The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-14 00:00:00

POSTAL SERVICE IVI TH AUSTRALIA.

The followi!g letter has been addressed to the
Editor of the Morning chronicle :
"Sir,—Notwithstanding the munificent subsi-
dies provided by the Australian colonies to secure
a certain and reliable postal communication with
Great Britain, they continue subject to the most
vexatious itregularit ice, tending seriously to affect
not only the social, but commercial interests of the
colonists, with whom a universal feeling of indig-
.. nation on this subject pr,vails.
"One excuse urged by the contract steam cAn-
panics to justify irregularities is the great distance
for a steamer to traverse betwe:n Sydney and Suez
and back, rendering punctuality impracticable.
Such assettion is equally abqtril and untenable.
evidenced by the fact that we have established
lines which perform quite as long voyages with
perfect regularity, from Southampton to Calcutta
and back, and Liverpool and Valparaiso ; th,,•re-
fore the Australian people contend that there exists
no substantial reason why, with efficient steamers,
the postal communication wi h tie mother country
should ever exceed sixty days, either via Point de
Galle or Panama. The latter route appears created
by nature., from the placidity of i s ocean, peculiarly
adapted as the direct thoroughfare for steam navi-
gation to Australia, and which the Americans
tested four years since from Sydney to Panama in
the Golden age, a magnificent steamer of 3000
tons, in which the writer made two voyages from
Sydney to Melbourne.

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" If, then, the Australian people are to be
afflicted with thPse gross blunders and irregulaii-
ties of the postal service much longer, which se-
riously jeopardise the commercial prosperity of the
-richest colonies in the world, no matter whether
arising' from supineties of the Imperial Govern-
ment or breaches of contract of steam companies, the
nterchant prince; of thoie magnificent colonies will
take the matter in their own hands, and
seetne for themselves a faithfui and punctual
snail s'rvice wi It Europe ; for the mere
itillie'ion of penalties for breaches of contract
provides .no redress or satisfac'ion either in a corn-
nier,:ial or social view. To the former it may in-
volve seriou3 pecuniary losq, and entail on the lat-
ter (the Austr.-dian settler) one of the greatest dis-
coinf,rts of his life, not reA ring in telligetne from
his kindred and fnends in Fatherland.

"Yours ebedieutly, F. W. W."
" Weymouth.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—A meeting of the local
proprietors of this railway was held on Saturday, at the
eflicen of Mr. Henry C. B toe, Liverpool, Mr. Thomas
L. Hodson in the chair. Mr. Jonathan Mellor, one of
the directors, attended on behalf of the board to affor I
explanations to the proprietors as to the bill promoted
by the Eist Kent Company, which bill has already.
passed the Rouse of Commons, and suggested to the
meeting the propriety of adopting a petition to the
Poetic of Lords, showing the injustice of permitting the
further progress of the bill. A resolution. adopting the
petition having been passed unanimously, the same was
very extensively signed, and thanks having been voted
to Mr. Mellor and the chairman, the meeting separated,
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW BANS.—It appears that
at the meeting of the partners of this bank, held at Edin-
burgh on Thursday, a protest was served on the direc-
tors', in behalf of sbarehialders who, bad purchased stock
since February last, holding the directors liable for the of the same, on the ground that the report laid be.
fore the meetings of the proprietors in February did not
represent the true condition of the bank's affairs, and
counsel, we believe, have been retained to follow up the
protest by litigation. It was admitted by the directors
at since February last they had bought a stock of the
tiel value of 43,0921, at a cast of 43,8871 It was
that the number of shareholders is 1,400, and
I lit the nominal value of their, holdings is about
360,000/. The fact was likewise
_elicited that the
Clydesdale Bank, and also, we believe, the accountant
employed by the committee of proprietors to investigate,
did not think that the assets of the Edinburgh and
Glasgow. Bank would amount to 165,000/., and there-
fore, to carry out the amalgamation with the former, a
call would, in their opinion, necessarily have to be made
on the shareholders of the latter. Ten trustees were ap-
pointed to carry out the amalgamation, four being se-
lected from the present directors and six from the share.
be lders; The meeting (to which the representatives of
the press were not admitted) was, we believe, a very
angry one. About 400 or 500 persons were present,
and the meeting lasted two hours and a half.
13TDnortionze. —A n awful case:of this incurable malady
has lately occurred in this neighbourhood. About two
months ago a poor woman named Susan 111 `Kinney, re-
siding in Tattyeor, in the parish of Dromore, was bitten
en the finger by a cat. Very little was thought of the
Monday
at the time, the wound being very slight ; but on
Dr.
tadaaynlhaasiti.thie woman was taken S 9 suddenly that
pronounced Dromore, was sent for. He at once
heel. to belabouring under hydrophobia, and
directed eve
usual, fea_Z,Yetteecaution to be taken. She had, as is
JUL Malt:MS at the sight of liquids of any
kind, and at in
all terva.la ztasein the most lucid state of
controliToitnd
4erdtno take care, as she could
wr
n herself. . eette2tu
Omagh on a car, expecting teosdty she was brought to
County Infirmary, which, from thee admitted into the
could not be done, and she was then taken
of the case,
tic Asylum. On her way there, and
in
the
neto the Luna,
this office, she conversed freely with4 streetn oppo-
but she was even then dying, though few could teraveere'
lieved it, for she was only a few minutes in the asylum.
when death relieved her from her sufferings. She had
not taken the slightest none ishinent for several days.
Exhausted nature could no longer exist.— Tyrone
,paper.