The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1875-12-11 00:00:00

ing it person

meat. in prepar, _ _is should re-
member that it has a. iy been too much cow.. ; all
you have to do is to warm it through. It can never
be cooked again to advantage. To preserve the meat
it is necessary to subject it to a much higher tempera-
ture than boiling water.; and it is this high temper)
ture which makes the meat insipid, but uona of the
food properties of the meat are destroyed by tha.mor'e
of preserving. In summer time it should ba mixed
with salads made with cold boiled vegetables or lettuce,
onions, cress, or pickles, and eaten cold. Many other
hints were given which were highly appreciated. A
vote of thanks was heartily given for Mr. Buckmaster's
gratuitous services.

THE SUEZ CANAL AND THE ENGLISH
11 •t GOVERNMENT:

rtmes, in-their City Articfe.teives the folk _
ting particulars respecting the Suez Canal, and the recent
purchase of the shares by the English Government :
" Notwithstanding. all that has been written within
the past week on the affairs and position of the Suez
Canal and the relations of the English Government to
it; the whole subject is ynt but imperfectly understood.
In some respects this must necessarily be the epee, for
-nth. Parliament is called together and Ministers have
made their explanations the position of this country
can only be inferred. There are certain facts, how-
ever, which may be clearly enough apprehended by
anybody, and these we think it well to recapitulate
here for the purpose of putting into a concise shape all
that may be necessary to enable the public to follow
the Parliamentary explanations when they ccnoe.
"A great deal has been said about the position taken
up by England through the purchase of the Khedive's
shares, and people persist in believing that the transac-
tion amounts to an assumption of financial control in
Egypt. Indirectly, no doubt, this may come to be the
case, but, directly, this country has for the present
gained . remarkably little by her purchase. The
Khedive still retains many rights and claims upon the
Canal, and is fairly entitled to do so, for he has spent
a good deal more on it than all the share and bond
holders put together. But for the sacrifices that Egypt
has made—little to her own individual interest as it has
turned out—the Canal would never have been made at
all. Obligation after obligation was thrown on Said
Pasha and the present Viceroy by the French concession-
naires. From first to last, the Khedive's Governmenthas
spent about £17,000,000 on the Canal, the works con-
nected with it, and the festivities with which it was
opened. The 176,602 shares which the Khedive has
now sold for £4,000,000 cost him £5,280,000, principal
and interest included, according to a calculation pub-
lished by M. Dervieu in 1871, and that is putting the
price at the lowest, for when it is remembered that
Egypt had to borrow this money at high interest, which
is still rnnning, the real cost can hardly be estimated.
Then the Emperor Napoleon 111. decided that Egypt
should pay a heavy indemity to the Company for
The Times (of Wednesday) published the following taking back again certain concessions which had
telegrams from their Harwich correspondent : been granted to it for nothing. There may have been
"HestwlCH, Dec. 7. some grievances at the bottom of this dispute, but
"The North German Lloyd steamer Deutschland, of the Viceroy had hard measure in being compelled
Bremen, Captain Brickenstein, from Bremen for New York, to pay a capital sum of £3,360,000 on this occasion.
with emigrants, grounded on the Kentish Knock on Monday M. Dervieu calculates that this award cost Egypt
morning during a gale from the north-east, thick with snow. 24,600,000 to start with and it may well have cost
Part of the crew and passengers were landed here to-day by more, or the interest charged by the Government
the tug Liverpool, of Harwich, and placed under the care of
Mr Oliver John Williams, the North German Consul at against the company was always very high. Further,
Harwich. About fifty of the crew and passengers are the Khedive has been at great outlay in constructing
drowned. The names of the cabin passengers missing are the Fresh Water Canal from Cairo to Ouady, theecon-
Ludwig Heerman, J. Grossmann, Maria Forster, Emil Hack, cession for which was originally granted free to the
Bertha Fundling, Theodor Fuudling, five nuns, Proaoopi Suez Canal Company, and bought back for £400,000
Kadolkoff, and 0. Lundgren." when it was at its wits'-end for means to carry on the
Night. works. A port and dock have been constructed at
"The latest particulars I can ascertain about the Deutsch-
Suez by the Khedive • he has built lighthouses and
land to-night are that the shin struck the Kentish. Knock
bought back this' privilege and that until, altogether,
about five a m. on Monday during a heavy gale, thick with i
snow. Two boats left the ship, one with four hands and the , his stake n the conceria overtops all the others put
other with three From information gained from passengers, F together from a mere pecuniary point of -view. He is,
