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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1982, 11 September 1869, Page 3

Proposed Canal between the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean.— The project of establishing through the valley of the Garonne (France) a canal for large navigation, to connect the ocean to the Mediterranean has often been mooted, but there is now a new plan for this nnderta ing, under the auspices of M. Staal de Magnoncourt, late peer of France. The proposed canal will admit not only merchant ships of the heaviest tonnage, but also men-of-war and Transatlantic steamers, A port is to be established in the Gironde, just below Bordeaux, and another in the Mediterranean, The cost of the scheme is estimated at 442,000,000 fr incs, and the cutting of the canal won d occupy six years. The plan, if carried out, will materially shorten the navigable communication between England, the North of Europe, and India, for it will, in fact, be a continuation of the canal of Suez. An Easy Place. —The Rev. Henry Ward Bee her some time since received a letter from a young man, who recommended himself very highly as being honest, and closed with the recpiest—“Get me an easy situation, that honesty may be Rewarded ; *’ to which Mr Beecher replied—“ Don’t be an editor if you would be easy. Do not try the law. Avoid school-keeping. Keep out of the pulpit. Let alone all ships, stores, shops, and merchandise. Abhor all politics. Keep away from lawyers. Don’t practise medicine. Be not a farmer nor mechanic ; neither a soldier nor a sailor. Don’t study. Don’t Bhuk. Don’t wofk, None of them are easy. O, piy honest friend, you are in a very hard world ! I know of but one real easy place in it—that is the grave ! ” Notwithstanding the large amount of wine produced in California, the Pacific Coast imports directly from France at lea 4 400,000d01. worth of sparkling wines every year.

Sales toy Auction. MONDAY, 13th SEPTEMBER. At 12 o’clock. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. M 4 LANDRESS, HEPBURN and CO. are instructed to sell by auction, at their rooms, M aise street, on Monday, Sept. 13th, at 12 o’clock — Tables, chairs, sofa, marble washstand, cocoa matting, bedstead, carpet Drawing-room suite and piano. Terms cash. Fishmongers, &c. Tn OTHER NEW RUSH FOR STEWART’S ISLAND Oysters. Ex. TARARUA. THE Latest News is JEWITT selling the real Stewart Island Oysters at Is Gd per dozen (unopened Is, per dozen). Fresh from the beds (daily. His saloons are comfortable and clean. Note the Address—Jewitt’s Royal Saloons Princes street. ! OYSTERS ! OYSTERS! George street Oyster Saloon, MR ANDREW CUISS, Proprietor. AVING made arrangements with Mr William limes, Fish Curing Kstabiisbipent, Port Chalmers. Received per Omea, from Stewart’s Island, 2,200 dozen Oysters. Can supply the Public, to suit the times, at Is per dozen. All orders strictly attended to. Evening school.—Mr J. carnCROSS, over “Ephp” office (late “ Evening Star” Office), Stafford street. Pnvate instruction; hours to suit the convenience of pupils. | Also, Educational.