound to Sweden, must each perform this single
service for a penny. Several governments and nations,
then, must move in this matter before the whole scheme
is consummated. But Great Britain and the United
States can establish this system over more than
three-fourths of the globe without the aid or cow
currenar of any other governments whatever. England
can alone establish it between Liverpool and Halifax, and
will do it, doubtless, ere long, and between her and all her
colonial porta beyond the sea, in every direction, and to
every distance. And, if she can convey a letter from Liver-
pool to Halifax, or to Hong-Kong, or to Australia, for a
penny, cannot the United States transport one from New
York to Liverpool, Havre, Bremen, or Havannah, for the
same? What a singular anomaly it would be, if the transit
charge ea a letter from Liverpool to Quebec should be two
=awl the same service ea one from Boston to Liverpool
ho three oink. It is probably the fact, that nine-
tieths of all the seenspenassss M the world that crosses
the NM is esseeyed Y DMA and American vessels. If,
tbssnems.these two posesenests can be brought, by •
posmare drib& Orates, komite in establishing an ocean
==ese"ssuerbessigali,milintathLirthuenittfideplowetr,otflittys
and IMseatessiN lips* tai Mealy of man."
Tbillmiltile allowing letter, dated Lfai_ap.
_May 7, 1862, is by
Mr. Lawrence late United Stales Waster at the court of
St. James, mid:used to his gweenessed:—"Aftor our es-
priest's la the great increased semespoodesse essesgsent
upon the reduction of the bawd nee el there
cannot, I think, be much doubt that a in-
crease would take place, were • sodomise ride it the ma-
ntes between this country and the United States. It would
seem that the Treasury of the United States is I. a condi-
tion to try the experiment, if it be an experiment. Daring
the first two or three years, perhaps, some aid from the Trea-
son will be required. But it seems to me that the amount
whisk may be tamporarily.necessary will be of small import-
ance compared with the immense benefits to result from
I it. f anything is to be done immediately in this matter,
the example must be set in the United States. I think
that the great body of the people of this country are in
favour of the system ; but I bass some doubt whether the
government will not view the question entirely in a finan-
cial light, and be unwilling to make any sacrifice. They
maintain a steam navy, in part, by their high ocean postal
rates, to almost every part of the globe. Daring the Great
Exhibition of 1851 an association was formed for the pur-
pose of promoting a cheap and uniform system of inter-
national postage for letters and printed papers, and a large
committee was appointed, which has bad the sub-
ject under eoasideretiou. A few days shoe several
of those gentlemen calld upon me, as a deputa-
tion from the general committee, for the purpose of dia.
cussing the question. Lord Ashburton is the chair-
man of the general committee, and was to have been the
chairman of the deputation, but was prevented from at-
tending by illness. The deputation consisted of Sir John
Boileau, Bart. ; S r John Burgoyne, K.C.8.; William
Brown, Zahri.B,i M.P. • H. Cole, Esq. and several other gm.
domes of character and standing. They stated that
the system o cheap oceanic postage must begin in dm
United States; that when commenced it would, in their
judgment, be adopted here from necessity, as, in can rif
refusal on the part of this government, all the correspor
dance between the two countries would be transmitted by
American vessels, since no government, in the present state
of opinion, would probably wish to renew the severe mea-
sures pursued towards the Washington, and that their
efforts would now be given to effecting a cheap inter-
national pangs between the United Kingdom and the
United States.

