The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

POSTAL STRAY COMMUNICATION WITH
AUSTRALIA.

Yesterday a public meeting was held at the Loudon
Tavern, (or the purpene of d. t reining oe the hest steps le
be adopted to ensure the 1111.11110dilltil Of OW

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poets' steam relations with Ass,ralis. The Lord Mayo,
occupied the chair. There were oho
_yeesont tit* Bad of
Hardwick', Lord Stanley, M.P , Moe. Mr. Clin, Mr. Wm.
Brown, II P. Mr. Her Stymie?, M.P., Mr. Mahar,P.,
Mr. John M:Gresor, MP., Mr. Wentworth, late water
of the How of Legislature, Now S nth Wa,m, Mr. C. B
Now•aban, sheriff of /Lath Australia, Mr. Robert Wigram
Crewf-rd, Mr. De 8.11., and other gentlemen connected
with t . Asttralist c 11051,2

The Loan Mayo'', ia opening the proceedings, said that
the subject which bad called them together that day was
woad to none that could moray their attendee se
Haglbtismea and merchants—(hear, heal—and It ai p arid
to iv in to be a matter of der p regret that government had
dons bathing to trailitite the pod& commuoication between
this country and hi r Australia& soloaks. The important*
of such • csasmunicatioa was at ma sppsrent. Many of
thou, whom he now addressed wets mare that a ship • ith
a large freight was at present sow. days out beyond bar
time, and one of the cons quite sof that delay was that
Cantos in her, becoming apprehoostra for her safety, rushed
into the market, and wars paying an increased me of pre-
mium foe her inearanao. Now, it might so happen
that the number of deys she was out beyond her time
were competitively few, to that the premiums
the paid was so mull money taken oat of the pockets of
the colonists by their agents here. Lilt year, when mossy
was wares, sissy day a ship from Australia laden with gold
was kept out, radiated as inactivations' on the public sad
was a loss to the merabaat. Is Sae, it was his opinion, that
the money which would be saved in insanutce gad in in-
terest en ths value of caritas, if a nn dad roliabVf Pastel
ooreasnoicatioa were e pined between Reglaod and Aus-
tralia, would go a long way towards a rebid, for that pur-
pose— (hear, hear)—and he, therefore, thought that they
ought to erre on government to expedite the vtablishmeat
of on, and he booed that the united 'fifes of that nesting
wi aid hey, the effect of pain; washout (orator delay a line
of Mips pat on the most eligible rotas, which might provost
the insaavralsros which had hitherto been felt. he wishiag
be very brief, he had perbspe omitted to aortae several points
of interest, but tine it was satafastory to know shut that
onamioa would he remedied by the swooshes at gentleman
avrasiateed with the subject Wall its email*.
Mr. Cannes WlNTWOlerit, lately representative of
Sydney, la the legislature 'of New leech Wales, neat ad-
dressed the mating, and said that from his bag raddease
in the coloaies be was no bad expoarat of their feeliap on
the subject of postal imainrialeatioa with the motion-
aratatry, and be could say that they bad hat ono
that of unmitigated annoyance end disgust at the same,
is which they were rented in the matter, and the
Israelites would cot he surprised at it, when ha laid
Wen them the history of the whole affair. In
1846 it was pffloielly 'alienated to the Ana/alias
adopts' that a team lino was about immedfately to be
established, but the amitramoimpfraa MOP oat r•alissd until
1862, when, after ate paw of motiommorp delay, a postal
steam sank* was at Park mallignata mouths,
vA the Caps of Good Hops Me liithment of Sam. The
bi-monthly service, nit the Cam of Gaol ISM we. anew-
idly fia mmodatint misittakm sagettoop Is the publicly
rrasedod MIAs of the matioafflotil Load of tho Admiralty,
