A Melbourne telegram announces that the Government of Victoria is
making arrangements for a postal service by way of Galle, according to the terms of Lord Kimberley's last proposal. The new Agent-General of Victoria, Mr. Michie, has, we believe, induced Mr. Lowe to again reconsider the terms of the Treasury Minute on the subject. It is now proposed that the Australasian mails should be carried free, or for a very slight charge, to Galle, Singapore, and San Francisco, and that the colonies should arrange among themselves for steam service to carry them thence to their destination, the Imperial Government paying, not a fixed subsidy as was first proposed, but a considerable proportion of the postage received on the letters carried, over to the Govern- ment or Governments contracting so to carry them. The result, we take it, will be that we shall have three regular more or less alternating steam routes to Australia in the course of a year,—one by Galle, one by Singapore, and one by San Francisco, the two latter having their terminus at Sydney and the first at Melbourne. Victoria will no doubt take up the present P. and 0. service. We hope the San Francisco service, which is necessary for the convenience of the world, and which deserves the strong support -of the American as well as the British Governments, will not be allowed to fall through.
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