The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 11.

SPORTING INTELLIG&NCF.

A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS,"
*attaining the malts of the day's Races, is pub-
lished every main daring the Sporting Season, at
six o'clock.

THE splendid capabilities of Milford Haven have
long been recognised. NELSON expressed in words
his admiration of it ; but more than a century before
NELSON, Pine, by the use he made of it, had borne
still more unequivocal testimony to its merits. Bat
commerce will not be allured to any place merely
become it affords safe riding for ships. Until our
railway system was developed, Milford Haven,
though an admirable harbour, was remote from
any of those busy centres of industry and accumu-
lated property w hich at tra ct merchants. Hence Roamer
that the Mersey, with all the difficulties and dangers
which its flat, windswept shores and inflammable
shoals promoted, became a thronged resort of traffic,
while Milford Haven remained almost as unvisited
as in the days of the AP GRIFFITHS and LLEWELLTHS.
The deficiencies of the Mersey as a port were disre-
garded on account of its proximity to the great pro-
ducing counties of Lancashire, Cheshire, Stafford-
shire, and Yorkshire. But now that railways have
already brought Milford Haven, or are rapidly bring-
ing it, into close proximity with the Metropolis and
with the manufacturing districts, sailors and ship-
owners are awakening to its capabilities of a harbour.
This explains the demonstration at Pembroke Dock,
which it was yesterday our pleasing task to chronicle.
We do not expect—and still less do we wish—
that
Milford Haven should rise on the ruins
of any of our established ports, or prevent
the development of the trade of others. Southampton
Water and the Mersey will keep their ground ; Gal-
way, or Valentia, or both, will become the great
stations for the receipt and despatch of mails and
passengers between England and North America,
and the export and import harbours for the trade
between Ireland and the New World. But Milford
Haven will rise to an equality with the beat of these
places. There is ample room for them all ; the fresh
start in the development of our island resources which
is being made under the auspices of steam locomotives
and the Electric Telegraph, will render all these
maritime stations no more than sufficient for the
giant growth of English commerce.
It is a great recommendation of Milford Haven
that it opens on the breed Atlantic. It offers a
refuge to seamen, to reach which they need not
embay themselves in any narrow straits or channels.
Its entry is boldly defined, and free from hidden
perils ; while within there is ample room for whole
navies of ships of the largest draught, with ample
shelter from every wind that can blow. The Mersey
and the Clyde, from their immediate proximity to
regions of busy and productive industry, will con-
tinue to attract as many vessels as ever ; for
merchants have a well-grounded aversion to
frequent repetition of the act of breaking bulk,
and seek therefore to ship their goods as near as
possible to the place where they are produced.
But so immense trade will be attracted to Milford
Haven, now that carriage thither from the mann-
factoring districts has become safe, speedy, and moire-
mical, and that the mineral wealth of Booth Wales
is being so extensively exploit!. Milford Haven will
assume the rank, as a trading port, which Bristol
once held. Ito commerce will bear the same ratio to
the aggregate commerce of England in the nine-
teenth century that the commerce of Bristol did to
the aggregate commerce of England in earlier ages.
And there are certain local traffics which advantage
of position will inevitably attract to Milford Haven.
It will contest with Southampton Water the
character of the natural place of deposit
for the commodities which are shipped to
or landed from en important portion of our Colonies.
The shipping of the West India Colonies will
naturally make for it ; it will attract the
trade of the Caps Colony and Western Africa ; and
all that important portion of the passenger and
goods trate of our Southern Colonies which takes
the Panama route—that is, the balk of the trade of
New Zealand, Tasmania, New South Wales, and the
district around Moreton Bay—will also resort to it.
To oar growing commerce with the Brazils Milford
Haven offer, an equally eligible emporium ; but oar
anticipations of the future for this harbour are more
disposed to rest on its possible and probable
colonial connexions. England is essentially a
colonising country. She, of all modern States,
has alone succeeded in establishing free filial
semasanities, whereas the others have only bees able
tomato depandemies. Ragland laid the foemlatisaa
of the Great Western Republic; and though the
United States—as we say of goes and danghtere who
have set up establishments of their own apart firma
the paternal home—are nowforie-juseshotal, the great
Canadian, West Indian, and Australian groups, and
the infant empire of South Africa, still remain con-
nected with us by the closest family ties. We need
only turn to the statistical tables of the Board of
Trade to be convinced that our commerce with the
United States and our Colonies is by far the most
important part of our aggregate commerce. Being
carried on with communities which have
hived off the parent stock of Britain, and
which retain British teaks and habits, oar
productions suit them hitter than any other
people. Possessing ample vacant lands, their num-
bers increase more rapidly than those of old man- '
tries. Every way they arc the most sure and
profitable customers we can have. The mercantile
relations between Colonies and Mother-Countries
are unsuseeplible of destruction or even diminution ;