FIENDISH RAILWAY

r.—On fluzs•

daytime welds ateGm.lool_ to overthrow a railway train
on the Maashestor, filteMeld, and Lincolnshire line by
plating hoe wade* railway deepen across the down rails,
at a our= two mikes west of the Woodhead Tunnel. For-
tunately a Image eLa. not one with passengers, was
the first to muse is esllbion w'th the obstruction, about
12.16 p.m., sad as Godson injury resulted. A man was
seen to lean the Whew at the Get girder bridge, near the
place, a little time balm the goods train came up. Mr.
Aillport, the manager, eeemmunicated the facts yesterday to
Mr. Richard Beswick, ebbef superintendent of the detective
riles at Manchester, and a strict inquiry is taking place,
with a view to the discovery of the offender. The company
have also offered a reward of fifty pounds on the conviction
of the man. The express train from Sheffield to Manches-
ter was due at the place at five minutes after one, and, as
th• line for some miles above is on an incline, it would pro-
bably have attained • great speed by the time it came in
MMus with the obstructions, when considerable loss of
Nib =sat hive resulted.
ELBECAR COLLIERY REPLOSION.—ELSECAR,
TallllllDAY.—After a protracted deliberation, the jury came
In eieediet of " Accidental death" as regarded the whole
of do lea They also desired to recommend that
the aft government inspector in reference to
the sod general management of the pit should be
eesekil out. The Coroner, in discharging the
Ihwelled Am for the patient attention which they
had dewsted M Ids fees, which he hoped would be the last it
would be bls pied &WM investigate.
WISWIKINNTI3 Alin. —At Westminster Abbey
Church about tea abides are allowed for taking seats be-
fore the cosgan strikes up, and about the same time for the
disponi= of the Lion after the blessing ; and the
gates are abseils.* as soon as the sexton, who had
performed the oMee of whipper-in, has ejected the last lin-
gering loiterer, The circnmatance of this rigorous limits-
ties as to open doors is productive of serious inconvenience
to the public ; and it is astonishing to find, considering the
rush at the doors to obtain seats, and also the painful sensa-
tion of cold and damp which is felt even in the summer
season, that such crowds should present themselves at the
gates long before they are opened, and that, too, in the
worst weather. Every Englishman glories in the splendour
of this temple, of which he is justly proud ; but the piety
of the greatest zealot for high church must be indeed ardent
if he can continue his devotional attendance throughout our
dreary winter. The windows and wills strum with damp,
the datum perspire of it, sad the stone floors are below zero.
Wherefore is there no fire ? Is the chapter too poor ? Or
is there danger to he •pppprerehanded (St. Paul's *was cost
burnt down) from the inEsmmable nature of the materials ?
—The Bailiff.
THE TYNEEIOUTII CHURCII RATE CASE.—The
magistrate' of Tynemouth, after investigating into the ex-
traordinary church rate seizures and ezhorbitant cats levied
on the members of the Society of Friends, by the church-
, wardens of Christ Church, in that borough, have ordered
131., about one-half of the costs, to be refunded.

Considerable transactions are taiiiii;Place in End-
lish mining stocks, but the chief impediment to busi-
ness still consists in the comparative scarcity of good
shares. Prices are decidedly firm.
The gold mining shares to-day were very fiat until
after 3 o'clock, when numerous buyers came in, and
the market became decidedly better. Colonial Gold
left off 31 to 4 prem.; Nouveau Monde, 1 t to a. prem. ;
and in other descriptions the rally was proportionate.
As the dealers had sold freely in the early part of 7;,,
the day, they raised quotations immediately on a re- l°
viva' of the demand, but it may be noticed that the 13,
character of this market remains highly speculative, st
and, en a rapid advance a supply ensues.
SI
United Mexican, and the shares of the Old Aus- a.
tritium Copper Company, were heave. si.
le
The non-official quotations are:—Peel River and se
Mineral Land, 101 to 111 prem. • Nugget Vein Com- 10
pony, 44 to prem.; Australian Mutual, Ito j is
prem.; Australian Consols, Ito prem.; Monarch as
Mine, to 5-16 prem. ; L'Aigie d'Or, par to
prem. ; Garnett and Moseley, par to prem.; Burn's se
Creek Gold, 4to 3 prem. ; Anglo Australian, to 3 U
prem. ; Carberry West, 4to prem. ; Connemara, 3 s 4
to t prem.; Glenaulin, par to 1 prem. ; South Cork et.
Copper, Copper,to t prem. ; Kenmare, to prem. ; Jo-
males lto prem.; Pontgibaud, 2to 3 to
prem. ; Adelaide Land and Gold Mining Company, ft
to 1 prem.; Worthing, 5,1; Portland Iron Com- gt.
pasy, Ito t prem.; Barossa Range, 51. to 15s. per d
share ; Chartered Australian Land and Mining Com- at
pany, to; prem.; Lewis 11111 Range, 1-16 die. to
1-16 prem. East Indian Iron, Ils. to 13s. per share ;
Moen Read, 1 to 1 prem. to

THIS DAY —Two o'CLoca.
The gold mining sham to-day are firmer, the' g,
advanced quotations current after the termination of Ili
the regular business hours yesterday being main- le
tamed. Colonial gold shares have been bought as
high as Si prem., and Nouveau Monde at It prem. K
Australian Agricultural shares are quoted 270 to 14.
180. South Australian Land mark 68 to 70, and is
Van Diemen's Land, 20 to 21. la
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