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London, England, 1858-08-31 00:00:00

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" TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR E. B LYTTON,
BART., SECRETARY OF STATE F THE COLO-
NIES, &C.,
" The memorial of the undersigned bankers, merchants,
and other s, inhabitants of, or otherwise interested in the
welfare of, the colonies of New South Wales, Moreton Bay,
and New Zealand,
" Stiewetli,-1. That your memorialists have suffered
great inconvenience, and, in some instances, considerable
loss, in consequence of the delays and it egularities which
have hitherto attended the performance of the postal service
between this country and the Australian colonies.
" 2. That, even with the present insufficient communica-
tion, the mails are rapidly increasing in bulk and import-
ance, whilst an amount of traffic is springing up which de-
monstrates the profitable results that would arise from a
postal service conducted with regularity and despatch.
"3. That the increasing wealth and importance of the
d Australian colonies, and the rapid development of their
resources, demand a more frequent postal communication
than has hitherto been maintained with this country; and
flero that for such purpose a fortnightly mail ought to be este-
blished.
"4. That whilst in deference to the wishes of the southern
and western colonies ;of the Australian group the route
by way of Suez should be maintained, the interests of the
x d northern and eastern colonies demand that a new route by
way of Panama should be established, the mails being con-
veyed alternately by either route, so that each portion of
the whole group may share equally the great advantage
derived from being made the point of first arrival and of
last departure of the mails.
"5. That the insufficiency of the postal service via
Suez to the wants of the northern and eastern colonies
is such that twice only in the time during which it has
been in use have replies been received from Sydney by
return of post i, it is comparatively of little use to the dis-
trict of Moreton Bay (about shortly to be erected into a
separate colony), which would receive its mails via Pa-
nama as soon as Melbourne; and New Zealand, although
willing to share the expense, can derive but little advan-
tage from the service.
"6. That the feeling of the colonists of New South Wales
and New Zealand has already been clearly manifested, the
Governments of both those colonies having unanimously
voted a large sum to establish a mail service by the Panama
route—the former £35,000 a-year, the latter 1:35,000. And
this feeling has again been strongly expressed by the Legis-
lature of New South Wales, as appears in recent accounts
received from that colony.
"7. That whilst your memorialists believe that the Suez
route ought to be maintained as having the incidental ad-
vantagetof keeping open the intercourse between Australia
and the British dependencies in the East, the Panama route
presents still more important incidental advantages as
opening the communication with the British colonies in
North America, the West India Islands, and the newly
discovered gad fields on the North-West Cast, as well as
with the United States and with the coasts of South America,
between which and the Australian colonies commercial re-
lations of great importance already exist.
"8. That the importance of the Panama route is im-
mensely enhanced by the completion of telegraphic com-
munication with America, by which intelligence may be
conveyed between the Australian colonies and England in
about 30 days.
"9. That upon every consideration, whether of commer-
cial or political convenience, the maintenance of a double
line of postal service is of the highest importance as a pro-
vision against those contingencies to which a single line
will always be more or less exposed.
"And your memorialists earnestly hope that their
petition may be taken into the favourable con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government."
Sir E. L. BULWER—You are aware that the establish-
ment of any route of postal communication must rest with
the-Treasury. It is not a matter for the Colonial-office,
although, undoubtedly, recommendation of the Colonial
Minister will have its doe weight and influence. A great
of applications have been received on this subject,
will have every consideration from the Govern-
nanudraht
they
Govern-
ment. I think it probable that we may ultimately be able
to establish a fortnightly communication with the Austra-
lian;:colonies by way of Panama, the more so in consequence
of the.formation of the colony of British Columbia. But,
the qu'estiou is, after all, to a great extent one of expense.
The Hon. Mr. PARKER referred to the great inconveni-
ence that had arisen from the irregularity of the mails as
was pointed out in the memorial. The colonies of New
South Wales and New Zealand bad offered to contribute
liberally towards the establishment of the proposed route.
New Zealand bad offered a subsidy of £15,000 and New
South Wales a subsidy of £35,000 a year.
Sir E. L. BULWER—I should like to have some idea of
the proportionate expenses of the Panama route.
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—Twelvemonths ago the company
which nose has communication with New South Wales
would have been content with the colonial subsidy, inde-
pendent of the Imperial Government altogether ; but the
line broke down somewhere on this side of Panama.
Sir E. L. BuLWER—Was that an Australian or an Eng-
lish company ?
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—It was the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company, and they would have taken the mail the
whole way, but their consideration was that they bad an
establishment between Panama and England.
Sir E. L. BULWER—And would they have taken the rest
for 00,000 a-year ?
The Hon. Mr. PARKER—Yes. The contract now in ex-
way of Suez was not only most insufficient, but
imstoesnt pceexbyensive. He had been informed by a gentleman of
great mercantile eminence, that if the old contracts were
annulled, the two might be taken and effectually carried
out for the additional £50,000. Both as regarded the
Imperial Government and the colony, it was most desir-
able that there should be a second route.
Sir E. L. BULWER, so far as the principle is concerned,
I very much agree with the memorialists, and so far as the
expression of my opinion goes I am in favour of the esta-
blishment of a double route ; very much so indeed. A great
number of reasons have lately arisen to render the second
route necessary, and I shall be exceedingly glad to do what
I can to promote it. That is all I can say ; perhaps you
may think it desirable to see the Tressury on the subject.
The deputation then withdrew.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING D AY.—Yes-
terdsy the admissions on payment were 11,684 ; do. by
season tickets 848; total, 12,532.

