The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-12-13
E u r O p {.
The Ecclesiastical Parties In Rome and
Position Of the French PrelateS.
Parliamentary Debates and Agita-
tiOn in France.
MADAME CRISIS MEMORY.

The Inman steamship City OF Brooklyn, captain
Brooks, from Liverpool on the I'd and queenstown
the Sd OF December, arrived at this port yesterday
about noon, delivering our special correspondence
and mail reports from Europe dated 10 her day OF
sailing from Ireland.
The London Post SAYS
A telegram OF importance to shipping has been
tDec III received IN reference 10 the actual depth OK
water IN the Suez Canal. large neet OF ships
bound to India beng detained until satisfactory In
teiigence was received as TO the praclcabllitY OF
their passing safely through the canal, Lloyds spe
cfal agent at Alexandra teieVraphs as follows
'The canal agent afirms the minimum depth nve me-
tres cenmetres, equal to about sixteen feet ten
inches and that ships drawing five metres have all
passed safely through the canal. The prospectus OF
the suez Canal Company stated that the canal would
have uniform depth OF eight metres or twenty-six
feet, The large Indian ocean steamers OF the Messa
ceres imperiaies Company, each over 1000 tons
register have, 1t is known, already trayersed the
canal, but they were ligntened, only carrying SUM-
Gent ballast"
The Emperor Napoleon's speech has mo- ausled
the independent journals of Paris The DdNhts says
the reforms announced are no doubt liberal, but are
small and incomplete. The Temps can discover in
the speech only yelled hreatS OF very insufficient
programme OF reform and the incuraole illusions Of
personal power.
The London Post says IT can state with confidence
that, THANKS to the diplomacy Of England and
France, who are acting together, and to the dgned
attitude which the Porte has throughout observed,
there is little no danger OF any disturbance, how
ever transient, between the Emperor OF France and
the vlceroy OF Egypt"
The first general synod OF the Protestant Arch
diocese OF Dublin held in that city and resulted
In a discreditable row between the clerical and lay
delegates.
The Earl OF Arlie wrote TO the London Times to
point out defects In MI Charles Buxton's plan for
the solution OF the Irish land question. His lordship
says that Mr.. Buxton would merely postpone the
difficulty, inasmuch at the expiration OF the Par
hamentary leases he proposes to set up the govern
ment would again have to encounter the cry for
hxity Of tenure to which the people would then
imagine they had prescriptve right. He further
says that Mr.. Buxton makes no provision for the
laboror tnat the plan would be unjust in its opera
ton by compelling landlords to give leases ipdis
criminately TO good and bad tenants without ade-
Guate provision against ruinous agriculture.
The London Times, In leader admits that the
Irish Fenians may possibly succeed in returning one
or two Fenian convicts to Parliament by means of
Intimidation and even IN driving the government
and Imperial Parliament into new suspension OF
the habeas corpus act. ''They cannot, however,
alter the immutabe law by which the destinies Of
Ireland and Great Britain are bound up together,
nor can they persuade Irish tenant farmers that
security OF tenure under FenIan republic will be
more valuable than that under an act OF Parliament
Come what may settlement OF the Irish land ques-
uon will be effected next session.
Messrs Frey, Beatson L Co., East India merchants
Of Frenchchurch street, London stopped payment,
owing to the depreciation in the value OF produce.
The house was established about eight years ago.
The amount OF the liabilities had not TRANSFERRED.
English advices from New Zealand report that four
OF the Maores taken in rebellion against the Crown
n hyhf n A nd =,
the usual form to be shanged drawn and quarteredn
1t ID thought that the sentences vii not be carried
into effect. The London T,eS' correspondent states
that the barbarous nature OF the penalty has ere
sted deep feeling OF disgust ana shame among the
colonists and that the resort the old statute OF
treasons IS considered to have been mistake.n
There are seventy prisoners still TO be tried.