The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

RAILWAYS• IN CANADA.

An Americans paper says—" The Canadians are
bestirring themselves very actively upon railroad pro-
jects, and seem disposed to invest a considerable
amount of capital for the extension of their railroad
system. The Champlain and St. Lawrence Railway
Company have got their Bill through the Council at
Toronte, and the friends of the enterprise firmly be-
lieve in the.speedy extension of the road. The com-
pany have commenced breaking ground. This route
is a short one, 23 miles in length. Over a more fa-
vourable country no road could possibly extend. The
survey presents a dead level grade from beginning to
terminus, free from a single hollow or embankment
of more than four feet in depth, with the exception of
two small ravines which it crosses and intersects. The
road has been in operation for fifteen years, from
Laprairie to St. John's, and will now extend to Rouse's
Point, at the head of Lake Champlain. The people
of `Montreal seem determined to establish and
extend lines to connect their city with Quebec and the
Lower St. Lawrence, with their eastern townships,
with the states contiguous—viz., New Hampshire;
Vermont, and New York, and through these with
the ports of Boston, Portland, and New Yorh." The
Montreal Herald says—" Thus uniting in one com-
bined operation, the traffic both of the Ottawa and
the St. Lawrence, will convey to Montreal, in one
uninterrupted line of communication, peculiarly her
own, the commerce of the west, of Western Canada,
and the western lakes, and of the great and growing
mining establishments on Lake Superior,. the lumber
trade of the Ottawa, and all the collateral branches of
trade growing out of it or connected with it; the
produce of the extensive and fertile peninsula lying
between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence, on the line
embraced between Grenville on the former, and
Prescott on the latter river; and, lastly, the
resources and trade of the natural back country'
of Montreal, comprised in the counties of
Terrebonne, Two Mountains, and Ottawa. All
this it is contemplated to effect by the projected ex-
tension of the Montreal and Lachine Railroad to
Grenville and Hawkesbury on the Ottawa, and from
thence to Prescott, on the St. Lawrence." With the
great combination of river, lake, and canal naviga-
tion in Canada, one enterprise is much required by
the people of Montreal. They wish to cut a canal to
connect the waters of the St. Lawrence with Lake
Champlain. Some fault is found with the proprietors
for not carrying on this affair, and the Government
has been urged to take the matter up, and to complete
the canal. It is proposed to pledge the tolls and the
credit of the province to accomplish the work. A con-
nexion between Quebec and Montreal is also pro-
posed. This would be effected by a junction with
the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad, at Mel-
bourne, on the St. Francis River, and seems very fea-
sible. Other projects are also advocated with much
zeal. They are all connected with the network of rails
in the 'United States, as will be seen by some further
description of them. There is, first, the St.
Lawrence and Atlantio Railroad commencing at
Longueuil, opposite .to Montreal, and which pro-
gresses daily and rapidly to its ternilnation at Port-
land, in the state of Maine ; secondly,. the St. Law-
rence and Lake Champlain Railroad; and, lastly, the
Lake St. Louis and Province Line Railroad, pro-
jected to commence at the Indian village of Csughna-
waga and to extend to the frontier, there to connect
with the Montreal and Plattsburgh line, and by such
connexion communicate directly with the Ogdens-
burgh Railroad,' and the flourishing town of Platt4-
burgh ou Like Champlain. This line will, doubt-
lessly, be continued from Plsttsburg to Whitehall, at
the southern point of. Lake Champlain, and ultimately
form a direct line of communication between this
city and Montreal. From the remarkable facilities of
communication with Montreal, by the Montreal and
Lachine Railroad, and by ferry froin Lachine to
Csughnawaga, the Caliadians cannot help regreVing
that this last mentioned line of railroad had not been
the first commenced.

ALARM OF FIRE AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.—.OI:I
Sunday evening-, about six o'clock, an alarm of fire was
given at the Mansion-house, and the Watling-street and Far-
ringdon-street engines were quickly on the spot, 'under the
direction of Mr. Braidwood. It was found that the fire
existed in the kitchen flue, and was discovered just as the
Lord Mayor was about to sit dawn todinner. The fire was
extinguished by the firemeo.by the use of the buckets bet ere
any damage was done.