The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

IRE SUN,' LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECE‘II3ER 25, 18N7

SrtrART had been attacked near Mundesore by the
insurgents, but they were completely repulsed,
and all their guns captured, when he carried the
war into their own camp. The rebels had 1,500
men placed hors de combat, while our casualties
were comparatively trivial.

Saugor, both fort and town still remain safe,
although the insurgents are in considerable force
in its vicinity. That is now the only point
respecting which there is the slightest anxiety.
On the whole, the intelligence is of the most
satisfactory character, and better than our most
sanguine hopes had anticipated. We were not
the prophets of evil, having stated our implicit
confidence that Lucknow would be saved, but we
could not have supposed that our wishes would
so speedily have been realised.

The Directors of the Bank of England yester-
day reduced their minimum rate of discount from
10 to 8 per sent. The Act of Indemnity is thus
abrogated, and henceforward they are again sub-
jected to the restrictions contained in the iniqui-
tous act of 1844. It would have been far better
if the Legislature had sanctioned the proposition
of Mr. MALINs, and allowed the exemption
to continue until after the meeting of
Parliament. No matter what might have
beeen the rate of discount. But the policy of
the "hard calculators" is to leave nothing to the
discretion of the authorities, and then, in true
Hibernian fashion, to blame them if they act

erroneously.
We have now seen the act twice suspended, and
witnessed the almost miraculous relief afforded to
the nation by its virtual abolition. Its injuri-
ous operation has been manifested beyond
the possibility of doubt or difficulty,. and
yet there are persons (albeit not altogether disin-
terested) still ready to put forward arguments in
its favour, and others obtuse enough to permit
themselves to be mystified. Can we wonder at
the stupidity or verdancy of the victims of ring-
droppers and skittle sharps when we find so many
of our countrymen accepting the fallacies of the
currency quacks as " proofs of Holy writ," and still
consenting to the intolerable incubus by which
they have been so long and so severely, oppressed.
We have now gone back not to a moderate or
a reasonable rate of discount, but to 8 per cent.,
the highest price ever previously exacted by the
quasi national establishment. It was the famine
price of 1847, which was abandoned after four
weeks, but 10 per cent. has been kept up
seven weeks, and we have only got
back to the worst state in 1847. We
should not have had the relaxation, but for
the simple fact, that Lombard-street was under-
bidding Threadneedle-street, and that " the Old
Lady " could not obtain custom at the exorbitant
and usurious charge demanded. She was there-
fore, although very reluctantly, compelled
to conform to the existing state of
affairs, and to accept 8 per cent. when
she could no longer obtain 10 per cent. ! She
has, however, in common with other hard calcu-
lators, realised very handsome profits during the
continuance of the crisis. "It is an ill wind that
blows nobody good," and,the moneyocracy have
reaped a handsome harvest at the expense of the
working classes and the industrial community.
We fear that there will be severe suffering
during the winter—that many men, able and
willing to work, will find themselves deprived of
employment in consequence of the monetary
crisis. We trust that all persons desirous of
fair play will take into serious censideration
the causes of those privations, and will be
prepared to aid those who are toiling for the ge-
neral benefit. The currency question must be
disposed of during the session of 1858, and on
the legislation that will then take place will de-
pend the future welfare, prosperity, and happiness
of the great majority of the people of Great Bri-
tain and Ireland.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
entertained a select circle at dinner, at the Cottage, at
Kew, last evening.
The Marquis of Breadalbane has left town to join the
Marchioness at Langton House, Berwickshire.
The Earl and Countess of Munster have left town for
Wemyss Castle, Scotland.
Count Gormanston and the Hon. Mr. and Mrs.
Preston and family have left Claridge's Hotel fur
Dover, on their way to the Continent.
Lord Grantley mot with a serious accident while
shooting in, the woods at Grantley Hall last week.
During the prevelance of a thick fog one of the party,
shooting back at a rabbit, lodged several shot in his
lordship's leg=. Medical assistance was immediately
procured, and the noble lord is going on as favourably
as can be expected.

