The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-27 00:00:00

N°. 22,678.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1865.

NOT IC E,

ttj‘ EMEMBER ! WE WAIT SUPPER
,FOR YOU, after the Pantomime, at E VANS'. Fail
not!

ATHIRD EDITION of BLOUNT TEMPEST,
by the Rev. J. C. M. BELLEW, will be ready at all
the Libraries on Wednesday, March 1.
Hurst and Blackctt, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-
street.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-GREAT TRIENNIAL
HANDEL FESTIVAL of 1865, at the Crys al Palace
about the end of June.
Registers have been opened at the Crystal Peace, Syden-
ham. S. E. and at Exeter Ball, Strand, London, W.C., for
entering the names of persons desirous of receiaing ear.y
copies of the programme of the Festival, the issue and prices
of tickets, plans and arrangements of reserved seats, &c.
Letters addressed to either of the uudersigned will meet
with due attention.
GEO. GROVN, Sec. Crystal Palace Company.
THOS. BREWER, flon. Sec Sacred Harmonic Seclety.

who take an interest in this great project, the fol-
lowing passages, from page 5 of that work, will be
acceptable. Mr. Andrews himself extracts them
from an author unknown to me, whom he calls." a
recent and able writer :"

"In this country, ever since the first exploration of the
Valley of the Euphrates, by Gen. Chesney, the advantages
of such a route to railway or steam communication has not
ceased to press itself upon all thoughtful and intelligent
minds. Indian railways, which were brought to the notice
of Lord Fitzgerald, the President of the Board of Contro
in 1842, seem, however, to have been the basis of legiti-
mate projects of overland routes, as contra-distinguished
from mere visionary schemes.
" The first edition of Mr. W. P.:Andrews's work, Indian
Railways, as connected with the Power and Stability of
the British Empire in the East, the Development of its
Resources, and the Civilisation of its People, with an An-
alysis of the Projects now claiming Public Confidence,' ap-
peared early in 1864. This was the first great step which
finally led to the project of establishing a communication
between the railways of India and those of Europe. The
line of Rajmahal, and by the valley of the Ganges, in Ben-
gal, which was orginally recommended by Mr. Andrews,
was, it is true, for a time suspended by the Mirzapore
direct project of Mr. R. M. Stephenson ; but it (the Rajma-
hal line) was that which was ultimately adopted by the
authorities, and Mr. R.M. Stephenson was ordered to carry
it out. Mr. Andrews's energy was, however, only thrown
thereby into a new and more important channel, and he
was enabled to carry out a favourite project of a Scinde
railway, from whence has arisen the still more recent
scheme of a connection between that railway, the Valley
of the Euphrates, and the Mediterranean.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW.-
SUMMER in WIN E'ER.—Luxuriously Warm and Dry.
Performances by the Orchestral Band at 12.30 and 4.30, and
Great ,Organ Performance at 3 30. Picture Galleries, Fine
Art Courts. Shakspere 'louse, t himr.anz, e, Armour Plates
(lent by official authority), and the thousand and ono other
attractions of the Crystal Para,:e.
Open from Ten till dusk. One Shil ing; children under
twelve, Sixp ncz.

" Not that thorn was any want of projectors at home.

elaborated a scheme of a Calais, Constantinople, and Cal -
cutta Railway, 1842 ; and this was afterwards, in 1845,
prolonged to Pekin, under the designation of The Atlas
Railway.'- Mr. Alexander F. Campbell ' proposed a rail-
way from England to India' to the Honourable Board of
Directors of the East India Company, in letters and maps.
of the 6th September, 1840, 25th March, 1845, and 25th
April, 1845 ; and in 1851 Mr: James Wyld published a map
with the railways laid down as proposed by Mr. Campbell,
viz., from Ostend, via Vienna, Belgrade, Constantinople,
across Asia Minor to Aleppo, and along the Valley of the
Euphrates, skirting the seaboard of Persia, and Beloochis-
tan to Kurrachee, and thence to Calcutta."

And now, sir, although, so far as I am aware, the
paragraph above extracted in which my name occurs
is the earliest in type in which I am mentioned in
connection with this great project, it will be evident
from what I have herein stated that I by no means
hid my candle under a bushel. The first publica-
tion I ever saw or heard of on the subject was in
1845 or 1846, in the shape of a small pamphlet by
a Mr. Baldwin, of Nant y Glo, in South Wales,
which I regret I have not now at hand.
In Mr. Sankey's letter, which has called forth
this, I perceive great earnestness, and I shall be
happy to join with him and any others who have
made the subject a study, in a vigorous attempt to
complete the intervening links in the vast chain of
direct railway communication between London and
Calcutta and Canton. When I first thought on
this subject, there was not a single mile of railway
constructed on the continents of Europe or Asia.
Now we have lines stretching to not a great dis-
tance from Constantinople on the European side ;
from Calcutta to the north of India on the other. I
believe that Sir R. M. Stephenson is now engaged
on a projected line between Calcutta and Canton.
I know that lines through Asia Minor have been
surveyed, and I have reason to think that the
Shah of Persia is desirous of having them extended
through his dominions. Surely by a judicious and
concentrated effort we may achieve the grand pro-
ject in its integrity.

WILLIAM PARE.
Datchet Lodge, Windsor, Jan. 25, 1865.

The Portuguese Ambassador at Rome, Field
Marshal Duke de Saldanha•

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cause he was bought from making another which every-
' body in Lisbon was expecting from him at the time of his
appointment to the Pontifical Court.
Saldanha is known in Portugal by everybody as the
" Fifty-faced Man" (o homem das 50 caras) on account of
having appeared on the political stage in all sorts of different
even opposite, characters. A most amusing caricature of
him appeared in a sort of Lisbon Punch, in 1848, where the
Protean Duke was shown, in a most striking likeness,
dressed as Arlekin (except the head, which bore a Jesuit's
hat), and everyone of the known variegated triangles
making the costume of the Christmas character had on it,
from the neck to the shoes, a repetition of the face of the
present Ambassador ; and all these miniature portraits be-
ing exact copies of the larger face. And let me remark that
the paper and the caricature were not a Miguelite satire ;
they were the work of his fellow-revolutionists and Church
robbers.

Being an enemy to humbugs—and the greater enemy
the bigger they are—l wish, by these few facts and obser-
vations (which I could enlarge to a volume with similar
extracts from the life and miracles of the hero) to supple-
ment the "lasting recollections" of the Arlekin Duke "as
a grand seigneur and a zealous and distinguished Ca-
tholic," pointed out by the correspondent of the United
Cattolica. Such recollections ought greatly to enhance the
flavour of the ices and cakes at the Torlonia Palace to all
good Catholics who flock to the feasts.
In the several revolutions Saldanha has made when he
has more than once been in power, and all-powerful, in
Portugal, has he ever endeavoured to restore to the Church
her property, or spoken of it ? What everybody will say
in Portugal about the "grand seigneur" of the Unita is,
that his present face of a " zealous Catholic " makes face
fifty-one.

A. P. SARAIVA.
ebone, W.

February 1, 1865.