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Lyttelton Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 18 September 1852, Page 9

An American company has been formed in New York to cut a ship canal between the Atlantic and Pacilic Oceans, by the River S. Juan and Lake Nicaragua •, the practicability of this route has been proved to a certainty, and it will, without any doubt, be effected. The commissioners of the "American Atlantic and Pacific Ship Canal Company," are expected in England immediately; they are to offer a share in the undertaking- to English capitalists. If tin's is declined, the Americans will carry out the great work single-handed. The cost is expected to be estimated at £5,000,000 sterling1. Birmingham Candelabra at the Tomb of the Prophet.—The Messrs. Osier have sent to Egypt, by order of the Viceroy, two pairs of crystal glass candelabra, 10 feet high. The Viceroy is so delighted with them, that he has sent them—who would guess where?—to the tomb of the Prophet at Medina, where, as his Highness's secretary observes, they will be the admiration of hundreds of thousands of pilgrim worshippers. It is a singular destination of Birmingham products —to keep watch over a pair of genii, who are keeping watch over the Prophet in his tomb, reminding himi of his good and evil deeds, and balancing the account which his resurrection is to settle. How very Jar have they, travelled over sea and land to staifd within those iron rails, and under the charge of the 40 eunuchs who keep guard there ! It is a symbolic incident, indicating the spread of British arts among the remotest regions, and the strangest races and faiths on eaith.— Dickens's H<fiisehold Words.