SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 371, 21 February 1849, Page 3

SYDNEY.

Steam Communication with Great Britain. — " It has been on many occasions our duty to communicate to our readers information respecting the introduction of a line of s earn packets between Australia and England, but we have never had to make an announcement which had a more businesslike appearance than the one we have now to bring before the public. On the 21st of September, the Lords of the Admiralty issued an advertisement calling for tenders to carry_her Majesty's mails between Sydney and Singapore : the tenders were to be sent in by the 2nd November, to state the expense of a monthly conveyance each way, when and where the vessels would be ready for survey, and when ready for sea. As the Peninsular and Oriental Company had previously announced that they had tonnage ready to undertake the line, there is no doubt that they would tender, and should their tender be accepted, we may very shortly expect to see the Braganza and Lady Mary Wood in Sydney. These vessels are not very fast, tnd are not equal to those recently built, but they will do very well for a beginning. They were originally in the Peninsular trade, and were sent out to India to open the lins between Ceylon and China, .while vessels fir that line were being built. Should the experiment prove successful, we have no doubt that boats will soon be provided expressly for this line. The announcement could hardly have been made at a time when it would be more gladly received, for we are now, on the 15th January, without the mails despatched from London on the Ist September. — Sydney Morning Herald.