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Kepler by Mr. Drink water (Bethune) are well-known
and very prominent instances.
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has had the satisfaction of doing for non-academical
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eis ilinottethemlre.astiftuhrapthhye, soungegesotfedthtehe
nehmlepslto)e-inneenlytsotsf
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it
that this country has produced of late years, to write
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their chairman, forming the only accessible work in
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for party discussions. Tha Society accordingly gave up
the intention of completing the above-named series, and
abandoned a work on Political Economy which had been
prepared.

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actively displayed, and trust that it will not tire until it
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tioh's, which are principally addressed to those who
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munity on which this n.`axim shall not have been veri-
fied; and when the Society for the Diffusion of Useful
Knowledge shall be co-exten'tijve with society itself.
42, Bedford-square, March 11, 1846.

OPENING OF THE RAMSGATE
BRANCH OF TIIE SOUTH-3ASTERN RAIL•
WAY.

The Ramsgate branch of the South. Eastern Railway
was opened yesterday. The directors, including the
chairman, Mr. Macgregor, Lord Torringrou, Mr. liar-
ding, Mr. Randall, left the Bricklayers' Arow station at
half-past eleven o'clock, in a special train, for the pur-
pose of being present at a public dinner, to wihich they
had been invited by the authorities of Ramsgate cele-
bration of the event. The train, which was de,% rated
with flags, and carried a brass band, consisted CI f. ten
carriages. At Tunbridge and Ashford a considertt4ble
addition was made to the number of passengers. 2,kt
Canterbury a very numerous concourse of persona'
awaited the arrival of the special train, and greeted it
with hearty cheering as it entered the station. At the 1
same moment that the special 'train came abreast of the.
offices, a tram of 24 carriages, crammed with inhabi-
tants of Ramsgate, who had been permitted by the
liberality of the directors of the Company to have a
free trip to Canterbury, also reached the station, and
mingled their cheers with those of the inhabitants of the
latter town. After waiting a few minutes to take in
other passengers the train proceeded over the new
branch, which is nearly 16 miles in length. The
works, for the first 13 miles are very light, the greater
portion being on the natural surface of the land.
The characteristic gradient of this portion of the line is
lin 264. Beyond the 13th mile the works enter the
chalk, and the gradient is 1 in 100 for about three miles
The works, which have been constructed under the
superintendence of Mr. Cubitt, jun., assisted by Mr.
Ford, the resident engineer of this branch, are substan-
tial, and admirably executed. They reflect much credit
upon those gentlemen as well as upon the contractors.
The opening of this branch places Ramsgate, Whit-
stable, Canterbury, Ashford, Dover, and Folkestone in
railway communication with each other. Margate, to
which place the South-Eastern Company are construct-
ing a line, will soon be added to the list.
The directors of the Company certainly had no reason
to complain of the mode in which they were received at
Ramsgate. The streets through which it was known
they would pass in their way to the Albion, at which
the dinner was to take place, was literally one mass of
royal standards, union jacks, and every possible descrip-
tion
of flag. That these marks of joyfulness were not
empty ones, may perhaps be best gathered from the fact
that nearly every shop in the town was closed. In truth,
the people of Ramsgate are evidently quite sensible of
the benefit which must flow to them from their connexion
by railway with Canterbury, Ashford, and the metro-
polis, and they testified this not only by the enthusiastic
manner in which they received the directors when they
reached the terminus, and cheered them as they passed
through the town, but also by the frank and cordial re-
ception they gave them at the festive board.
About 140 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the
Albion. Mr. Sackette, the deputy, presided, and was
supported by the most wealthy and influential inhabi-
tants of the town, by the Mayor of Canterbury, the
Deputy of Margate, and by a considerable number of
the local magistracy. We also observed several of the
influential proprietors of the railway, who had also been
invited to attend.
Some very excellent speeches were delivered after
dinner. The chairman (Mr. Sackette), in a short but
pithy address, pointed out the advantage which railway
communication with the metropolis must be to Rams-
gate, possessing as it does a harbour accessible at all
states of the tide, and disposed, as the directors of the
South-Eastern Company had proved themselves to be, to
afford every facility in their power to render the journey
from London to Ostend, vid Ramsgate, both speedy and
convenient. They had placed two splendid steam-boats
on the station, second to none both for speed and accom-
modation, and had manifested their earnest desire to
afford every facility to render available the natural ad-
vantages of Ramsgate for the passage between London
and the north of Europe.
The chairman was followed by the Mayor of Canter-
bury, who spoke of the benefit that had already been
conferred upon Canterbury by the railway; by the
Deputy of Margate, who expressed a hope that he should
have the pleasure of entertaining the South. Eastern
directors as his guests at Margate; by the Rev. Mr.
Snowden, who spoke of the moral advantage which an
extension of the railroad system is calculated to
confer on society, and by many of the inhabitants,
some of whom pledged themselves to useni everyibp
possible exertion to second the enerfiyonsa
of the-
rality which had marked the
South-Eastern Company in the extens7oenroftheir line to
Ramsgate, and in placing fast and commodious
. steam
port And
boats upon the station, to rtw between tiA;

