The Express.
London, England, 1856-11-06 00:00:00

the essertion that the line cost 45,0001. pm mils,
should induce speculators and investors to think
twice before they subscribe towards the 42,000.000 i.
now asked for the coplanar:lion of 2,600 miles d rail-
way in Russia.

It it be true that the receipts on the Moscow fills
bear so small a proportion to its cost of maintenance,
it should bee warning to all connected with Russian
enterprises to be cant ions in collecting the data for their
calculi:ions. Toe Chevalier Gerstner, who yet
the Moscow line, and who was the engineer of the
Taarekou tkiki R.ilway (the first line constructed in
Russia), estimated the net returns at 6 per cent, on the
°relay, exclusive of toe increase of traffic and profit
that might be looked lor in continuing the railway to
the Volga ar Nijnei Novgorod, or even to the Oka, at
Columns. At the same time, we should mention that
he did not contemplate the inconceivable outlay of
46.0001. per mile, on a line which runs through a dead
level, broken only by the Valdai hills, in the middle
of its length. In southern Russia, where
there are few engineering difficulties to contend
with, the cost of construction was estimated,
by Marini—who surveyed the line from Odessa,
to Olviopol, wi•h branches westward—at 18,6001. par
mile; Messrs. VIONOLLY.B, and Fox, H•mtmltsON.
and Co., have also been concerned in proposals for
the ooncrootiou of lines in that district, bat none
have ever ripened into execution. The only lines
offering reasonab:e chances of profitable traffic in
Russia are those connecting large inland towns with
others on the frontier at a moderate distance, or with
the seaports. The merchandise exported by Russia
is generally raw materiel of a bulky character, such
as corn, hides, tallow, hemp, and timber, and
of a vales small compared with its bulk
and cost of transport. The internal traffic
has much of the same character. A mode-
rate outlay in the fluvial system of Russia
would enable the watercsariege for such goods to est
at defiance any railway competition, and would dimi-
nish still further the slender chance, of dividend be
yond the Government guarantee. The most valu-
able of these lines—that to Warsaw—will probably
be the first completed, end will be used as a lure
for further subscriptions to new projects; for there
are still several main lines projected beyond those
we have enumerated ;but we tryst that the English
public will have the good sense to reserve their
funds for more remunerative investments.

13atiguise speculators will probably suggest that
the facilities of communication will Greats new wants,

and new tulle to supply them;—bat when ? Mast
of our readers will recollect the elaborate Wools-
lions of how many pairs of cotton stow dregs the
Russian manlike and soldiers would boy of u as
soon ea we opened our ports to their oars. If
Mr. COBDIN IBM to pull off the boots of a Ras-
don peasant he would And that the stocking
is still represented in summer by an ingenious
arrangement of rage, and in winter by a
coarse woollen covering of &audio manufacture.
The Moscow railway has does little an yet towards
modifying the condition of the districts through
which it passes, and the effect of the projected lines
on the other portions of the empire will doubtless be
equally slow. At any rate, let the failure of the
anticipations respecting oar cotton mansfacturee
I teach us prudence. It is an excellent idea on the
part of the EMPEROR to introduce railways exten-
sively into Russia, bat the ooneeseionaires are moved
by so higher sentiments than the expectation of
profits derived from the issue of share. at a premium;
sad three profits are very problematical, unless the
English public is silly enough to pall their chestnuts
oat of the tire for them.

Tae Ducteon see promises a speedier dinoesiment
than had been anticipated. Foe it is rumoured that
eminent legal authorities have given their opinion
that in this process no appeal lies from the Pitman's
judgment and sentence.
It is to be hoped that this may be so. There clan
be no reversal of the decision without a conscious
miscarriage Whistles foe the sake of • miserable ex-
pediency, on a topic on which expediency is not only
the worst policy, but utterly inadmissible. We do
not went that scandal added to the many which the
ewe has already unforanately elicited; and we shall
be glad to see the interval abridged in which High
Church fanatics have the opportunity to do things
more unwise—we fear we most also add more die-
honest—than they have yet accomplished.

No appointment has yet been made to the mama
chief justiosehip of the Common Plea. The lopres•
am gains ground that the Atterney-Oemral will not
take it, and should that impresaion prove to be correct,
a very gunnel feeling is entertained that the post is
not unlikely to be offered to Sir Frederic Meager.
Oa personal and professional grounds a more popular
selection could not be made.

The Eastern Counties Herald Mr:—" We fled
net a leoelag liberal j aired is Load's meadow Mr. Ed.
wia Isms, Q C., u a likely suesesor to Mr. Wotan. Wo
eta users oar utinp ivory that Is Is quite mistakes. Ia
se esee but Mr. Clay's reload or nobility to sued will say
other non be fluted."

Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, lase presented,
free of all coat, to tits community of the city of Hereford,
eight acres of land for the sorporatirm essietery.
The time draws nigh when the Glasgow University
will require to elect • Lord Moeller A roma Um Dike of ,
Argyle, who bas bold the Alm fee two years. The atoms
of Ike Zdwatd Salver Lytton. Sir lobo Hesseboll, sad
Mr. Layard, have bees noestiessd as likely esedidates.
Busiduanis MAPS.—Aa far bask as the year 1852, ,
tbe eslebrated oriestoliet, Professes Forebitsmsam, et the
trolvenity of ILA suggested is s speak to the emembled
new of Gainsay at Asir mama gathering at Wissba- 1
dm, the possibility of emstrestiag submarine 'Mete ea the
some prima* the eserum geographies' sum with a
shading of greater or lamer strength to denote the mono-
Was sad other fames :Wm eif As bed of the sea Tbat
gestbrmas km just sow bad • map ea this priselpie ea-
graved. It kiatesisd to illustrate a week able sow Atka
prom es the Midas of Trey, sad repressor' the sea betwees
Ilse Mud of Tweed°. sad the opposite most of Asia Miser,
lealadieg therefore the elatsle spot whore the (fresh
Host ley at seektr, the readesvese of the Caveat
naval 'consignee to the memerabie espailitke to Troy.
This submarine map is partly hosed as ea misndisgs tam
by the late Captain T. Graves, EN., of BMA tummies
ship B 41:00, and published is the Admiralty Marts, sod
partly from As ohenvettme made ea the spot by the
teemed Professor himself, east meat a leg dew In those
atmetcal pert. for the paves* stetudylug thole topography.
Hs proposes to call the char% emialustell es his new
system " Bentheograpbical Maps." pieftmoriag (perhaps fee
the asks of euphony) the lisle Ins M Idreer, to the Attie
tors Dam mare gemrally used to dedgmate depth.
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