The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-24 00:00:00

JUNCTION OF THE RHINE AND D AN

The following particulars of a plan to unit the
Rhine and the Danube by means of a canal arc given
in a private letter from Munich, dated Oct. 8 :
The Government of Bairaria is now anxiously occu-
pied with the consideration of a plan for uniting the
Rhine with the Danube by means of a canal. This
plan was thought of so long ago as the time of Charle-
magne, but various circumstances prevented its execu-
tion. According to thelaw which received the sanction
of the Bavarian Chambers the canal will be completed
by a company of shareholders, but the Government is
to have the power to take one quarter of the shares..
The maximum of the toll which the proprietors of the
canal are authorised to exact during ninety-nine years
is fixed at one-third of the price which would he
charged by waggon for the same distance. The canal
will have its source in the Danube, near Kellheim. Its
course will follow the valley of the small river
d'Altmulil and the Sulz as far as Neumark ; from
thence the canal will pass in the direction of Nurem-
berg, and pass the river Regnitz, by Furth and Bam-
berg. Its length will be 592,543 Bavarian feet, or
23.4 German miles. Its breadth will be 54 Bavarian
feet, and its depth 34. The highest elevation of the
canal will be 273 feet above the surface of the Danube
near Kellheim, and 630 feet above the surface of the
Reignitz, near Bamberg. This elevation will be at-
tained by means of ninety-four locks. It appears from
an official calculation that the conveyance of a quintal
of goods throughout the whole length of the canal will.
not cost above a kreutzer and a half, including the ex-
penses of navigation. Adding to this 12 kreutzers for
the toll of a quintal of wood, and 24 kreutzers for any
other description of goods, it would appear that board;
may be conveyed the distance of 23& geographical
miles at the rate of thirteen and a half kreutzers for
the quintal of wood, and 254 for the same weight of
other descriptions of goods. Taking the average an-
nual quantity of goods conveyed in the same directicm,
a saving of transport to the amount of 900,000 florins
(about a million of francs) may be effected. Not only
will this canal effect a saving in the price of transport,
but it will also increase the numberof outlets for manu-
factures in that direction, and will be of great benefit
both to consumers and producers: The economy in
the means of transport will lead to a reduction► of the
cost of the first materials, and the commerce of the
whole of Europe will benefit by it. The expense of the
construction of the canal is estimated at about
18,732,800 francs, and the expense of repairs at the
annual sum of 175,921 francs. From various calcu-
lations it is supposed the shareholders will derive frail
the canal a net profit of 600,000 florins, or about ,even
per cent. upon the capital of the first investilient, it
being supposed that in the first year at least 1,700,000
quintals of goods will have been conveyed along its
whole extent.

THE DISSENTERS AND CHURCH RATEs,
We are glad to find that a resolution to the following effect wap.
unanimously agreed to
ti
last meeting, and that e committee of deputies at their
Government will be distinctly ap-
prised that such is
t
That,'ne unanimous feeling of the Dissenters :
as IrJ church-rates, no measure can be satisfactory
which .
not relieve Dissenters from all compulsory contri-
:ution, direct or indirect, for the, maintenance of the edifices
used by, and of the worship of the established church, and that
they arc not able to devise any means of effecting this, but by
the total abolition of church-rates." Of course care will be
taken to prevent its being supposed that such an abolition of
church-rates as Lord Altborp's Bill of last session affected hr
enact would be satisfactory to the Dissenters. The substitu..
tion of a tax over which they would have no control, for one
over which they would have a. powerful control—the present t.)
the establishment of a good round charge upon the land-tax
in lieu of a troublesome and uncertain church-rate, under the
pretence of relieving the Dissenters—would not be tamely
submitted to, and any repetition of a fraud of this kind upon
the country will scarcely be attempted. But we cannot forget
by whom such an attempt was made, and that Dissenters are
indebted to the firmness of the House of Commons for resist-
n" a measure more worthy of Sir Robert Inolis than of Lord
Althorp and Lord John Russell.—Patriot.
whoe entirely
onrleenvoi iviaatd te i Ii i
sinces-
pos'el:lll(: before he
of Norfolk,
he lefttown,hasb
his arrival at his favourite retreat, Fornham St. Genevieve,
near Bury, where his Grace lives in great seclusion. The
Countess of Surrey paid the Noble Earl Marshal a visit on her
way from Dunrobm Castle. Her Ladyship left St. James's, •
square the day before yesterday for the seat of the Earl of
Surrey, at Little Hampton.