LONDON GAZETTE.-(THIS EVENING.;

WHITEHALL, AUG. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-
land unto Frederic Hughes, Esq., late a Captain in the 7th
Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 31.
2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Brevet-Major Cook
Synge Hutchinson to be Major, by purchase, vice Keene,
who retires; Lieutenant George Eden Jarvis to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Hutchinson.
2d Dragoons—Surgeon Augustus Purefoy Lockwood,
from the Bth Hussars, to be Surgeon, vice Llewelyn, who

exchanges.
4th Light Dragoons—Sergeant-Major James William
Kelly, to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Brooke, pro-

m oted.
Ist Light Dragoons—Cornet Thomas Richards to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Reilly, killed in action;
Regimental Sergeant-Major John Pickworth to be Riding
Master; Surgeon Jenkin Homfray Llewelyn, from the 2d
Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Lockwood, who exchanges.
15th Light,rea William Henry Horne
to be Captain by purchase, vice Lord W. C. M. D. Scott,

who retires.
16th Light Dragoons—Walter P. Ba enal, Gent., to be
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Cornet, without purchase, vice Atkinson, promoted.
Military Train—Lieutenant Robert M. Hornby, from the
99th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major
Wood, who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—The promotion of Lieutenant-
Colonel A. B. Montgomery. C. 13., to be Colonel in the
Army, as stated in the Gazette of the 28th May, 1858, to
be antedated to 13th January.
7th Foot—Brevet-Major Frederick Ernest Appleyard to
be Major, by purchase, vice Gilley, who retires; Morris
James Fawcett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fol-
lett, promoted.
10th Foot—Lieutenant George C. Bartholomew to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Milner, who r
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ce Ensign P.
W. Matthews to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vi Bartho-

