Show two great ship canals paris and manchester have both resolved on a ship canal ian it now 0 v appears that brussels is determined no not t to be behindhand and therefore a proposal lias has been made to the municipality to cell construct a ship canal to the having a depth of six and a half balf meters with quays sufficiently capacious to allow twenty ships of 2500 tons each to unload or load and the whole is to be con cell no acted with the great belgian line of railway the scheme is a bold one but the company alio will anderl undertake ake it if it IS is carried out is an all english one and the contractors and workers will doubtless be english too while on this subject we may mention that such another scheme is about to be attempted in ili south russia by the cutting of a canal across the isthmus of Pe to connect the sea of adov with the waters of the black sea by this plan a saving of miles of very rough sailing will be effected and more especially the dangerous passage of bertch which in winter is constantly closed by ico ice it is supposed that the making of this canal will greatly improve the coal and salt trades of donetz and odessa which alone in a commercial point of view is a matter of the highest importance chamberss berss journal |