It appears that other boats were washed off the deck. The therefore, justly entitled to retain a large interest in
crew and passengers climbed into the rigging for safety, but the success of the enterprise.
a great many—the number varying from 50 upwards—were
,onmgeerssufftaerkeeduseovitertehlye.' "His last great sacrifice for the benefit of the Corn-
washed off by the sea. One child was landed here dead.
Se
vesselg give
e ayto you
noon
ocno rarne cdt
landed thheer
e psi-a t pany was that involving the cutting off elf twenty-five
yea's' coupons from the shares that England has
three p.m. • bought. As usual, the Company was in , want of
"First Calna—Willhelm Leick, Carl Dietrich Meyer. money, and could, not raise a penny on its own aecount.
Second Cablre—Theodor Tildman, Helm, Schein, J. T. Saver, It therefore- entered into another operation with the
Hermana Lathan, Franz Hann, August Haum, Edward Slaam, Egyptian Government, whereby it once more managed
Alfred Weeblg, Adolf Hermann Anna Pitzhold to get that. Government to pledge one of its dearly-
" The following are missing First Cabin.— T.' Grassi:nen. bought -assets in order to raiee further mat. The Corn-
Second Cabin.—Ludwig Hermann', x. aria Forster, Emil Hack,
,any ceded 'its" right to navigetsnand -levy tolls on the
Bertha Fulfilling, Theodore Fundling, Barbara Hilkensch-Canal—thetowhich d
midi, Henrico Tassbander, Lorbela Reenkober, Aurea Rad- • •
resh Water power make w a
jura, Brigella Bernhard. previously permitted the Khedive to buy back for
"It is impossible to ascertain the list of steerage passengers £400,000, interestiucluded—it ceded the right of fishing
and crew." in the Suez Canal and the lakes it traverses, as well as
all special privileges connected with the working and
"The Lords of the Admiralty reoeived a- telegram from maintenance of that Canal, and for these various conces-
Sheerness reporting that a small lifeboat had washed up on sions it charged £800,05.0. Further, it ceded to the
Garrison Point Beach this morning, containing one man alive Government for another £400,000 all the establish.
and two dead. From the imperfect English the survivor moats which it possessed on the Isthmus, such as hos-
speaks it was ascertained that the boat was washed away Ditals and their furniture, its magazines and establish-
from the Deutschland, of Bremen. Ills supposed this vessel
struck either the Galloper or Kentish Knock Sands, at the meats at Boulac and .Danehlta. This was £1,200,000,
entrance of the Thames. A tug has been sent from Sheerness which the Khedive had to pay or to enable time Corn-
to search and afford aid." pany to raise and he had to pay interest on it at 10
"The following telegram was received from the command- ! per cent. until it was paid. He had not got the money;
ing officer of Her Majesty's ship Penelope, at Harwich : and a fresh loan was not expedient so in order to
" 'The Deutschland, of and from Bremen for New- York, enable the Company to get its funds, the Khedive cut
with emigrants, grounde ion the Kentish Knock on Monday off 25 years' coUpOraii from his shares, beginning with
morning. She afterwards knocked over the sand, and is now the coupon payable on the Ist of January, 1870.
lying in 41 fathoms, apparently broken amidships. Esti- This arrangement was a most costly way of meeting
mated number of passengers and crew lost, 50; remainder '
landed and under the care of the German Consul at Harwich. the obligation, and as usual the Khedive sacrificed
The Locust, tug (sent from Sheerness to assist wreck), will with readiness a great deal more than the Canal Com-
pass Kentish Knock on the way to the Galloper.'" pany ought to have taken. Ten per cent. interest WM I
charged to the Government on this capital sum of 1
. £1,200,000, and as the Khedive could not pay either
the one or the other at the time, the Company accepted
the 25 years' coupons instead, which M. Dervieu calcu-
lates represented the capital sum of £1,600,000. But
that did not, it would seem, relieve him from the neeel3-.
sity of paying interest. He has still apparently to pay
10 per cent, to the Company because he has not yet'
paid the money he owes for these reconceded conces-
sions, &c. ; but as that would be a monstrous thing, we
are willing to suppose that on this point M. Dervieu
may be in error. Having got the coupons, the Corn-
pa,ny capitalized them by issuing against them 12e,000T
"obligations," which were to receive the 5 per cent.
jwhich the coupons were entitled to for the 25 years,
provision being made for their an/iodization within that
_period either by part of that 5 per cent. or by the share
'of the surplus profits falling to the coupons they repre-
sent under the Company's statutes.
"We have dwelt upon this particular transaction
it seems well to bring forward what has been
..Egetest feit.then Suez. Canal up to the present
tirne. -But for its sacrifices for the undertaking that '
Canal would never have been made, and the severe
fleecing to which its concessionnaires continually sub-
