The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-22 00:00:00

LORD DERBY.

Politicians of all parties are just now expressing
sincere sympathy with Lord Derby. his position is
a very painful one. At the close of a long career,
during which he has been the idol of his party, he
finds the chief men of that party separating from
him on a point which he has throughout his life
considered of the uttermost importance. Ile finds
that power has departed from him, that he has no
longer any influence over the men whom he used to
lead, that they have set up new leaders and a
new policy. Even those opponents who say that this
is but the natural and just consequence of " dishing
the Whigs," and ‘‘ leaping in the dark," are moved
by the pathos of his peroration. It was indeed very
touching, and it seemed to be like a farewell speech
to the House which he has adorned for a quarter ot
a century. He has suffered a good deal since ho
made that speech, and it is doubtful if he will ba
able to assist in helping his party in committee

AMERICAN RAILWAYS.]

(From the Anglo-American 2 lines.)

America is at present more than usually active
in railway construction. The Northern Continent,
always more or less in a railway-building fever,
now approaches a mania in favour of consolidating
old roads and constructing grand new through
lines. Cincinnati is actively engaged in projecting
a railway to Mobile, via Chattanooga, to do for the
Ohio City what the Mississippi does for St. Louis,
and open up the fertile States of Alabama, Ten-
nessee, and Kentucky. Chicago, always grand in
conception, talks of a road by the southern shores
of Lake Ontario, striking the Atlantic at Portland,
thence to Newfoundland ! (how, is not explained),
which will bring that most ambitious of cities
within eight and a half days of London. Chicago
has another idea, which is no less than to turn the
waters of the great lakes into the Mississippi through
a broad canal, with the effect of reducing the Nia-
gara to a trickling rivulet, submerging New Orleans
and all Louisiana, changing the current of the Gulf
stream, and converting the British Isles into the con-
dition of Iceland. But the most interesting projects
are thosedesigned to connect the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans. While the Southern States have deter-
mined to construct one, perhaps two roads, to the
Pacific, advocating their line of country mainly on
account of climate, numerous schemes are on foot
to build roads to the north of the Union Pacific.
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States soldiers. The Canadian Pali' lament re-
commends that steps be immediately taken to open
a communication l:etween Lake Superior and the
Red River Settlement with a view to completing
one main link in their chain to the Pacific. We have
before us the proposed plan of an overland railroad
through British North America by Mr. ALFRED
WADDINGTON. He would start the road from
Montreal to Ottawa, and from the capital of the
New Dominion up the valley of the river passing
to the north of Lake Superior, and crossing the
great plain of the Saskatchewan, which he declares
to present the easiat ground in the world for the
construction of a 'railway, rising in successive
benches over 3,000 feet fro:u Fort Garry to the
foot of the Rocky Mountains. Through that chain