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Gift J) NOT CQIQUEB CANADA. But aa Officer Tel'i Would A '.tempt It r *j*ws rKltrn. Ballnafi *! fan !< Mwaissrel !> a fralritral -..! been a brave and warlike people, but their forces ere merely militia which could becesne r- illy efficient only in the course of many mo.iihs of successful (or at least not disast- flow I: ' 'i war. The military importance of 1 .nada lies in the fact, that it is a base for Military operations of l Kl:n. IMi'lHi: WHICH rilNTKiii . I A lecture delivered at the Infantry a 1 1 {,'avaliy school. Fort Leivenworlh, by Cap- am l\ agner, Sixth Uuiteil St.ii.es Infantry instructor in the art of war, and gold medal- list, has created considerable talk in Cana- dian military circlet. The lecture it entitled " The Military Geography of C>Bada," and hat been reprinted in the journal of the Canadian Military Institute Toronto. The iecturor in his opening remarks says : "To a stu.len'. of the art of war, the study ot the military geography of any country is an in- teresting one ; but nil, perhaps, only when the study is applied to countries wliose interests art> closely bound lo our >*wn, whose foreign policy may clash wr.ii that o' the United Stales, and whose territories may be the theatre of operation* of our armies or to those parts of our own land which may feel the tread of tl;- invader - that it become* to u a ttudy of importance second to no branch of the ar'.of n ir. Ap plied thu* to the Dominion oi (Vuli, the subject becomes one of great moment to every American officer. Captain Wagner then goes on to say thai to Americans the southern boundary of the Dominion is theonlv one which requires careful examination ; for Canada is unas- sailable on the north, while she can be at- tacked on the east and west only by a nation superior to Great Britain in naval power* in other words, three sides of the irregular quadrangle, which forms the Dominion of Canada, are practically safe from assault. Captain Wagner then gave a description of our mountain*, topography products, rivers, canals an-l railways. He is of tke opinion that the Richeli-u river, although of lees importance than the \V.-1 and and St. T awrence -aiials, may neverthe less be of great value to Great Britain or perhaps to the United States in case of war between the two nations. Forty -six miles below Montre.il is the mouth of the Richelieu. This river is navigable up to Lake Ch.implam, by means of a dam and lock at St. Ours (14 mile* above the mouth) and the Chambiy Canal. 1-2 miles long (3*2 mil** farther up), for vessels draving fix and one half feet. A new caaal it proposed from Caughnawaga on Lake St. ix>uis, to connect with the Chambiy Canal, thus ad- mitting of quick water transport. ntOM MOKTKEAI. T<> UtKE I'HAVPMIS Ma ST. JOHN'S. Th* Chamb'y Canal it to be enlarged to the same dimeusions as the \Velland, and the new canal is to be constructed on the same seal*. Th* possession of the Richelieu Canal system would give to the Brtti-h nary access to lake Champlam a fact snf ticient to demonstrate its importance. The captain thinks '.hat while the Cana- dian canals are admirably adapted to th* requirements of commerce, their projectors did not labor under th? idea that disputes between the United States and .re*t Britain were always sure to be settled by arbitration. He thinks the C. P. I',., in commercial aspects, one of the greatest in the world at th* same time admitting that it is of tfreat strategical value to < -real Britain, bat nevertheless from the very situation of the road, all the efforts of the British Kmpire probably could not save it from the destructive forays of 111. cowboys from Montana and Dakota. As to the (irand Trunk, h* says it is evident that the part of this mad east of Montreal lose* much of its strategic value, a* it lies on the wrong side of the St. Lawr.cc. for safety, and a portion of it lies within the United State* Territory. H. believes that withoutanaval superiority to I ircat Britain, the United States but hope of luceess must be found in a winter catipaign. American troops had endured, in winter campaigns in Montana and the Dakatos, weather of greater severity than they would be called upon to face in most parts of Canada. 