From THE"NORTH-CHINA Darty News" or APRIL 7, 1870 great advantage of thus shortening the distance and saving the time, the long and dangerous passage round the Land's End. so perilous to life and property, will be entirely avoided. The Cost of the canal, Including harbour and dock works it is assumed, will be £5,500,000, the length.of the canal being 59 miles, width at surface 194 feet, at bottom 31 feet, deep. There will draught of largest vessels, and a port, at all states of the tide, is established on the coast of Devonshire, shipping there being no which will no doubt be a boon to the interest: harbour answering that description from Portland to Plymouth. It is expected that the quantity of coal which annually pass through the canal would 4261.34 tons, and, if on this was levied a toll of t4d. per ton per mile, a profit of nearly 5 per cent. on the outlay of £3,500,000 would be the result, and if we add the tonnage of coke, iron, and other mineral and miscellaneous products, it would seem that a very large revenue ought to be forthcoming. Like the great enterprise of M. de Lesseps, we believe that the canal now proposed is but the revival in a new_form of an old idea; the celebrated engineer, Telford, having designed a somewhat similar work in
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