30 JUNE 1860, Page 2

The wreck of the Malabar at Point de Galle, the

narrow escape of Lord Elgin and Baron Gros, the actual loss of creden- tials, papers, decorations, cargo, brings home to us the shock- ingly defective condition of that important mail station. Here is a stout ship wrecked at her moorings in a bay the resort of ships always laden with valuable cargoes and valuable lives. Yet the expenditure of a few hundred thousand pounds would make it safe. What amount of loss does it require to make a British Government take simple measures to prevent any more ?