Railway Fusion

News from London, under dato of April 27, was to the effect that the f usiun of the Grand Trunk and Great Western railroads had taken effect, and fiat the Board of the Great Western had resigned. Of the significance of the fact, the Free Press says : Primarily it means that the Great Western system is practically absorbed by the Grand Trunk; but it also means that the Wabash wl'.l have an open gateway from west to ihe east at tliis city ; it means that the Erie will have au outlet to the west through the same channel; it means that the Grand Trunk eau have an independent line from Detroit to Chicago; it means that the Canada Southern railway will at once be compelled to build the Essex Center cut-off, and run its Chicago trains directly to this city, instead of to Amherstburg and Grosse Isle. It will have a direct and sensible effect upon the Xorthern Pacific and Canadian Pacific railways, and it will fill the hearts of the "Anti-Monopoly" party in Canada with dismay. The opponents of the fusión have now only one hope, and that is in theCanadianParliameut; but that is a frail support for any substantial expectations. The power of immense corporate interests to shape legislation is too well known to admit of any serious belief that the management of the law-givers at Ottawa will be a very difflcult one.