The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

TILE MAIL-PACKET SERVICE.

The recent establishment of a mail steam-packet
communication to India by the Cape et Good Hope and to
Australia by way of India, has Weems& the alma! expense
of the mail-packet service by a quarter et & "million sterling.
It has been mated that the total annual cheep kir the packet
service is 900,0841 but this stun is excludes *at for the
Channel mail-pa service. The sharps, emblned, foe
the whole of the Omen end Cheinel spell-paast service is
above a million et per 10111111. The numbs of mule
packets employed in the Chemed oil Omen mill service
117 ; their aggregate tonnage is 131,716 tan; all they have
an aggregate power of 40,28660m5; it et se pickets are
built of iron, and 28 of them are screw enemas; rely 18 out
of lie 117 are Burnished with lightning ooninelers. The
lsr ship amongst the mail-packets is the geddie-whed
eterser Pettis which is 3,587 tons hoiden. The mod
pow cal of the mail packets is the La Pb.., which has •
po smot 939 horses. The La Plata has aleo the dmpletdratight
a wise of any oldie pickets, drawing se it dro 2l feet—,
the Persia only ben 111 feet The 117 mel parer so
mama by 7,1111 pones. The aggro., Ingth of the
Coma sad Own urn thou at the mover Iwo 66X
men; sorbor of lan dr Ea Oars= grim la o
I yes is 1,11111,691, son dam tor ens r iron Mama
the meth and the moon. Letters me sow an laterYelpip
raise to Sy&ey, through Europe is* heie. ••
ambles d
Deafly 40,0 M in three months. This is • wee at-
tain sad seestlier route than sending such letters were tae
Peelle, "distance of some 8,000 miler, because the Peelle
not ereessi bye mail packet, and to the only cam lb
giehe that is not so erorsod. The length of the
traveled by United States noun packets is 7,200
the musber of tulles they cover inch year is Aerial/.
The Fres& mail packets are limit at present to the edi-
terrains& The length of the Traub mail line on that sus
is
about 5,00 rain and the number of mike the packets WM
over it In a year Y
es about three .quiuters of a 'pillion. The
Belgian sal governments have tack established a
line of tremabstle nail steam packets, end the Marrs at
the Fisch br Net stated in his speech from dr them hi
intention to ob.blish a similar line. The ma sawn
packets own dos vontron yeamegees, the nor =rein
corgo, and bey gook WOO tons parte= one part d
the globe to awns%

THE DISTRESS
THE PERT N THE CoALWHIPPIRE
OPOF LONDO.V.
A deputation of coalwhippers of the port of
London, accompanied by Lonl It. Grosvenor, 111. P., Lord
Goderich, Rev. J. T. Rowse% of St. Peter'e, Stepney,
Rev. Mr. M'Call, Mr. T. J. Fumivol, and Mr. Flynn, had
an interview yesterday with Lord Stanley of Alderley the
Preeklent of the Board of Trade, for the purpose of mein]
known to the government the serious grievance:a ander
they now labour from the withdrawal of the bill which pros
terted them from the old public-house truck system.
The men etated their raw. Some years since the gowns
meat, in order to better the condition of the cordwhippers and
to relieve them from the vice end misery attending the patio-
house agency, established an office, from which they were
employed, and which secured to them the full amount of theft
=. Some of the coed-merchants became dissatisfied
working of the office, end when the proposal for re-
newing the bill cresting the office canto on, in the ordinary
course list eession, they asked the government not to eons
tines it, but to allow them to evtalclioh a new model office,
from which they would engage the men. The coal-ow:term
and merchants 'lewd a document, that they would protect
the men from being employed through a public-house, oe
in any way exposed to the old 'poem ; and, upon that
understanding tho bill was withdrawn, and the mere
chanta left to establish their office. It has be=
revers] months in operation, and the men awed
that it has proved sn utter failure, as revile
preventing the work from going to public-houses, and Met
the old thinking system was rapidly revising. They site
that when the new office was anted, there were 123 ger.
of 9 men in each gang, with 40 sopernuntentrias , that
number of gauge had since been reduced to AS, and the mlet
dismissed were obliged either to go into the workhoei Kr
accept the public-Louse employment with sly its evil MOW
queues; that a large portion of the men connected with ft
office were frequently without work, and that when Of
were occupied their wages did not exceed 9s. a week.
It
was stated as a feet that a large proportion of
colliers in the pool were disagreed through public.
hours, and that the number was daily increasing. It
Ina aye asserted that two of the merchants who hi
signed the document only to employ men through the can
had broken their promise by engaging hands through anode
channel. They added that the renewal of the old bill wall
supplyd a remedy for this state of things.
R. Grosvenor, Rev. ?dr. Itowsell, and the Rev.
w.
M'Call addressed tome few remarks to his lordship as to tier
condition of the men.
Lord Stanley of Alderley said the position of the meal
represented to him appeered very herd. He would mil
some inquiry to &made- into the matters which had beam*
mltted to biro, and perhaps the men would also prosmill
their inquiry for facts.
Mr. Flynn said poor labourers, with only 9s. • week h
cometd in paying waterage to go out in the river 881
collec "fact
,ts" sac as the zanies and number of ships
charged by publicans.
The deputation then withdrew.

A Paris correspondent of the IncMpesdance
says that one Hume, a member of the sect of Jimmied
fipirit-rappers, has been allowed within the lad few dew
display his skill before their Majesties at the Tuileries. Tel
curious remelts ere spoken of.
In the course of a conversation which ensued it.
the predated= of X Mot, the newly-elected member dal
Academy, to tho Emperor Nineteen on Monday, the *Ed'
ing rem* to mid to have escaped M. Guizot .—" Wool,
the only edifice that never tills."
General Baron de Rottembotug, one of the foe
adjutants-mend of the Old Mind, has jun died at SO
sem, sat Parts, it the op otB7.