The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-11-16 00:00:00

AMERICA.

General Walker threatens Nicaragua again, it Hems.
Admiral Hellet, commander of the British West India
elation, has made his appearance in the waters of Cen-
tral America ; and it is said be is instructed, upon
application of the Government of the Nicaraguan repub-
lic, to use his guns against the filibusters.
There were rumour. at Wsahington that Mr. Dallas,
the American Minister at the British Court, would
return home next spring.
There appears to be a deficiency in the American
treuury, and a duty on tea and coffee is talked of. The
expenditure of the present year has been nearly double
the amount of revenue received.
. . _ .

The elections ere generally in favour of the Opponi•
tion. . . _

The expedition against Paraguay vu on the point of
starting, consisting of three frigates and fourteen other
vessels, of which the latter oan Moend the rivers, and
3,000 fighting men. Time main objects of tho war are to
compel -President Lopes to ratify time late trmity, and to
avenge the running down of a United States surveying
steamer, which had wended time river without permis-
sion, by a Paraguayan inawaHrer.

THII Manner RAILWAY iv ux Woutm,—The
Pabellan and Chimeralllo extenaion of the Ooplapo Rail.
W 57 in Chili, 1. 10 far adveneeti thet a trial trip his
been made on II UlllO.l Jenift, the ouperM•
tendent of lociontotivel. Tile mines, with a pressor'
ef 1001 b, to the inch, sadly mormi ronnd serves of 600
feet redlue, and "amounted inellneallolne of which have
a gradient of 110 to NI feel in the mile, and it hnith
reoched the terminus, which is an elevation of 4,071
feet above the level of the da,—. Ids heliht, of oouree,
than thol to which Trevothie worked the dationery
engine In I°sloo, but said to be 1,000 last higher than
any tither Ineomotive has rernhed, Doubtleesihe great
engineer, when travereing the Andes, contemploted the
day whin the locomotive engine whieli he had inveidwd
—and Oellrile alleplienson WM then oludying in gni.
land—would be employed to pus the gam of the
Cordillera, where the loina Is now the only boost of bur.
den, We know that Trevelltlek did euillemplate the
applleallon of the railway on this mast, and Proposed,
soon often his return, 6 railway to work monis of the
rich 'topper depnaite of Aleemeo—a moult whieh lo now
realised, The vitae of the railway for eroding the
snowbound pewee of lite sod unitini the mule
with the verdant plain, end 'tempos of the Wend, sin
searoely be eatimoted, and it will be the puled MeNtli
for making picilltable die honored of the doh dined of
Ailkil4lllll. The Conlon* Railway is the oil DNS In 11111
world that has paid quarterly dividends, an other roil.
ways are In weirdo, or projeeted, to work the Ow
quloilm, Ham, and Chanarolllo diairlde In chili, 11
is said that the summit level of the Coplinm intension ii
higher than the only one In the world—thel of the 01,111
111,111111 l'epinettler Rollway for traversing the Weetent
filioute, The Bore Ghoul Moline is one nf the irendeal
works in the world, The minnill of the licommerliii
Pais, on the Vienne and Trivial* Rallwoy—the Wilhite§
in Rumps- I, about A,OOO feel above the level of the
lii. The highest euminit in North Amide* le the pod
of the Ohm Mountains, by the Beltimore and Chin Roil.
way, about CVO fed high. As the Volporalso acid
Nantiap Railway only emend the Cordilleres de Is
Cued*, it does not torah the elididlon of the Upplapo
ltoilway. The elevetion of 4,0111 feet is not, bowel''',
the topmost height of the COplapo Railway, for when
the extenolon la wimpleled two mile" further, it will
hove nmehed 4,4TU feel above the level of the Paola..
Nome of the eidenalon lines from Rio Janeiro MN AS
Cerra ciao Urged, and In None they will rush the nioun•
loin region, of Minas Cords, butt it preeent the ((orlett*
Railway his the delta of being the highest ntliway In
the Mouth A merlean continent. The opening el this
line le not a inert eurioelly, but it Is a useful-example
for the promotion of other undedakinge. Time, for In.
stand In Chili itself it will 'flamingo the promotion
of the grand line projected to unite Ilintlogo and Val.
perils° with Buenos Ayres, by vroy of Rosariol, and of
which part of the "Mein le completed, or in progress,
arid the reel anrveyed. It promisee, likewlee, the
sontinuation of the rallwey whin of the Brasile, from
the soul to the inner feeders of the Amason and the
Plata. It is likewise a fool in favour of the moony roll.
whys which Sr. projected, and will be exemitod, from
the Atlantic) shore to Callfornio, traversing the Reeky
Mounteina, from Halifax to Enillth Oolembla. The..
summit levels tomb eneneen greeter daring I and the
Alpe Cordilleras, and °beide, even the mighty HllO4.
lays Itself, will no longer be ooneldered bounds to the
railway system. The mummit of the Northern Rangel
Railway at Darjeeling Is as high es that of the Coplapo
Railway.