Mr. GRIMES. Helms lived there 5 or HX years. On the way back from the China seats to this country the currents and the wind take them considerably to the north of the SandwichIslands, and, in some conditions of weather, it would require probably from 3 to 4 days longer to make the homeward fiassage if they were comcllod to touch at eno ulu than if they di not touch there; but on the outward bound passage there would he no detention required, except just so long.ps they chose to lie at the bar to connect with “the tug that might come down from the harbor. willnot be an equal comp The Senator, I think, told us that at the time this company bid upon this contract last year they were not very well informed as to the currents and channels and winds in the Pacific ocean. seamnnship and navigation that is possessed by the people of this country. Itink that the currents and the prevailin winds across the Pacific are tolerably well on erstood among nautical men. If the Pacific Mail Steamship Company did not know all about them at the time they made their hid it was their own fault, for they had the means of informing themselves. Nearly the whole distance across there has been surveyed, and surveyed by our own officers. by Commodore Ringgold and Catain John Rodgers, and the dangers have been pointed out upon the maps, and we know exactly the courses of the currents and the prevailing winds at particular seasons of the year. If this Pacific Mail Steamship Company, at the time they made their bid to carry this mail for a specific sum, did not know these things, whose fault was it? It was not ours. The ComPostOffices have appended to their report a letter of the PostMGenl; and it will be observed that great stress has been laid by the Senfrom California, in his or ument, upon the idea that it is necessary to re ease the ’a cific Mail Steamship Company from this part of their contract because we want to have a line that will make a quicker passage than the British line is able to make across teIsthmus of Suez to the East Indies, and if the Pacific railroad was completed we would be able to make a uicker passage.