awl had boa Mod nada two Mama' teempitaiso nod ora-
Inaton, but ultimately permitted to drop, after Metes
be.. obarictertrad is midi am by failure aad disappoint.
mot to the publio. The Id-mostbly envies vie Saes bad
Mae dusk, its onallammos mast out in a more regular
and mai& masse, I bat the ogee was so devious aad the
amaarom that Ns peerage to Molbdosraedosea.
Mirect
eat 11=1111gasis per boar. whiner usual
sped en othorilaatraot Imas was ten knots or nautical miles
pm Mar. The bet-asami oseviekhs the moth of November,
1664, was, ellheat ender, wholly eupprtsesd,
m goilloat of Meo nominators of the war,
hat the thalpmeidat of toe publis service is no way
asslared ti. rammes eressary. Siam the supproseica,
big Majesty's melon had Mon orairaysd with the stood re-
to
_lad* to Chloe, to Lomita., to the West Isdiss,
to its Baia. nad mom diag as distaat soma of Western
Amairkm bat Amiga& hod boon wholly deprived of all
mold Maim sammoohallost sad hence the letter, of the
pad egoist at the =di had been exposed la their transit
ts=a mad sr,httabet n
aleoalshadst serf osspg
oMoimeddamb their gold relations to grave
semi hangdog saaisty. It was with pain he now
him the Tramy minute that the sxmadvs, instead of the
immediate samswal of postal mum tougualesdo, propose,
la the lest Molmras, a redimmos a Cho obeelegi to order to
seotrade w IMO sesoot at gaga* oath se hey wee will le g
to aratelbeb to the ego staysail Ogees has; s ashrams
wh'eb, make any eigegoileast% weed be attended with a
delay at set has thee delta= seeethe, ewe. though the
various aoloulto should ultimately spas assimpt than-
saves as to the mama of their respective a ontribstioar.
He esetesion ass this rehroes, if made at all, shaaln
ham be mob Woe her liderey's georeneo
tte e a ,slosh
el ride mesa Mee, via. tart"
WWI Whim far MaraiMmt m maitont Meals ealofillsk
• Mao redo, Outer =ppm it, sad aftortraed• he smart
lIWZ, "WWI Mb par.r that mmossubli sot be
without a easel* admit had error bias
lbws say other orasmy at the Mipbsossi we. eit a
Mme dilleedee. Then seadaesd delays wage the wore
evaeligeto heanseh as the sissy ertletsds had already
airze*MlK s yea.,
edamthe et Sew South
mii," *nal the mural of IbL awards the
=slosh e pedal steam senile; se thee these two
aloe% vie the aid from imperial fends proposed in
the Tressery mime, bed subscribed probably ths whole
mono wht eh wean be demandable is the term of that
Womb ham Se oaths Afitataliaa i or, at all events,
as bop a Salim of the whole Mtee pawed Mr
reensobla ausesthet say farther eastelholea whisk might
be rapand would be newerilatdp voted by the
'Monies of Tressale, South Assaults sell New Zealand. The right veets te more the gold eel hes treemiglea of
the malls was ask ea grip misty as melds,. hag sober to
'dist the shesteet mete I are.. tree van* deo la ether
breashre tto amebae redo servioa, a Wet ea the ow
pligaisel* the eielessiges of Stodre vessels, with Ma-
cosh ellsgo poor and eel-tested spool. He was satiated
Mait MO altsatiot rout. Wee that tie Saes and the Indira
01111111; 111011 Meng. amid* to °Medal eompatadoe, 3,019
millorthoolim Om Ma passage by the Cape of Good Hope,
.ssdwllefa
milm shorter than list via Parana; the latter
70 degrees of laughed' more this th• earns
thought it highly dearabla OM Oa=
Mermen without laisehitor at Ceylon as Moollsim,
pegged Skeet hem Saes to Melbourne, steeple ht deNal
being ai at the Wend of Diego Gaga& The MiSantarb. of aU rostra, it Ins ',Meat that,
et tie rapetred late of tea miles an hour, the malls
admit of big forwarded by it memo days sifter
*sashay soldite wavered by say other Um; sad lif the
rata dopsod were scsioratsd to sloven ft twat,* tidies per
Man at woo gait' makable, the lemiad of trurralwOn
would be sedated la yr ponies. wall also °been,
