The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

In the Referee Court B, the case of the North
British and Edinburgh and Glasgow (Bridge of
Forth) Bill was continued ; the North Eastern (Gil-
ling, Helmsley, and Tickering Branch) Bill was re-
jected. In group 10, the case of the Midland Rail-
way (new lines, &c.) was continued. In group 11,
the case of the Chester and West Cheshire Junction
Bill was proceeded with. In group 12, the case of the
Central Wales and Staffordshire Junction Bill was
proceeded with. In group 14, the preamble of the
Great Western Bill was proved, the Radstock and
Bath Bill was withdrawn, and the case of the East
Somerset Extension Bill was proceeded with ; the
Stonehouse and Nailsworth Bill was thrown out ; the
Rickmansworth, Amersham, and Chesham Bill,
being unopposed, was referred to the general com-
mittee. In group 19, the preamble of the Aberyst-
with and Welsh Coast Bill was proved ; the Calmar-
von and Llanberis Bill, being unopposed, was
referred to the general committee.

The Report of the Delegates on the Suez

Canal,

(REUTE n's EXPRESS.)

The undersigned delegates of the Chambers of
Commerce to the Canal of Suez, after having exa-
mined the works already done, and taken into con-
sideration the possibility of the enterprise, report:—

" We started on the 7th instant from Alexandria
by railway for Cairo, where we remained until the
morninglof the 9th. We then proceeded by railway
to Lagazig, where we embarked at nine o'clock a.m.
in boats drawn by mules and camels on the fresh
water canal made by Mehemet Ali, and arrived the
same day at Telel-Kebir, a station of the company.
On the 10th, in the morning we continued our jour-
ney in the same manner, and at noon we entered
upon the fresh water canal made by the company.
At five o'clock p.m.- we arrived at Ismailia, the cen-
tral station on the Suez Canal. The 11th we re-
mained at Ismailia to examine the works there, as
well as those of Serapium, the most elevated points
of the Isthmus. The 12th we started from Ismailia,
by the sea canal, in boats of small draught drawn
by mules and camels. We arrived at Kantara at
four o'clock p.m., having visited the important
workshops and works of El Guisr and El Terdan.
From this point, in many places and for a length
altogether of 60 kilometres (about 36 miles), the
canal is already excavated to its full width. The
portion previously traversed was only about one-
third of the width proposed. The 13th we left Kan-
tara in the same way for Port Said. Twenty kilo-
metres (12 miles) before reaching this place we
found five small steamboats which brought us to the
Mediterranean. There we examined the piers in
course of construction. The 14th we remained at
Port Said to visit the important buildings, work-
shops, and materials which the company possess in
that town. The 15th we returned by boat to
Ismailia, and the 16th, in the morning, we started
for Suez by the fresh water canal in boats drawn by
mules and camels, arriving at Suez in the evening.
The two locks intended to connect the sea canal
with the fresh water canal, in course of construction
at Ismailia, are not yet finished, and a transshipment
here is now necessary. Our passage from the Medi-
terranean to the Red Sea was accomplished in 27
hours as follows :-11 hours from Port Said to
Ismailia, and 16 hours thence to Suez. A telegraphic
wire extends the whole length of the canal, commu-
nicating with the wires of Cairo, Alexandria, and
Suez. During our voyage we had opportunity to
observe the excavators and other machines used for
digging the canal. All the works belonging to the
company appeared to us built and equipped in a
solid and permanent manner. In our opinion the
construction of a ship canal across the Isthmus is
only a question of time and money. We are in-
formed that the company has already made contracts
with various contractors for the completion of the
ship canal by the Ist July, 1868, without exceeding
the actual capital, including therein the indemnity
due by the Egyptian Government, under the award
of the Emperor Napoleon 111. During the whole
of our trip we received the greatest hospitality from
M. de Lesseps and the engineers of the company,
and these gentlemen answered freely all the ques-
tions which we put to them.
(Signed by the delegates.)
" Cairo, April 17."

WEDGWOOD'S FIRST PARTNERSHIP.—Some time
early in the year 1751 or 170, the young man took
upon himself the management of Alder's pot-work, at pro-
bably a very low salary, judging it by the sums then paid
to modellers and other high-class workmen by the master
potters, or to mon like Brindley for engineering work of a
most complicated kind. But it was soon seon that a
master-hand had come amongst them. Even the blue
scratched and common wares began to show a density of
body, a clearness of glaze, and an improvement in form.
The barbarous art which also adorned them also betokened
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new to the works, and found ready purchasers in
Birmingham, Manchester, and elsewhere. Tho cupidity
of Harrison and his partner were excited. They urged the
young man to fresh exertion in this direction, without
increasing his share in the profits; whilst personally he
was hindered in many ways by their ignorance, inter-
ference, and by the absence of those necessaries without
which no improvement in an art or science can be carried
onwards. All this was wholly antagonistic to such a
nature ; for, as commonly the case with knaves, they
mistook the character of the man they sought to overreach.
Incapable himself of meanness, trickery, or profiting
by others' loss, and already well aware that his art, like
land in the care of the agriculturist, must have capital as
well as labour bestowed upon it, if generous produce is to
bo expected, revolted at length against their cupidity. The
partnership was brought to an end more speedily than is
generally supposed. By some it is stated to have lasted
two years ; it probably did not last more than one.—
Mcteyard's Life of Wedgwood.