The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, INOVEMBER 29, 1869

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assuage the pain of present grievous taxation by the
prospect of future large remissions. Mr. LOWE will
be expected to do great things next year. The
Minister who could convert a deficit of four mil-
lions into a surplus ought to do wonders when there
is no Abyssinian War to defray. Yet even he cannot
effect reductions of taxation without making reduc-
tions of expenditure, and thus we are led to ask what
departments of the service will feel his pruning
hand ? There can be but one answer to this
question; it is " the Services" which will be the
first to acknowledge his presence. The admirable
reform carried out by Mr. BAXTER at the Admiralty
would, even if they were to stop short now, offer a con-
siderable saving for next year's estimates. But it is
the advantage of these reforms that they need not
stop for many a day. They are most prolific. A
simple alteration in the mode of buying coals and
timber—the alteration of employing buyers who
understand the articles they purchase—has led to a
saving of millions. Then, again, there are establish-

ments which either have been closed or shortly
will be closed, such as -Woolwich and Deptford
Dockyards, and which will hereafter bring in a
revenue instead of being a drain upon our resources
as hitherto. There is little doubt that an alteration
will shortly be made in the selection of dockyards-
men, and that before long we shall see a check
put upon the system by which we are bur-
dened for their life with nine or ten thousand

"established" men who know nothing about iron ship-
building. At the War Office there is almost equal
need of, though greater difficulty, in effecting reforms
which involve reductions. Mr. CHILDERS is for-
tunate enough to have no Royal personage to deal
with. Mr. CARDWELL is less happy, and the world
will never know what an obstacle he has had to
encounter at the Horse Guards.
" What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted."
Yet even the Commander-in-Chief has had to give
way, and, it is stated, apparently with authority, that
His Royal highness will shortly move his quarters
from Whitehall to Pall-Mall. This change will
certainly lead to economy, and if the rumour
be true that Mr. CARDWELL is to have a
secretary, who will serve him as well as
Mr. BAXTER has served Mr. CHILDERS, there will be
ample security for even greater reductions. Finally,
there is the new Control system which has only just
come into general operation, and which, if we may
judge from its effects when adopted partially, will
have the happiest result. Altogether, there is good
reason for being cheerful, even though the thought of
our income-tax returns does weigh upon us.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 27.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 123/ ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 125; the lowest, 123/.
Sterling Exchange on London lOBl.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1889
4'
" 1885 1121•
ct
" 1867 ll4f.
10-40 tr.
Illinois 1361.
Erie
Cotton—Mid. upland 2slc.
Petroleum—Standard Ilrhite 32ic.
Flour, extra state, $5.35c. to $5.95c. Corn, old
mixed, sl.loc.

NEW YORK, Nov. 28.
The Guion steamship Idaho, from Liverpool,
arrived here at 2 a.m. to-day.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.
The rumours current here of the despatch of
ships with troops to Egypt are unfounded.
The following are the real facts of the case :
Three Ministerial Councils have been held in the
course of the week for the consideration of the
Khedive's last reply, in which his Highness deferen-
tially declines to submit his budget to the Porte,
and maintains his independent right to contract

THE SUEZ CANAL.

The corresponaent of the Daily .2Veivs who is reporting
the opening of the Suez Canal writes, under date "Port
Said, Nov. fifth, Night:"—" The Canal is open. We were
told so three times and in the most solemn way this after-
noon by Monsignor Bauer with the Empress of the French,
the Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Prussia, the
Queen of Holland, the Khedive, and other scarcely less
important witnesses. It was a strange and striking sight.
On the sands of the Mediterranean and about an eighth of
a mile from the harbour were three state kiosks. One,
the largest, was spacious, and with its two wings held
three hundred people. This was for the Khedive, his
royal, and some of his ecclesiastical guests. It had two
openings, each gained by a carpeted staircase, and the
whole structure was open all round, its one flooring or
platform being some twelve feet from the ground. It
was reached from the harbour by a temporary road-
way, guarded by Egyptian soldiers, along tho clear space
of which the royal and a few other of the Khedive's
guests walked on foot, taking their seats with backs to
the town, with the harbour and its countless flags on
their right, and the Arab quarter and the strip of
sand dividing Lake Mcnsaleh from the sea stretching far
away on the left hand. The Canal was not visible. Be-
tween this state structure and the Mediterranean were
two smaller kiosks, each facing it, the one to the left
painted green and white,being destitute of internal decora-
tion, and containing six Mussulman Mollahs, all of high
rank in the Mahomedan Church; the one to the right
being fitted with an altar laden with a silver cross
and massive candlesticks, and filled with bearded
priests of the Greek Church, monks, and acolytes in
scarlet. Between these two,'and forming a background to
them, rolled the open sea; between them again and the
first kiosk were the sands. A handful of bystanders were
permitted to occupy the intervening space, but the vast
majority of spectators lined the road from the harbour
and kept their position during the proceedings. Standing
between the three kiosks, you saw the faces in each, and
as the principal or viceregal one filled, the central space
between its wings, occupied by Coptic and Armenian
priests, bearded and gowned, and each looking like the
conventional Merchant as seen on the British stage,became
a mass of brilliant colour. The Hon. Mr. Elliot, her
Majesty's representative at Constantinople, in diplomatic
uniform of blue and gold, sat on the extreme left. Next
him was the Queen of Holland, in pale lavender silk; then
the Khedive, in fez and Turkish uniform, with the grand
cordon of the Medijie across his breast. The Empress of
the French came next, and it was admitted on all hands that
her Majesty never looked more lovely. She was draped in a
delicate lilac silk with many flounces and much whitolace ;
the double skirt of the said dress being looped up, and its
body cut in evening fashion.