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hibit movement in the country. It would also
establish an international link from Ottawa, the
seat of Government of the Dominion, to Mexico,
binding together the three great nations of Northern
America. The company asks from Congress twelve
millions of dollars in Government Six per Cent.
Bonds payable in sixty years. An air line road
from New York to New Orleans is also projected,
which will shorten the communication by two hun-
dred miles, and the New Orleans and Selma Rail-
road is working to secure this end. If the line be
continued to Mazatlan on the Gulf of California
there will be a through route somewhat similar to
the above project. The President of the New
Orleans and Selma Railroad, who has recently
passed over the country, reports very favourably,
and announces that the landowners will give a
million acres of land in aid. One of the effects of
thus opening Texas would be to cheapen meat in the
great cities of the .North. The rich grazing dis-
tricts of the " Lone-Star" State feed between three
and four rri.'ions head of cattle, the average 'mice
of each fatted beast being from three to eight
dollars, and the best quality of beef selling
in the inArkets of Texas from two to three
cents per pound. Thus we have three great lines
project ed, which will bring New York into commu-
nication with the Pacific at points South of San
Francisco. First there is the Union Pacific (Eastern
Division), to which we have so often alluded, des-
tined to be carried through New Mexico, Arizona,
and Southern California, touching the head waters
of the Gulf of California, by means of the Colorado
and San Diego on the ocean ; second, the line from
Cairo, as proposed to CongreSs, by Missouri, Ar-
kansri.s, and Texas, to be carried out in conjunction
with the Republic of Mexico, touching the Rio
Grande, and thus communicating with the Atlantic,
and connecting with twolines of which one will run to
San Bias; third, the air line from New York to New
°tiepins continuing to Mazatlan on the Gulf of Cali •
fornin. Besides these, both Canada and the State of
Oregon have shown great anxiety to establish
Noreheru Pacific routes. The San Francisco Bul-
letin announces it is almost a certainty that a great
railway will be built, at an early day, from the head
wate.-s of Lake Superior, to the head waters of
Puget's Sound ; and on the Bth of March Mr. A.
Waddington read to the Geographical Society, in
London, a paper entitled " The Geography and
Mountain Passes of British Columbia," with refer-
ence to an early route. The subject has been
warmly taken up by many gentlemen in England,
as well as in Canada, with a view to establish such
a route through British territory. The line, with
the proposed terminus in Oregon, will run through
Dacotah, Montana, Idaho, and Minnesota, to St.
Paul, wbere it will connect with Chicago by a road
through the pine forests of 'Wisconsin. These aro
gigantic projects, which, with other people, and ill
another country, would be regarded as mere " castles
in the air." They are, however, all• either in pro-
cess of construction, or actually surveyed, the cost
calculated, and the means at least partially secured.
—Anglo-American limes.

ITALIAN WINES.

