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ships, and latterly all the screw steamships, go home
by the Horn, becatue the winds are usually favour-
able. The great bulk of the passengers, therefore, go
thatway. The overland route offers the advantages
of a speedy trip, and the maximum of comfort pos-
sible on shipboard, but the price charged is such as
to prevent all but a few from availing themselves
of these advantages. The company charge 2001. for
a best cabin, and 1451. for a share of one. To adeolo-
nist returning to England with his family this makes
a serious sum, and is about double what he will have
to give in a sailing vessel. If the richer classes
fight shy of such heavy charges, the less wealthy are
of course unable to meet them. Those who may
be in p9ssession of moderate incomes, but who,
finding that they can leave their affairs in safe
hands, wish to pay a visit to the mother country,
cannot of course entertain the idea of travelling
home by a route the expenses of which, for the
whole family, would go far to swamp a year's in-
come at starting. It is a popular notion in Eng-
land that those who return from Australia are

only the lucky rich, who have made large fortunes.
But this is quite a delusion. So showthat it is so,
it will be quite enough to instance two of the re-
cent departures. The .Royal Charter took home
two hundred and thirty-three passengers—not all
rich, for fifty-eight went in the second cabin, and
one hundred and forty-three in the third cabin.
The Anglesey, .a favourite Blackwall liner, took
away from Melbourne one hundred and eighty-five
passengers, of which only nineten were in • the
cabin, the rest being all steerage passengers. It is
plain, therefore' that there is a large passenger
traffic from 'Australia to England, of that class to
Whom a few pounds is an object, and who will sub-
mit . to inconvenience and . loss of time in order
to effect a small saving.
If it is worth while at all to employ ships of two
thousand tons burden to run between Sydney and
Suez, it is worth while to try and fill them—to get
the,maximum utility out of them—to adapt them
so exactly to the requirements of the trade that they
should be wed freighted each trip to and fro.
There is no reason why it should not be so. The
expense of maintaining a fleet Of large steamships
is no doubt great, but yet wherever there is enough
ta. give them full employment, large vessels can be
worked at a proportionately less expense than
smaller ones. • And there is a passenger trade be-
tween England and Australia quite large enough
to give ample employment to the vessels. of the
European and Australian Mail Company, if the
trade could only be attracted to 'them. And if
tk as vessels were regularly filled, the line would
pay handsomely, heavy as its necessary expenses
are.

It may, perhap', be said that this is a matter
which concerns the Company much more than it
concerns the colonist. But it is not so ; it
equally concerns both. It is to the advantage
of Australia that. the Company should find their
undertaking profitable. If the Company should
prove a failure, the mail service wilt be again
deranged, and enterprise in this direction dis-
comsaged. In all trades—the carrying trade as
well as others—it is the best when those who serve
as well as those who are served mutually reap ad-
vantage. There can be no such thing in commerce
as a continuous one-sided benefit. A country
never so badly served as when those who trade with
it find the business a dangerous or unprofitable
speculation—never so well served as when those
who are engaged in the task fitidit to be their in-
terest to pay attention to it. For the sake of
Australia, therefore, we are anxious to see the Mail
Company prosperous. It 3 conductors are said to
be shrewd men of business. They must quickly see

how the matter stands, And we can hardly doubt
that they will see the expediency of such a prompt
and thorough revision of their present tariff as will
give the control of the passenger and gold carrying
trade, instead of, as at present, excluding them
from it.

The completion of the Cairo and Suez Railroad
is a matter of great importance in reference to their
'future arrangements, and it is their interest to
urge forward the work as fast as possible. With
that finished, the overland route might, in the
',absence of any service by way of Panama, almost
'monopolise the trade so far as passengers and light
freight are concerned.

ALLEGED POISONING AT WOOLWICH-.

' Much excitement prevailed. in Woolwich on
.Thursday, and the police-court was crowded, in
loonseqtieboo-of4e,-report that one of the artillerymen
was to be brought up on a charge of having admi-
nistered poison to a girl named Ellen Smith.
A little afier 4 o'clock, George Heatherley, aged
32, a gunner arid driver in the Royal Artillery,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Trail, on sus-
picion of adminiStering poison in some beer to a
girl of the town, named Ellen Smith.
Ellen Malloes deposed that she was an unfortu-
nate girl, and that last Sunday fortnight she was in
company with Smith and the prisoner at the Alma
beer-house. Tie two appeared as if they were
quarrelling. They talked about poisoning ; pri-
smer said he had put many a brighter girl than
her under the turf ; and said he could put it in an
orange •or a cake. He did not appear much in
liquor, hut he had been drinking. She did not
see him give her anything ; since then (on last
Tuesday week) she became ill. On the day before
Smith was taken ill prisoner and the girl were both
in the sane room together.
R. D. Walker, M. D., said he was called in last
Monday to attend Ellen Smith. He found h'r in
a very lotr., state. It was named to him that poison
had been administered to her, and she was labouring
under symptoms of having taken poison. She had
a tingling of the skin, or itching, and vomited, and
Aow remained in the same state. He thought it
wez2ld be important to take the girl's evidence, as
he considered her life in danger. She was fast
sinking.
His worship having disposed of the other re-
maining cases, adjourned to the residence of the
girl, accompanied by the medical gentleman, the
clerk of the court, the reporter, two or three
officials, and the prisoner, who was placed at the
bottom of the bed.
The woman appeared in an emaciated and ex-
hausted state, and immediately upon catching sight
of the prisoner she called out loudly, pointing,
" That's the young man." As soon as her excite-
ment was over she said her name was Mura Bassam,
and that she was married. "Upon being asked her
husband's name she became so visibly affected that
no answer could be got from her. After a time she
resumed that she knew the prisoner well ; she bad
seen him in the London Hospital, in the Mile-end-
road, four year and a-half ago. She had met him
at the Alma beer-lzouse several times. They were
'`there one night whet; Ellen Malloes was there, and
had some words. It vas last Sunday fortnight.
He vrao in liquor. I said 0 him, "Be quiet, or I
shall say iliings you do not like: to hear." He said,
" I'll cook yox goose before another week." He
said he would knock my brains out. He asked me
to drink out of his pot, which I did ; a,nd the next
night after that I saw him put something :nto a pot
of ale down stairs. That was the Monday night.
I drank some of it, and so did he. Here the Wit-
ness became confused and exhausted. She aftei--
wards said she did not know there was anything in
the ale. She said she afterwards found bad effects
from taking it on Thursday week, but did not know
the cause. At this point she evidently became un-
conscious, and apparently swooned away.
The magistrate finding that there was no coher-
ence in her answers, and that she now became per-
fectly insensible, some stimulant was administered,
but she did not revive. The doctor gave it as his A
opinion that she was getting from bad to worse. .s
the examination could not be continued, the pri-
soner was taken back to the court, and remandedlne
till to-day, to await the issue of the woman's illness.
_ so
On leaving the house it Was assert_ed by m. e
person present that the prisoner and the victim
'ere man and

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