Lord and Lady Sonthampton have left the Clarendon
f)r Whittlebury Lodge, Northamptonshire•
The Count de Bonneval and Count de•Prissac have
arrived at the Brunswick EIJtA St. James's, from the
Continent.

Sir Wdliam Jolliffa will pAss a portion of the holidays
at Arnmerdown Park, in Sornersetshire.

The Right Hon. W. G. Hayter has left town on an
ateresting visit to hi, constituents.

Mr. DJusivi Baird has left Claticlze's Hotel for
Para,

Lady Charles Fitzßoy died on Wednesd q night at
Lody Eleanor B lifour's residence iu Grosvenor-square.
Her ladyship was cmfiried the week berore last, and
up to a few days back appeared to be progressing
favourab:y. Her ladyship was daughter of the late
:`•lr. James Balfour, of Whittingbam Castle, N. B , and
the Lady Eieanor Balfour, and married, in 1347, Lord
Augustus Charles Lennox Fltzßoy, second eon of the
Duke of Grafton, by whom the lamented lady leaves a
youthful family.
Despatches for the Governor of Canada were rent
yesterday from the Colonial-office.
It is understood that it is the intention of the direc-
tors of the Union Bank of Australia, at the next meeting
of proprietors, to call up the proportion of the bank's
capital unpaid on the third issue of shares.
MIND Y. MATTRIL—Amongst the political bouleverse-
meats at which men have ceased to wonder because of
their frequency is the undertaking of Lord Palmerston to
introduce a Reform Bill. That a statesman— wise not
()Ely in his own, but through a succeeeding generation
—should have taken the work in hand is an argument
better than yards of speenhes in preof of its necessity.
Therefore, in full, and, we believe, not misplaced
reliance en the support of the Prime Minister, a
number of gentlemen have transmitted to hint a
memorial setting forth the propriety of granting
au educational franchise. It can hardly be doubted that
it would be beneficial to the whole community to give
"a substantial voice in the Legislature to those classes
who have had, the advantage of a liberal education."
The property qualification is certainly not that best fitted
to define the limit of their parliamentary influence. Our
own profession is perhaps more imperfectly represented
than any other in the legislative body ; yet medical and
sanitary Faience has no small claim to be heard in the
discussion of questions touching the health and social
welfare of the masses. We see with pleasure amongst
the names appended to this memorial, those of fourteen
most eminent members of the profession. We no more
desire to see Science seated in the curule chair of
legislative power than lounging in the "fauteuils" of
fashion ; but it would befit this age to give to the
advanced intelligence of the professional classes that
influence which it merits, and would most worthily
use.—Lancet.

SCRAPS FROM AMERIQA.—A new church at West Phi-
ladelphia, built at the instigation of Thos. Alliborne, is
now about being finished. The new bank, in Chestnut-
street, is also rapidly approaching completion, and its
erection up to the present has coat $250,000. It is said
to be a' magnificent structure, to have a granite front,
most elaborately ornamented ; iron doors of rich design;
a counter of the same material, and carved in the most
costly manner; a huge vault, of chilled iron plate.,
erected in the centre of the banking-room, and covered
With designs, displaying great artistic beauty ; ceilings
richly embellished in fresco, floors inlaid with marble,
and everything displaying, in fact, a lavish expenditure
of Money for such a purpose. In the manager's-room,
which is approached by a magnificently wrought spiral
etalicase of iron, the decorations are said " to baffle de-
6pc.ription," and the style of the furniture and fittings dis-
r.,,a7!:hegreatest luxury. The new bank of Nicholas
riar2_
.icemediately opposite this, although an estab-
rati"CT" of alnuch more important nature, is compa-
an
eepi7a:upelait,irbn_ilding. It may he well to mention, as
managed ottlr how banking matters are sometimes
outlay
wiZgoing transatlantic brethren, that while this
,the whole capital of the bank,
00, with a surplus of $400,000,
amounting to
• " orance of the tactnis the directors studiously kept
in 4411
had been utterly
`fie "tnana,ei the af orcsai
Thos. Allibone, who bas a.scon(led,
to close its doors, and heaping
ruin leaving the bank
'I multitudes who
fancied themselves in affinenee..._ne Builder,

LATEST NEWS

RELIEF OF LUCKNOW.

