PENRITH HERALD and East Cumberland and Westmorland News. =================================================== ADVENTUROUS TRAVELLERS. MR. C. ROBERTS, writing from San Francisco on the 5th of December, informs the "Toronto Globe" that he and MR. P. BERESFORD HOPE have crossed the American continent on British territory, with the exception of the short canal at the Sault St. Marie, which is on United States territory. They landed at Quebec in May, and proceeded via Toronto, to Fort Garry, by way of the Georgian Bay, the north shore of Lake Superior, and the Dawson-road. They left Fort Garry on the 24th of July, to cross the plains to Fort Edmonton by way of Forts Ellice, Carleton, and Pitt, and arrived there on the 4th of September, riding on horseback, and carrying provisions and baggage in the common Red River carts. >From Edmonton they started with a pack train of nine horses, for Jasper's-house, and crossed the Rocky Mountains by the Yellow Head Pass and Tete Jaune Cache, and down the Cranberry, Albreda, and North Thompson valley to Kamloops. where they arrived on the 5th of November. They proceeded by stage to Yale and thence to Victoria by steamboat, arriving there on the 15th of November, just six months after landing at Quebec. In their long journey, they encountered no difficulties except such as are common to travel in unsettled countries. They had tolerable sport among the prairie grouse and wild ducks, but were frightfully tormented by mosquitoes. They had the usual troubles with perverse pack-horses, but the great scarcity of food in the forest, and the back packing, soon reduced them, not only to a state of subjection, but dejection, and of the 14 horses used between Edmonton and Kamloops, only seven reached the latter place, and of that number only two were equal to a day's work. Between the Macleod and the Athabasca rivers, the travellers were caught in a snowstorm, and were detained one day, and had to travel the whole of the next day through snow 12 or 14 inches deep, but otherwise they had remarkable fine weather, having had only one thunderstorm in the night and two wet days during the three and a half months' journey. >From the lateness of the season and the low temperature in the mountains, all the rivers were low, and there were none of the dangers and difficulties in crossing them which LORD MILTON and DR. CHEADLE experienced in their adventurous journey over the same ground ten years ago. "Throughout the journey," writes MR. ROBERTS, "we received the greatest kindness and assistance from the officers in charge of the Hudson Bay stations, without which, indeed, our journey could not have been attempted. We were also much indebted to MR. W. MOBERLEY and MR. SELWYN (who were at Tete Juane Cache, on their survey of the Yellow Head Pass) for much kindness, guidance and assistance. It would be trespassing too much on your space to give our impressions of the country through which we passed, but I must express our convictions of the fitness of a very large portion of the north-west territory for agricultural purposes, and, without pretending to any knowledge of engineering, but from a practical knowledge of railways in Switzerland and other parts of Europe, our belief that the proposed Canada Pacific Railway is a perfectly practical undertaking, and one which is not only necessary for opening up the country, but for the consolidation, and, indeed, for securing the very existence of the Dominion, and when completed it will form one of the strongest bonds of union between "the old country" and Canada. Further, we would advocate the construction of the line by the Government, as it is impossible to conceive the political consequences which might result from placing so large a tract of valuable land in the hands of a private company. "