18 deg. E. 1830 Trincomalee to Batavia S. 60 deg. E. 1750 Batavia to Swan River S. 18 deg. E. 1745 1645/100 Swan River to Hobart Town S. 66-1/2 deg. E. 1770 1620/150 Hobart Town to Sydney N. 18 deg. E. 570 Cape of Good Hope to Hobart Town S. 85 deg. E. 6000 Pernambuco to Cape of Good Hope S. 62 deg. E. 3300 Fayal to Pernambuco S. 7 deg. W. 2800 Sydney to Canton N. 33 deg. W. 4100 Canton to Swan River, by E. Coast Borneo 3300 Fayal to Cape Verde, Port Praya S. 11 deg. E. 1545 There never having been heretofore any regular packet conveyance to and from India, there are consequently no accurate returns of the postage received, or letters that are conveyed backwards and forwards between England and the vast countries to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope. The number, however, from the extent of the trade, must be very great; and not a doubt can remain, that if regular and speedy conveyances were established, the numbers would be very much increased. In a communication from Col. Maberly, Secretary to the General Post Office, printed by order of the House of Commons last year, along with the Evidence taken before the Committee appointed to consider the propriety of establishing a Steam Communication with India, that gentleman gives the whole amount of postage outwards for 1836 to Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu, at 3411_l._, and reckons the amount inwards at the same sum. He estimates the whole postage outwards and inwards, including sea postage between England, Ceylon, India, and the Mediterranean, at 47,000_l._ Even this sum, which certainly by no means includes every letter to and from the places mentioned, would, under the arrangements proposed, be doubled, independently of all the postages which would be obtained from the New South Wales, China, and Batavia, &c. &c. trade. The coasting or internal postages of Hindostan would certainly be greatly increased. In the Finance Accounts of 1837, p. 55, there is charged the sum (p. 128) of 14,216_l._ 19_s._ 11_d._ for transit postage through foreign countries. Much of this is doubtless from letters which come through France, &c. from the Mediterranean, and countries near that sea. Under the proposed regular and frequent packet arrangement, the letters from which much of this sum is obtained would come directly through the British Post Office. The amount of postage to be obtained through the vast range of countries which the New Plan proposes to embrace, can only be conjectured by considering the immense trade which is carried on with them and by them. As it is very great, so must the correspondence to which it gives rise be. _Mauritius and Socotora._