The other company proposes to have two classes of vehicles--one at 8d.
and the other at 4d. a mile; and it contemplates the use of a
mechanism for indicating the distance passed over. We most earnestly
hope that both companies will succeed in establishing themselves and
carrying an improvement so important to the public into effect.


COLONIAL PENNY-POSTAGE.

'I shall write to every one in turn, but it is expensive sending to
many at once,' says one of the poor needlewomen, whom Mr Sydney
Herbert's Female Emigration Fund has enabled to obtain a comfortable
home at Adelaide. Well might she complain of the expense. When at
home, she could send a letter to the most distant corner of the United
Kingdom for a penny. In Australia, she finds that the cost of sending
a letter to her mother in London is a shilling. It is strange that the
colonists do not make an outcry about so extravagant a charge. Of all
the anomalies in English legislation, our colonial postage-system is
certainly one of the most glaring; and yet, in the midst of so much
effort for emigration and colonisation, hardly any one seems to be
aware of it. The people of England, Ireland, and Scotland have, for
the last twelve years, enjoyed the incalculable benefits of
Penny-Postage, but they have never thought of extending its blessings
to their fellow-countrymen, scattered abroad among our various
colonies over the whole surface of the globe.

Under the old dear system, the cost of sending a letter home from any
of the colonies was not felt so much as it is now. The emigrant,
before he left home, had always been accustomed to pay from 9d. to 1s.
2d. for letters from distant parts of the United Kingdom, and he could