COALS— SAUGOR RAIL ROAD. 
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8l aiams In tlic ea , wciiilnuii 193 siains- 
nomm iu liuglisli wiicat Innaih <,i siiaiv4f(. 2 
iiiciirs, 41 grains in me car, wcigijiu^ vi giaina. 
COA.LS RAIl.S-ROADS. 
We beg to call the attention of all concern- 
ed to the following sensible remarks which 
we have taken from the Agra Ukbar. 
If th e Government is too poor or disinclined 
to enterprise, it may awaken able, as well as 
monied men to the speculation, it is asserted 
that the expense is too great, look to North 
America, and our own country for what united 
efforts will effect. 1 say not, that it is impera- 
tive that the Company’s Government should 
expend with risk, some little of their surplus 
revenue in l ettering their charge, as they 
rent the state, at on e as a speculation, of ^ 
and d \ but when evident profit will be the re- 
sult of the application of funds to any extent 
in rail roads, i' seems quite out of all calcula- 
tion that the means at command should be over- 
looked. The material for forming Iron manu- 
facturing establishments equal to those of 
Merthy, Tydil, &c. in South Wales exist here, 
coal, iron, ore, and lime in as great profusion, 
as these minerals are attainahle there. To 
erect furnaces, make rails, and lay them to 
Mirzapoor for coal, and all our commerce 
there, would soon repay the outlay- Cotton 
now taken away by bullocks in many weeks, 
would not occupy as many days in transporting 
by locomotive engines, and rail waggons - mer- 
chants would soon be compelled to resort to 
the road waggons a supply of coal for all pur- 
poses of inland, or other navigation at hand 
with the river Nerbudah, for | of it’s course 
available for supplying Bombay with coal and 
carrying off the bulky heavy staple productions 
of the valley districts, and where the rocky 
impediments to navigation are not to be over- 
come,rail waggons along the side to the nearest 
point where boats could approach, could be 
employed, although I see not why from Hurdia 
to Panwell a rail road might not be driven. 
It will be asserted that the Tapty forms an 
insurmountable obstacle, let it be proved f 
suspect that many places near Boorhanuoor on 
that river would admit of bridging. The 
quality of the coal now under consideration is 
equal to the best English, and when at this 
moment no serious impediment presents on 
this side the Cape excepting the want of suffi- 
cient good coal, te any extent of steaming, 
surely the demand and sale of it and iron 
would render ofitseli so profitable a return, 
that commercial t .lls and hire of engines 
would alone create a revenue more than suffi- 
cient to keep up all establishments and pay 
tor wear and tear. In a military point of view 
the transport of guns, of heavy stores ofbodies 
of men in so few hours ; so many miles, must 
be considered. The Post Office establishment 
totally set aside on the whole line, it would 
bring Calcutta within a week’s journey of 
Bombay. Passengers from Bengal to Bombay 
would never take any other route or way of 
travelling, supplies for the interior would be 
brought up for a trifle, fresh, uninjured, and 
secure from loss. The grand line from Bom- 
bay to Mirzapore once completed and end- 
less ramifications would result, the country 
would within a very few years assume a 
very different aspect, cities like those of the 
United Slates would arise at places of com- 
mercial interest, others decayed would be 
renewed, and the bustling activity of a North 
American be assumed hy the quietest believers 
in the wisdom of their fore-fathers in the 
world. In North America a road precedes 
the population ; here we have no such things 
for our teeming subjects. That by my pro- 
curing the official reports on this .subject, and 
publishing them in your paper, I trust I may 
attract the attention tifsome who would be 
willing to attempt what is no vagary untried 
theory, the effort of an idler’s brain, but 
what the many hundred miles of similar roads 
in Europe and America have proved- Until a 
fit man is sent to survey the country through 
which the work is to proceed, no average of 
expense can be taken, and no comparison with 
English prices per mile. Let a few miles be 
set atiout, and we could form an estimate. 
SAUGOR RAIL ROAD COMPANY. 
We are glad to find the daily press of Calcutta acknowledging that our progress in the 
mechanical arts are likely to overcome all difficulties to a Saugor rail road. 
We understand that, owing to circumstances with which it is not necessary to trouble the 
public, Mr. Hornemann, who lately came out to Calcutta in behalf of the Saugor Rail 
Road Company, is about to return to England. Mr. Hornemann’s absence will, however, 
be but temporary, as he is now, we hear, perfectly satisfied of the feasibility of the 
project, some slight deviations from the original plan suggested by recent surveys being 
to be made by the Directors. The report of the officer who lately went down to ascer- 
tain the state of the navigation of Lacam’s channel and Channel creek is, on the whole, 
very favourable to the project. The practicability of the latter is, we believe, deter- 
mined to be beyond all question, and as the Saugor Rail Road Company, will, of course, 
adapt the situation of their road and dock to the state of the channels, the feasibility of 
navigating Lacam’s channel becomes a matter of less present importance. We shall look 
with some anxiety for Mr. Hornemann’ s return, for there can be no doubt that, if the plan 
in the amended shape proposed, be practicable, it will merit the fullest support fi’om 
the community of Calcutta. 
As conneeted with Mr. Homemann’s skill in the matter of railway, the following par- 
ticulars connected with the Greenwich Railway may not be uninteresting to our readers. 
‘ The Greenwich Railway may be said to be a continuation of the new London Bridge 
to Greenwich ; it is elevated on arches of brick work averaging 26 feet from the ground 
to the crown of each, 25 feet in breadth, with a foot path of the same dimensions. 
The south side is planted with various forest trees, which forms a delightful walk for the 
citizens of London ; there is also a road on the north side, of 25 feet, which the direc- 
tors have not determined as yet for what purpose they will appropriate it. 
