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This plan he states has the unqualified approbation of
Commander Stckes, R.N., who was for seven years em-
ployed in surveying the coast of New Holland, and of
whom Lieutenant Waghorn speaks in the following
laudatory terms:—
" The comprehensiveness of knowledge displayed in
the published record of his explorations of Torres Straits
and the adjoining coasts, within 500 miles in every
direction, clearly point him out as the representative of
Government in the organisation of the scheme suggested,
in connexion with the Peninsular and Orietnal Com-
pany, for running steamers from Singapore to Sidney.
None so fitting as he to be your agent; and, through
you, the agent of the mother country, and of the great
colony of Australia, with that Company, if they will
take the contract, on fair and reasonable terms, for, say
three or five years, after which retrenchment might,
perhaps, be judicially introduced."
Lieutenant Waghorn thus proceeds:—
" I am perfectly confident that, with a grant from the
Crown, a monthly steam communication between Sydney
and Singapore, and vice versa, may be entered upon by
a private company of merchants, which would be forth-
coming in the City of London in two or three months.
" And now as to the chief end and aim of this address
—the amount of the grant. What is it? you will ask.
It is 100,0001. per annum; and for that sum a larger
equivalent is obtainable, all things considered, than the
history of Government bargains with private Companies
has yet afforded."

Surely the Government will not hesitate to
make so small a grant for suck an important object.
Once, by establishing steam communication, diminish
the distance between England and Australia one-half,
and " emigration would flow to Australia, where soil,
and climate, and produce, and the currents of traffic,
and, in short, every circumstance an intending emigrant
should take into account, invite him to settle, and where
nothing repels him but the distance and the evils this
distance alone occasions.

" The link that connects Australia with England by
steam will strengthen the relationship between both, in
a political as well as a social sense. The internal peace
and quiet of such a colony may remain for ever undis-
turbed, if looked after with a maternal eye at home. No
contaminating influences externally can ever operate to
the prejudice of England's influence. Australia is es-
sentially English, and will ever remain so ; and it will
do so with mutual credit and profit to England and itself,
in proportion as it participates in the onward progress of
England's glory and prosperity, by being brought within
its sphere by means of steam."
The following are additional benefits which would
accrue from the establishment of a regular line of
steamers between Singapore and Port Jackson :
" 1. By establishing steam navigation between Singa-
pore and Sydney, you at once create in that part of the
world a steam navy capable of mounting guns of any
calibre when wanted against an enemy, or of transport-
ing troops to Singapore, and to Hong Kong, China, or
Calcutta, as might be needed.
" 2. The necessity for fortifications in the South Pa-
cific and the Indian Ocean would be done away with by
these steamers, which would be fortifications in them-
selves, carrying within them the means of destroying any
enemy they might meet with.
"3. The navigation of Torres Straits and New Zealand
generally is not sufficiently known. Steamers plyine.
between Singapore and Port Jackson will easily make
the passage. The only diverging difference in the navi-
gation of these Straits and coast is 160 miles more if you
go outside the Barrier Reefs ; for it may
happen that if you went inside you would have so
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to anchor at night, and this must continue to be the case
lighthouses are established on the points, capes, and pro-
montories indicated on the accompanying'
map."
On this subject of lighthouses, Lieutenant Waghorn
strongly recommends the erection on the shores of Torres
Straits and on the coast of New Holland of Mr. Bush's
patent cast iron lighthouses, diagrams of which are given
in the pamphlet, as also a chart of the proposed route.s
We hope that Mr. Secretary Gladstone will direct his
best attention to this subject, and that a liberal grant_rirt.
the establishment of steam communication between
gapore and Port Jackson will be proPsed
of Parliament, for
inent during the present session by Governwe-
are convinced the public money could not be better ap-
plied than in securing this important object, and thus
developing the vast resources of one of the most impor-
tant of our colonial possessions.

DEATH BY SITFFOCATION.--On Tuesday:Mr. William
Baker, Deputy Coroner,
held an inquest at the Black Bull, Brook-
street, Ratcliff, on William Martin, aged three months. On Monday
evening deceased was very fretful, and, in order to appease it, the
mother tied up, in a small piece of muslin, some sugar and butter,
with a piece of tape, for it to suck, when it slipped down its threat,
by wawa tits Want was outrocated. Vordict, "Accidoutay choked."