44 Montreal as the connecting link between the ocean and th* lake* is a point of immense commercial and slratcgamat value : in strategic importance it i* second to Quebec alone." Here is what the Cap- tain sayt of the French Cana I. tut: "They resembl* their Anglo-Saxon compatriot* In thrift, but in scarcely anything else. They are slow, conservative, and at com- pletely priest ridden as the pessantiy of rlpain or Bohemia. Secured in their own laneuags, laws, aad religion by the treaty ef Paris in 1763, their manners and customs have remained unchanged, and the Province f Quebec to-day present* the appearance ef a portion of Francs under the 1 the British flag, but i; is the Fiance of Louis Qnnize and has nothing in common with the Republic of President 'arnot. K r since the conquest of Canada the French Cana- dians have been loyal to the Rriiish Crown, but theirs has been the loyalty of self- interest rather than affection, and has been largely a matter of obedience to their church, which has in Quebec in influence, authority and sway, such as no church has in my other part of the British Kmpire. Industrious and humble, the typical French Canadian passes a monotonous existcccV in working bard, saving money, hearing Mass and obeying tho biblical injunction to propagate and multiply." Captain Wagner says the weakest vpot in the Canadian Mil ma system is the total absence of any ucl << of transport. The first call he thinks, would brm out about 40,000 Canadian militia. New England, the middle states. Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois, could at once oppose them with nearly sixty thousand orgam/xxl militia ; "and there, is no reason to belie vo that an Anglo-Scxon militia man reared on th* banks of the St. Lavrence i* in any way superior to an Anglo-Saxon milit-a man born and bred on the banks of the Hudson or the Illinois. The Canadian militia has doubtless improved since the day when ths ' Qaeen's Own' of Toronto ran away from the Fenians the American militia is certainly better than it wiu when it fl< d from the field of Bladenaburc. The Canadian active militia would, doubtless, be increased more or lot* fro.-.i the reserve. Under the itimulns of victory it might evon grow into A formidable army, but under tho prei-ri.; influence of defeat u would <iul)cr tho disintegration of all militia armies in adversity. I am not inclined to undercsti- srito the nijhtisg oin-ily of the Onadisns their History shows -Jisai even < u, -1 U --ajahle tireuvth on Und. Kngfand could, OCSUN, of putting forth great There u no doubt that without sacrificing her security iti other quarters, place in Canada iwo ., .v orgaoued, perfectly equipped and lliornogh y efficient army corps au.l a 'l:viiion ut cavalry. She could spare these troop* and there i* no doubt that *he has abundant transportation for them. Urtal Britain could tlin begic the American war with some 70.0UU regular trorp the best in Knrope and about 40,000 militia, uld oppose this army at first with i1,("W regular* and lOV.OOO organized nitliiia. Our ultimate preponderance in' military strength cannot be doubted : but I do not share the views of those who I think the conquest of Canada won d be a ' military promenade for the American army . "In the selection of an objective it is of paramount importance so to direct our efforts as to isolate the Canadian* as much as possible from Great Britain, and to sepa- rate the different province* from each other. Quebec is the most important objective, for its possession to as wonid prevent the naval or military reinforcement ef tha British armies or fleets above that point, and his- tory proves that it is the key to the Con- quest of Canada. Though we should | tnerefore regard Quebec as our ultimate ; objective, we cannl mike it our immediate i on-. The old line of invasion, via the Ken I neliec and Chaudiere river*, followed by ' Arnold ditfi-'uit to the last degree for his tr.'ali force may be regarded as altogether i impracticable for the large araiy that would ' now be required for the reduction I of the strongest place on ths con- , tinent. The route via Richmond and | Arthaliaska would lend a flank to the at- : tacks of the British, and expose our com- inimical ions to assault from Montreal. Ths only other root* i* the one adopted by _ Moo tannery the line via Montreal : an 1 the reduction of that city muil be first effect*,!, in order to protect the flank of the army marching down the St. Lawrence. Moreover, that river is desirable for the transportation of heavy ordnance, without which the siege of Quebec would he a fare*. Finally