Ostend. Indeed, there seemed to be a hearty and
general feeling to promote in every possible way the
liberal policy of the South-Eastern Company.
Mr. Macgregor, the chairman of the company, in
speaking to the toast of the evening—viz., "Prosperity
to the South-Eastern Railway Company," which ~,a,
enthusiastically responded to—expressed his deep sense
of the very kind and hospitable manner in which the
authorities and inhabitants of Ramsgate had received the
directors of the company. He observed that the proper
policy of a railway company was to identify its interests
with those of the public. This the South Eastern di-
rectors had endeavoured to do ; and he assured the au-
thorities and inhabitants of Ramsgate that the South-
Eastern Company would do all it possibly could to make
available, both for the benefit of the town as well as fix
that of the public, the advantages which the magnificent
harbour of Ramsgate presented to those proceeding from
London to the north of Europe. In truth, it was the
desire of the company to render the passage between
London and Ostend as regular as the journey by the
mail coach.

Viscount Torrington also addressed the company in an
excellett speech, and pointed out the advantages which
the South-Eastern Company's projects for accommodat-
ing Kent with railway communication have over those
promoted by what are termed the " independent" North
Kent schemes. In fact, he said, he had heard it very
pithily remarked that the latter (Vignoles') line might
be likened to the clothes bought at a slop-shop, while
those :promoted by the South-Eastern Company—viz.,
by Mr. Robert Stephenson, were, as every one could see,
clothes that bad been cleverly measured for, and fitted
admirably.
During the evening the healths of Mr. Cubitt, jun.,
and Mr. Ford, the resident engineer of the branch line,
were proposed and drank with all the honours.
The dinner was substantial and well served, and the
evening passed off in a manner as creditable to the good
sense and hospitality of the authorities and people of
Ramsgate as it must have been gratifying to the directors
of the company.
The special train left Ramsgate at ten o'clock last
night, and arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms a little
before two o'clock, having been detained a considerable
time by the usual goods trains.
We cannot close this brief notice of the celebration of
the opening of this branch line without tendering our
thanks to the Chairman, Mr. James Macgregor, the
Chairman of the Company, for the courtesy we, in
common with the rest of the press, received at his hands.
We have also to thank Mr. Ilberry, the superintendent
of the line, for the kind assistance he has always been
and is ever ready to afford to the members of the press
when travelling by special train.

ROUTE TO THE WEST INDIES.

