Channel Tunnel

Partially executed work 23 m. in length between Dover and Sangatte near Calais, to avoid the horrors of the Channel pa age. Begun in 1876 it has been stopped on account of po ible military complications, only one-tenth being completed. It is estimated to cost $20,000,000. Channing, WILLIAM ELLERY, D.D., 1780-1842. Pastor in Boston from 1803; most entinent pulpit orator of his school, and most saintly and revered of American Unitarians. Of that body he led the "orthodox" or "evangelical" wing, as Theodore Parker did the radical side. He wrote little beyond sermons, but his influence was wide and deep. -His Memoir, 3 vols., 1848, is by his nephew, WILLIAM HENRY, 1810-1884. -Another nephew, named from him, b. 1818, pub. 5 vols. of verse, and Thoreau, the Poet - Naturalist, 1873.