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Tb,3 total rec 6 irt-3 for
.the.,balfler,amount to 7740,160/,!,
izi'erajliagtba,bs lan en'frbra the iq-tvions Ira-yea-1"A aecnunt.,:,,
anti the total e;sp...pke)-, ioter,,,t'and;snarapteed diviilen4s, to
542,1V7.1ear:itw:Ivniiablenv clivitlen.! the suns of 2tY4,01a.,
and the dill ktOz eeor.d wend. that a "di'vi!lencl (ies3 income-
tax) be atz „Cm.t4e .1:?t dly of Soptereber
next, of lf. non' &ell TOW.- consolidated' eto6k," beida.
at the rate cf. 3 per cent. pezunnuen. .

Sl'4brat:lN ..CNIS DARLINGTON.
The half-y tarlv meeting-4i coinpanY wag held on.
WodneSday Darlington;.Mr. Maynell ill the chair.
The revenue tables wore most -satisfactory, the 'yet'
balance sufficient, after paying Lar4orohowc4.4teat4
&c.. for a dividend of 9 per cent. 9n ordinary shares.
The CHAIR:WAN, in rnoving.the adoption of -the report.
and accounts, said the income of the half-year was 143,0001.,
while that of the torrespoinling half-year of 7.851 was
12fi3ONY.
A. vote of thanks Co the chairman concluded the pro_
eeedings. -

TEE BUENOS AYRES BONDHOLDEBS.

1 The last Mail from. the River Plate has brought
copies of a correspondence, carried on. during the past
year regarciteg the claims of the Buenos Ivrea bend-
holders, between 1-Ir. Faulk. Parish„the British _Consul
in that actuary, and Doe Pot tele, :the
and - the entire records even of -Spanish American.;
fivance present nothing more disgraceful. Ilenctly 'a'
twelvemonth back Mr. Parish addressed Don Porte's:,
referring; to the fact of Mr. Giro, who bad arrived in
January, 1854, as tags ae,ent of the heiellioldere, hating
thus far beeee_telehd_iL_ts,_-ey_eeeenepte to. Induce the
Governmerit;or-Bat:noe- Ayres to, make some arrange-
ment of the clcbt, althotigh the reeourcss of the country
Were improving, and dontestie creditors wese bei2t4 paid,
end col:eluding wall an inthiratien that: been
instructed, under the 4
:4.llltlaiitizeZjic, to teakeetesp'ecial
apeeat to the honour aeiri god Stet:. For
filth* =traits, with that crony' asiesisssiulen-snese which
Only the roost despieable Governments' venture to
dittplay, ..this communication. was allowed to .retuain .
.vAthont answer or iteknowledgment of any kind.
Mr. Parish then made a demand fox a reply, which.
.after the lapse of another .month, brought onaan
Oat the Government,had.uo tinrye fiesiatteed to, it,
but :teal t he. eubjeeeleal been 'hatl, rsY- l'eferristkr..6;
consideration of the Finance Minister. An additional
two months having passed without any attention what-
elan; hnviem been given to the subject, Mr. Parish re-
flawed Lie application, and at the same time took the op.
Pertunity of protesting against a decree just issued for
paying all claims for damages sustained by the citizens
of Buenos Ayres during the last civil conflict, while the
,prior debt to the foreign bondholders, contracted under
-the express acts of the Legistature, continued to be
treated with disregard.. In three months he was informed
that the Govern-merit-had not been able-to attend to this.
fresli letter, and that they now refused to enteitain any
reclaniaLious of an official character, since the debt to
the bondholders was purely of a private character, and
010,11.1 be treated accordingly, no international steps bet
ing warranted unless there had beenadenial of justice. In
proof that no such denial had occurred,- Don Portela
pointed to the fact that the tondholders continued ' re-
lieiously to receive" the 1,000/. per month granted since
1849, these remittances not having been interrupted
even by the revolutionary crisis through which the
country had pasied. With regard to the payments for
damages to the citizens of Buenos Ayres, his sole at-
tempt at justification was comprised in the characteristic
taunt that the bondholders had voluntarily lent their
money and taken all risks, while the damages to the
citizens had been involuntarily sustained. To this Mr.
Palish promptly rejoined by en exposnre 'of the whole
course of the Government of Buenos Ayres in relation
to the affair, and by calling attention to the fact that
their continued refusal to offer any adequate arrange-
ment, and their boast of latterly remitting 1,0001. per
moritheen a debt of a million sterling, on which the in
terest has been suspended for a quarter of a century, as
if it were something meritorious, amounted not only to
a denial of justice, but came little short of direct repu-
diation. Finally, under date of the 23d of June,
he announced that the British Government had ar-
rived at the conclusion that Buenos Ayres was deter-
mined to persist in her dishonest course, and that
although they have hitherto abstained from enforcing
the bondholders' claims this forbearance may have its
limits.

