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4 Great Undertaking. Among the stupendous

 and almost miraculous undertakings the present age

 Is the attempt to build light house the we'll known

 Goodwin Sands. About mile westward of Deal is

 the village of Upper Deal, opposite which lies that

 channel of the sea called "the Downs D It is safe

 anI commodious roadstead of eight miles m length and six in width, except when w. s. w. wind

 blows. On the opposite side of this channel, parallel line with Deal, are the Goodwin Sands

 Tine engh of these Sands is nearly ten miles and the breadth about two. The material o which they are composed is soft. porous, and tenacious; and should d ship of the largest size strike the Goodwin Sands, Ut would be wholly swallowed up by the quicksands in \ sbort time. Here, millions of property and thousands of lives have been lost civil engineer, by the name of Bush, has fer long time endeavored mature e.pan for fixing lighthouse upon these dangerous Sands, and he has N length caused to be made portions of the work which is to form the structure An immense base shsG is being made svhch Mir. Bush proposes to sink thiry feet below the sands chaky substratum. It is formed of cast iron and ishoow within. This base, or under shaft, on which the column is to be raised sixty four feet in height and thirty feet in diameter aud above one hundred feet in circumference. The base IS sixtyour feet long, the column eighy-six. aud the summit forty feet in length. The total altitude I will be one hundred and ninety feet The weight of the lower shsff is hundred and twenty tons! In this shaft there is cell large enough to hold one hundred men, witb provisions, storehouses magazine g-c, and in the upper portion there is room for | twenty men, whose constant attendance will be | necessary, 1t is said, to manage the light. Should | rf,e undertaking prove successful will be of the grandest projects of tue age, and it's projecor, Mir. Bush, will deserve all the laurels that De placed ppn his brow. Indeed, he will be ipmortalzed.-- The Thames tunnel almost sinks with insignfcancs at the side of it, when the great benefit to be derived rom it by every nation is taken inte consideration. t is to be hoped that ths most sangns expectations 4 Mir. Bush may be realized.