TO THE ElsifefraT THE SUN.
SIR,—In the course of the year 1842, The Sun
contained one or two articles, written by me, calling at-
tention to the advantages of communicating with our
West India colonies, and with the ports of
South America, through the United States. The
plan I entertained and described was this:—The
mails, including passengers, letters, and commu-
nication of all kinds for the whole of our West
India colonies for Mexico by Vera Cruz, and all the
adjacent coast of America, north and south, should be
sent from England by the steamers which now ply be-
tween Liverpool and Boston. Having, by concentrating
all the communications with the whole American conti-
nent on this one line, brought to it a great increase of
business, it might be profitable to send a steamer from
Liverpool once a week, instead of once a month or once
a fortnight. From Boston it was proposed that all the
communications should be forwarded, either by steamers
or rail, as the communication is carried on in the United
States, to New York, and from thence to Savannah, or
Georgia, or some other extreme point in the United
States, to which there is now a rapid communication.
There the mails, it was proposed, should be by steamers,
communicating with Vera Cruz, Jamaica, the rest of
the West India colonies, and carried to their respective
destinations. That is a brief outline of the plan then
suggested, which was noticed, though not with much
approbation, by the Liverpool Times and some other
papers. Each of the many days that has since elapsed,
has brought with it for me its own thoughts and its
own avocations, and they had almost washed out
of my mind all remembrance of my scheme. It
was with no little surprise and satisfaction,
therefore, that I saw, by the last arrival from
the West Indies, that a plan in principle similar to
mine has been adopted, and recommended to the public,
in much greater detail than I had entered into, by Mr.
M'Geachy, of Jamaica, a gentleman who appears to be
well acquainted with the localities, appliance, and con-
veniences of the islands and countries around the gulf
of Mexico. His plan, as I find it, which you published
in extenso in The Sun on Saturday, a part of which
I hope I may repeat in this.
" Mr. M'Geachy proposes to vary the present route
between Jamaica and Great Britain by a diversion through
the United States and Halifax, so nevertheless as to re-
duce the period of communication to a maximum speed
of 14 days. He proposes, if we rightly comprehend his
plans, to make Montego Bay the station for the steam-
ers which arc to be the medium of communication be-
tween the island and Great Britain. The mails, and
passengers of course, would be transmitted by die rail-
way now in course of projection, from Kingston to
Montego Bay, and a steamer would bear them thence
to Batabano in the island of Cuba, from which a commu-
nication by railway is already established to Havannah.
Another line of steamers stationed at the latter port,
would take up the line of communication to Tampa Bay,
in the State of Florida, and railways between that place
and Charleston, New York, and Boston, to St. John's,
New Brunswick, would be met by steamers at the latter
place, which, plying between that port and the western
coast of Nova Scotia, would convey the mails and pas-
sengers to the terminus of a railway concluding at Hali-
fax, from whence they would be embarked for Bantry
Bay, in Ireland, which Mr. M'Geachy proposes as the
British packet station.
" Mr. M'Geachy estimates the time expended in this
route at 14 days 5 hours between Kingston (Jamaica)
and Ireland, thus :

From Kingston to the west end of Jamaica,
say Montego bay, by the projected railway . 5 hrs.
To Batabano by steamer
Batabano to Havannah, by railway 2 do.
Havannah to Tampa Bay, by steamer 44 do.
Tampa Bay to New York, by

Jamaica to New York ...
New York to Halifax

Jamaica to Halifax 149 do.

Or 6 days 5 hrs.
,allifax to Bantry Bay, or Valentia 8 days

J:immica to Ireland ... 14 days 5 hrs.
r,l'he selection of Tampa Bay, as the place of arrival
of the steamers, appears to be particularly advantageous
for a ,•:onipany projected to carry out Mr. M'Geachy's
plan. The very great importance of the cities of New
Orleans and Mobile, as seats of commerce profitable as
well to the United States as to European nations, is too
well known te• require observation from us. At present
the means of communication between these cities and the
principal comimacial towns on the eastern coast of Ame-
rica are extremely defective ; indeed, a sea voyage
between New York and New Orleans is at present an
undertaking equal to a passage across the Atlantic.
Tampa Bay would be comparatively but a few hours
steaming from the mouth of the Mississipi, and the pro-
jected railroad would take the New Orleans merchant to
New York in thirty hours."
Mr. M'Geachy's plan is much more extensive than
mine, and contemplates now railways and different
packet stations in Europe, which mine proposed to pro-
pel by those which are already in existence, believing
that one present attainable improvement will lead on to
others. Of Tampa Bay and the railroad hence to New
York, I know nothing; nor should I presume to sug-
gest any improvement or project to the wide-awake
Americans, whose spirit of enterprise needs no stimulus
nor directions from us, but I know that already there
exists, as you may read in Mr. Lyall's travOs in the
United States (one of the best works that has been
published.:on that country), a complete railway com-
munication from Boston to Savannah, and it may
be expected with proper arrangements that the
distance between Boston, with which our Liverpool
steamers now communicate, and some southern point
of Florida or Georgia, with the railways now existing
in the United States, should be easily accomplished in
three days. In twelve days the steamers now pass be-
tween Liverpool and Boston, and supposing, with Mr.
M'Geachy, that from this southern point Jamaica
might be reached in ninety hours, or, say four
days,* it is lear that, without any very ex-
tensive change, but simply substituting compara-
tively small steamers between Florida or Georgia,
and Jamaica, having only voyages of four or five
days to make, for the great steamers which can cross the
ocean from outhampton to the West Indies, London,
and Jamaica may at once be brought within twenty or
twenty-one days of each other, instead of twenty-eight,
as by the expensive plan of communication now in use
under the management of the Royal Mail Packet Com-
pany. Mr. M'Ueachy, much more sanguine and better
acquainted with the subject than I am, says Jamaica may
be reached in fourteen days, or shortening the time by
one-half. Of course by this route the Bahama Islands,
Cuba, St. Domingo, &c., would be reached in a propor-
tionably still shorter time, but the scheme would not be
so advantageous in reducing the time in which England
can communicate with Antigua, Barbadoes, &c. As
steam-packets are not calculated to carry very largo
cargoes, and it has always appeared to me prepostreroi
to run two series of such packets, chiefly adapted fo pas-
sengers, across the Atlantic, one going from Southampton.asupp
round by the Madeira or the Azores to obtaien
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hat the plan has been-taken up, at the other end
as it were, by a person who secs what us going on, and
what can be denim in the West Indies, I hare no doubt
whatever that it has in it the elements of complete suc-
cess, and might.be carried out with great pecuniary,
mercantile, and social advantages. The great objection
to it is that our communisations with our colonies would
be made through a foreign state. But since I broached
the subject the communication between England and her
Indian Empire bas increased wonderfully in im-
portance, and almost as wonderfully as rapidly. Tliis
important communication, however, is carried on
through at least two political states, France and Egypt,
and if transmitted, as proposed. through Austria, must pass
through half-a-dozon foreign states. Whatever objec-
tections may be made—l hold there are no legitimate
ones—to transmitting our correspondence with South
America and our West India colonies throagh the
United States, apply at least with equal force to trans-
mitting our Indian correst,ondenc, through France or
Austria and Egypt. All these objections ate, them f,,re •
practically answered by that transmission, anti there,
now no need of any arguments to refute the apprehen-
sions of conveying our mails and pas.engers from the
in.st northern to the most southern part of the
United States. The distance will not be much
greater than from Marseilles to Calais. I believe
that they would be as safely conveyed as through
France, and even more safely, less interruptedly, and
much more expeditiously . On both England amid the
United States the plan would confer great advantages.
The communication would be an additional bond of uti-
lity and peace. Whatever might have been thought a
few months ago of some braggadocios in American jour-
nals and Congress, it is now abundantly plain that the
bulk of the Americans desire peace with England as ar-
dently as we desire peace with the United States. Let
us help this brotherly mutual desire by increasing the
accommodation which we can mutually afford ; and as
Mr. M‘Geachy's plan would do this, it would promote
both the pecuniary and political welfare of the United
States.

