The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-29 00:00:00

THE SUEZ CANAL.

In a paper read before the Society of Arts, Mr.
D. A. Lange, the principal English representative of
the Suez Canal Company, gives an interesting
narrative of the enterprise. He mentions
that the chief obstacle encountered was the
difficulty of forming a channel through Lake Man-
zalah.. • When its mud was stirred, the sulphuric
exhalations were almost insupportable; and yet,
strange to say, they were not injurious to health.
Trantara, in Mr. Lange's opinion, is destined
to recover its ancient importance as
the point of transit from Egypt to
Syria. With regard to the future, Mr. Lange is san-
guine of the canal becoming the ordinary highway
between East and West. Other speakers urged that
in the interest of trade the neutrality of the canal
should be guaranteed by the Great Powers, who
ought also to contribute the five or six millions neces-
sary for deepening and widening purposes.

ODIOUS COMPARISONS.
The Journal des Debats reads Englishmen an
instructive lesson on the recent catastrophe. in Greece.
It is not disposed to hold the Greek Government
responsible for what happened, for it was
hardly to be expected that the administration
would treat assassins on a footing of equality. Bri-
gandage in Greece is a legacy left by former hateful
governments to their successors, and there are divers
other legacies of the hind for which existing
peoples and their rulers would hardly like to
be responsible. The terrorism which formerly pre-
vailed in the neighbourhood of Naples, the rampant
brigandage on the mountains of Toledo, and the
tumbling of landlords in Ireland are all relics of
previous hateful governments. But present govern-
ments should at least try to get rid of their relics,
and the Greek rulers have done nothing of the kind.
Moreover, the foolish procedures of the various
ministers in first treating with the brigands, and then
sending troops after them, have nothing to do
with legacies.

AMERICAN FENIANISM.
In moving. the suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act, Sir J. A. Macdonald informed the Canadian
Legislature that the Government would not pia
before the House the exact information re-
ceived, as that might be dangerous tQ
the persons who had given it, but the'
news. came from so many sources, official and
unofficial, that the Ministry had not the shadow of
a doubt it was the intention of the Fenians to make
an attack without delay. Sir John Macdonald
further said that the Fenian organisation was more
active now than it had been for a long time, and he
believed its attempts against Canada would
continue for years. Preparations for inva-
sion are said to have been going on all.
last autumn and winter, and the Brotherhood wowould..appear to have abandoned its old policy of causing-±
excitement by means of
tho press, and to hay
adopted the course of carrying out its arrangementli
in silence. The proposed measure passed both'
Houses, and received the assent of the Governor-
General during one afternoon.

Mr. Anderson, M.P. for Glasgow, has been seriously
ill, and his medical advisers prohibit his giving any
attention to Parliamentary or other matters at present.
The death is announced of J. J. Geary, who was
reputed head centre of the Fenian Brotherhood in Cork
in 1865. A reward of £2OO was offered for his capture at
the close of that year, but he escaped to America, where
he resided ever since. Geary died in New York from
the effects of an accident, and it is said that his wife
and five children have been left in a very destitute cir-
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