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Day
14
Month
August
Year
1863
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Public Domain
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F rom the New York Journal of Oonimerco. While in our own country a temporary c'h'eck haalbeen givén by tHe war tb altnóst every project of internal iihprovemént, always excopting those vieionarv sohemës which it is the interest of speculators to foster, the old world ia actitig with reridwtíd energy. Though we have little definite intormation in regard to Russia, there is reason to believe that the Emperor Alexander is still carrying forward his plans for bringing Eastern Siberia, and more especially liis new possussions on the Amoor, into close railway and telégraphic commuuication with öt. Petersburg, looking ultimately to a connection with the United States via Eehring's Straits. Mnre noticeublo is the prndigious effort making in Europe to multiply facilities lor commercial interoonrso with China and India. AÍways an object of tho tirst importance in the estimation of European traders, thy interruption of cotton supplies from America hasgiven to this brtinch ot enterprise a consequence which conld never have been antiuipated. What before was only & matter of choice, or policy, has now beoome an imperious necesi'.y) and every energy is directed, not merel)' to tho growth of cotton in India and Egypt, but to the creatioo oí requisite means of transportaron and correspondence. Atnong i na mensures now discusseu or in actunl progresa, is a new railroad through Egypt to the Kod Sea. The present line of rail from Alexandria to Suez is the private property of the Viceroy of Egypt, and leads by a some what circuit' U8 route throuirh Cairo. - It is not by ar.y means certain that the Viceroy vvill consont to an opposition line, but he is a man of considerable public spirit, and the best things may be expected of him. The proprietora of the new line nsk no a?si.stance from the vieeroy oi Egypt other than the needed concessiorts of land, but desire a favorable expression oí opinión on the part of the British g'overnment, as a sort of official Siinction. To obtain this, a deputation watteé on Earl Russtll a few duys ago, by whom the jreat r.dvantage of tlie proposed line of railway was poiïit-' ed out - as the overlaad route to India would be shortened tvvo days, nnd it vvould serve to encourage a large pro duction of the finest cotlon, in the valley of the Nilo. Then tlie line was one that could be construeted with recuarkable ea.se. The gentleman by whom the whole route had been survnyed, stated that in the vallej nf the Nile the ground was of eourse level, but thro' Ihe desert the wind had blown the gravel and sand into the valleys among the hills, whieh had nearly raised thern toa level, so that along the whole line there would not be an ernbankment over (our or five feet high Eurl Russel replied that the government thought well of the própnsaï. Another projèci approaching cotnpletion is tho great Ensjlish telegraph lina to India, through Tiirkey, and via the Persian Gulf to Boinbay. The submarine section for the Gulf was reeently shipped fi'om Liverpool, logether with large supplies of stores, iron posta for the land linos, &c. This cable is the largest ever made. The Rangoon (India) Gazette 'describes still anothür mammoth telegraphic eijterprife, dosigned to cnnnect that city vvith Hong Kon ás, reducing the time for between those poitits to len honrs, and enabling the merchants of India and England to seventeen -days' earlier news U-om China ihan they now get. A second división is contemplated, cairving the wires through Arnoy and the prin ciple towns on the ooast of China to Shanghai. An ultímate extensión of the line to Japan is regarded as almost certain. The Suez Canal struggles laboriously toward completioa. The last embarrassments spoken of veíate to a difficnlty botween the Porte and the Egyptian government. The tormer cluims the right to place it, if the vvork is ever done, on the same footing with the Straits of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, garrisoning it with Turkish troops; a demanc! which will be conceded with great reluctance, if at all, as the Egyptians will hot readily consent to the intrusión of military power. Trouble arises alse f rom tuc nrevalenco of a virulent ionn of typhus in upper Egypt, whenuo the chieí supply üf labor isdrawn. In regard to a submarine cable to connect Europe with Hrnzil and tho United States, ihis project at last shows sorne signs of vitaliiy. The TjVench government, with tho sanction of other powera concernecl, is s:iid to havo grantod the needfu' conoessions to M. Ballestrim. And ao the world moves along.

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