that, 1,101111.1 gieseephkel et Sends,
short leo& Isla* with giri be ageseisM hem that
Wang, which weed Wog As mad 0. Choi of
Good Rom late doe onagiveleglas with dastedie, sad
at the game doe Nebo fog the Ore adagio fiseasood .
speedy aid asap gleam weenies with the gothic esealry,
of which west adoetege they an, etathend wholly de-
prived. The malts might thee he &Owed la Melbourne
within forty-fear days from the data et Ora leaving Lo-
des. The trade with Australia had now oaramod ones vast
=r;that it was impossible government c raid he per-
rte cooties, to trifle with Mr pasta Ma-
gma net was supported by the trade marsh
whims it amend that In the you 1853 the expert V
Beide maauhefmu 10 Australia usomtied to 14,506,5321,
ged swirly *ladled rest export to Aar rift,
OM it more the doubled our experts to Lidia
and Germany, that it was six tiara greater thaa
oar exports to Prams sad the West ladies, and
seven ttmesa in assess of our saw rte to Chios. H.
would further observe that the geld yield of Amor ilia
darts( the put year exceeded twelve niUllime morilac
and that di, rapid Outfit of this hoe agues* et treseare
wee intimately connected wi h the %inn dull pablis low
titles, end was at this mom its of the entre immense to
the trading laureate of the country. Ravin Arm her la
vise, he thought that the wealth, the fertile:ems, lad
met °maenad impratracie of Australia fully mailed Mr
to ohs boot sad the sportiest postal envies whisk it was mos
site's b f ?pates, and that the jut expectations of Mir mpg-
lattaa woad be satiated with no less, while awakes antra
by starts of Australia with the mother country salad be
attended with gnat results; and ha believed that • nevus
se inroad In its object merited at the heads of the
BOWL prvenesseat at low tbei vase degree at support
is the an of other sad Mu haravaat steam
liar, bad already so fir aarially trediesd the deolopoest
of our sonuneree sad the satmaimi of ear sivilieatioa.
H. had to complain that while one of the onareste to whist'
' he refined was still in existence, goveomilords ialintod of
at mien resuming it, as inid delay the esysibliese of
whilst/ with • reedit= ramose • eagle elaidered that,
as the money received by theretit-elese em .sailor m-
oot for work sad labour dims thaa lepilimato sans..,
the bedews in head, after the Nowa ramose et the depart-
ment w.rs defrayed, ought to be employed la amain up
sew and faselitating samara' lilies of summaalsatiom It
was but just that the money of the Postradm should be se
employed in the came if postal rtrammisallsa with Assns.
lb, Mr if they wire able to emirs ma of aid days' Minikes
they would save 60,0001. per swam bloat as the supra,
and an shillings per 1001. assurarto. He *mid sot loop,
detain the meeting, but move that the dismallaisana• of the
postal surto, with Australia had boon prodaratra of milieu
lismesalancos, sad had proved isjuions to the columns
of the country.

Mr. Ravanandar. as rrpreNatative of the Alatraliaa
Adrioadia,al Laad Comapray, araladad the 'Rohm. width
was divvied aaaalaberudy.

The Bari of H•IIDWiCILM would lake ■p the subject
when 11r. Wentworth had dropped it. He, with him, re-
graded the delay of tits ref, ream which govenssubt, es the
piss that they had s, t ieformatins esenth to tone tr a ta-
sking, bed mad* to he eolosi►e. A late information required
was et outs seeeseilde, at It mild be supplied by eelooisb at
pretest is .hie revelry. (Ht sr, hear.) He therefon salted
why t►ay wore sat to have the eosionusiestios whisk they
'Modred sported tx thee ; and be cordial:yj timed the meet.
is' is imprimis, os the geverossent lb* issseediate maga,
dosed sae by lb.e speediest and moot dirge' route. He did
set reseed the lamer la the sans. light of s sere menus.