The Mhow column, under Brigadier Stewart,
was attacked near Mundesore by the insurgents
on the 21st of November. The insurgents were

touched, but large parties of rebels are in the

surrounding districts.

A part of the Madras column defeated a body
of the insurgents near Scorah, on the Jubbulpore
-, on the 10th of Nov., and took two guns.
Captain Fowerham (Tottenham ?) of the 4th
Madras Cavalry, was killed, and Lieut. Clarke,
the Deputy Commissioner of Jubbulpore, severely
wounded.

The Bheel disturbances in Candeish continue,
but the Bheels are confined to the hills, and will
be attacked in their strongholds when the jungle

journal, but the sans of the Grand Duehess Maria
of Russia,

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Dec. 21. —The German Diet will sanction
the convention concluded between France and Baden
for building a massive bridge across the Rhine at
Kehl ; but the fortifications which appear neces-
sary are to be made on the right bank of the river.
It is said tl at a strong tete-de-pont is to be con-
structed by the federal engineers at the expense of
the Grand Duchy of B :den. The freedom of the
Danube is sure to be something niore than a mere
phrase, for it is seriously the question of reducing
the dues on all the so-called "conventional rivers."
France and Prussia have expressed their readiness
to levy smaller dues on the Rhine, 'and Austria has
tried to get rid of the onerous Stade dues. Baron
Bruck, after having done away with all the tolls on.
the Austrian pat t of the Elbe, endeavoured to per-
suade the Hanoverian Government to follow his
example. Negotiations were carried on for some
time, but they were at last broken off, because
Hanover and the other Riverain States demanded
a large capital as an indemnification for the pecu-
niary loss which they should suffer if they agreed
to the abolition of dues and tolls which they have
from time immemorial levied on all vessels navigat-
ing the river. It may be observed that the Hano-
verians have enjoyed the privilege of mulcting the
commercial public rather more than 800 years.

The First Chamber of Holland adopted, the day
before yesterday, a bill tending to alienate a part of
the land belonging to the Dutch mission at Con-
stantinople, that abolishing the legislation of 1807
relative to usury, and several local bills. The
chamber than adjourned for two days, when it was
supposed it would separate until after the first of
the year.

A Warsaw letter of the 17th, in the Cologne Ga-
zette, says :—"A dozen firms have suspended pay-
ment here, and great uneasiness prevails, as it is
thought that the commercial crisis will extend to
Russia."

The Zeit states that the saving which will be
effected by the reduction of the Austrian army is
not so great as was at first anticipated, not in fact
being more than between six and seven millions of
y 0 All•

WHAT SHOULD BE DONE IN INDIA.

