The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1670.

THE SUCCESS OF THE SUEZ CANAL

Notwithstanding the ersistent opposition of English in-
terests, the ,misrepresentations of jealous foes and the
scarcel less embarrassing hints of d.iubting friends, the
great canal which unites the commerce of the Mediter.
ranean and of the waters of the East is a corn' ete success.
For a time rumour after rumour came to us of this, that, and
the other difficulty in the way of a noble enterprise which
had been inaugurated amid the a plause of Christendom,
and in the presence of some of its, most distinguished repre-
sentatives. All this cavilling ha, been practically set at
rest by a statement which has recently been issued by the
directors of the Suez Company. It yields striking evidence
of rapid progress. The report extends from the 20th of
November, 1869, the opening day, until the Ist of March,
1870. -In that time fifty-five large vessels had passed
through the canal, their trips being subdivided as fol-
lows :—k.ne in November, nine in December, six-
teen in January and. twenty-nine in February.' The
tolls taken increased from about seventy-five thousand
francs in the first to nearly three hundred and forty-one
thousand in the last named month. The number of larger
vessels is, exclusive of five hundred and seventy-five trading
boats or barks, paying a smaller percentage of toll. Thus it
will be seen that traffic on the new channel has grown
nearly fivefold i the first quarter of its first year of exist-
ence, in spite of all drawbacks. March opened full of pro-
mise, and would at least double the work of Februry. In
the meantime the French steamship companies at Marseilles,
the Italians at Genoa, Leghorn, and Naples, and the Aus-
trian Lloyds at Trieste, are establishing lines of service
direct for the Red Sea and the further East via Suez, with
every prospect of accumulating trade. French Oriental com-
merce amounts already to nearly 800,000,000 dollars to and
fro per annum. 0 this a very large pro ortion, if not all,
must be attracted to the canal, with what results for that
work we leave our readers to conclude. One thing. is quite evi-
dent—viz., that the Suez Canal, spacious as it is, will soon
be crowded and another outlet will be needed from the At-
lantic to the Eastern marts. Visible testimony points with
unerring directness to the proposed canal through the Isth-
mus of Darien. To restore equilibrium, adjust the differences
of trade and open the natural chann Is which commerce is
seeking on all sides to accele ate her onward march ; that
crowning work has become a no essity for the present gene-
ration. Ten years hence our Southern inlets and the Gulf
of Mexico will be teeming with trade, and our Pacific coast,
encrusted with maritime cities, be flashing their steam and
electricity, in continuous currents, to the marts at the mouth
of the Amoor river and along the eager shores of ( hina and
Japan. With both Suez and Darien open the great republic
would sit enthroned upon the central seat among the nations,
dispensing, on the right hand and the left, the ma chless in-
fluenc which, beginning in riendly and lucrative trade,
becomes at last a fraternal bond between all tongues and
peoples. • New York Herald.

POSTAGE TO THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.
A postal convention, establishing and regulating the
exchange of correspondence between the United States-
and the Hawaiian Islands, has been concluded and will be
carried into operation on the Ist of July, 1870. It pro-
vides for a regular exchange of correspondence between
the two countries by means of the United States steamers
plying between San Francisco and Honolulu, as well as
by occasional steamers and sailing vessels plying between
Honolulu and San Franciso, Portland, Oregon, or the
ports on Puget's Sound, comprising letters, newspapers
and printed matter of every kind originating in either
country and addressed to and deliverable in the other
country. San Franciso, New York, Boston, Portland,'
Oregan, Teekalet, Olympia, and Port Townshend, Wash-
ington Territory, are the offices of exchange on
the side of the United State, and Honolulu and
Hilo the Hawaiian offices of exchange. The rates of
postage to be levied and collected in the United States,
on and after July 1, 1870, on correspondence addressed
to or received from the Hawaiian Kingdom will be as
follows, viz. :—On letters, six cents per each single rate
of half an ounce or under, to be fully prepaid at the
mailing-office in all cases' by means of United States
postage stamps. If not fully prepaid they cannot be
forwarded. Letters received in either country from the
other are to be delivered free of all charges whatsover.
Second—On newspapers sent or received the regular
rates of United States domestic postage are to be levied
and collected ; if transient papers two cents. per each
four ounces or fraction thereof ; and if sent to regular
subscribers .the prepaid quarterly rates. Third—On
other printed matter, four cents. per each weight of four
ounces or fraction thereof, whether sent or received.
Postmasters will levy and collect postage accordingly on
and after July 1, 1870.

