The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY FROM_ NEW YORK TO THE

PACIFIC.

The Scottish public are aware that a project has
been put forward by a fir. Whitney, of New York, for a
railway to the Pacific, the length of which would be 2,030
miles, but perhaps neither the practicability of the work,
nor the intent to which it hes found favour in America, is
sufficiently appreciated. Mr. Whitney proposes that the
route should commence at Lake Michigan, to which point
there is already stuns communication from New York,
and that it should thence proceed to Othtorota. Yor Its
construction he asks no capital, but simply that Congress
should grant thirty miles of lend on each side of the
line at ten per cent. per acre, which land is at present
tor the most pert worth nothing, and could only be
brought into value by the opening of the road. Possessed
of this grant, the projector would require sufficient to
be sold to corstruct a section of ten miles, and as the
land at the commencement of the route would lie in
settled district., and would therefore, unlike the rest,
fetch immediately •• good price, he would not only hay' no
didieulty in farathing this section, but would have a consi-
derable surplas of property on each side of it for future eon-
tingencies. The ceststruction of the first ten miles being
completed by the rale and settlement of the lands through
which they run, the next ten miss, instead of starting from
an unimproved and unpeopled spot, would then pinethrough
• district rendered valualile by the population which bad
advanced towards it, and in this way bit by bit the work
would be Greedily completed. For 800 miles the country
which the road would traverse would be of the best dee
soriion for settlement, more then 500 miles being without
timber • and, so far from the proposed grant et 30 miles
ea seek side being likely to interfere unfavourably with
the revenue from the public funds, there can be
little doubt the tile of settlement it would attract
would ultimately advance the value of the surround.
lag vngesated districts to a degree far beyond what
the whole would have produced but for the existence
of the road. Foe seven years—that is to say, ever since the
settlement at Oregon—the projector has laboured at this
scheme, apparently with increasing confidence in its perfect
feasibility, although with little encouragement, until the
discoveries is California brought the public to his side.
Bat there are still many difficulties to overcome in the shape
of local jealousies, several states of the anima being ready to
oppose the general plan, in order to support any other
routs that would run through their own lands. The select
committee in warns. however, to whom it was referred,
hays declated it to be as simple as it is vast, and that
they see no insurmountable Meanies is the way of
,te successful accomplishment. It has also received the
approval of nineteen different states, in most of which
the desirableness of the scheme has been unanimously
urged. Mr. Whitney calculates that the whole line
might be completed in fifteen yews, and there are
some who belie,. that if it were to sueeeed,Americs must be-
come the axle open which the whole world would revolve.
" It would." it is remarked. " place New York within 26
days, and London within 37 days of Chime, and open the
immense wilderness of American waste lands, with its Wry
finest soil, to the overgrown population of Europe and
Asia." One feature of the plan is, that in granting the now
valueless lands, the moverament are to run no risk of grant-
ing them In vain It is proposed that two hundred miles of
the road shall be surveyed, sad ten miles of it brought into
working order, before a single acre of the land shall be sold to
reimburse the outlay, and she thee only half of the
thirty mil, s on the sides of the contemplated Me•
den are to be given up, the other half, as well as the poetise
oil the line that has been constructed, being retained by
Mr government as murky for the compledon of the se.
mmieldig. With as smselash seal which, at all events, shows
the esewest sieemkg Olds purpose, Mr. Whitney defers his
sera Me to seeempeessoistil 10 years after the whole bee
shell bow tees Is sada* aperetioi, when the remaking on
esti boil wield teurshered to lira, or to his Win, the
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DIOC/82 OF WORCESTER, TRAINIIIO SCHOOL.— We
(Worcoater Herald) are authenindi to aaneaeos that the
Committee of Privy Coma ea Miseries ban awarded a
grant of 2,2001. towards the emotheethea et the proposed
training school at delft ant Dire i IA it in for the diocese
of Won:ann. Gnat delaT bee emend is the preenation
of this undertaking la the lest 6w maths, from the heath
of time which was similes' to Irmo the loutitution ise ae
school, as required fate the isibremthe of the essmittee of
eosseil, beton awes *e4 wad. eml kali the farther
ties whidt their reqdred fur the eterideratiata of
the subject ; and smalt of this delay has hen that, in
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the advessed seers of the year, it les has. thought proper
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