in bj means of wed from one end of great britain to another or from the to the as as the and make our words to friends upon the magic tight wire a great deal � � ter � now that the european and saxon is spreading his more or all the known world it seems that the simple expedient of opening a twenty eight mile passage between the and atlantic to save a dangerous of some eight thousand miles has not been already in this age of enterprise that so simple t remedy for so great an evil should not have been applied appears astonishing we ought to feel some shame when we reflect that evidences in the neighbourhood of both exist of such having existed in what we are pleased to barbarous ages does nature present difficulties to the scheme t by no means for after the our own railway and the bridge difficulties have become are the of the and the of which should be joined so that if one were admitted the would the surrounding country not at all hear on these points forty ago he declared it to be his firm opinion that the of is suited to the formation of an canal � one with fewer than the capable of affording an passage at all seasons of the year to vessels of that which sail between new york and liverpool and between and in the recent edition of his of nature he sees no reason to alter the views he has notes of entertained on thk subject both british and american hare this opinion by actual survey as then c � nation of british skill capital and energy with that � i the go ahead upon earth have been whence the secret of the delay the answer at once � till the present time the m would not have paid large w d this nature while they create an inconceivable development oi commerce must have a certain amount d a trading hi to b in a gold can cover the of a man on horseback with a so but he must have the sovereign first it was not merely because the full power of the iron rail to the transition of heavy burdens had not been estimated and because no had constructed a engine that a railway with steam was not made from to liverpool before until the traffic between these had swelled to a sufficient amount in quantity and value to bear for establishing such a mode of conveyance its execution would have been impossible even though men had known how to set about it what has been the condition of the under consideration f in the entire population of the tropical american in the states of central america and new did not exceed three millions the number of the inhabitants of pure european descent did not exceed one hundred thousand it was only am this that anything like wealth intelligence and enterprise akin to that of europe was to be found the rest were poor and ignorant and mixed races in a state of scarcely throughout peopled and poverty re ou k the world here and there or law nor government in s central america may be found an account of a hunt after a government by a american who had been sent to seek for one in central america wanderer running through and after a will o the could not have encountered more perils or been in search of a more phantom in there was nobody to trade with to the south of the along the pacific coast of america there was only one station to which merchants could resort with any prospect of gain � except all the pacific states of south america were from a very imperfect state of under a succession of petty and to the north of the matters were uttle if anything better had ll ne backwards from the time of its revolution and at the best its commerce in the pacific had been confined to a yearly ship between and the throughout and with the exception of a few european and half breed members there were none but savage tribes the russian in the far north had nothing but a paltry trade in with that barely its own expenses neither was there any encouragement to make a short out to the innumerable islands of the pacific the whole of lay outside of the pale of in the group and the northern of new had barely the first seeds of morals and the limited commerce of china and the eastern was by europe and took the route of the cape of hope with the exception of a few annual vessels that w m the sea board states of the north american to and the wool of new notes of travellers wales was but into notice and found its way to england alone round the cape of good hope an american fleet of the and of the same nation carried on a and traffic in hides with in ell and mother of with the islands what then would have been the use of cutting a canal through which there would not have passed five ships in a but twenty years have worked a wondrous revolution in the state and prospects of these regions the traffic of has received it lai development and the of its institutions has been tried the resources of the population of which is mainly of european race is steadily advancing american citizens have founded a state in the have become for all practical purposes an american colony the trade with china � to which the proposed canal would open a convenient ue by a western instead of the present eastern route � is no longer to the river but is open to all nations as r as the the of the has been opened to the by a treaty and cannot long remain 