the control of the river by vessel* of war or heavy floating batteries is neces- sary, in order that the city may be invested otherwise the inventing army would be cat in two by trie streun. We ire, then. at first, neither in a position to reach nor to reduce Quebec. fHS i'\IT'':. .' \i.. TKSAI. i. a necessary stepping-stone loth, reduc- tion of Quebec. But tiiere are many other reasons why ws should choose Montreal aa our primary objective. We have already i seen that ihe Canadian canal* give entrance to British war-vessel* into the lireal Lakes. Ths capture of Montreal would cnt Canada in two ; it would give as possets on of the Beeubamois and Lachina cai.aU, and pro- tect the country above from naval attacks by any vessels except such as might have ascended the St. Lawrence before the sur- render of the city ; and the ultimate capture 1 of such \ esssls would he certain. Moreover, j it would place u* in possession of the I poll* and chief railroad centre of the ' ion. thua causing tucn embarrassment to the trade of the Canadians as to bring them to and that we should her. assume the initia- tive promptly an 1 with as large and efficient an army as possible. This army, from the nature of the theatre, should be composed of a large proportion of infantry, with field artillery not exceeding three gun* lo each thousand men of other arms, and with only enoueh cavalry for screening and reconnoi- tering duty. The army should not be en- cumbered with heavy artillery ; tor its movements should bo made with the utmost i i r BIT 1 I CllUrisaU LtJWQ LO A.V41 celerity, and.once before M out real, Its stags v trains c'oald bs.peedily forwarded by railaod I " water from Albany. A large force should be detached to se is Richmond, thus holding an important railroad junction, protecting ths right wing of the army before Montreal from attack from Quebec.oovering Vermont from invasion, and maintaining communica- tion between the army at Montreal and ens in Maine which we will consider later. "THE i OSOCEST woi:u> The lecturer concluded a* fallows: "It is, I tnink. evident that with a tunable naval force co-operating with our armies ; the conquest of Canada, if not speedy , would be at least sure. Bat in the absence of such naval auxiliary the situation could, perhaps, be beet expressed, by a Celticism ; Kngland could not hold I 'anada, and we could not conquer it. In other words, oar military power, properly directed, would enable us to conquer i 'anada from the Georgian Bay to the city of Quebec, and perhaps to ths Nova Scotian isthmus. Rut the capture of '.''iil*"-, the invasion of Nova Scotia, and the reduction of Victoria and Ksqninult would he well-nigh impossible while the Bri'.iah fleets were superior to our own, un- less the English commander* on sea and land should display the most pitiful incapa- city, and our own, the most dazzling genius. Let me not be misunderstood : I de not say thai the United States could not conquer Canada, I mean that a complete conquest, as the result of ihe operations of war alone, uninfluenced by international trouble*, foreign alliances, or financial difficulties on w ^ one tide or the other, 'could probably be i affected by us only wher we h 1 1 provided * X klLH* tUIM. U < IIIS an IllnstraUea ef Ike MsBenMles lac ik- Ceaatrartlen tt Unas. A curiout example of the difficulties of railway construction in China is afforded by the conduct of the Tartar general of Moukden. the capital of Manchuria, in con- nection with the surveying work for the railway fror Kirm, another large Man- was propnsad to make a junction on this line for Moukden at a place called Lampien, a thorl distarce out- side ths city; but the general got a number of geomancen lo investigate the effect of this selection upon Moukden. These sages reported that the vertebr i> of the dragon which encircles the holy city of Moukden would be broken by driving the long rails of the railway sleepers into them, and ac- cordingly the general vetoed THE !>E<MMO* or THE X.