The following is an extract from a letter written from
Calcutta to a merchant in Liverpool :
We are in daily expectation of the old fortress of Agra
being closely besieged by the troops of the Gwalior Msh-
ratta. If so, then God help them for a time ! We only
hope they will be able to hold their own until relieved,
as the small section of Europeans and Christian inhabi-
tants of that large section of India are congregated with-
in the walls of Agra.
There is no such thing as a native army, or a native
army of the Bengal Presidency. It is gone, and, we hope
never to return. Tie next native army mutt be composed
of different races ; at least there must not be a Brahmin
(a priest), and as few Mussulmans as possible. There is
plenty of other good material at hand.
The first are the Nepaulese, whom we call Ghoorkas,
the next, Sikhs of the Panjaub; then the East India de-
scendants of Europeans : and, lastly, the whole of the
native Christian population. The latter ought all to be
enrolled and instructed in the use of arms. It would
raise them in the eyes of the other natives of the country;
and, as a caste, put them in a proptgr position. And last
of all, every European resident in India ought to be com
polled to learn the use of arms, and be obliged to assem-
ble at certain seasons—four times a year—for drill and
practice of arms, and be registered and keep their arms
and ammunition in their houses. Had this been the case,
hundreds who have been butchered in cold blood with
this most fearful atrocities might have been now alive.
And last, not least, the future government of this
country, be it Queen's or be it Company's, must form
military colonies all along our eastern, northern, and
western frontier, where the time-expired or wounded
European veteran could be located, and rear his family
and be ready, at a moment's notice, to come down from
the hills, and do the hard fighting work when needed.
On these frontier hills the climate is far before any
European climate—even the south of England. The
land could be held on military tenure; the children would
be accustomed to the country, and thoroughly versed in
the languages.
And in the garrisons or fortresses, especially those
where there are large arsenals or magazines within them
no native ought to be allowed to put his foot ; but we
should have all the writing, accounts, and details of stores,
&c., drawn out, and entirely done by Europeans and the
poor Christian., of whom many hundreds do not know
where to get tread. This would help many a deserving
poor Christian family : it is now entirely done by native
writers, who will give a correct account of the strength
of every fort in India, and its means of defence, thereby
giving the means to mutiny to the scoundrels by in-
structing them where arms and ammunition are to be
had, and the number of people in it to defend ,
it. By this means, we shall keep all information from
traitors, which now they can get for the asking. India,
you will find, can no longer be governed by the old
absurd system of red tape. Civilians, as a body, are
talented men, but utterly unfit, from previous train-
ing, to rule or govern. When the soldier's work is re-
luired, the stern, prompt decision of the soldier must
never be hampered with red tape, like such we meet
with.

The sword and the strong arm must now win India
back, and keep it, No more twaddle about caste and its
prejudices. The present rebellion has settled that ques-
tion—that those who would obey caste and its absurdi-
ties must make up their naiads either to be master of
caste or the servant of caste-men. Henceforth the army
of British India must be an army of soldiers, founded
upon the principle that tells our sovereign who she will
confer the order of valour upon. The poorest private
can win it. The highest nobleman cannot pass him—
simply because his brother-in-arms only can recommend
him. Long may that star retain its lustre, and never
be dimmed by purchase ! Such ought to be the ground.
work of the army of India—the affair to be settled by
the men, and confirmed by a commission from the
Crown. Then the men who can do the work will be
selected. No purchase or seniority ought to be allowed.
Then, with such an army, British India can, at any
time, lend a hand to the old country, by sending her a
section of the Indian army, which might always be
ready. The European army of the country must be
gradually brought up to 100,000 fighting men—not less,
andthese properly located—on the hiil3, in the north,
the east, and the west, and the central mountains of

Southern India, the Nelgherries ; proper barracks and
military villages at all these different places, wit'a schools
and factories for all sorts of work, especially those con-
nected with arms. The army commissa, lat, with carts,
waggons, gun-carriages, cannon-foundry, &c., must be
on these hills, on which is all the ma..erial depo-ited by
nature with a lavish hand. You recollect I am an old re-
sident, and know practically the materials that are there,
and the splendid water to be had. Give rent-free lands
in all these hills to every soldier that lands in ludia, and
the means to build houses and break ground to com-
mence with ; and have the whole of the male youth born
in these colonies hound to the military service, trained
from their youth to the use of arms, and compelled to
attend the Government schools for English and the ver-
nacular languages—both must be learned, to read, speak,
and write—and at the end of 15 years the old mother
country will not require to send out a man to recruit
her Anglo-Asiatic army. The sons of the army will, at
the end of 15 years, fill up more than can be required
in the casualty list ; and the second 15 years that army
will be able to lend Great Britain 50,000 men for land,
and 10,000 for sea service. And then, when the time
comes that Great Britain must take possession of Egypt,
as one of the legitimate highways to her eastern posses-
sions—as take possession of Egypt Britain must, sooner
or later, or make way for less scrupulous nations—who
will take possession--(whoever rules the destinies of
Great Britain, I hope, will never allow that)—it will be
the highway for her armies when her children come
from the East to help her, among whom there will be no
prejudice of caste or colour, to either sea or land, both
being open ; the old road by the Euphrates to Damascus,
and the terminus on the Island of Cyprus, or by sea to
Suez and to Alexandria.

