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The Panama Railroad, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. 

 Canadian Canals and the St Lawrence, connecting Chicago and the Lakes 

 with London. 



The Pacific Railway, connecting New York with San Francisco. 



II. East of England. 



The Indian Telegraph by Constantinople to Bombay. 



The Overland Route by Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam 

 vessels through Egypt to Galle, China, Japan, and Australasia. 



The Maritime Canal of Suez. 



The Messageries Imperiales, a company subsidized by France on the same 

 line as that worked by the Peninsular and Oriental Company. 



The proposed Overland Route to India, from Belgrade to Constantinople, 

 and Bussorah to Kurrachee. 



The line of large ocean steamers by the Cape of Good Hope to 

 Melbourne. 



III. West of New Zealand. 



The steam navigation companies connecting us with Melbourne, and the 

 P. and O. Company to England. 



Telegraphic communication from South Australia to Brisbane. 

 The line of cable laid between Victoria and Tasmania. 



IV. East of New Zealand. 



The probable extension of a line of steamers from San Francisco to the 

 Sandwich Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Sydney. 



Every one of these projects having for its object the increase of rapid, 

 cheap, and convenient communication, is of great importance to us, possessing 

 as we do, taking it for all in all, one of the best fields for emigration in the 

 world. 



Our goldfields can only enrich the country by attracting population ; for 

 no country was ever great or prosperous through its mines of gold and silver 

 alone. Our unoccupied millions of acres are of no more value than so much 

 cloud or sea, without population to reclaim them from the waste ; and the 

 accounts one reads in the English papers of the masses of people receiving 

 public relief are the more painful to peruse, when at our own doors there is 

 bread for all. Therefore, a cheap, humane, and well-regulated system of immi- 

 gration would be a mutual benefit to England and ourselves ; and every project 

 similar to those I have enumerated, is a step in the right direction. 



Out of the different plans either completed, in progress or under considera- 

 tion, I have selected three, the particulars of which I have endeavoured to put 

 together as clearly and briefly as I could, and trust that the subjects will prove 

 worthy of your attention : — ■ 



I. The Maritime Canal of Suez. 

 II. The proposed Overland Routes to India. 



III. The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, connecting New York and San 

 Francisco. 



The Maritime Canal of Suez. 



Before the Cape of Good Hope was doubled, nearly 400 years ago, and a 

 new sea-way found to India, the trade of the East being principally carried on 

 by caravans, a canal through the Isthmus of Suez, connecting the Red Sea 

 with the Mediterranean, was not so important to the whole world, as an 

 improved civilization, a vastly increased population, and a far-extended com- 

 merce render it in our own time. Yet this modern project is not without 

 ancient example, though with a less object, on part of the same land. 