-fi.lfEEKS, and directed them lo carry the railway in a straight line from Kina to Newchwans; without approaching Moukden at all. This was no doubt, much shorter : but ihs en - gineen objected thai the country which ihe line would cross by ibis route was a low and marshy tract of land, liable to floods during the wet season, and also that it was sparsely populated, so that no traf- fic would be got. By th. route which had had been decided upon, the line, though longer, would pass through thkrkly popu- lated country aad on high and level ground. The engineer* reported the matter to Li Hung Chang, who wrote commending the Tartar general for his anxiety for the geo- maatic influences of the \*< ESTRAl. HOME UP TBK UIi.Mv.: nvVVBTT but adding, as his candid opinion, toa'. these influences would be improved by the junction rather than otherwise. However, cr SOME i.EKaT U'.HTS. Tke arenas ot ancient Rome we re not as some people s-ippese, mere rings or avals, such as may be seen in the modem circus. They were broken up and varied ir charac- ter, according to ths nature of the ashling to be done, or te the caprices of those in authority. On one occasion an arena miht resemble tke Numidtan desert, on anoiher the garden of Heeperidas, thick set with groves of Wees aad rising monnr's, while again 11 pictured the gfusl rocks sod caves of Tiuace. With thesa surronndUgs the ihe viceroy said, a* ihe general had vetoed , ' " the decision of the engineers, th* matter I ow. They j>rove very must be laid before the Emperor and the j ? ~opfc anrf are found Kmpwor Maj, seriously ourselves with a naval force superior to aay armada that (ireal Britain could send to the American waters. Tae elim vet Earth, la the Eastern Hemisphere, the hottest spot is on th. borders of the Persian ( Julf on the south-western coast of Persia. Ths thermometer during July and August never falls below 100 deg. during the night, while th. temperature during the day rises lo \'t deg. or UU de.' Little or no rain falls, and yet, in spite of this lemfij heat f .d other drawbacks, a comparatively numerous pop- ulation contrive to livs mere, obtaining their water tupply by divers from tne copioos springs ef fresh water which burst forth from the botlom of the sea. In th* Western Hemisphere, the hottest region is works ilopped unlil his Majeity's decision was knownT^ This seriously aiarmsd t*e **""" *" OTml Mtl <Utler - Mtl wrote sskmg that combatants advanced, retreated, tneir adversaries or kept wild blasts at hey, as occasion offered, or as their courage or fear suggested. Men combated nol only with the more co-nman brutes, but with such monsters as elephants, rhinoscen, hip- popotami and crocodiles. On otker occa- sions great flocks of game, such at deer, and war ostriches, were abandoned to the multitude. nn*i in some cases the arenas could be turned into lakes, filled with men stera of the deep, aad upon the lurfacs of which naval engagement* took place. THE WISE nr. It stay be the "invisible spirit of wine, " which Shakespeare speak* of, that ma- tertalixo* in ths worm and subsequent fly. called the bibs, or wine fly. These worms are born |in the sediment of wine, in empty casks and in drip- pings from wine vessels and prssiis. They grow for about seven weeks, and then eater into the nymph stats. After about ten days their shell breaks, aad the fly oossee oat. The insert is extremely small, when its wings are not extended, not exceeding the sue of a pin's head. The breast aa d body are yellow, the reticulated eyee are red, and the wings pussse* all the col or* of inter*, tiag to have all flies. Their lasir legs and every olber part are perfectly formed. the regular parts of common SHE SPOKE WWIIOIT Tv.:Ct. On* of the moat remarkable oases i valley in California i known as the L>ealh Valley), situate to the east of the Sierra Neva las. and running between twu mount- ain ranges, th* Kuneral or Tuneral (6,000 feet) and the Amargcsa (IO.UOU feet), which has as high or even a higher saeaa temperature than th* region on the Persian coast. In four nionlhs out of rive daring which reaiings of taken, the mean temperature rose above 90 I .urro jading*, deg., while in July and August it exceeded I N) dog. Th. mean temperature for the twenty-four hour* .'n the ISth July, IMI, was just over H" deg. This valley i* on- inhabited, and derived its significant name lernal juices not being frozen. Ice doss from til* circumstance that as active party not form in the vessels, and in thawing of California .migrants, who had itrayed bunt ibein, for iwo reasons. In the firl from ihe regular overland trail, perished , p'tce. the body doss net ihe work* should go on. and in Ihe mean- lime be would think about it. A place a few hundred yards from the former site was ,1 11] . 1_ -.'.