The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-04 00:00:00

irLielliSrlt6B- AU ST.RALIA.

The Admiralty have at length issued the " con-
ditions" of the tenders to be received for -a contract
for the conveyance of the mails to and from Aus•
tralia. The thst clause in the document determines
that the intercourse shall be monthly each way,
via Gibraltar, Malta, and Suez, and that the
steamers shall call at King George's Sound to
deposit the bags for Western Australia; at Kan-
garoo Island, on the South Australian coast, to
tranship the Adelaide mail, proceeding thence to
Port Phillip with the Melbourne letters, and ter-
minating the voyage at Sydney. for New South
Wales ; the return passage being in the reverse
course, but calling at each of the places named.
This service is to be commenced by the dispatch
of a steamer from Sydney with the mails of
February next year, and from England with the
mails of March. The prescribed period is to be
within 55 days each way—between London and
Sydney, via Gibraltar.
The route determined on is equitable in respect
to all the colonies, as each will now be regarded
according to its geographical position, and one
'will not be sacrificed, as heretofore, to the interests
of others. South Australia will thus attain that re-
cognition of her just claims for which this colony
and her merchants now here, as well as those in
this country connected with it, have for the last 12
months strenuously, and now successfully, con-
tended. The chief modification in the route is call-
ing at Kangaroo Island, both outward and home-
ward, the benefit of which will be equally partici-
pated in by the several colonies; inasmuch as Euro-
pean news will be conveyed simultaneously, by the
electric telegraph, on the arrival of the outward
mail at this island; while on the homeward voyage
colonial intelligence from Sydney, Melbourne, Ade-
laide, and Tasmania, of concurrent dates, -will be
received in Europe, by this means, of many days
later than the advices by letters from these several
places. _ _

The great desideratum has been to secure equal
postal advantages for each colony, and we feel as-
assured that the plan now fully determined upon
will meet the approval of the colonists themselves,
as it does-the merchants and others in this country
interested in our Australian dependencies. It is a
complete confirmation of our views on this question.
We have frequently reiterated our opinions, and we
take credit to ourselves for having been the means
of enforcing on the Government the necessity for
the resolution now adopted. It is further intimated
in the document issued from the Admiralty, that
the Government will call for tenders for a monthly
service between Great Britain and Australia, via
Panama, in addition to the service via Suez, when
the necessary arrangements are complete.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

CAMBRIDGE-OCT. 2.

The supply of wheat was moderate, prices ruling from
40s to 46s per qr. There was no material change in bar-
ley of superior quality, quotations ranging from 30s to 42s
per qr. Other descriptions of grain were not plentiful in
supply, and late rates were for the most part sustained, old
beans being quoted at 48s to 50s ; new, 40s to 44s per 38 at.;
oats, 28s to 30s per 24 stone.