The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-01 00:00:00

LORD CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL.

711 E EUPHRATES ROUTE TO INDIA.

A few years back great efforts were made to in-
duce the Government to assist the development
of the Euphrates route to India both for telegraphic
and general purposes, but although they entered
into a:distinct engagement, and led a number of
shareholders to incur considerable outlay, they sub-
sequently resolved in preference to guarantee the
£BOO,OOO which has been squandered on the Red
Sea line. The breach of faith on that occasion was
less only than that committed by the Derby Cabinet
after the promise that the Galway steam contract
should be put up to competition; and it will long be
remembered as a painful warning to investors that,
even at the present epoch in England, it is unsafe to
trust the pecuniary pledges of any set of politicians.
The motives for the sndden discouragement aimed
at the enterprise have always been understood to
have arisen from deference to the opposition of the
Emperor Napoleon, the determination of the Go-
vernment to disregard their former pledges having
been manifested, without even any decorous attempt
at concealment, immediately after the visit of his
Majesty to Osborne. But it had an inherent vitality
which could not be extinguished, whatevermight be
the deire of any potentate to prevent the spread of
British commercial interests in Syria. Accordingly
from time to time the question revives, and it now
appears that a practical step of great importance has
been taken by private capitalists. A company has
been formed, the shares of which have not been put
upon the market, but subscribed by the individual
I promoters, for the navigation of the Euphrates Lynch,
for purely commercial objects. Mr. T.f
Bagdad,-
of the firm of Lynch, Brothers,
usharer in
trigonometrical survey, and who was
'who accompanied Captain Lynch, od
during his
scheme by
obtained a formal recognition of
the well-known expeditions of Colonbeinl Cahesmey has
and, as it is
firman from the Ottoman Government;h the assistance
said that this was procured " th
mayr be presumed that
of the Foreign-office,".
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tained of the manner. M ico and 1
ed to be treated in ex e sewhere, it will
able looking
together et thhee fater w iutfhtihntehwEe
luwwell for these capitalists to lay their plans in full
recognition of the contingency that any assistance of
the Foreign-office that may now be granted is likely to
be withdrawn,without apology or explanation, at any
moment of political caprice, or under the slightest
fear that its maintenance as a matter of principle
may occasion " inconvenience." The first boat of
the new company is already finished,called
and is
the City of London. It was builtby M .essrs. Money
Wigram and Sons, of Blackwall, and is thought by
the directors to be the most perfect model of a river
boat that has yet left this country. Should the
early operations prove remunerative, ample funds,
it is said, 'will be forthcoming to extend tlaem, and
as the telegraphic wires of Europe now reach to
Bagdad, and those of India to Kurrac'tiee, the pro-
spect of connecting the two points by a line of fast
steamers in four or five days will be regarded with
great interest by nearly all classes of the mercantile
community. Among the supporters of Captain
Lynch in the undertaking are Mr. Alderman
Finn is, Mr. J. P. Fisher, and others connected with
the trade in that part of the world.--Tisanes.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH STAFFORD RAIL-
WAY.—The inquiry into the cause of death of ; lohn Smith,
driver, John Tams, fireman, and Robert Gar i Iner, guard,
who were killed on the Burton and Tutbury to anch of the
North Stafford Railway on Friday evening, th e 21st ult.,
was resumed on Saturday at the Castle Inn, 'N utbury, be-
fore Mr. Sale, coroner, and after the examinatco)u of several
,witnesses was again adjourned until Thursday, n .ext.