The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-05 00:00:00

Stockwell filly
Paste
Arcadia

Seven ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Asteriod
Cape Flyaway
Miss Whip, b h ........... 2
Three ran. 3
MATCH.
Rising Sun beat Makeless filly.

Two THOUSAND GUINEAS.-- OLD CALABAR scratched
at 1L45 this forenoon.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE,
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
9to 2 agst Alvediston (taken)
sto 1 agst The Marquis Oaken)
7to 1 agst Nottingham (taken)
Bto 1 agst Stockwell colt (taken)
9to 1 agst Caterer (taken)

TILE DERBY.
1000
25 to 1 agst Laughing Stcck (taken)
to 15 agat Clarissa colt (taken)
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.— Satellite and Gwellyansare
scratched.
Two THOUSAND GulavnAs.—Olive Branch, Knight of
the Garter, Annette, Despot, Barbado3s, Fair Jean colt,
Sagscaroa, Athlete, Watchfire, Merry Dancer,
Santa Claus, Bulls'-eye, Shooting Star, and Newmarket
are scratched.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1862.
MAY.

Newmarket F 5........ 5 Salisbary
.. 27
York Spring ...... 20 liarproden 23
JUNE.
Epsom Summer.. .. 3 Beverley lB
Chelmsford ll Newcastle
amp
..... .
Ascot .. 17 Carlisle .............. 26
JULY.
Odiham .............. 1
Bibury Club
Newton ...........
Stockbridge 3
Winchester
Newmarket
'Worcester . 10
Liverpool ........ 16

Abingdon ............ 15
Pontefract ............ 1
Hungerford
...... 1 r
Nottingham .......... 22
Southampton ........ 2
Stamford .. 24
Marlborough
Goodwood
LUST.

Radcliffe ... AZ
4
Brighton. 5
Brighton Club
Lewes 8
Wolverhampton
Reading
Wenlock l5

York
Stockton 26
Egham
Lichfield ......
Bridgwater.,,...
Ludlow

THE SUEZ CANAL.

A letter from Alexandria, dated April 25, says
—The Suez Canal Company have lately been en-
abled, by means of the large supply of men obtained
from the Government, to push on their operations
with greater activity. They have at the present
moment, according to the information I have re-
ceived from a gentleman who has just returned front
the Isthmus, in forced labour about 22,000 men, an d
about 1,500 volunteers. The intention is to raise
the number of labourers to 40,000 men if the Govern-
ment can be induced to grant them. At present
the work is almost entirely concentrated upon the
cutting to be made through the sand heights of
El Djisr, and the engineers of the company
promise that the rigole de service, or small ele..
mentary canal, will, within the next, two
months, convey the water of the Mediterranean
into the basin of Lake Timaah. This canal, it
will be remembered, is about 15 feet wide and
about 18 inches in depth. The portion of the
rigole constructed through Lake Menzaleh last year
has been almost entirely obliterated. Some 22 dredg-
ing machines are shortly to be at work excavating
the canal on the full scale, and with strong embank-
ments. At Port Said some of the iron piles lately
driven into the sea for the purpose of forming a
small stone islet on the line of the proposed western
jetty have, after a severe storm, been either bent
or else they have given way in their foundations,
and the cross iron tie-bars have been broken a•,va3•.
These skeleton frames of iron are intendrA, to be
filled with large blocks of stone, to be irought for
the purpose from the quarries of Mex, near Alex-
andria. The wooden jetty t);at projects from the
shore, and wilieh is constructed with wooden piles
filled in with stone, has not been injured by the
late storm.

It will be seen from the above that very much, in
fact, almost everything, still remains to be done,
and, as the annual meeting of the shareholders
takes place at Paris on the Ist of next month, we
shall very shortly have a statement of the expendi-
ture that has been incurred up to the present. Whe-
ther the project will or will not be brought to a
successful termination is, of course, entirely a ques-
tion of money and men. Where these can be ob-
tained in sufficient abundance it can hardly be said
that the accomplishment of any work whatc-feer is
beyond the skill of modern engineering. But there
is clearly room for the strongest doubt that the
capital subscribed by the company will be sufficient
to effect the object, and when it is exhausted it is
difficult to see whence another supply will be
obtained, especially as the improbability of the
canal, even if made, ever paying or being of any
practical use must become more and more apparent.
It is not unlikely also that it will presently be dis-
covered that the Isthmus of Suez is, after all, not a
weak point dans la euirasse Anglaise.