Such, depend upon it, is Britain'4 destiny, sooner or
later ; and we must maks military taotica rather the
groundwork cf a military education, which ought to be
made as much part and parcel of every youngster's edu-
cation in Britain as the German or the French languages
for the future.

We observe that the Israelites wish to be members of
the British Senate, on account of their being born on
the soil of Great Britain, and to enjoy all the rights of
citizens. They wish to have all the rights of Britons.
There can be no particular objection, provided they give
a material guarantee—namely, to pass a private order
through all their synagogues, and let their priests give
the private instructions, that their countrymen in Poland
Proper and Germany commence to emigrate and settle
down in Syria, the whole line of road from Damascus to
Alexandria, and. keep possession under the British rule
as their material guarantee for their rights of British
subjects. I again repeat it, if Britain dors not do the
same, other European Powers will.
To say that Britain cannot spare the people, would be
simply nonsense. See Australia now, and whnt it was
ten years ago.

Let the Government give the land free from military
servitude, and for other colonists the same terms as the
most favoured colonies, and, depend upon it, the rich
stores of iron, lead, copper, gold, and coal—the produce
of all the bill districts of India (see Kumaon, Ghurwall),
besides the immense tract for cotton, tea, and coffee
plantations, that actually are running again into jungle
for want of European enterprise, skill, and perseverance
—which would Le brought out in this land, where nature
has been lavish in all her richest productious—only want
a firm, and evenhanded, and stern government to bring
forth ; and, no doubt, Great Britain's second centenary
in India will be a very different one from the last,
though neither you nor I will see it.
The idea of the present rebellion in India being a
purely military insurrection is the greatest fallacy that
ever was put forth. It is a determined pull-together of
the Mahometans, who have humbugged the Bindoos to
joiu them to thrust us out, root and branch, and become,
what they were before, the rulers of India. We have
shown the Mahometans what they never could do—that
one nation can rule India, from the Himalaya to Cape
Con9orin, and from the head of the Bay of Bengal to the
Bolan Pass. They never could do this. We have solved
the problem ; and they never dare to take the pains that 1

we have shown how it can be done, which, if we gave
them to-morrow, they would not hold for as many hours
as we have held years. Our great error was in allowing
the Hindoo priesthood into our native army. Such a
power, among priest-ridden people like the Hindoos,
wag, to say the least, insane folly.
Your newspapers are either traitors or fools, who
will not speak because they do not see ; or, if they do
know, will not speak out. Let Britain be true to herself,
and turn out all those mawkish-speaking and do-nothing
men out of the nation's senate-house, and let none but
the men of plain common sense, who guide her destinies,
as men of business and trade, put their strong common
sense to the work of the State, as they do to their own
private enterprises, and old Britain will be what she
has hitherto been—first among nations ; second to none.
Only, her navy and army must be opened up like 5.11
other professions—the highest places for those who can
win them. There must be nothing hereditary but our
Royal faini.y, our noble Queen and her descendant e.
Such is my idea of India and her connection with Great
Britain. If they be tree to each other, they need fear no
bugbear—be it Russian, be it aught else in the bear line.
We have been doing little in masonry for the last four
months—all out on drill, picquets, and reviews. And,
what think you I your old larkish companion is elected
by ray fellow-citizens to be their captain of the central
division of the city—the 3d company of the Calcutta
Volunteer Guards. We have infantry, cavalry, and
artillery ; and the proficiency in the different drills and
evolutions is the astonishment of all who have seen
them. We have not had 60 days' drill in all, besides
night and day picquets and guard duties, yet we have
been complimented by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir
Colin Campbell.

