The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1865-03-04
The SucZ Canal H'inis Il ed.

Some wears ago, when the editors Of Amer.
lean newspapers had but few stirring events
a. home 10 speak OF, their versatile pens drew
instruction from the affairs OF the Eastern
lieTIs sphere, and were busy with questions OF
Importance to nations lar distant. European
politics we're keeuly watched, and whenever
any OF the States OF the Old " Wor!d got into
war, the events oi each campaign were fol-
lowed with an earnest attention which never
i;.!terrl. Oar people were duly instructed in
the nights and wrongs ol every foreign qucs-
ton, and in regard to trai slctious across I! c
water, they were Kept duly apprlsed OF the
succession ot events.
Ia those happy times, when We little dream
Cd lha: war II DIR country would ever de-
maul the exercise o: oar stateIlc faculties,
We were content 10 trace out the slow move
IHeUts OF the CrImcau WAT, or to .5!lOw Louis
Napoleon Ja his rapid march through Italy.
OF commercial matters aud great geOgraphI
Cd! enterprise there WAS much 10 say. and.
perhaps. no Iu,tter Was more widely spoken
ot than lie Sggz Canal, projected by au
enthusiastic ErcUcAUlan. Mon. Lesseps.
This grca; undertaking. Ion, under consid
Grafton, was - subject VI European intrigue
in which tho Tactic, Of France yanquished
th1,s Vt GIv-. Britain. There va, much
'H,' -'''''''. O''' t"o ,"Sc'>'"i - 'HS u ~
"'E made 10 Mons LcNseF'' the ostenslbie
protector q ;he 'a""'' ana Engl"nd was an
yry. Bat the FreugLu.au continued his en-
ctaFoFs. hhiic vt nave ooeh hghtihs 'he
rebels Ia. work upon the Sucz Canal has
been going On. and LOW II /, announced that
it Is completed. II leads from the por; Of
Said, on the Southern coast Of the MediIer
ranean Sea, 10 the port ot SucZ. m the Red
SEA Across TIT. latter - unrestricted paS-
sNEe to the S'hi's cl .hAne'nHhde.. through
"h.cn entrance ls "o'aIned 10 'he GTt'.t IHH'-
an oc''n' "a.th WASHES 'Ae s''"'es o. -AEan
IcT'Ia' II i.'l 's'Ai. ''"l Inc huFinan Enl!'re'
an, N"'ea '".L's",H P"a'"@S L: Inc 0'"'''
"i AH.A-t" = 'Ar !'..ihc oee-H, ahd '.i"hs
. '"e %"'.- Eastern O-">, DI '!a"' -" Ii"
ana Japan, Gear VI - Inc RUSSIAN posses
sIous.
Inc whole OF jhls immense country has
. hitherto been accessible 20 Southern Euro
ieans " passing oAt oil the Mediterranean
Sea, through the Straits 0: Gibraltar, and
saII.a- dpWn the entire western coast Oh.
Africa - the taPe 'i h1DI Hope. and then
northwest 20 thv entrance OF 10" Indian
Ocean at the Straits Of Babe!nandsi. Eng
land, By lis westerly position, had the easiest
course 10 India. and Continental Europe, 1y
the n"tura! obstacles to the voyage, were at
disadvantages IN prosecuting c1mT"rce wnh
Southern India. But the opening OF The
Sucz Can" bring- Greece, Turkey, Austria,
Italy and France almost IN direct northern
and northwestern line with this new channel
OF commerce. II opens 10 them advantages
which they ncycf before possessed, and of
which they viii not be slow to take advantage.
Syracuse NAV be SAID to he the port nearest
the great gateway to the south. Trieste.
Z I
lon and Nars.llles mas struggle for the rich
trade with Malta and Csnstantinople. Eng
land is left IN the rear Of commerce, aud the
French domination over this important means
of contamination i supposed to bode no
good TO the tast-anchoFed isle