SUEZ.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1123, 1 February 1870, Page 3

SUEZ.

: The Viceroy's guests numbered 3000 Europeans and 25,000 orientals. Rt-cent accidents to vessels have caused shares to decline. • A French contractor has undertaken to keep the canal clear for 40,000 per annum, '<■' and. to, double its width fur 2 millions. i! 'The quarrel between the Sultan and the Viceroy has broken out again. Tlie Khe- ■ dive positively refuses to submit the budget to ? the Porte, and maintains his right to contract independent loans if he so pleases. The Porte has sent him its ultimatum by ; a high fuhctionury. It is that the r punishment of disobedience will be deposition from the rank of Khedive. London, December 10. > The French ministry has resigned. l The Turko-Egyptian difficulty has been arranged. i President Grant's message ia satisfactory 3 in tone. f The (Ecumenical Council was opened l with great pomp on the Bfch. The Empress of Austria was present. f At the colonists' meeting, Mr. Wests' garth proposed a deputation to Earl Granville. The wool sales close firm. 1 The P. and O. Company have declared a dividend of six per cent., and the London a Chartered Bank one of eight per cent, a M. Ollivier, French deputy, has submitted a programme of reform, including a an amelioration of the laws for the public 1. safety, a- revision of the electoral laws, and \ abolition of the immunity of Governmenl officers from prosecution. 150 deputies supported this programme, c : but the constitutional party command t raivjivrity. i- . General Ditlac is in Paris. x The Suez portion of the British Tndiar ' cable has been sent through the canal. [. The excavations iv the Mount Cent;

owwubs ttti mm mi, ■ .wn«in mim it imhhhiiuh j»»in«» mr r-—~ tt~ j tjrmei from the Indian side have now feai v uL'd French territory. j Thf? GuvernmeiiG has prohibited Fenk; processions in Cork and Limerick. The Irish Land Bill will embody two leading principles- — full compensation to . tenants for improvements, and inability on * the part of the landlord to evict without the intervention of a tribunal. Fenian demonstrations and outrages 1 multiply in the south of Ireland. 1 A man named Callaghan has been muri dered at Cork by Fenians, who suspected ' his fidelity. Bight thousand men, with flags and tar barrels, marched through Cork shouting for Rossa. The house of a clergyman who supported Heron at Tipperary was totally destroyed. Cardinal Cullen has issued a pastoral strongly- condemning fenianism. Seizmres of arms and agrarian outrages are on i ;he increase. At a meeting of Welsh liberals it was resolver't to raise £20,000 to compensate the vie Sims of landlord's tyranny. Onn .'cart.— Justice Rayes, Barclay the brewer, Madam Grisi, Grace Darling's brothe; \ Lord Foley, Admirals Deacon and Warde si, Mr. Burcham, Sir C. Dacres.