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1 tal ieceipts for the half-year amount to 7501,1601.,
ngthebalance from the pievious half year's accounts,
total expenges, interest and guaranteed dividends, to
01. leaving available far dividend the sum of 208,0231.,
13 e directors recommend that a dividend (less income-
declared,. payable on the lst day of September
f 1/. 15s. upon each 1001. consolidated stock, being
kate of 3.3 per cent. per annum.

/ STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.
half-yearly meeting of this company was held on
•1 sday in Darlington; Mr. Meyneaiti the eliair.
revenue tables were most satisfactory, the net
, leaving suffident, after paying preferencek edntals,
a dividend of 9 per cent. on ordinary shares.
HAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report
ounts, said the income of the half-year was 143,0 W,
hat of the corresponding half-year of 1854. waR

:e of thanks to the chairman concluded, the pro

WEAR VALLEY. •
lalf-yearly meeting of this company was held at
;ton on Wednesday ; Mr. H. Pascoe Smith in the

line being 'leased, at a 6 per cent. rental, to the
n and Darlington company, the business was con-
the declaration of a dividend of that amount.

- . EAST INDIAN.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the London Tavern ; Mr. R. W. Crawford in
the chair.
Resolutions were passed adopting the report, which has
already:appeared in The Sun, and confirming the forfeiture
of 118 shares for non-payment of calls.
The Proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

CEYLON RAILWAY.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
,terda* it the °Mee, Copthall=buildings; Mr. Artistrntherlxr
the chair.
Mr. COOPER, the secretary, read the report, which stated
that the directors had been in communication with the
'Government respecting a guarantee from the local Govern-
ment in Ceylon to enable the promoters to construct the
railway. The Government here had entertained the ques-
tion' and referred the matter to the local authorities. It
was bellVed that both Governments were in favour of the
undertaking. The accounts showed that 81. had been ex-
pended during the half-year, leaving a balance of t6l.
Resolutions were passed adopting the report, and re-
electing the retiring directors.

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The last mail from the River Plate has brought 1/4
copief of a correspondence carried on during,_the past —, „4
year regarding the claims of the Buenos Ayres bond-
I. ~deh between Mr. Frank Parish, the British Coruna
in that country, and Don Portela, the Foreign, Minister, and the entire records even of Spanish American
finance- iiFeiinfilothing more disgraceful. Exactly a
twelvemonth back Mr. Parish addressed Don Portal's.
referring to the fact of Mr. Giro, who had arrived is
January, 1854, as the agent of the boudhpelders, having
thus far been baffled in every attempr4 ,indnee the
Government of Buenos Ayres to make*llit_taTrauge*
meat of the debt, although the resources ,O 1 the :country
were improving, and domestic creditors were being paid,
and concluding with an intimation that he had been
instructed, under the circumstances, to make a special
appeal to the honour and good faith of the State. For
four months, with that cool unscrupulousness which
only the most despicable Governments venture to
display, this communication was allowed 'tO remain
without answer or acknowledgment of any kind.
Mr. Parish then made a demand for a reply, which,
after the lapse of another month, brought out an intima-
tion that the Government had no time to attend to it,
but that the subject bad been that day referred to the
consideration of the Finance Minister. An additional
two months having passed without any attention what-
ever having been given to the subject, Mr. ,Parish re-
newed his application, and at the same time took the op.
portunity of protesting against a decree just issued for
paying alt-claims for-datnages -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 Legislature, continued to be
treated with disregard. In three months he was informed
that the GoVernmelat had not been able tontiend ic! thin
fresh letter, and that they now refused to entertain any
reclamations of an official character, since the debt to
the bondholders was purely of a private character, and
khoul4l be treated accordingly, no international Steps be-
ing warranted unless there had been adenikkoh Wit*. In
proof that no such denial had occurred; Don ~P914,51a
pointed to the fact that the bondholders continued "re.
ligiously to receive" the 1,0001. per month granted sires
1849, these remittances not having been interrupted
even by the revolutionary crisis through, which the
country had passed. With regard to the payniente 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, 'Me' Mr. -
Parish promptly rejoined by an exposurelof 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
month on 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.

AUST.RALLAN 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-
lian colonies has so long been permitted to remain, and
in doing so the committee take the opportunity of ex-
pressing their high appreciation of the many services
you haye already rendered to Australia, and the confi-
dence which your completeacquaintance withits position,
value, and resources, 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 uncer-
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 full 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-
decescior 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 bare
received repeated assurances that the question was con-
sidered of the gravest importance, and would have early
attention. In both houses of Parliament these assur-
ances have been repeatedly renewed in reply to the
inquiries of individual members. It is consequently
with sincere regret and astonishment that at tbis ad-
vanced period of the year we find no arrangements
whatever have yet been made fur the early reorganisa-
tion of an Australian postal steam-service.
"The uncertainty attending postal communication
effected through the medium of sailing vessels is so 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 one 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
he 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 50,0001. 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 yeu will find
the names of several gentlemen who have recently oocn-
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 induced
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 RUTLEDGE,
"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."

Rat.

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GENERAL POST-OFFICE Aug., 1855.—Henceforth it
will not be necessary that' newspapers sent abroad,
table coil,
not
whether to the British colonies or to foreign countries,
should bear the impressed stamp (the old newspaper
stamp) ; but, as at present, a postage of one penny must
be prepaid (either by means of a postage label Or in
p oreign countries r
withmoney)
ad
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mains the same as given in instructions No. 45 ; 4.
but,
as already stated, it is no longer necessary that the
newspaper should bear the impressed stamp.
In future the impressed stamp will be required only :__
cases of repeated transmission of the same
this country, though it will of course be newspaper in .
for single transmission in this c available also,
ountry
In the transmission of newspapers•
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smell of t
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BOORS, &C., TO WESTERN AIISTRALIA.—GaIIerId
Post-office, August, 1855.—0 n and from the let Sep-
tember next, the provisions of the Colonial Book Post,
as laid down in instructions No. 10 of this year will be
extended to books transmitted by private ship direct, or
by packet via Melbourne, between the United Kingdom
and the colony of Western Australia. Upon book
packets for the above-mentioned colony the rates of,
postage will be as follows, viz. :—For k packet not ex-
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and not exceeding 11b., 15. ; for a packet exceeding
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