* wm IM4B 1MUW IVMfWAKWWIV WBVW Ull chosen, and the geomahcen i declarsd__that neotA ^ ^ o{ a mama we ,, , -tfct-i> ticated at the beginning of the last century, who had no tongue, and yet spoke with perfect clearness. She was brought to Lisbon, in Spain, by Count d'Ericeya, float Monsary, in the Territory ef Elvas, Por'.- ngal. and '.he following account is given of her by an eminent divine : ' Vie is LT years old, bat dees not look more -han 7. .^he can pronounce distinctly every letter in the alphabet. She has not the least bit of a tongue, bet the teeth in both sides of her under jsw turn very -nuch inward and almost meet. Her chief dif- ficulty is in eating, for while others move their feod wiUi their tongue, she is torced to ass her finger. She say* '.hat ths lasts* well Her voice, though very distinct, is a little hollow and like thai of old peopi* who have lost their teeth." QtTEKft I'RTS. An animal which makes a most agreeable pet, bat is rarely tamed on account of its tor value, is the North American beaver. A well known Indian trader, some rears amed several of these hard working fallows, so that they answered te their names and followed like r. dog. In cold wielhm they were kept m the sitting room, were constant companions of the worn ' children. When ths Indians were for any great urn. the beavers show- on their return ihis would not effect the dragon's pulse, whereupon the general wrote to the viceory tuat he was now satisfied, and that he trusted no report would be made te the Emperor of th* delay. Wnlea talntnl Can * ... r . J r. tne r*Mf Fishes, which have a low temperature, can endure imprisonment in a solid block of ice for an almost indefinite period without apparent y suffering any injury. When the ice mel'j. ihs fishes at once become as lively and active as ever. Insects, snakes, sad worms have revived after having been in- closed in soli 1 ice for short periods; but their ability to endure severe cold in this way dose not appear to equal lhat of the fish species. Of quadrupeds, the rabbit, ac- cording to a professor of the Academic des Science*, is the most capable of withstanding the effects of a very lew temperature. In- closed in a block of ice, a rabbit was found next dsy on being released to be getting very j imfortabiy, and evidently not on the thermometer w.r. | aware of anything ai all dangerous in its At on* Urn* it was thought that animals in ice were froasn solid : bat Dr. Koch pouted out that that was not to, and that ths power of the animal to revive under men circumstances is due to the in- ; ^^ | "oUdr*! rSS^tn-smToWii.^^..; *"> I** from heat and thirst. The water^utiali and albums, tol.liou., which X71 - , . hot*.t region in Africa U ,n the Nub,en -ly fre. und.r U,. tero of centi-grad. : contain purs f t *< i l ) * ?* *? '> Jntiotj*. which 1 ! ng lb * m : cowling into tneir laps, lying on the horrors of war. Finally, it wou'd place u* In the best possible position for operating in any direction that military circumstances might require. The operations against Mon l real would be of such importance as to demand the efforts of a greet arrr.y. This army shou'd hava its primary base st Albany, a point easily reached by rail or I water from all parts of the country. A I secondary base would be at H-mses Po nl I Th* enemy would probably be first met at I Fort Isle-aux-Nou near the frontier ; and would almost certainly be encountered in font' at St. John's as that place is a strat- egic point of importance, commanding the junction of several railroads, the Richelieu Canal and the Vermont Central Railroad l-nd^e over the Richelieu Uiver. If dilatory mohili/ation and concentration on out part should gi'e tune to the British, we should probably find them strongly intrenched at St. John's; at any rate, in this vicinity would | be fought the battle for the control of the ; Kichelieu Canal and the possession of the I Montreal angle formed by the St. Lawrence and the Richelieu. Victory here would en- j able u* to hold the waterways as far down Desert, where food may he cooked by being buned in the sand. Tho Arabs say of it, " The soil is like fire and th* wind like a flame." The hottest portions of the British Empire are India and Australia. Tke Wlk<r T.ajtnr. It i* only occasionally when one meets the person who tpeaks the Knglisb language as Ihe old grammar expressed ir, "with force, propriety, and case,'' that one rea- lize* what a beautiful language it U cap- able of being. Too often th* fore* and