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| General Post Office Sydney Delivery of the English Mail per "Great Britain" on Tuesday 25 October 1853 |
A view of the General Post Office, during the delivery of the English mail by the Great Britain, on 25 October, 1853. The arrival of this Leviathan had been anxiously looked for; and the comparatively short run she has made from Liverpool to Melbourne, 60 days, including 4 days detention at St. Vincent, appears to have given universal satisfaction, although her comparatively small mail, and the non-arrival of the Vimeira, which left Plymouth on the 5th August, and the steamer Sydney on the 8th of that month, carrying the regular mails, have caused the greatest disappointment to our Melbourne friends and to ourselves. This could easily be seen by the blank looks depicted in the faces of hundreds who made application for letters and newspapers at the General Post Office on Tuesday last. We hope the circumstance referred to will not escape the notice of the British Government in dispatching the English mails for the Australian Colonies in future.
Source: General Post Office, Sydney (1853, October 29). Illustrated Sydney News (NSW : 1853 - 1872), p. 1.
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