Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-02-17

between the aqueducts below Schenectady, varies
from 81 1-2 to SO cents a yard, according TO the
quantity of blasting requisite.
The solid limestone ut Lockport, from 90 to
VI; the tennessee level, to wit, from Rochester
TO Lockport an average of 10 cents the cubic ward
Nnne cuoic yards, the average quantity of day s
work in plain excavation.
was informed by Mr.. Seamour one of The conol
commissioners, that 10000 mile would cover al,
the expense OF that portion of the Western Canal
between Schenectady and Utica, a space along tho
valley OF the Mohawk of 80 miles, and incuding
Iou ieet OF lockage. 1t appears by calculation.
that oO,UVo tons OF produce passing through thi.
annually, at toll of a cent and half ton
per mile, affords an interest of six per cent upon
the capital expended, and offers to us plausible data
oy winch TO decide upon the practcability and adj
vantage of our scheme.
IL may be important to you, as the river commits
sioner, to know the reduced price at which the wa
ter line OF New York may probably now he OBJ
| tanned. MIR. Seamour informed me. he did No,
doubt, as soon as the canal was navigabe to Alba
NY, 1t could be afforded, that place. mt fourteen or
fifteen cents bushel.
VIII trouble you with but one more statement.
1t is the fact, that the products of the soil in New
York are now going to market, by the means of their
canals, at one cent ton per mile, while we are
paying SIX times that price for transportation down
James river.
JOHN H. COOKE.
RANDOLPH HARRISON, Sen. ESQ.
commissioner Of the James and Jackson rirers.
From the Paris Orifamne, December 10.
Russia has certainly become the bug-bear of the
naoicais OF Great Britain They much a
Harmed that If Alexander sends one of his diploma
TIC agents to monarch, his friend who has escaped
by miracle from long captivity, to congratulate
MN on MS dellverance, the modern Jewellers, who
are little able to comprehend so noble an act imap
Inc mat they see views of ambition where there is
nothns put manifestation of friendship. The Sun,
radical paper, stated lately that NJ Pozzo di Ror
go had demanded of the Spanish government, the
cession OF an island in the Mediterranean for LARGE
sum oil money. The cession of the Ballcares TO
RUSSIA IS an old story, which is no more entitled to
| credit now, than it has ever BEEN
1t is right that Majorca and Minorca, which are
close to the continent of Spain should remain in
possession OF that power; and il is absurd to sup
pose that Ferdinand should dispossess himself OF
them as that he would consent to give up anv other
province OF the monarchy. If Great Britain, mis-
tress OF the impregnable fortress of Gibraltar com
pels SPAIN to see the English flag constantly fyinp
III her commons, it does not follow that there should
DC disposition to consent easily to the dsmem-
OF the other possessions of the monarchy oil
Charles the Fifth.
DO the Radicals, by ascrbing to Russia ntcn-
tions which she certainly has not wish to induce
the'r government so take possession one of these
days OF Port Mahon 1t is possible that they NAV
indulge IN these chimerical hopes but it is certain
that the English, as well in the foreign as in the in
ternai policy of the kingdom, entertain ideas alto
gether opposite to those of the Radical Journals
RUSSIA and England possess immense dominions, anG
tnese Powers are sufficiently occupied in rendering
their subjects happy.-Every system of aggrandse.
uent, in the present state of Europe is opposed to
SOUND policy The necessity of preserving the ne
OF Europe, after convulsion of thirty years, is ac
knowledged on all hands. Every sacrifice ought tc
DC made to secure this great object, and no Gioub
every sacrifice will be made. This is the policy o
.he Caoinets OF Europe, of which every man ough
to have been convinced by the experience or RI.
last ten years.