jected Egypt find, perhaps, their natural commentary
in the readiness with which the Khedive has thrown
Part of his interest in it into the hands of England.
The terms proposed in France for the purchase of
these shares prove that the tactics hitherto, so success-
ful were again to be tried of- getting as much as possi-
ble out of Egypt for the lowest possible price. On the
other hand, when the existing interests of the Khedive
are taken into account, it may be questioned whether
we have not paid too much for what we have got. An
expenditure of some £17,000,000 out of -his own re-
sources entitles the Khedive to a predominating in-
fluence over the Canal; but what with his interests
and those of the other proprietors of the Company, it
may well be feared that we must go further if we are
to reap the full benefit of our purchase. The
Khedive is still entitled to fifteen per cent, of the
excess profits after paying the statutory five per
cent. on the shares, and owns also, it is said, 2,000
or 2,500 founder's shares, which also participate in
these surplus profits. He is joint owner with the
Company of large tracts of land at Port Said and
along the Canal; and, finally, the whole property
reverts to him at the end of the Company's lease—
about 80 years from now, or rather less. The, pre-
ponderating influence in the affairs of the Canal is
still, therefore, that of the Khedive's Government, and
all that England possesses is a share in the ordinary
capital of the undertaking. It was a mistake to say,
as many did, that we had bought the reversionary in-
terest of the Khedive's shares, for that would have been
an absurd bargain. The reversion can only be treated
as a whole, it cannot be sold in sections. Out of a total
capital which has to be paid off before the expiration
of the lease out of the profits of the Company, amount-
ing to £12,800,000, according to our computation, or,
including the funded interest bonds and taking the
333,330 obligations at par, to nearly £16.000,000, we
have bought what is equivalent to £3,532,000, and
beyond that capitalthere lie the various interests of the
Khedive to which it would be difficult to assign a value.
Except, therefore, for the moral influence we may
exert on Egypt throngh this position, we have not
obtained so much ae we should require to give this
country the supreme command of the Canal from a
mere mercantile point of view, and the French reason,
evidently that circumstances will force us to buy up
further interests. The company hope to make us pay
a very high price for whatever more shares we want.
But in this they.are not unlikely to be mistaken. With
us it will never be a mere question of voting and fight-
ing at general meetings of a private commercial com-
pany. The value of these shares cannot be estimated
by that kind of guage at all, and if this purchase
means anything, it implies that an English influence
has succeeded a French one at the Court of the
Khedive, that he has come under that kind of relation
to England which tends to identify his interest in the
Canal with ours, and to make both work for the true
neutrality of that important highway.
"Further, even supposing that we are compelled to
go further, and buy up more of the C-anal capital, the
French financiers are mistaken in supposing that this
us an immediate necessity, or that it can require, the
amount of money they say. No doubt by putting a
fancy value on the remaining shares, and by, adding
in the trentenary obligations, the coupon bonds, and
the obligations, it is easy to make out a very big bill,
but we do nt.t require to buy up more than the shares
in reality to obtain complete control of the Canal.
Our estimate has been challenged as being witbin the
mark by some six millions, but it was rather beyond
it. If the French ask a very high. price for
t the bonds and shares they possess when we may be
compelled to buy, all that is necessary. is to 1.1.137
, merely the rest of. the shares' in order to attain our
purpose. At present these , shares are, at , a fancy , I
value. The Canal has obly just begun to pay its
statutory interest, and there is no rearm to supppse
that its receipts will advance as fast within the ne,xt
few years an they have done in the past. Until bet,
year the various steamship companies could not b# said
to have availed themselves fully of the Canal'sfacilities,
and until they did so the business of the Canal was
always liable to sudden augmentations.. But now
that nearly all the trade utsses through it that can,
pass, the growth of its business is dependent ,on the
ordinary growth of trade between Europe eud the
East. That will no doubt grow steadily; but it nsay
be years before its growth tells very much on the
receipts of the Canal, while much work remains to be
done on it to meets it perfect. As the varions.bonds
are paid off the profit falling to the shares—also de-
creasing in number—will increase ill volume, but tha
is not ari immediate thing, and it is, 'therefore, an
error to assess these shares now at an extravagant
value in the hope that England may lee cempelled,io

