, 1879-06-05
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Darien Canal.

PARIS, May 26.-The subcommittee of the
Darien Canal Congress to-day presented
report admitting the possibility of the Nioar.
aqua route with locks, while stating that the
level canal course proposed by Lieut.. Wyse
and M. Reclus is best, it is subject to certain
notifications. The Nicaragua route would,
it is estimated, cost e7S4, 100000. The cost
of the Wyse.Reclus scheme is estimated at
e42, 100000.
The committee on ways Wld means of the
Darien canal congress propose a transit duty
of fifteen francs per ton, at which rate it is
estimated that the gross receipts of the canal
will reach G3, GOO, 900 per annum. The com.
mittee is opposed to government assistance
Ill the enterprise. The commercial commit
teeot the congress considers the proposed
transit duty too high.
Eater Figures.
4. LONDON, May 27.--The figures of estimates
OF the comparative costs of the several routes
proposed for ship canal to unite the Allan.
tic and Pacific, as given in former dispatch,
a@ probably wrong. Paris dispatch says
that the subcommittee on the cost of tho
work, reported that the Tehuantepeo project
would cost e40,000,00O without including
the cost Of terminal ports the Nicaragua,
e2S, 800, 900; the Panama, e43, ,oO0, 900, ex.
elusive of indemnity to railway companies;
the San Bias, ESQ 900, 600, and the Atrato
Nipipi route, G44jO00,000.
No Reduction of Wages.
LONDON, May 27.-The arbitrator to whom
was referred the question of reduction of the
wages OF South Yorkshire coal miners, dc.
cides against any reduction whatever. Tho
decision affects $4,000 men and boys.
Ehe Darby.
LONDON, May 2S.-The Derby was won by
Sir Bevys, John Trotter's chestnut colt;
Palmbearer came in second, and Lord Rose
berry's bay colt. Yisconti, third.
For the Front.
LONDON, May 22.-Gen. Sir Garnet Wolsley
with his staff will sail from Dartmouth to-
morrow on the steamer Edinburgh Castle for
the Cape of Good Hope, to assume his new
command in South Africa.
Naval Fight.
The following telegraphic intelligence has
been received at Lloyds: An engagement
has taken place off Iquiqui Peru, between
the Gillian wooden vessels Esmeralds and
Cavodonga, and the Peruvian armor plated
friSate Independence. All three vessels were
=, NHS 17nCIhlui WIZ originally
spanish gunboat. The Independence was
the most important vessel in the Peruvian
navy. Her armament consisted entirely of
Armstrong guns, namely. u 7O-pounders
ana two pivot guns. The latter were 100
Founders.
Died at their Posts.
PARIS, May 29.-An official dispnth from
Fort au Prince, Hayti, says that M. Roche
Mouart the French minister, died of Yellow
leVer TWO hours after he was attacked. His
private secretary and the first secretary OF
the legation are dead of the disease, and
tue second secretary of tho legation is sick
with il.
Eruption of Et Etna.
MEssINA, May 30, Tho volcano of Mount
AItna Is IN full eruption. Three new craters
nave appeared near the town Of Randa2zo
at the northwest foot Of the mountain. and
streams OF Lawn are flowing down the western
slope. Several villages are threatened with
obstruction and there il great alarm among
the inhabitsn
Tho Darien Canal.
The ship canal congress adopted by vote
OF W to 3, the Panama and Lemon Bay
route. Appleton, one of the American rep
resentatlYes, voted for the scheme, but Rear
Admiral Ammen, of the United States navy,
aostained from voting. Commander Sel-
fridge, OF tho United States navy, was ab-
sent. The congress then closed its labors.
The Back Trail.
0UNDAMACK, May 26.-An the British