The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-05 00:00:00

ATLANTIC AM) PACIFIC JUNCTION.

A correspondent says :—" Among the passengers
on board the Amazon, whose departure from Southampton
waters' on her first voyage to central America. was noticed
in our last paper, we find the name of one of' the deputies
to the Congress of New Granada, who returns to the seat of
authority at Bogota, as one of the commissioner of the
Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company, of Lime-street,
empowered by them to negotiate with that goverment some
modifications in the very important concessions which were
recently granted by the legislature of New Granada to the
agents of the company in reference to the construction of •
ship canal. The transference of the decree anthoriaing these
principlu, is now held by the secretary of the committee.
In the same vessel Mr. Eliot Warburton is embarked.
The interest excited by his last work entitled Darien,'
will be enhanced, when it is known that the author has
resolved on making himself personally acquainted with
every part of that district, whither it will be recollected the
illustrious Paterson, the founder of the Bank of England,
led the Scotch colonists in 16'.18, and with whatever refers
to its topography, climate, and resources; but especially in
familiarising himself with the fine clam of In
who inhabit those localities; and by whom no Euro-
peans are more respected or esteemed than the English.
The committee have taken advantage of this favourable
occasion for initiating, through so admirable a medium, a
friendly understanding with the several tribes of aborigines
within whose territory the channel of the company's Grand
Canal is formed—s mission which, by reason of his known
zeal and philanthrophy, no ono could be found better
qualified to fulfil than Mr. Warburton.
" During the last year the committee have been silently,
yet ardently prosecuting the vast enterprise of constructing
an inter-oceanic passage through some part of the New
Grenadian territory. An engineer whom they have em-
ployed has surveyed the proposed line of route, a report
of which—proving the feasibility of the passage, and a
map of the district between Rio &trate and the Pacific,
has been forwarded to the Foreign-office.
" Why a work of this magnitude, involving so many ad-
vantages to the trading interests of the world, should yet
belong to the future, is a question that seems to be not
too easily answered. They who could accomplish it if they
liked, inquire, as an apology for inertness, Why do not
government undertake this? The very best answer
to such objection is, that the government has bound
itself by an international compact nut to do it.
By a late convention between Great Britain and America,
commonly called the ' Bulwer Treaty,' it is stipulated, in
its very first article, that the government, quoad a govern.
meet, will not intermeddle in any such works, whether it
be ship canal or other mode of inter-oceanic communication :
' The government of Great Britian and the United
States hereby declare that neither the one nor
the other will ever obtain or maintain fur it-
self any exclusive control over the said ship canal.'
And so chary of governments has been the legislature of
New Granada, that in the decree to which reference has
already been made, a special provision appears fur the non-
interference of governments in any shape : Art. 42. Tho
company shall not be permitted to cede this privilege,
either by sale or any other motive, to any government or
foreign nation.' Any enterprise, whether small or great,
is never better done than when left to the genius and con-
trol of private and individual adventure."

LETTERS FOR TURKEY, MOLDAVIA, WALLACHIA,
AND SERVIA (says • Post-office notice) will in future be
forwarded through Belgium and Prussia unless otherwise
specially addressed. The rates of postage chargeable on
such letters will remain as before, the only alteration of the
existing practice being that the special address, hitherto re-
quired for letters intended to be sent by way of Prussia,
will be no longer necessary.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ON THE GREAT WESTERN
RAtLwalt.—As public attention has lately been directed to
the absence of this indispensable medium of communication
on the west of England districts, it may be mentioned that
in a month or two there will be an unbroken range of tele-
graphic communication from London to the Lands End.
The wires have this week been completed on the Great
Western Railway from Paddington to Slough, and are
being carried to the palace at Windsor. In another week
they will be finished up to Reading, and some hundreds of
men are now employed in running them on between Read-
ing, Bristol, and Exeter, where they will unite with those
already in existence between Exeter and Plymouth. It is
also intended to establish the telegraph in connexion with
this line over the whole of South Wales.

NORM BRITISII RAILW.tY.—A movement in con-
nexion with the affairs of this line is being made to carr7
out remedial measures fur its better management and
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