pro- priety overshadow the ease, and .ug^eat that the person speaking got his vocabulary and hi pronunciation from the dictionary and the advantage* of maturing life rather than from the nursery and early association. We are only beginning u> realize lhat "beginnings " are more, important than "tinishh.g*." and that if a mother cannot or will not give a good p%rt ot her time lo lier children, (he will rind it more profitable to have the earliest nurse a cultivated and child-loving woman than to give it any idly capillarity and adhesion hinder freesing. Water, in threadlike glass tubes, may be cooled as much at 10 dsg. below tero centi-grade without fnezing, and when the tube i* ttill thinner that is, with diameter of 01 to 0-2 millimetres the water is not frozen, even though th*end of the tab. be pat in freezing liquid. The liquid Meet between two glast plates behaves in the j tame way. Fresh blood free/es only after l<eing cooled to 13 deg. below loro, and after the complete elimination of irases and salts. Then the blood corpuscle* are dissolved, and Ihe blood loses colour. Life is guarded their btcks ilk* a squirrel, and behaving like children in the presence of parents whom they seldom sse. In their wild state beavers feed on bark sad herbage chiefly, but in their case they feed for the mon part on rice, plum pudding, partritigv and ven- ison, and they liked all of them extremely. s aether From recent reports from Oltawa il would ! as Sorel, would cause th retreat of the | u a 1 British to the Island of Montreal, and would ' givs us possession of th. Bear, harnoit Canal. Proxirr.il v to its bass, and the fact lhat it* front would cover it. line of retreat, would save our army from heavy disaster in case of defeat. number of expensive master* late In life. MONTKKAI., the Amercan commander would find him- self confronted by a serious problem. The river here is navigable for the large*!, ves- sels of the British Navy, and is a mile and a quarter wide. Just above the city the stream narrow* to half a mile, but the water rushes through the narrow channel at the rate of eighteen mile* an hour. It goes without laying, that The Victoria bridg* would be rendered impossible at the first approach of the Americans. A pas- sag* of the St. Lawrence at Montreal by a I Urge army while the river was open, oppos- ed a* it would be by a formidable force on land, aided by naval veeeels in the river or by the active alliance of nature in the foaming rapids, would require mihtaiy genius of the highest order, and would be an achievement worthy ot ranking with Napoleon's passage of the 1'enube at the Islaml of Loban. But even if our army were baffled for months in attempting the passage, the approach of winter would change matters for ths better: and an ice locked river would place the islind and city at the mercy of '.fie Americans a* ture- ly as the Dutch shipi frozen in th* Helder were at th* mercy of Pichegru s hussars. An advantage of immense importance that would, in tSe mean time be derived from the mere presence of our army before Montreal, would he the holding la check of all naval and military isf>iiiii menu for Ontario ; for, as to* Mi ef the city would cut off the retreat ef i*eh rein- f:c<mnl<, the British would kesitaU to plan them in jeopardy by son 'leg them be- >. !t seem* clear, then. \J -utrea! should be .- first objective. sluller has lately pointed out that i one't native tongue is in reality "his mother tongue," sa it u from the mother that the majority of children learn their peculiarities, faults, i liums and accents. Alas for the children who are learning the mother longu* from Uerman and Knglisb, from Swedish *d colored nurses ' Prof. Muller says that "Dante ascribes the first attempts at using the vulgar tongue in Italy tor literary compositions to ths silent influence of women who did not understand the Latin Language," and notes the same thing in the Prikit, one of the dialect* of India that supplanted the Saaorit. E*e Jew* er ( hrlu.ia> Live I* x >' e m h Average -' Th* Jews, unquestionably, th* vitality of that pec pi* being one of ths striking fea- ture* of their race. Dr. Richardson showed that the vi;ahty of the Jews in London contrasted, as sltrwhere. very favourably with that of the members of other classes of the community. The death-rate of Lon- don Jews in infant life stands at 44 of th* Jews to 45 of the whole population ; while later on, from 35 to 4,~> year* of age. the mortality show* that only 5 Jew* die to 3 of other classes. 