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London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

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lieve it impossible that this last of so many insults
should have an effect which all that we have sufnrrd
before has failed to produce. But. it is even so. We
are convinced at last that there is little dignitY or
wisdom in submitting any longer to treatment
which, on the part of the United States, has become
habitual and traditional. Peace can never be pre-
served.in this way. Such conduct, like all other
over-indulgence, only tendS to makzi us-contemptib'.e
in the eyes of those on whom it is practised, and we
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SOUTHAMPTON, Friday.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
Ship Indus, C'eptaTa--7. 'Weeks, sailed hence to day
with the Mediterranean, Calcutta, China, Mauritius,
Australias, and New Zealand mails, Just as the
Indus was leaving a telegram was received at the
Admiralty-office to detain her for the arrival of a
tug from Portsmouth, with naval stores to be shipped
on board this vessel. Captain Patey, the Admiral
Superintendent, ordered her to proceed down the
river to meet the tug, so as_ to avoid unnecessary
delay. The tug was met off Calshot Castle,
and she went alongside the Indus, into which
some 4,000 blankets, and large quantities of flannel
and peajackets, were shipped, supposed to be for toe
fleet ordered from the Mediterranean to the northern
coast of America, and the Indus proceeded on her
voyage immediately. The Indus tikes out 73 flret
and 25 second class passengers, among whettaanre
Ensign Daly, for Gibraltar; Ensign Healy, Mr. J.
P. Clements, R.N., and Rev. H. Smytton, for Malta;
Rev. J. J. Harrison, for Ceylon ; Captain D. Scott,
Lieutenant-Colonel Temple, Dr. J. G. Barton, and
Captain and Mrs. Johnson, for Madras ; Colonel and
Mrs. Scudamroe, Lieutenant Woodcock, Captain
Fortescue, Lieutenant E. G. Clark, Colonel H. F.
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C. Reynell, for Calcutta ; Commander J. Moresby,
R.N., and Dr. Tate, R.A., for Hongkong, &c.
Among the passengers (68) via Marseilles arc Dr.
H. Miller, for Ceylon ; Major A. L. Peel, Lieu-
tenant C. C. Kens, Captain T. Graham, Lieu-
tenant W. Jackson, Major and Mrs. Agg, for Cal-
cutta, &c., Captain and Mrs. Pedder, for Calcutta,
join at Malta. The freight of the Indus includes
160 boxes of specie, jewellery, &c., value £46,618
lls 6d—viz., for Alexandria—sovereigns, £l,OOO.
For Ceylon—sovereigns, £2,000 ; watches, £4O.
For Madras—gold coin, £8,308 ; bar silver, £9,500 ;
gold thread, watches, &c., £1,2&). For Calcutta—
jewellery, watches, &e., £656 17s 6d. For Singa-
pore—£4lB 5s ; gold thread, watches, &c., £195.
For Hongkong—dollars, £13,461. For Foochowfoo
—dollars, £678. For Shanghai—bar silver, £3,936
9s ; dollars, £B,Oll ; jewellery, &e., £175. For
Hobson's Bay—gold coin, £2OB 10s; silver coin, Os
6d; jewellery, watches, &c., £317 3s. For Mel-
bourne—medals, &c., £453. For Sydney—jewel-
lery, £9BO. The Tagus, Captain W. B. Hail, is due
this day with the mails from Lisbon, Oporto, acid
Vigo; the Bavaria, Captain Meier, on Thursday
next, with mails of the 14th inst. from New York ;
the Ellora, Captain N. Roskell, on Friday, but
expected a day or two earlier, with the it
mails; and the Shannon, Captain Abbott, on the
29th instant, with the West India, Pacific,
and Mexican mails. The Bremen, Captain Wes-
sels, will sail hence on Wednesday, wita mails for
New York; the Tagus, Captain Hall, and the Delta,
Captain J. S. Field, on Friday, the former taking
the Peninsular and the latter the Bombay mails.

FRENCH POSTAGE.

The question which naturally occurs to every one
conversant with the subject is this,—Why should
we pay Bd. for a half ounce letter from Dover to
Calais, a distance of only 24 miles, when we can
send a letter of the same weight from London to
New Zealand, a distance of more than 16,000 miles,
for 6d. And not only in this latter case do we send
it more than 600 times as far, but are actually
charged 33 per cent. less. The following are a few
specimens of the rates of charges for a half ounce
letter:—From London to New Zealand, 16,100 miles,
only 6d.; ditto to Sydney, 15,000 miles, Gd.; ditto
to Calcutta, 14.000 miles, Gd.; ditto to St. Helena,
Cape Town, Quebec, Alexandria, the West Indies,
&c. But here we have a set-off. For a half ounce
letter from Dover to Calais, 24 miles, Bd. ; ditto,
from Inverness to Jersey, 640 miles, ld. But Jersey
to the nearest town on the French coast, only a few
miles further on, Bd. Now, does not this look like
levying black mail on her Majesty's lieges ? We
are told that " Salus populi supreme, est lex." Do
we find this case here ? Other instances could be
easily quoted, but the above will suffice to show the
existing incongruities of the present system. The
fact that a profit of £56,000 per annum is made on
this route clearly shows that the public are taxed
to the extent of £56,000 more than is actually neces-
sary to defray the expenses of transit. Why should
not the Post-office authorities be content with mode-
ration, and not insist on making a clear profit of
one half the sum, say £28,000 ? Surely the public,
for whose benefit alone the Post-office exists, would
be thus more equitably treated. It may be objected
by the Post•office authorities that since they lose
£466,000 on various
_other naval lines they require
the above £56,000 to attempt to make both ends
meet. But why not let every case rest en its
own merits, and a fair charge be made when
fair value is given, which, judging from the above
convarative rate of charges, cannot be said to
be done in the present case? When it is remem-
bered that the reduction of the postage in this coun-
try from 91 to ld. bas created an increase in the
number of letters annually passing through the
Post-office of nearly 500 millions, is it not natural
to expect that a similar reduction in the postage be-
tween England and France would largely increase
the international correspondence ? The arguments
brought forward in support of the reduction in
1839-40 are quite applicable to the present case.—
Leeds Mercury.