ADSTRALIAN POSTAL COMMUNI-
CATION.

The following letter addressed by the General
Association for the Australian Colonies to Sir W.
Molesworth has been forwarded to us for publica-
tion

" General Association for the Australian Colonies,
London, August 15.
" Sir,—As the Minister of the Crown, to whose care
the interests of the colonies are specially confided, I am
requested by the committee of this association to entreat
your attention at this juncture to the unsatisfactory po-
sition in which postal communication with the Austra-
lianle
colonies has so 100,, een permitted-to remain, and.
in doing so the commit take the opportunity of ex-
pressing their high appreciation of the many services
you have already rendered to Australia, and the confi-
dence which your complete acquaintance with its position,
value, and resource 3, lead them to entertain that you
will mark your accession to office by no longer allowing
so vital a point on steam communication with the mo-
ther country to remain in abeyance.
' "Since the month of November last our usual mail
steam service has been wholly suppressed, and letters
have, in consequence, during that period been conveyed
to their destination with all the irregularity and nncer-
tainty necessarily incident to the transit of sailing
packets. The colonists cannot admit that the exigencies
of the war, grave as they have been, were, at any time.
so urgent, as to call for their exclusion from the benefits
attending speedy and certain communication with the
mother country, especially as these continue to be en-
joyed to their fall extent by other colonial possessions of
less commercial importance. You will not, therefore,
be surprised to learn that universal dissatisfaction pre-
vails throughout Australia on this most important sub-
ject._

"The earnest remonstrances which have reached this
country from the colonies are well known to your pre-
decessor in office, and will corroborate the accuracy of
our statement in this respect. Representations have
also been made by members of this association to the
Colonial-office, the Admiralty, the Post-office, as well as
to the Treasury, and from all those departments we have
received repeated assurances that the question was con-
sidered of the gravest importance, and would have early
attention. In both houses of Parliament these aunt,
' ances have been repeatedly renewed in reply to the
inquiries of individual members. It is consequently
with ofincere regret and astonishment that at this ad-
vanced period of the year we find no arrangements
whatever have yet been made for the early reorganisa-
tion of an Australian postal steam-service.
" The uncertainty attending postal communication
effected through the medium of sailing vessels is set ob-
vious that we feel we need not insist upon, it. At pre-
sent, it is true, our mails are carried by the fastest sail-
ing-vessels in the world, the owners contracting to de-
liver them in 65 days; but this 'speed has only been
attained in or two instances, while, in others, 80, 90,,
or even 95 days have been occupied by the voyage.
There is every reason to believe that by the overland
route and by steamers of a similar character to those
employed in other ocean postal steam lines, mails could
be delivered in 50 days ; and to such a service we con-
sider the Australian colonies, by their importance and
their proposed support of it, are fully entitled.
" You are doubtless aware that the matter has received
much attention from the different colonial Legislatures.
The colony of Victoria, as a mark of its ardent anxiety
for the resumption of postal steam communication, has
not only voted 50,000/. per annum for that object, but
has also passed an act of Council charging that sum on
its general revenue, as well as placing it at the uncon-
trolled disposal of the Governor. New South Wales and
the other Australian colonies are prepared to contribute
in the like liberal manner. We would submit, there-
fore, that these grants, with the assistance naturally ex-
pected from Great Britain. are on a scale of such magni-
tude as to warrant the immediate establishment of a
most efficient postal steam service.
" In conclusion, permit me to hand you a list of the
members of this association, among whom you wilt find
the names of several gentlemen who have recently occu-
pied seats in the Legislatures of the colonies of Victoria
and New South Wales, and of others who have taken
a prominent part in the leading questions of public
interest in those colonies. The views, therefore, which
I have been requested by the committee to express, may
be said to give a faithful representation of the feelings
of the colonists on a question, the importance of which
to Australia it would be difficult, if not impossible, to
exaggerate. It is that importance which has in duced
the committee to address you in the earnest terms of
this communication, and which now leads them to hope
that the subject will have your serious and early atten-
tion.—l have the honour to subscribe •myself, sir, your
most obedient and humble servant,
" WILLIAM RIMLEDGE,
"Hon. Sec. of the General Association for the
Australian Colonies.
" To the Right Hon. Sir W. Molesworth, Bart., her
Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies.!