1 he contrast i* even more striking still in old age. At S3 aad over, the number of .Jews who died, having reach - those great ages, was '2 a* against 0.8 of th* whole population ; and th* number of Jews who died at over HO years of age was nearly 3 to 1 aa compared with their neighbours, mostly of Christian faiths. In Prussia the I., n 1 ne mortality is 23 percent., aael th* Jswith 13 per cent.: from 1 to) yean M per cent, of the Gentiles die, against 2 per cent, ot the J*w*. It is their attention te health laws, which may o said to be snessr- porated with aad term part of tke Jewish religion, that has g-ven to th* .lew a racaal tiengili which piolongs their years, even among conditions of life <il.cn the reverse of Military. ' by animal life. Sheep also show a high power of resistance, provide.! the fleece is dry : goats and pigs follow nsxt in order. Dog* are far lee* horse* Succumb to cold quicker than any other animal. bat little has been said abtut the lake fisheries and yet it appear* that during the year ending June 30th i fresh or frozen rish to the value of I" were taken from Canadian waters on the i Great lakes bv American vessels, or With * net* or other devices owned by ottizsas of the United States, and admitted free of nto the United States under the Act of Congress, approved October 1st, A return from Washington show* .'H.V,l:Mb. of herring: 7/.MO Ib* pick- pike; li:!,ST41He.*tur*eon: trout: i>,ir.'7.76l> His. of whitefish : and 10, 1 -'9,7 IS Ibs. of other fish, not classified, and aggregating in al. 1*90. Tw. *rean The Cunard Line, which, it should never , be forgotten, was found*! by Nova Scouan., ' '.'," has beaten all other lines in the matter of *'*-" record-making. Its two new greyhounds States free of du.'y having been taken by American vessels or with nets or other de- vices owned by the citi/.en* of the United State* from the (ireat Lake* in Canadian Is are without rivals among the ships of other line*, but thai- seem to b racing each olher JSLM5 I!* was sdmilted into the I nited with a. much' vim and determination a* if *"'- ' ' - 1 "" u " '" k " w - *~ they were not lister ships flying the same national anil line bunting. Yesterday these iwo steamships, which cross on..- another in mid-ocean, each achieved a v.ctory. Though I w * u " harder, n g on ib. "CamDan,.'. ' viclory was over her ow. '* ><* P"M ikat "> Americans hav. en- Previou. p^formance. bat had she not croached on the territorial right, of Can^!. improved her record sh. would hav. Md "^ ?. '" wh .'= h . "J ' 'fd been a beaUn .hip today, whw* ' 7JJT Mt th "shermen of the l>om,n,on' .he i. clearly fir.1. At eight minutes I '^-> fiJ Amerjcan fishermen drawing terdav morning the "Cam ' near ' T million dollars wonh of rish an- nuallv out of our fresh waters, is it not fhe n 'passaI. T .'a. 1 t I warTm nTe''.^^'^^ j l " n "' n " '"'"Id b. divested of the STsTd v.n miautes, beatm/ the et- P"<">* r the tr^ty bregaUd which ward r^ord made by her litter* ship the ^^^gTSfSglg that ths Minuter of Marine said Kisnsriss and the government generally, might well take into consideration. Lucania,'' by one hour and twenty three minutes. Shortly after nins o'clock on th* evening of th* tame day th. Lucania" arrived at Sandy Hook, having made the passage in five days twelve hoars and fifty four minutes, thus beating the westward A TelenUI erereae*. record of her sister ship, the - -'-npnia," | ,, 19 . uu>a tnot- M a ^ ult of ,. Hoit by w.nty one minute Thus th. Ln , M aokn. Bowell* trin to Australia, there cam." ha. had I the glory of capturing ; th. | , t) . b , , , CaaadianAu.tr.il.. w-twaru record from the lampama. th. confeT . Doe h . 7 M , Clnklla ^ ^.j., +. V ""PtH" J7 . i 7 , b " km ? c t ution.of inter mutual trad, and a Pacina all record, both eastward and wer.twarJ ^ bl . An K , uh during on* week. It is noticeable that the | Bma spoken may lay ne to Hoooiuln. These qaestions appear te enhance th. necessity in their puueeji of a general >loaial confersnos hesng sma>oue i in furtherance cf the rvse- lutioa passed at th* meeting of th* Chain. her* of Castsserce at Plyi-i! u it rsmains to he *eea whether these two greyhound* will sncceed m reilocing the voyag* itill further say, t* five days and a-*arl*r. There are engineer* who hold that five days is th* lowest possible, but w!io cants', limits?