Italy is a country of vines, and produces, accord-
ing to recent statistics, nearly 29,000,000 hecto-
litres of wine, the hectolitre being equal to abou.t
22 imperial gallons—a larger quantity than anY
other country, with the exception of France, the
yearly produce of which is 45,000,000 hectolitres.
Mr. Colnaghi, her Majesty's consul, in his report 0°
the exhibition and fair of Italian wines, held last Nov
at Alessandria, states that the hills of the Astigiana,
the Upper and Lower Monferrat, the Alessandriuo,
the Tot tonese, and the plain of Marengo, are in great
part covered with vines. For 17 years the plants
have suffered considerably from the ravages of the
oidium. Where the vines have suffered least frog
the disease the plants were set in lines so as to forol
a continuous bower 23 inches high, and about
.s
yard in breadth. The grapes lying low under 00
shelter have been rarely attacked by the disease,
which has not spared loftier plants on the •
same soil. -At the Exhibition about 740
samples of different qualities of wines of the pro-
vince of Allessaudria and about 250 samples froca
the rest of Italy were submitted. The wines of
Alessandria Alessandria obtained the preference over those of
other districts, and carried off the only two gold
medals awarded. It appears that the qualities which
have the greatest reputation are the white sparkling
wines of Canelli, and the re I wines bearing the
names of the grapes of which they are made—Barbera)
Grignolino, Nebbiolo, Brachetto, Dolcetto, and
Bouarda. There are also several varieties of sweet
wiiies made from the muscatel and malvoisie grapes'
grown in the district of Acqui, which are pleasant
to the taste. Other provinces of Piedmont produce
excellent wines, such as those from the districts
of Alba, Nerano, Cortese, &c. A rich white Will!
—Caluso —may be mentioned from the district 0'
Ivrea ; also the red wines of Gattinara and Cato"
piglione. Turin is celebrated for Vermouth, a
bitter, made with a light wine mixed with herbs.
Great carelessness in the method of making wine
has hitherto almost neutralised, as far as regards
foreign trade, the excellent advantage of Pied"
moat as a wine-producing country. The great
mass of the production, badly made of unsorteLl
grapes, was generally thick, black, and rough t°t
the taste, which spoilt by keeping, and was no'
for exportation. The growers had to consider the
tastes of their customers, who appreciated these
wines. Those who produced a clear, brilliant, 311 i
,
improved liquor were consequently left witho"'
purchasers. The taste of the North Italians la'
however, reported to be improving. The Piedinon;
tese growers desire to establish a trade in vati
with Great Britain, but Mr. Colnaghi rePelta to
that at present the ordinary Piedmonts"ii
wines could not compete in the English market vivit
the ordinary wines of other countries on aceonn
of the original price being higher, and also because
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they are overburdened wish charges of all kinds ro
their way to the port of embarcatian, Genoa.
causes of the high prices of these ordinary wlll,
were to be found, first, in the expensive method ' 0
0
use in cultivating the vine; and secondly, that the
qualities hardly sufficed for the consumption ua
Turin, Genoa, the plain of Lomellina, Milan, a°
Lombardy, which were their natural markets.

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Births. rad,
LoNpFoun--On Good Friday, the Countess of Long."
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of a daughter. tiO
OGILVY- On the 9th inst., at Auchterhouse, Dunclol3,
Hon. Mrs. Ogilvy, of a son. , (400
PHILLIPS - On the 10th inst., Mrs. L. P. Phillips, 0, -
Portland-street, of a daughter.
Marriages.
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BLACKMORE-WALLIRER- On the 9th inst., at St. SfOYO-etili,
Church, Hull, Paul Blacktnore, of 2, Harley-strect,er,
to Sarah Louisa. eldest daughter of Samuel Wss"'"
Postmaster of HUH.
4; la ei:fh
STANDISH-SPICER-On the 9th inst., at St. 3•-C-,ge,"
Coventry, T. Standish, M.R.C.S., of West Broca- late
Staffordshire, to Esther, youngest daughter Of th°
Edward Spicer, King's Langley, Herts.
Deaths.
BALMAIN-On the 10th inst., at Hockliffe, Leighton
zard, Fletcher Norton Balmain, late Madras CO'
aged 86. fool
CHAMBERS- On the 10th inst., at Forest-lane, Strg"
Essex, Thomas Chambers, Esq., aged 80.
FuouDE-On the 9th inst., at Chelston Cross, ToroLieut. Arthur H. Froucie; P.N., aged 23.
HARVEY-On the Bth inst., at Tho Lodge, Iltirr f the
Kent, Fear-Admiral Thomas Harvey, eldest son
late Viee-Admiral Sir T. Harvey, K.C.8., aged 58,* '
JONES -On the 9th inst., at 15, Moutpelier-rocv,
heath, Robert Goddard Jones. , /000;
SMITII-On the 10th inst., Mr. Jonas Smith, at ISL
bury-park north, and late of the Bank of
aged 74.

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