Now, the troops are beginning to come in. God send
we had some 10,000 more, and 10,000 sent by the over-
land route to Suez, right up to Karrachee, from thence
to Mooltan, and thence to Ferozepore. Lucknow and its
garrison still hold out—they have now been five months
besieged. Part of Delhi is taken. Every hour we ex-
pect to hear that Agra is besieged by the Gwalior troops,
only 60 miles off. God keep them all safe until we have
more troops. The prestige of the European is gone, and
nothing but the most fearful punishment will restore it.
No single European dare to travel the country now
where ladies and children used to go with safety, such is
the change of five months in our destinies. Business of
every kind at a stand-still. All communication with
Upper India stopped, and will be so for a while.

ALIBRICAN RAILWAYS.

(From the Morning Post)

Almost from the time of the discovery of America
rime MAA r...ts a., Bilhry, arot
caught a glimpse of the great South Sea—various
projects have been formed for the purpose of effect-
ing an easy means of communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But ages passt d,
and during those periods the Spaniard, the foreign
lord of the soil, with the listlessness of his race,
paid little attention to any measure which would
have developed the material prosperity of the fertile
regions which be bad conquered by the sword.
When the transatlantic empire of Spain bad passed
from the sovereignty of the Most Catholic King ;
when its place had been supplied by the weak and
inefficient dominion of various independent re-
publics, the mixed Spanish and Creole population
' had neither the means nor the inclination to pro-
vide those facilities for commerce which would have
increased their wealth and given solidity to their
national power. The enterprise and energy of the
Anglo-Saxon race, have, however, been brought to
bear upon that great and important isthmus which
is occupied by the Republican States of Central
America. The Panama Railroad has now for
some years united the two oceans, and farther
to the north a wealthy Anglo-American Com-
pany is engaged in the construction of an inter-
oceanic railway between Porto Cabellos and the
Bay of Fonseca. The importance of these commu-
nications in reference to the trade of California,
Australia, and the islands of the Pacific, it is im-
possible to estimate too highly ; and when the dis-
putes which have arisen between England and the
United States on the subject of Central America
shall have received a just and honourable settle-
ment, we have a confident belief that European
and North American capital and enterprise will be
largely applied to propote the internal improve-
ment of every portion of these most interesting and
valuable regions.
The Message recently communicated to Congress
by the President of the United States recommends
the construction of a railroad across the Continent
for the purposes of military defence. The line sug-
gested by Mr, Buchanan will pass through some of
the newly acquired territories of the United States
to the seaboard of the Pacific. Mr. Buchanan
adds that the difficulties connected with an under-
taking of this description have been greatly exag-
gerated, and that by a wise expenditure of public
money, assisted by private enterprise and free grants
of land, this line, of so much importance on military
as well as commercial grounds, might at some dis-
tant day be completed. Here we may mention that
some years ago an American citizen proposed the
construction of another line stretching from Lake
Michigan, between which lake and New York
I there is already steam communication, and proceed-
ing thence through the Far West to California.
The projector of this scheme asked for no grant of
public money, but merely that thirty miles of the
waste be conceded to the company to enable them
to accomplish this gigantic work. Mr. Whitney's
scheme, although it received the sanction of many
separate States, still remains in that category of
useful projects *hick fr9m their magnitude and
expensive character are favourably considered,
whilst they are rarely, if ever, carried into execu-
tion. We do not intend to institute any compari
son between the two routes which have been sug-
gested by Mr. Buchanan and by Mr. Whitney.
But it must be obvious to the most superficial un-
derstanding that the opening of any interoceanic
line through the territory of the United State would
effect as great a revolution in the trade of the
world as that which was brought about by the
discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to
India and to the other countries of the East.
The trade of China, Japan, and of regions com-
paratively unknown, would be impelled to the
Pacific terminus of ,the railroad, whence it would
be carried to the great Atlantic ports to be after
wards distributed over America and Europe. Hong
Kong, Shanghai, Canton, and the other marts
of Chinese trade would be brought by steem within
a few days' distance of the great American empo-
rium which would spring up on the coast of the
Pacific. If a facility of this kind existed, the most
important and lucrative trade in the world would
fall into the hands of the people of the United
States, and the long voyages round the Cape, or
round the Horn, would rarely be undertaken I,r
any purpose of commercial gain. Whilst the citi-
zens and the Government of the United States are
perfectly alive to the advantages which their coun-
tryiwould derive from the possession of this great
" highway of nations," the merchant princes and
rich capitalists of England appear almost to have
forgotten that in British North America there exist
vast regions admirably adapted for the construction
of a railway, by means of which England could, as
at present, defy the competition of the world. The
position of British North America is peculiarly
favourable both as regards physical geography and
means of water communication. The distance
between the north-west point of Lake Supe,
rior and the Straits of Fuca on the Pacific
is estimated not to exceed sixteen or eighteen
hundred miles—just double the length of the
great Trunk Railway of Canada. From the recent
investigations of Professor Palliser, it appears that
large portions of the territory through which the
line would pass consist of level prairie lands, and
that the most formidable difficulty which the pro-
jectors of such an undertaking would have to
encounter would be the discovery of some pass
or gorge in the Rocky 'Mountains permitting
the construction of a railway. But no one
can bold such an obstacle to be insuperable
when on the same continent the science of a
Stephenson has spanned, by a bridge of two miles
in length, the waters of the mighty St. Lawrence.
In 1851 the scheme of which we have given an
outline was submitted to the legislature of Canada,
by a gentleman of the name of Allen Macdonald.
The scheme was rejected by. a committee, on the
technical ground that the projector had not obtained
the necessary capital, but the report distinctly stated
that the construction of such a railroad was not
only desirable, but practicable, and that it ought
at some future time be undertaken. If the
Grand Trunk Railway were continued to
Halifax, the route up to the lakes would be com-
pleted from a British port accessible throughout the
year. The construction of a railway running to the
north-west of Lake Superior and onwards to the
Pacific would terminate the line. The expenses of
this undertaking have been estimated at 10 or 12
millions--a sum insignificant when compared with
the profits of that stream of wealth which would
flow from the east through British territory to
Britain herself. The abolition of the Hudson's
Bay monopoly and the constitution'of Vancouver's
Island as a British colony will attract hardy and
enterprising settlers to the hitherto neglected re-
gions bordering upon the North Pacific ; and
whether or not the formation of this great inter-
oceanic communication he speedily undertaker) a
new Liverpool will spring in that part of thel
world, affording a centre for British trade and
British industry. With iron, coal, and timber on
the spot, the railway then would become a matter
of comparatively little difficulty. Commencing at
both ends, and advancing with the progress of
population, it would eventually meet ; and thus
that iron girdle would, be placed around the conti-
nent, subjecting territories which are now lying
waste and unproductive to the beneficent dominion
of civilisation and commerce, and maintaining in
British hands that superiority which would seem to
be the heritage of the Anglo-Saxon race.

