TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL.

Dunstan Times, Issue 679, 23 April 1875, Page 4

TUNNEL UNDER THE CHANNEL.

Whether the Submarine tunnel which is effectually to conquer-sea-sickness and render the passage from Dover to Calais no longer terrible, will ever be an accomplished fact it is impossible to say; but there is but little doubt some people are in earnest about it, and wo shall know the result of their investigations before very long. Owing to the difference in the commercial laws of the two countries it is -said that it will be impossible to establish a single international society,but it is proposed to form two companies one English and the other French with a capital of £BO,OOO. each, to make experiments. If these should succeed, if everything should prosper, if the two Governments should be in accord, and the tunnel is eventually made, it will doubtless bring about an extraordinary change in the social aspect of the tw r o nations. We shall probably,have people whose business is in London residing in France, going over three or four times a w r eek, just as they go down to Brighton in the present day. Ladies will think no more of running over fo obtain a new Parision bonnet and the latest triumph by Worth than they would of a day’s shopping inßegent Street or Bond Street nowadays. Men who weary of their club, tired of dinners at the Pall Mall or thd Criterion, would think nothing of flying across by train to a choice little dinner at the Cafe Riche. People w r ho find the French Sunday too lively for them will take a return ticket from Saturday to Monday, and those who find a London Sunday too dull will bo able ■to avail themselves of the same means to pass the time in Paris. When the Licensing Bill becomes too oppressive, and all our public gardens are closed, we may run across the water for a little relaxation and amusement, we should be able to see French pieces on the Parisian stage with little more trouble than in the present day it takes us to seegarblodadaptations. Indeed the more moreonethinksofthe matterthe more one secs what extraordinary complications will be brought about by the two nations becoming so completely mixed. There is evidently something beyond the mechanical difficulty of the scheme to be considered. When it is ascertained that engineering skill will conquer every obstacle, it is still a question whether tho two nations will bo benefited by being brought together in such close and constant contact.

The Pope has received a deputation of "faithful” Germans, who assured him of the devotion of the Gorman Catholics, and one from the Argentine Confederation, with the homage of the La Plata Catholics, and a momentary offering from Buenos Ayres, Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain has sent his Holiness a silver dinner service, worth £60,000. A man, travelling with his wife, saved himself in a railway collision, but his companion was killed. When he reached home ho missed his umbrella, and applied to the directors for it. It was not returned; and now, iu speaking of the accident, ho always says ; "Yes, on that day I lost a bran new umbrella and my wife.” Patience rewarded.—An Ohio woman -worked at odd times for nine years to piece a bed-quilt containing ever so many thousand pieces, and then her husband seized it to blanket his mule, and said it saved him paying six shillings for an aimy blanket.