lomew.
13th Foot—To be Captains, without purchase : Lieut.
Samuel Head, from 24th Footle Lieut. John Peyton, from
87th Foot; Lieut. A. C. Bog, from 78th Foot. To be
Lieutenants, without purchase : Ensign W. S. Cunning-
home, Ensign George Turville, Ensign A. G. Wynen, and
Ensign E. Bolger.
14th Foot—Ensign Francis Fox Robinson has been super-
seded, being absent without leave.
15th Foot—To be Ensigns, by parchace : Charles Clifton
Tabor, Gent., vice Idut don, promoted; Charles Samuel
Chapman, Gent., vice Heaton, promoted.
20th Foot—Lieut. John Carden to be Captain, by pur-
chase, vice Hewett, who retires.
huttleworth, Esq., to be pay-
21st Foot—George Henry
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master.
22d Foot—The Commission of Quartermaster George
Wohlrnann to be antedated to sth March, 1858.
24'h Foot—Lieut. Charles O'L. L. Prendergast, from the
3d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice J. Scott,
who exchanges.
30th Foot—Ensign Henry F. Morewood to be Lieutenant,
without purchase, vice G. H. Sanders, who retires upon
half-pay.
39th Foot—Ensign C. Francis Oldtield to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Arbuckle, who retires; Francis Ernest
Kerr, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Oldfield.
43d Foot—Joseph Hogartb, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Talbot, promoted.
4Gth Foot—Major Arthur George Vesey to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, without purhase ; Brevet-Major Algernon
Robert Garrett to be Major, without purchase, vice Vesey ;
Lieutenant Thomas John Barlow Connell to be Captain,
without purchase, vice Garrett ; Ensign Vesey Daly to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Council; Ensign Allan
Joshua Kentish to be Lieutenant, by prhase, vice Coote,
promoted.
48th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Jean Valleton de Bois-
siere, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Hemp-
hill, appointed to the 66th Foot.
49th Foot.—Ensign Frederick Platt Blackmore, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maule, who retires; Wm.
John Gillespie, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Blackmore; Lieut. Robert Hall Sprott to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Chaplin, retired.
54th Foot.—Ensign M. W. E. Gosset to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Edwards, whose promotion by purchase
on the 13th July, 1858, has been cancelled; Ensign E. S.
Chapman, from the 15th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Gosset.
60th Foot.—Edward Digby O'Rorke,Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Heathcote, promoted.
64th Foot.—Henry F. Scobell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice George Thompson, who resigns.
65th Foot.—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class Thomas E.
White, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Marshall, who exchanges.
79th Foot—Ensign G. W. Coventry, from the 84th Foot,
to be Ensign, vice Simpson, who exchanges
84th Foot—Ensign James M. Thomas Simpson, from the
79th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Coventry, who exchangeon to
s.
91st Foot—Brevet-Lieut.-Colonel B. E. M. Gord
be Lieut.-Colonel, without purchase ; Brevet-Major Henry
J. Savage to be Major, without purchase, vice Gordon;
Lieutenant Alexander C. Bruce to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Savage; Ensign Robert Powell Jones to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bruce.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign A. E. Pierson has been
permitted to resign his commission.
3d West India Regiment—Lieutenant James Bligh Scott,
from the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Prendergast,
who exchanges.

RECRUITING DISTRICT.
Brevet-Colonel David Russell, C. 8., from the 84th Foot,
o be Inspecting Field Officer, vice Brevet-Colonel Kelly
deceased.

HOSPITAL STAFF.
Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, with local rank, Thomas
Patrick Matthew to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class.
Surgeon Thornton Marshall, from the 65th Foot to be
Staff-burgeon of the Second Class, vice White, who ex-
changes.
To be Acting Assistant-Surgeons:—
John Goodrick Campbell, Gent.
George Palatiano, M.D.
Thomas Henderson Somerville, Gent.
Thomas Howell, Gent.
Thomas Lightfoot, Gent.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon Richard Robinson Alderson has
been permitted to resign his appointment.
MEMORANDUM.
The second Christian name of Quartermaster John Croker,
on half-pay 6th Foot, is Charles.

COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
The Duke of Lancaster's Own Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry—Adjutant Charlie Berkeley Molyneux to be Cap-
tain, and to serve with the rank of Captain from the date of
his Adjutant's commission, viz., the 11th Dec., 1856.
Oxfordshire Regitneatlof Militia—Lieutenant W. Frede-
rick Raitt to be Captain, vice Cole, resigned ; Ensig
ro-
Henry Olivier Lloyd to be Lieutenant, vice Raitt, pn
moted.
2d Regiment of Roy arieshire Militia—Walter Alexander
James Wakeman, Gent., to be Ensign, vice J. D. Barnes,
resigned. Resignation—Lieut. James Broil' Byers.
Ist Regiment of Royal Cheshire Militia—Resignation—
Captain Archibald Edmund Bromwich.