The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-29
Three Days Later Frem Europe.
Arrival Of the Baltic
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EEGLkKD.
The West India mail steamship Thames ar.
rived at Southampton on the lllb, with the
West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, and
S 1888 $40 IN specie, S98S603 in silver, and
S40O 237 10 gold.
The ship Rather had arrived from Hobart
Town, Van D,eman's Land, whence she sailed
on the 9th March, with fl2,000 in gold on
freight.
The government returns jast Published show
that the emigration lrou Liverpool to the Uni
ted States, during The past month, was 2o,sA7,
a falling off as compared with the month OF
June, OF last year, OF upwards OF 6,0O0--the
emigrants beings chiefly Irish, OF the poorest
class. Emigration to Australia continues tn
flow without abatement. The government de-
pot at BiIkenhead is continually full of intend
ing emigrant', chiefly from the Highlands OF
Scotland. The Rip Van Winke, u splended
American ffigate built clipper ship as the Eng
lish papers call her, would sail on the 30 n insI.,
and tho Great Britain steamer on the 2Ist
August. both having already every berth on
board engaged.
THE ELECTIONS.
A careful analysis Of the election returns. SO
far as they have come in, that is to say, to Tues
day, gives the following result:
For the government III
For the opposition 100
Liberal conservatives, who will probably
support the government on minor ques-
tons, but vote against them on the pro.
lection question AZ
Members returned . 358
1t is well known that great numbers Of The
freemen, by whom the election was turned in
favor of Mesrs Grogan aud Vance, had been
taken out Of the warehouses, and shaved and
cleaned in such way as TO make them present
able ut the polling booths and severn OF them
who reside altogether away from Dublin, came
from considerable distance, some even from
Scotland, for the purpose OF voting. All this
hts naturally arou ed good deal Of Indignation
among the liberal party bntit IS greatly TO be
Iamented that rabbe of boys and children
should have been instiga.ed to commit the petty
outrages of last evening. 1t may be observed
that there has been no other roting OF the
slightest moment since the commencement OF
the elections.
1t is noticed that while divisions multiply
among the egtimists and other parties the
President is exerling himself TO draw about
him, and mould into docile instruments OF him
will, the somewhat maynard members Of his
house, and, if possible, to consolidate them into
dynastic body. Thus, while the Prince Je
rome is despatched on voyages on the coast of
Brittany and Normandy, and is even, according
to rumor, to extend his voyage to the shore OF
Spain, his son Napoleon Jerome, the cleyerest OF
the family, is trimming from an x-Montagnard
and demagogue into a deinure frequenier OIL
bureaux, and is put in training for undertaking
some important post
On the other hand, the RINK democracy of the
Prince of Canine rendering him of bad odor in a
political line, his scientific qualifications are
utilized to entitle him to senatorial dota-
ton, and to his title Of director of the Jardin
des Pantes, he is to add that oflnspector Gene
raj of the museums and geological cabinets
A company has been formed for the realiZa
ton of an old scheme of Louis Napoleon to
Danish pauperism from France by bringing into
cultivation several millions of hectares of waste
lands.
THE ATLANTIC AND THE PACIFIC COMM UNIcATIoN
From the London Herald July 10.
aOlr advertising columns of this day contain
document of great public Importance, whether
pect-namely, the organization Of company,
under royal charter from the British crown,
for the construction of plank road across the
Isthmus Of Terra Firma Proper, in the province
of Veragoa The plan merits the attention OF
our readers, and deserves, and will, We trust.
receive the support of the public The pc iton
Of the line of communication is in 80 deg 5
min. west longitude, about 1876 geographical
miles to the westward of Chagref, and 1870 from
Panama. in the same direction.
In the meridian mentioned, the CordilIera,
which rises to very considerable height on either
hand, Is cut in two by deep valley formed ms
it were by the hand of nature for aifording an
easy and speedy communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceanp, the summit land OF
which vally is only about one hundred and sixty
feet above the level of the sea. and this height
continued for short distance only, the land de
clnng gently into plans on the Pacific side. Ga
both coasts the anchorage is excellent, well
sheltered, and The approaches good. The country
every where on the lire of road proposed is dry
and healthy; in fact remarkably so, the fine soil
being chiefly of volcanic formation.
"The survey by Her Majesty's ship Thunder
G. pit Bernett, about fourteen years ago, ON the
Atlantic side, and that by Capt Kelet, of the
Herald, very lately, ard not yet published to the
world, have, by correcting the latitude and Ion
giiude, proven the distance from the bottom OF
the Lagoon of Chiriqui on the Atlantic to the
shore of the Pacific TO be only forty geographi |
cal miles in a direct line, thus tfflrdipg short
line Of communication unequalied in any other
part Of the whole Is,hmus. The distance of the |
Nicaragua line is from TO sea, in direct |
line, lao geographical miles, and the summit
level of the valley near St Juan del Sur, on the |
Pacific, is 1870 feet
"The railroad line at Panama ia fifty miles,
and the summit levesof it above $50 feet, and
that after considerable distance Of deep tun
nelng. Neither of these lines have such ad-
vantages of approach and anchorage as the CHR
iqui point of communication, WHILE in reference
to The saIubrity, the coasts of the former ore
much inferior.
"Plank roads are well known in the United |
States and Canada. These prove excellent roads |
for travelling and transport of merchandise, and
are constructed at an expense very small as
compared to any other mode of communication,
such AZ iron railroads, sc.
"rhe line of road to which we advert, runs
through tho beautiful province of Veragua,
which, it is well known, was granted to the
great Columbus for his services to his country, !,