Proposed Saving Of Tune In Atlantic Transit

The time required for the conveyince oL mails from New York to Londonisgivenas follows: New York Dostoffice to Sandy Hook light, 3h. 30m ; iandy Hook to Queenstown (best average time 1881) 8d. 13h. 45m.; delay of mails at Queenstown, 1881, 3h. 30m.; Queenstown to London, 22h.; total, 9d. 20h 45m. It is proposed to better this time by means of swift steamers plying beween the eastern extremity of Long 'sland and the new port of Milford ïaven, in Wales. The time by the new route is estimated as follows: New York to Fort Pond Bay, via Long Island railrOHd (110 miles), 2h. 30m.;trans'er at Fort Pond Bay, lh. 30m.; Fort ?ond Bay to Milford Haven (southerly ind lowest route 2,880 miles, at 18 miles an hour) 6d. 16h.; transfer at Milford Haven, lh. 30m.; Milford Haven to London (322 miles), 8h; total 7d. 5h. 30m. A speed of 20 miles an hour on the ocean, which Mr. Pearce, the Snglish shipbuilder, offers to guarantee o vessels of bis construction, would reduce the time to 6d. 13h. 30m. For ,seven years the construction of docks at Milford Haven has been going on, and they are now nearly ready to receive the largest steamships. They were designed by Sir E. J. Eeed, late Chief Constructor of the British Navy. The dimensions of the docks are as f olows: Total available doek area, 60 acres; lock 500 f eet long by 70 f eet wide; graving doek, 710 f eet long, 96 'eet wide; small graving doek, 270 f eet ong, 46 f eet wide; depth over sills, ïigh water spring tides, 36 feet, and at ligh water heaps, 27 feet; depth of water in docks, 28 feet. The cost of the docks has been about $2,650,000.- Seientific Am. m The Bishop of Liverpool, in a recent meeting of the Church of England i'emperance Society, said there were only three subjects more important than temperance : the preaching of the gospel, the promotion of scriptural education, and the maintenance of the old Protestant faithof England. This mode of reference to temperance, by separating it from gospel preaching, deprives it of its best support, and is doubtless one reason why the cause has been so much retarded in England. We are commanded by Paul to add temperance to certain other christian virtues. A-n-ioe BusrNisss. - The total autoruit of ice annually consumed in New York City and vicinity is about 1,000,000 tons. The quantity actually deliyered representa about 2,000 000 tons har vested and stored, as the loss from shrinkage and handling is said to be just about one half. It is estimated that at least $7,000,000 of capital is invested in the ice business in this city, Brooklyn, and Jersey City. Gas comes from resiu, coal, oil, petroleum, etc, and is very difficult to analyze chemically.