Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-10-02
RAILROADS IN THE INDIES.

RAILROADS IN THE INDIES
The British people making new movement upon the
globe-one that interests the United States not little too
and that is for the establishment of railways in the East In
dies mainly with the view Of developing culture
the East and to bring cheap from distance to market
on the seaboard British in India have all along
contended that the why the East India planters
could not compete with the United States was in the greater
cost OF the transportation. In many province the cotton
now Peshes upon the ground because is worth the cost
OF transportation or is wasted away in value what
han nothing, if the transportation is attempted Thus Sc
ou drawback has existed upon the cotton fields of India
which, added to nexpeence and inferior qualities has hher
to discouraged all competition, and given the United States
her supremacy in the British markets That supremacy
however, has been and continues be such source of an
noyance to British enterprise and British PRIDE that her peo-
pie have not only made extavagant and extraordinary enter
pses successfully to raise cotton in india hut renew
ing them with more vgor than ever Notwithstanding past
dlscouragemens and, thus far, very poor Time
alone, however, develop what be their but
one thing quite clear, that what do England will
do, with all the wealth of the world her feet and with CO
onles IN such varieties of latitude and climate that they are
well said TO encrce the GLOBE and every where to welcome
the rising sun with her morning drum beat.
In the month of August, by the London papers
that East Indian Railway Board organized and that
the Goth OF September the three commissioners appointed
to sail for the of their enterprise with full execu
tive staff of surveyors and engineers The Indian Govern
ment has guaranteed the Bengal Company undertaking the
first enterprise minimum dividend of five per cent to COM
immediately and to continue for twenty years. or
Tor seventeen after the completed work shall been
opened for traffic free lease for ninety years of all the
land required has also been granted by the authorities
There will be compensation to andhoders competition
either now or hereafter, with any rival applicants and
Parliamentary expenses The cheerful and undivided ener
ges OF Government which, for such purpose may be term
cd depo VIII be at the ready service of the Adventures Il
must be recoected ALSO that labor will be abundanly and
cheapy supplied and that the requisite materials are fur
nlsed by the productions of the country in serviceabe
profusion
The British press have for long time past INDUCED in
lively antcpaons OF what would be the grand specacles in
the East ndes when all the Indian were coased by
British steamers and were touched by railways. 1t is difficult
Tor US Americans, remote from the scenes ignorant In
dian geography and resources appreciate the worth of all
these British visions but there be doubt with
the few lights before us that the locomotive and steam
boatae soon to ecuprate and euvenae the earliest the infant
home Of ancient civilization. The fleet of British
authorities in India already exceeds sixty in number and
regular mail is running from Hong Kong in China the
Red Sea- Now, when there is added this power
already constituting England the Neptune, and giving her
the trident Of the Eastern seas the further power Of iron
roads all the Pesdencies Of British India who does
feel that Great Britain be the Jupiter Tonans of this
EARTH and that the Indies emphatcay his feet The
London Times in the ecsacies of the prospect before its
trymen, and before India, excams
" If the rich produce the plains of Bengal could be in
techanged with the crops of the table land of the Deccan
the luxuan abundance Of Candeish and TaDore be made
recprocay available for the yos of either province the desc
lang plaques of past years would be There
will be check to sickness By the of these
ncatons, the malaria Of locality may be cheapy
and summary exchanged for climate saubrous than
Cumberland and genial than Madeira and the appan
Of skill and the aids of nature may be brought home
cry mans door, There will be impulses and opportun
ties for civilization. The simple suspicious native of the
interior will be brought easy communication with heseas
Of power and will appreciate readily and deeply the
cicsds and character of people who nearly the old
est well the mghest amongst the rulers of his land The
commercial results of the enterprise would be equally extern
sve The value OF every province in India would be multi
piled enod, and the wealth of that land Of fable which was
gowng depicted and seldom discovered in early days.
would now really flow in full stream 10 our harbos The
of Berar and Bepoo which pershes the ground
is frered to dust the road would supply work and
bread to thousands Of industrious counmen, and the pro-
duce Of every loom and plough from the Jumna the eau
very would be trebed worth both the aborous
and the people with whose exports he could provide himself
exchange But these benefits great they exceeded
by the nexpessbe accession the general welfare Of the
poor Hndoos There class of readers in whose
philanthropy outweghs every other consideration and their
notice recommend this enterprise for, ifhe welbeng of
others TO command the cooperation Of men, do
boldly that mission sailed fraught with
momentous interests to vast population than that which is
depart from shores the 10th of September"
We Americans forget with only England, Ireland and
Scotland the map before us and the North American Pro-
about that Britain this founding and
establishing empire in the Indies plenpotent that
ourselves boast of having upon this continent Looking
what she striving TO bring about in that quar-
Of the world and contemplating the consequences
ade civilization and Christianity that her threat
en- promise, may all well join with the |" Times in
saying no mission sailed faught with momentous
than that which composed Mr. Macdonald Ste
phenson, Mr.. Arthur Adams, and Mr.. Alfred Beeson with
the engineers &C., all Of whom TO proceed to Calcutta
in the steamer of the 20,h-NeV York Express.