On Tuesday, at the meeting of the Smithfield Club,
Lord Walsingham was elected President for 1877, and
the name of Lord Tredegar was added to the list ot
Vice-Presidents.. A special address of thanks was
voted to Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, who for 32 years has
been honorary secretary of the Club.

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LOSS OF THE "DEUTSCHLAND."

The following telegrams were received on Tuesday
at Lloyd's:—

"SHEERNESS, Dec. 7.
"A boat came ashore this morning from the Deutschland,
steamer, with Quartermaster named Beck August and two
dead men in her. Had been in boat 33 hour."

"2.30 p.m.
" Quartermaster of Deutschland named August, one named
Forsenstein, one not known.
"General cargo and passengers.
"Not known what has become of ship or the rest of pas-
sengers and crew.
"Steamer struck on sandbank in North Sea. One boat
left ship before him.
"Number of passengers and crew 350. He thinks aU the
rest are lost."
"HARWICH, Dec. 7.
The Deutschland, North German steamer, from Bremen
for New York, with emigrants, grounded on the Kentish
Knock at 5 am. on Monday morning. Heavy north-east
gale; thick, with snow. Crew and passengers drowned.
The Deutschland has beaten over the Kentish Knock, and is
now in four-auct-a•half fathoms water, apparently parted
amidships.
"When Captain Brickenstein left the steamer she was
full of water, rising and falling with the tide. Assistance
has been sent."