LORD PALMERSTON'S APPOINTMBNTS.

Another and another still succeeds,
Till one vast maggot fills the rotton cheese.

Mr. William Augustus Tollemache has been ap-
pointed by Lord Palmerston, with whom the patron-
age lay, to the vacant Treasurership of the Kent
County Courts. Mr. Tollemache is a cadet of the
noble house of Dysart. At the rate at which the
noble viscount now appropriates every vacancy at
his disposal to the aristocracy, their families, re-
tainers, and servants ;—at one time
giving the
Stamp Distributorship of Manchester, worth 1,0001.
a year, to an Hon. Mr. Howard ; then the govern-
ment of Nova Scotia to Lord Mulgrave ; and now
a County Court Treasurership (7001. a year) to Mr.
Wm. Augustus Tollemache, there will scarcely be
a post left for his humbler and more subservient and
more easily satisfied followers. The conversion of
the member for Grantham to Palmerstonism at the
general election may, perhaps, account in some mea-
sure for this last appointment, which is as discredit-
able to Lord Palmerston personally as it is unsatis-
factory to the Liberal party. The late Mr. Coppock e
funeral, we may add, does not take place until
Saturday ; so that Lord Palmerston has lost no
time, and shown small delicacy in the affair ; but
the late Mr. Coppock was not connnected with any
noble house, and the feelings of his family aro not,
therefore, of any concern to greatppeople.—Daly
News.