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SIR STRATFORD CANNING.--This eminent civilian and ambassador, whose
former residence in this country is remembered with so much pleasure by
his friends here, is thus referred to in a series of papers on the
Diplomacy, Diplomatists, and Diplomatic Servants of England, now in
course of publication in _Fraser's Magazine_: "He who has been
forty-three years in the public service, who commenced his duties as
precis-writer in the Foreign Office in July 1807, and who, having served
as Secretary of Embassy to the Porte, as Envoy to the Swiss
Confederation, as Minister to the United States, as Plenipotentiary on a
special mission to Russia, as Plenipotentiary on a special mission to
Spain, and as Ambassador three times near the Sublime Porte, is now
serving with credit and advantage in that very Stamboul whose towers and
minarets he first saw in 1808."

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THE SEVEN-MILE TUNNEL THROUGH THE ALPS.--Dr. Granville says: "To give at
once some idea of the boldness of Chev. Mons' undertaking, we may, in
the first place, state that in its progress the tunnel must pass under
some of the most elevated crests of Mont Cenis,--one, in particular,
where there will be 4,850 feet of mountain, capped with eternal
glaciers, over head, at the middle of the tunnel, so that not only will
the workmen and machinery in construction,