A Special Reporter of the Press Association at
_Sheerness, sent to The Times the following additional
particulars, which were (on Tuesday night) elicited
from the Quartermaster who was then supposed to be
the only survivor of the dis.,ister. The Quartermaster
said .
"lam a seaman belonging to the Deutsch2=l. lam
Quartermaster of the ship. I sin a married man, belong to
Bremerhaven, and have two little children. We had 130 in
the crew, and I think from 150 to 200 passengers and the
mails and cargo. We were going to New York, but should
call at Southampton on the way out. We left Bremen on
Saturday and when we got beside the lightship we let go
anchor. On Sunday morning we weighed anchor and pro-
ceeded on our voyage, a regular gale blowing at the time.
In the evening, during a storm, we struck on a bank
and stuck fast. It had been blowing heavily. We tried to
get off, but could not • the sea washed over us fore and aft,
carrying away much Of our gear. Tin captain kept very
cool, and when the vessel grounded he ordered the lifebelts
to be served out to both the passergers and the crew. In the
morning the ship being -about to break up, tai we thought,:
the captain told us to lower the" lifeboats. I. and two sea-
man got into one, but in lowering it the heavy seas twice
capsized it, and we were each time thrown into the water. '
We managed to get into the boat, which righted, but were
dismayed at finding ourselves adrift, as the rope fastening us
to the ship had broken. We endeavoured to pull back to the
ship, but were not strong enough in the heavy lifeboat td
make head against the heavy sea. The last I saw of the ship
they were endeavouring to• launch all the boats. The sea
'was very wild at the time, and the ship laboured heavily. I
got up a small sail, and drifted before the wind, but my two
mates were soon helpless through the blinding snow and
piercing cold. One died the same night and the other on the
next morning. On Monday I saw several ships and made
signs of distress, but none came near me. On Tuesday morn-
ing I passed a lightship and called out again, but I suppose
they did not hear me. I saw a light on shore, and I luckily
managed to steer my boat to it."

Ibecame
.dotely

The survivor was too exhausted to give further par-
ticulars of the conduct of the captain and crew after
the vessel struck, and said, "I hope to have a better
night's sleep to-night than I have had these last three
nights. A remark having been made that it seemed
strange that he was not provided with alifebelt the same
as his two deceased comrades, a smile broke over the
poor fellow'e face as he replied, "AU my thoughts, Sir,
were at the time to get the lifeboats out to save the
passengers, and I forgot my belt." He seemed anxious
to know the fate of the remainder of the crew and
the passengers of the ill fated vessel, and appeared
disappointed when told that nothing whatever was
known there as to their safety or otherwise.

A telegram from Harwich t, the Daily Hews says:
The scene at the wreck on the arrival of the tug is
beyond description. Strong men, women, and children
were clinging to the rigging as their only resource,
some in their last struggles of death; and in
the cabins could be seen the corpses of ladies.
as they had lain down calmly to rest-, and poor
children also. The captain and crew of the steam-
tug immediately took on board the whole of
the surviving crew and passengers, about one
hundred and forty in all, with the few articles of
clothing which the poor "souls had been enabled to
grasp. They then succeeded in rescuing twenty-five
bags of mails. These had been under water some seven
or eight hours. The tug proceeded immediately for
Harwich, where she arrived about three p.m., one poor
child dying whilst on board. Oa their arrival at Har-
wich the crew and passengers received the greatest
attention from the North German Consul, Mr. 0. J.
Williams, who at once procured everything
necessary for these unfortunate creatures, having
provided food and clothing for them, and
obtained comfortable lodgings for each. They were
very glad to take rest, having been exposed for so
many hours in the rigging with the sea flying over
them, and to one of the most severe frosts experienced
during the present winter. The mail master was
amongst the first who were lost, the captain and officers
being wholly worn out from the exertions and ex-
posure to the sea and frost. The mail bags were
removed to the Post-office authorities at Harwich,
who at once took charge of the same, and forwarded
them by first train to the General Post-office, London,
for disposal.

.-' A. telegram from Sheerness on Wednesday, said :
t.
he Admiral at this dockyard has received a, telegram
stating that the captain' and a number of passengers
1 and crew have arrived at 'Harwich. It is now sup-
posed that the loss will not exceed fifty lives. The
survivor who landed at Sheerness on Tuesday is pro-
;ressinc, favourably. He has a few bruises on his
tands,'his arms are very much swollen, and his eyes
doodshot, but the staff-surgeon thinks he will be able
to leave in about four days. One of the three occupants
of the boat which was discovered at Sheerness on
'Tuesday morning was severely injured when she
capsized near the steamer, and died from these injuries
in about one hour after they ported from the vessel.
The other man lived until the afternoon, but could not
keep himself warm,_ and, in spite of the attempts of
his cot:dim:hid& tt* ronierliim, sank into a stupor, in
which he died; ‘' ' ...

