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London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
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current of travel from East to West, will furnish ma-
terials for many a grand fortune before these vision-
aries and schemers can work up the edifice for the
smash. We hear that the Rothschilds have taken a
considerable interest in some mining properties in
Nevada, an indication as certain as that given by
swallows of spring. The new highway will shorten
the time to Yokohama and Shanghai by at least 15
days. From London to New York the time is
ten days ; thence to San Fran&sco it will be six
days; on to Yokohama about 19 days. From Yoko-
hama the steamers branch, one going to Naga-
saki and Shanghai, and the other to Hongkong,
Shanghai being reached in five days or less, and
Hongkong in six, accomplishing the extreme voyage
in about 40 days. The New Monthly Magazine, for
this month, has an article on " The Great High-
way for Nations." The Pacific Railway it calla
the Central Pacific, ignorant of the fact that that
term is applied to the portion only running east from
Sacramento till it meets the Union Pacific running
west from Omaha. While the writer does not know
the name of the railway be advances bold opinions and
abuses those Englishmen, " haters of their country,"
who are not prepared to construct a rival line
through the wilds and snows of the Hudson Bay
territory to checkmate the grasping Yankee and
keep Eastern trade still in English hands. Mr.
ALFRED WADDINGTON'S publication furnishes the
Monthly with its material, and the writer proceeds
to show the people at home that it is their duty to
run the line over British soil, from the head waters
of Lake Superior to the Pacific. Ile takes it for
grantcdthat the Americans of the United States must
he always hostile and in rivalry with Englishmen,
and that the Americans to the north of the United
States boundary must be always allies and friends
of Britain, a ridiculous supposition, though generally
entertained in England. Grounding his observa-
tions on this farce he shows that England should
strive to retain to herself the traffic of Eastern Asia ;
but the idea does suggest itself to his mind—" What

if this hostile nation over the border should seize
country, railway, and all !" He is refreshed, how-
ever, with the conviction that the Canadians will
fight to the death, and that they have always
hitherto defeated the Yankee schemes of annexa-
tion and invasion, and he can see no reason why
they should not continue so to defeat them. This is
the way in which the new highway is often discussed
in England, and then the English are surprised
and disgusted when they see a somewhat similar
spirit reflected in Congress and in the American
Press. Can they not recognize the Northern con-
tinent of America as in the hands of their kinsfolk,
speaking their own language, without these lines
of demarcation than which nothing can be more
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illusory—a mere air-line, which has no more sub-
stance than it shows on the ground it is supposed
to mark. But while this is nothing, race is some-
thing, and in fostering the baneful errors to which
the New Monthly gives expression the substance is
sacrificed for the shadow. There is no difference in
race between the Canadians and the Americans ; and
why should England endeavour to create artificially
that which nature has not done ? It can lead to no
good, but may produce much harm, and gives rise
to more ill-feeling than any other cause across the
Atlantic. If the United States work the Union
Pacific Railroad well, giving quick, cheap, and safe
trains across the continent, and carry passengers
with speed, security, and comfort from San Fran-
cisco to Japan and Chins, they will do what the
world requires. In doing this the nation may benefit
itself more than mankind generally ; but surely no
other nation ought to object to the greater benefit
going to those who have done the work, made the
outlay, and stood the risk. A discussion embodying
the ideas of the New Monthly can in no way influ-
ence the result, for the writer himself, if he had to visit
Japan, and could get there quicker, cheaper, and
by a more pleasant route over the Union Pacific
Railway, would put his patriotism in his pocket and
take his passage fur Ne w York ; and we may add, were
people to talk and write as they act, while adhering
to practice the world would get rid of heaps of theo-
retical rubbish. We would ask ALFRED WADDINGTON

if there is any snow along the route he recommends,
if the climate is so genial that it only freezes in the
early morning; for the Pacific Raihoad, more than
10 degrees to the south, has just been blocked for
two or three days by snow, and even in that compa-
ratively southern latitude it has yet to be ascertained
what will be the checks in winter. No American
objects to a line, if practicable, through the Hudson
Bay Territory ; on the contrary, all will rejoice to
see British enterprise take such a direction. But
what we object to, and will always combat, are the
narrow-minded theories, tending to foster hostility,
advanced to commend th 3 project. The continent
north of the Mexican boundary is essentially one,
and in the hands of one race, and Americans in-
vite Englishmen to aid and share in the benefit of
its development, and as many as please to make it
their home. The best answer to the invitation is
not in the endeavour to split off one section of that
continent into hostility to the other, nor to betray
in such writings the paltry jealousy from which
such arguments spring.

Admiral George Elliott has taken advantage of

the alarm caused by the loss of the Hibernia, and a similar
injury to the Columbia as that which proved fatal to the other,
to urge the introduction on board such steamers of the hy-
draulic engine, which he asserts acts as an enormous
• pump, discharging from the hold of a vessel of 200 no-
minal horse-power 400 tons of water a minute, that is,
two tons for each horse power. So large a discharge pip.
and such a volume of water cannot be choked, and Mr.
Ruthven's hydraulic engine, the Admiral asserts with the
utmost confidence, to be a perfect security to life and pro-
perty from the effects of any leak at sea from heavy strain-
ing ; while the propeller cannot be injured by any action
of the sea, such an accident as that by which the Hiber-
nia was lost being impossible. The Admiral says that he
has laboured for years in vain to introduce an improve-
ment so replete with advantages to the cause of humanity
and the interests of commerce, while five millions were
expended to release a few Abyssinian captives. The Ad-
miral is not very happy in his illustration, for the Abys-
sinian war was undertaken for preitige, but his plan requires
no illustration to recommend it, if his enthusiasm does not
exaggerate what it can do. The Admiral could not have a
better instance than the last case, that of the Starry Banner.
She was bound from Alexandria to New York, and had on
board 164 persons. On the 18th December a terrific sea
cleared the decks; the next day the captain was washed
overboard and perished, the lifeboats also being lost. Ten
feet of water was in the hold, and the pumps at work day
and night; signals were made, rockets fired, but no ship
came in sight. On the 20th the chief officer, Mr L. Van
Buren, told the passengers he could do no more. At eight
o'clock a tremendous sea struck the saloon, sweeping the
passengers in it overboard. Major Henry J oy, of the United
States Army, a native of London, saved '22 by his heroic
exertions, but 60 of those swept into the sea were lost. On
the 21st the rafts which had been constructed were
launched, and time only was given to place all on them
when the steamer went down, as the Hibernia, stern fore-
most. For three nights and two days they remained on
the rafts without food or water, and many, preferring a
speedy death to this torture and suspense, jumped into the
sea after lowing the wreck and were drowned. At last
they were rescued by a French bark and lauded at Bou-
logne, to the number of 42, which gives a loss of 122. This
story which went the rounds is wholly devoid of truth,
and we only retain it hero as an instance of the sort of
hoax iu which some persons can find pleasure. Those
who accepted it as genuine on discovering its real charac-
ter wondered how they could have been deceived by so
poor a cheat, as every incident bore imposture on its face
as originally told.
Of the seven Presidents who had sons to educate,
four—John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lin-
coln, and now Ulysses S. Grant—have chosen Harvard
University for that purpose.
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