The Express.
London, England, 1855-05-21 00:00:00

TO TIM IDITOB 011111 DAILY NMI.

Sia,—The time, long delayed, has now arrived when
the Egyptian Railway from the Mediterranean to
the Red Sea can and should be carried through.
No single engineering work in the globe will tend
so much as this enterprise to tie together the ends of
the earth, to connect the western and eastern worlds,
to advance civilisation, or to bind and strengthen our
mapifioent and still spreading Indian empire, on
wlikh the watchful Northern Bear has so long mused
to set his ravenous paw.
Numerous important circumstances, and which may
•never again occur, combine favourably at the present
moment to facilitate this undertaking. It behoves
England to seize the opportunity—the tide in the
affairs of men, and which is now at flood.
The late Viceroy of Egypt, Abbas Paoha, was a
man half sensualist, half b*ot—e, Turk who, die.
liking Europeans, and opposed to European improve.
meats, was also averse to business, and sunk in foul
and loathsome vice. In the latter, and in building
palaces, he expended much of the revenues of the
country. The railway to Cairo was forced upon him
by the ability and influence of our present ambassador
to Persia. But it has never been prosecuted with
vigour ; delays, evasions, absence of materials. annoy-
ances to the executive engineers, have marked its
slow progress as it has dragged its tedious length
along. ?den engaged in directing its construction
were sent from divan to divan, and pillar to post, till
they became sometimes worn out and disgusted.
The materials supplied were often bad, and the
governmen‘to -all appearance, would have oared
little had the whole of the works crumbled into dust
as soon as completed. So far Mit is finished, it has,
hotiniVei, 'been well and soundly executed; but the
merit at this is not dns to theists Viceroy.
The present ruler of Rapt, Said Mohammed
Pasha, is a contrast to hie predeomem. Enlightened
and liberal, educated in Europe, and partial to Euro-
peans, he is well, aware that advantage lies in
giving every facility to the passage of merchandise
and passengers through his territory, and in endea-
vouring to make Egypt what it has, in the days of
the Greeks and the Venetians, more than once been,
that is, the main artery through which the riches and
commerce of the East flowed to Europe. The city of
the Macedonian will yet spin see a return of some
of, its ancient grandeur, can this be brought about.
With the railway to Suez, and efficiently worked—
with large and powerful screw steamers on each side
Of the Isthmus, and a line of railway from Bombay,
by tise Nerbudda Valley to Calcutta by way of
Mirsapore, the time occupied in the passage
from London to Calcutta might be reduced
to three weeks, or one half of the time at meson
occupied by the journey. Frame, now united with
England, and with that cordiality and sincerity
vouch only the valiant can feel, and are capable of,
wfli expeneme no jealousy at the'proepect of our ob-
. tidying readier access to our eastern possessions. The
frankness of the alliance of our gallant neighbours
with their once hereditary and ancient enemy, but
now firm friend, reflects more glory on them than the
most renowned victory they ever carried away.)
They will rather maim- us in obtaining what will
interfere so much with the designs of the Automat.
Bail Pooh', unable, from the deep drain made on
thd researces of his dominions by the Sultan, in con-
Inseam of the present war, to nuke the milwaY
himself, has expressed his willingness to grant a
concession of the fins to any company or individuals
will guarantee its exectitioa within a certain
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