THE NEW TERRITORY.

Manitobah, which in the Indian tongue signifies the

" Speaking God," is the name decided upon by the Cana-
dian Ministry as the official title for the territory just
acquired from the Hudson's Bay Company, and popularly
known as Winnepeg or the Red River Country. In intro-
ducing the bill for the government of that region, Sir
John A. Macdonald remarked that the appellation terri-
tory was unknown in the British Colonial system, and
that the Cabinet had resolved to adopt the usual term
" province," had availing themselves of the euphonious
Indian dialect, and called the'new acquisition the province
of Manitobah, or " Speaking God." The boundary line of
the province runs along the U.S. frontier, between 96
degrees west, and 98 degrees west from 'Greenwich, and
along the 49th parallel on the south, and the parallel at a
distance of 50i degrees north of the equator. The pro-
vince contains an area of 11,000 square miles, and includes
all the settlements on the Assinboin and Red Rivers, and
between Lake Winnipeg and Lake Manitobah.
The local Legislature of the Province is to
consist of two Chambers, a Council of seven
members, ultimately to be increased to twelve,
and an assembly of twenty-four members, to be
elected by as many districts, and their qualifications are
the possession of a house and residence for one year. The
executive department is to be compOsed of a Lieutenant-
Governor, with an executive council of seven persons. The
Province will be represented in the Dominion Parliament
—in the Senate by two members, and in the House of
Commons by four members, one to be chosen in each of
four separate electoral districts. When the population
amounts to 50,000, the Senators will be three in number,
and when 75,000, be four. The same qualifications are
required for electors as at the Provincial and Dominion
elections. The Province has the power of amending its
own constitution. The public lands not specially allotted
belong to the Dominion, and for the purpose of extin-
guishing the Indian title, 120000 acres tare reserved for
occupancy by the Indians. The Dominion Parliament is
to grant a subsidy of eighty cents a head, and also
$390,000 for other pm-poses. In the public proceedings'
either the English or French language may be used, and
the public records are kept in both.—Philadelphia Ledger.

SAD SEQUENCE OF THE LOUISIANA
VENDETTA.

The concluding chapter in the recent Catahoula ven-
detta, wherein General Liddell, Colonel Jones and son
were killed, has yet to be related. A few days ago Mrs.
Charles Jones, with her two daughters and a young son,
reached the mouth of the river in the German steamer.
She had hurried from Heidelberg, Germany, where she
had been residing for some time superintending the
education of her children, expecting to meet her
husband and two sons in the city, entirely
unconscious of their sad fate. When the steamer
crossed the bar, the pilot who came aboard was
asked by Mrs. Jones if he knew Colonel Charles Jones,
of Catahoula. The reply was that he had heard of him,
but declining or evading any further conversation, the
lady's curiosity was excited, and she was filled with
gloomy apprehensions of impending calamity. These ap-
prehensions were very natural to a lady, who had been
for so many years cognizant of the bitter feud which had
so long existed between her husband and General Liddell,
and who more than twenty years ago had witnessed the
cruel and nearly mortal wounding of her husband in the
incident which gave rise to this feud. The kindly pilot,
who could not bear to communicate to Mrs. Jones
directly the sad intelligence of her husband's
fate, whispered it to some of the passengers,
wno informed Mrs. Jones that she must pre-
pare herself for some sorrowful news on ' reach-
ing the city. She retired to her state-room, and
there remained in a state of distressing grief and anxiety
' until the steamer reached the city. On the arrival at the
wharf, almost the first person who boarded the steamer
was young Jones, the survivor of the awful tragedy at
Harrisonburgh. He rushed into his mother's room, and
Was the first to communicate the terrible truth to his
mother. We shall not attempt to describe the scene
followed. Kind friends took charge of the afflicted lady.
After remaining here but a few days, she left to return
to Germany with her family, and devote the remainder of
her life to the education of her children. May time
aSsuage the great sorrows of this afflicted lady, and may
her remaining days, though ever so sorrowful,• be undis-
turbed by further griefs and afflictions.—New Orleans
Times, April 29.