That our advantage—the advantage of our merchants,
our Government, and all our people—would be promoted
by this plan there cannot be a doubt. They could save,
at the very least a week, perhaps a fortnight, in reach-
ing Jamaica and most of the adjacent colonies. It
would increase their trade both with the United
States and with Europe. Having more speedy infortha-
tion, they could at all times adjust with greater accu-
racy than at present the supply to the demand. Our
West India proprietors complain ; let them facilitate
communication with Europe and North Africa, and half
their complaints will be removed. The trade of the
Americans, both with Europe and all the southern
world, would be much extended by the same means.
Independently of the steamers visiting their harbours,
and the increased traffic along these rails and coasts, the
existence of those would necessarily carry with thcm a.
cotresponding increase of trade between North and
South America. They would be benefited probably
even more than we should, and in proportion to the be-
nefits they derive from our communications with our
colonies through their country would be their unwilling-
ness to interrupt it. Besides the pecuniary and mercan-
tile advantages of Mr. M'Geachy's plan, or any plan, it
would have, like all successful schemes for extending
communication, the still greater advantage of promoting
civilisation, and tending to secure the peace of the
world.

Thanking you, Sir, for the readiness you•have ever
shown to promote all similar improvements, and for your
expressed intention of inserting this communication,
I remain, your obedient servant,
THOMAS HODGSKIN.