PRACTICAL LESSONS IN COOKERY.
At the Berle 'lsle Mission IT%II, near the Cattle.'
market, in London on Friday, a large meeting, chiefly
of women and babies, met to hear something about
soups and Australian meats. Mr. Benson presided;
and the proceedings opened with one of Moody and
Sankey's hymns. Mr. 13uckmaster then proceedto,
with the assistance of Mrs. Benson, to prepare a sou)
from the jelly and trimmings of a tin of preserved
meat, flavoured with a few veketablel,.and thickened
with pea flour. A most excellent soup was thus pre-
pared. Another soup, but not quite so tasty, was pre-
pared with two cabbages, three pennyworth of bones,
a cup of oatmeal, and a pint of milk. Some of the
preserved meat was made into a very excellent and
savoury stew, with onions and potatoes. Then followed
a dish of stewed haricot beans. The various dishes were
soon eaten up, and all of them were quite new to the
audience. Mr. Buckmaster gave some useful hints as
to what consisted a food, and condemned the general use
of tea among children and working people. He said:
I do not mean to tell you that a tin of preserved meat
has all the juicy sapid flavour of a piece of good roast
beef; but it is a good food and cheaper than butcher's

pay it,"

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On Sunday afternoon the Archbishop of CantOrbit'
preached at the University Church, Cambridge. His text
was taken from Corinthians, and his sermon was a conten-
tion that the Church of England was right in her doctrine
that gifts were of the Holy Spirit. His Grace at the close
spoke in favour of ITniverstties adhering to religious prin-
ciples without going back to old systems. He impressed
mon young students the importance of making the best use
If their time, as it was to the Universities (that England
looked. Ile thanked God for the sPhool of itheologyEand
)'vine philosophy growing up,

WEEDS IS WATER PURIFIERS.
Mr. J. J. Mechi, writing to the Gardeners Magazine
empara• says .
mperic Into my pond runs a stream of twenty-five gallons
per minute of pure water from a drain which I cut
twelve feet deep some thirty odd years ago. Weeds
up will grow and thrive in this pond, and we have
annually to rake out large quantities of them. They
look very' beautijul as they grow in the pellucid water,
which is used for household purposes. Said a visitor
to me one day, "If you had a pair of swans your pond
would be free of weeds ;" so a kind friend presented
~- me witla-a- pairrand very-soon they-cleared the pond;
pulling the weeds up by the roots and feeding on them.
My family were delighted with the graceful swans and
the removal of weedy obstructions to boating; but
towing interes, elthough-the-pond was free of weeds the water was
• no longer pure and pellucid, but most decidedly muddy
id taste, and when the steam issued from the kettle the
smell of-naud was uninistakeable. Well, no one thought
ittcould be the swans, but at last I came to that con-
clusion and, despite family and, other remonstrances,
returned them to their original owner. After a short
period the weeds reappeared, and, as they increased
in; bulk, the water gradually resumed its pellucidity
and purity, and Richard was himself again." What
the weeds do for the water and its occupants the land
vegetation does for the air; men, animals, and other
liting creatures poison it, while vegetation absorbs
the injurious gases, and regonverts them into whole,
some food and ifuel for man and beast, ailing the
atmosphere with that precious oxygen without which
men and animals and other living creatures could no
lopger exist. So it is in the vast ocean whose living
occupants and vegetation probably exceed in quantity
that which is on land. We owe to the river vegeta-
tion much of the purity of water. It is the excess of
impurities from our towns which are beyond its powers
of appropriation.

pond,- I

of weeds, the watei-was

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