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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 Selina 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 rr head of cattle, the average Price
of each fatted beast being from three to eight
dollars, and the best quality of beef selling
in the markets of Texas from two to three
cents per pound. Thus we have three great lines
proj.2cted, which will bring New York into cozninn-
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, As'
kansas, 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 two lines of which one will run to
San Bias ; third, the air line from New York to Nevi
Orleans continuing to Mazatlan on the Gulf of Cali'
fornia. Besides these, both Canada and the State of
Oregon have shown great anxiety to. establish
Northern 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
waters 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 bee°
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
Daeotah, Montana, Idaho, and Minnesota, to St.
,
Paul, where it will connect with Chicago by a road
through the pine forests of Wisconsin. These are
gigantic projects, which, with other people, and in
another country, would be regarded as mere "castles
in the air." They are, however, all either in pr°-
cess of construction, or actually surveyed, the cos
calculated, and the means at least partially secured'
—Anglo-American l imes. •

ITALIAN WINES.

Italy is a country of vines, and produces, accord"
ng to recent statistics, nearly 29,000,000 necto'
itres of wine, the hectolitre being equal to about
22 imperial gallons--a larger quantity than an/
other country, with the exception of France, the
yearly produce of which is 45,000,000 hectolitres.
Mr. Colnaglii, her Majesty's consul, in his report oe
the exhibition and fair of Italian wines, held last Sa'
at Alessandria, states that the hills of the AstigioA'
the Upper and Lower Monferrat, the Alessandrinof
the Tortonese, and the plain of Marengo, are in greet
part covered with vines. For 17 years the plants
have suffered considerably from the ravages of the
oidium. Where the vines have suffered least from
the disease the plants were set in lines so as to forei
a continuous bower 23 inches high, and about A
yard in breadth. The grapes lying low under thi°
shelter have been rarely attacked by the disease,
which has .not spared loftier plants on °l°
same soil. At the Exhibition about 740
samples of different qualities of wines of the pre"
viuce of Allessaudria and about 250 samples frool
the rest of Italy were submitted. The wines of
Alessandria obtained the preference over those 'A
other districts, and carried off the only two VI:
medals awarded. It appears that the qualities whic"
have the greatest reputation are the white sparkling
wines of Cauelli, and the re I wines bearing the
names of the grapes of which they are made—Barber Aci
Griguolino, Nebbiolo, Biachetto, Dolcetto, and
Bonarda. There are also several varieties of swee"4,.
wines made from the muscatel and malvoisie grapes'
grown in the district of Acqui, which are pleas3ll
to the taste. Other provinces of Piedmont produce
excellent wines, such as those from the districts
of Alba, Nerano, Cortese, &c. A rich white Witt°
—Caluso —may be mentioned from the district ",
Ivrea ; also the red wines of Gattinara and CO;
piglione. Turin is celebrated for Vermouth,
bitter, made with a light wine mixed with herbs'
Great carelessness in the method of making will
has hitherto almost neutralised, as far as regards
foreign trade, the excellent advantage of Pi°l-`;
moat as a wine-producing country. The great
mass of the production, badly made of unsorted
grapes, was generally thick, black, and rJugli t 6
the taste, which spoilt by keeping, and was Lllna't
for exportation. The growers had to consider the
tastes of their customers, who appreciated these
wines. Those who produced a clear, brilliant, Wi
improved liquor were consequently left with°llt
purchasers. The taste of the North Italians I°'
however, reported to be improving. The Piedna°ll;
tese growers desire to establish a trade in wieto
with Great Britain, but Mr. Colnagbi reports
that at present the ordinary Fiedmoote4
wines could not compete in the English market With
the ordinary wines of other countries on aceollot
of the original price being higher, and also beeoso
they are overburdened wida charges of all kinds °0
their way to the port of embarcatian, Genoa. The
eo
causes of the high prices of these ordinary
were to be found, first, in the expensive method Itt
use in cultivating the vine; and secondly, that these
,
qualities hardly sufficed for the consumption e;
Turin, Genoa, the plain of Lomellina, Milan, 311
Lombardy, which were their natural markets.

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Births.
13
LONGFORD—On Good Friday, the Countess of Longford,
of a daughter.
OGILVY —On the 9th inst., at Auchterhouse, Dundee, the
lion. Mrs. Ogilvy, of a son. oat
PHILLIPS - On the 10th inst., Mrs. L. P. Phillips, of Gr
Portland-street, of a daughter.

Marriages.
10
BLACKMORE—WALLIKER— On the 9th inst., at St.Step-re,,o,
Church, Hull, Paul Blackmore, of 2, Harley-street, 11"
to Sarah Louisa. eldest daughter of Samuel Wallil°
Postmaster of HUB..
STANDISH—SPICER—On the 9th inst , at St. .0..-3;eb,
Coventry, T. Standish, 31.R.C.5., of --
West Brogisqo
Staffordshire, to Esther, youngest daughter of the
Edward Spicer, King's Langley, Herts.

Deaths. Rtlr
BALMAIX—On the 10th inst. at at Hockliffe, Leighton
zard, Fletcher Norton Bahnain, late Madras Ca"
aged 86.
CHAMBERS— On the 10th inst., at Forest-lane, Stra,'"
Essex, Thomas Chambers, Esq., aged 80.
I,notllE—On the 9th inst., at Chelston Cross, ZoigU
Lieut. Arthur 11. Fronde, R.N., aged 23. e:1
£lluvEY On the Bth inst., at The Lodge, Upper
the
Kent, Rear-Admiral Thomas Harvey, eldest son of
late Vice-Admiral Sir T. Harvey, K.C.8., aged 58.
-
JosEs —On the 9th inst., at 15, Montpelier-row, f3l'
heath, Robert Goddard Jones. ~„„non:
SMITH—On the 10th inst., Mr. Jonas Smith, at 18.:,";103011
bury-park north, and late of the Bank of DObr-
aged 74.

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