ENGLAND'S LOVE OF PEACE AND
READINESS FOR WAR.
(From the Examiner.)
There is not a country in the world so desirous of
peacep England, and that there is none better prepared
for war the brilliant campaign on the Sutlej most
strikingly shows. It is clear that our arms have not
rusted in peace, and that the service was never in a
higher state of efficiency. And this observation does
not apply merely to the forces in a part of our immense
empire. Wherever our soldiers and sailors have been
put to the trial, the same prowess has been manifested
with the same glorious and rapid success. In China, in
Syria, in Sinde, and in the retrievement of the Afghan
disasters, they have proved themselves irresistible, and
it has been one career of triumph. There have been no
protracted wars, no barren campaigns; England has
only had to stretch out her arm to strike, and the foe has
been crushed.
We have seen gigantic Russia opposed for two years
by feeble Turkey, we have seen her defied and repulsed
by the petty robber chief of' Khiva, and bending her
power for years against the Circassians, who have held
her at arm's length, often defeating her, and in her small
successes leaving her little to boast.
France in Algeria presents another example. Whole
armies have been absorbed there. A deluge of blood,
has been wasted, like water spilt in the desert. It is
the vain labour of the l)anaides, with this difference,
that the sieves are to be filled with blood. The work is
for ever to begin again; victory and disaster taking
their turns without end; Abd-elaader crushed for ever
one day, and making head again the next.
Yet in Algeria France has a terrible military school.
It has been described as the soldier-mill, into which
thr e men are put and g .ound into one doughty warrior.
It might be supposed that there was nothing that such
an army could not effect, but yet they effect nothing—
nothing decisive. True, they have an elusive enemy to
deal with, and when they beat the Arabs it is like
threshing water. We do not deny the pecu-
liar difficulties, though we have a notion that
if England had chosen to encounter them, she
could have found better methods of coping
with them ; but let the causes of the failure
of the French be what they may, there stands the
example of her long losses and miscarriages in compari-
son with England's instant successes, wherever the power
of her arms has been put forth. Let it be that England
makes better choice of her objects ; that she does not
involve herself in schemes of conquest beyond her
strength ; such explanation is praise enough which as-
signs to her the armed wisdom of which Pallas was the
type. Whatever the occasions are, there are always
the conduct and courage to meet them ; and the sword
is not long out of the scabbard, nor ingloriously re-
turned to it. Proportionate, indeed, to the reluctance
with which it is drawn, is the dazzling rapidity with
which it performs its task.
And most satisfactory it is to note that no love-of war,
nor lust for conquest, grows upon these successes.
The nation, proud as it is of its triumphs, prizes them
most as securities for future peace, not as encourage-
ments to war. The public is never more pacific in its
dispositions and aspirations than at the successful ter-
mination of hostilities.
It is not for vain-glorious boast that we have made
the comparison between the rapid achievements of Eng-
land and the protracted wars and imperfect successes of
other powers. The lesson we would note is this that
the country whose interests and whose dispositions are
most strongly pacific, is, nevertheless, the best prepared
for war, and the promptest and most successful in vindi-
cating her cause by arms whenever she is compelled to
it. As England has no love for war, so, when she is in
it, she is happily able to make short work of it. Other
people are as brave, but somehow or other they have not
the same knaek of giving effect to their bravery, at least
so it appears in the comparisons that have happened to
be presented within the last 20 years.
We often join in the gruwblings at the management
of the navy, but maintaining still that there are occa-
sions and opportunities of' improvement, it is our
thorough conviction that the two services were never
in a higher state of efficiency ; anddthazteanleovuesr were
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ft inestimable value, not only as regards the safety
aiid peaco of th
discourage the pr
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dh ermsahcahre
toofo fa
proudu lts;
bb"leuoasrrtliednr.g; andEb tni England
lpapnreodouplhe who have drawn false inferences
from her disdaining to play the braggart, will have learnt
to correct their mistake on seeing how she acquits her-
self when reluctantly forced into quarrel—the might she
exerts with such wondrous ease—the mettle that works
miracles, like that of the heroes who marched up to the
Seikh tete du pont, vomittinglthe fire of two tiers of admi-
rably served cannon, as if in parade order, halting to
close up their ranks when rent by the storm of round
shot and grape, and toiling through nearly a mile of
heavy sand, as if they had nothing to do with but the
disadvantages of the ground, and the shot and shell were
nothing to them except as they deranged the correctness
of the line. Rich as are our annals of war in all circum-
stances of conduct and bravery, we question whether
they present any equal to that gallant exploit, in which
the native troops so largely and gloriously shared.

LORD LINCOLN AND THE SOUTH NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
ELECTION.—The Noble Lord, although defeated at the last
election for the Southern Division, has not forgotten to thank
in a special manner such of the electors as, on that trying
occasion, recorded their votes in his favour. A letter, of
which the following is a copy, has been sent by post to every
elector who voted for the .Iroble Lord :—" Whitehall-place,
March 10, 1846.—Dear Sir,—l request you to accept my
warmest thanks for the support which you gave me by your
vote in the late contest for the representation of South Not-
tingham. Although defeated in that contest, I shall ever
look back with pleasure upon the many marks of personal
kindness and regard which I experienced, and shall remem-
nbleyr
bweii t; ha 1
r.g La tli t tat dme, the
rexertions
r swvheircyh
fla, Oi
t4h9rafrili)e,n, friends
NmeeodLer i.l
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