Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-10-10
n SUEz CANAL.

The waters Of the Red Sea and those OF
the Mediterranean have been connected,
by the French ship canal across the
Isthmus of Suez, and now mingle and COM
mingle together. The work of Necho
and Darius has been undertaken in these
later days by a people and Government
ambitious to secure the rich commerce
and surpass the naval power Of their
British neighbors. No surer means Of
ferred the French to forestall the British
in the markets of the Indies than to con-
struct, by artificial means, a highway
where Nature had failed to furnish one,
by which they could stock the markets Of
the East with European goods, or bring
to the great marts Of Europe the cotton,
sugar and rice of Hindostan, the spices Of
Ceylon, and the coffee Of Java, a month
before the British ships could double the
Cape of Good Hope. They, therefore,
turned their attention to the construction
of the Suez Canal. 1t is a work which
has been talked Of for centuries. Il has
occupied about the same position before
the British Government, since the acquisi-
ton of the Indian provinces by the latter,
as the construction of the Pacific Railroad
has before the United States Government,
since the acquisition Of California. The
Suez Canal is now open to vessels of
light draught. 1t will soon be enlarged
to allow ocean vessels to pass, and yet it
is only five years since the work was COM
menced in earnest. Thus will be seen
what industry and perseverance, aided by
science, can do. VIII not our Govern
ment take q lesson from the French
in this matter, and take into hand the
construction of the great want Of the
United States - the Pacific Railroad :
When the French will have completed
the canal so as to pass through their larg-
est ships they will soon take from English
men the India trade which the latter have
so long possessed and carried on with so
much profit.
Let the Pacific Railroad be completed,
and Americans will have under their on
troll the Japan China, and all the Eastern
Asia trade, to have and TO hold against
both the great maritime powers Of Europe,
and Britannia will no longer rule the wave,
but will have
A barren scopter In her grippe,
Thence to De wrenched by AN unlinial hand,
No son of hers succeeding.
The French Government, whose ambi-
ton seems particularly directed to wrench
ing the scepter which Britain has so long
held over the seas, has, by undertaking
the opening of water communication be.
tween the two seas which so nearly come
together, and bringing the Indian COM
merce under its control. forever precluded
the English merchants from competition
with the French in that part of the world.
The English are conscious of the advant-
g G They are obsequious now, and even
consent TO send their hulkS across the
Channel to vancouver before the eyes OF
the French Emperor, ard his Admirais
show themselves to disadvantage beside
the magnificent new iron-clads Of the
French navy at Cherbourg. If the French
Emperor had not been conscious Of the
superiority of his ships, he never would
have extended his invitation to the British
Queen TO send hers across the waters for
comparison. If the English Government
had not been conscious OF their weakness
and anxious to curry French favor, they
never would have danced attendance.
Britain has not yet felt The power of the
French navy. But she soon will. As
soon as the Suez Canal is fully completed
she will have French competition on all the
Eastern seas.