Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-03
LErTER FROM TEE BRHTISm NE
rRoPOIIs.

LErTER FROM TEE BR1TISm NJ
| rRoP0Ils.
| LONDON, July IA. 1883.
Correspondence Posi-
The prevalence of cholera in Egyp,
has necessitated the adoption, at Eng
lish ports, of more stringent measures
with regard to those vessels that have
passed through the Suez Canal. or that
have come from Egyptian ports. While
the Government do not uphold the
strict enforcement of quarantine, yet
the regulations that are absu. to be is
sued to the port sanitary authorities are
very near akin to quarantine In ac-
eordance with these regulations. If any
officer of the Customs ascertains or
suspects that ship on its arrival with
In the limits OF anv port is infected with
cholera, he may detain such ship, and
order IL to be moered in such place that
he shall direct, and no person will be
allowed to leave the ship while il is un-
der detention. Notice will then be
given TO the sanitary authority, who
| will detain the vessel until it has been
examined by its medical officer, In or
der to ascertain if il is infected with the
disease. If it is found that il Is infect
ed, those on board will be medically ex-
amined, and any who are found not to
be suffering from cholera will be allowed
to land Immediately. Every person
who is found to BE- infected will be re-
moved to hospital, or suitable place
set apart for such cases, and will not
be allowed to leave until quite free from
the disease. In case any person is not
In fit state to be removed, the ship
will remain under the care of the med
ical officer, and, In the event of death
taking place during such detention, the
body is ordered to be taken out to sea
and buried, the clothing of the deceased
person to be destroyed or disinfectec.
and. when it is considered requisite, the
ship in every part is also to be disin-
fected.
There has for some considerable time
been much Dissatisfaction expressed by
shipOvnsrs at the delay caused by YES
sells passing through the Suez Canal.
In those parts of the channel where it
Is not sufficiently wide for two ships to
pass, ohC VI klClA 4h5 " U6 tdAch lutO
siding" thus necessitating consider
able delay, and at night time the larger
vessels are compelled to remain at an
Choir. This last Inconvenience is about
to disappear by the adoption of the
electric light on the banks of the canal,
and the only means of surmounting the
former difficulty is either to widen the
present channel, or else to cut another
canal. NJ. de Lesseps, the protector of
the original scheme, and the president
of the company, was for some time
deaf to all such proposals. But the Eng
lish shippers were at last SO sXasperated
that they determined to take matters
into their own hands, and held meet
ing for the purpose of discussing the de-
STABILITY of cutting a second canal, en-
tirely distinct from that of NJ. de Les
Seps. The success of this meeting
awOke NJ. de Lesseps from his lethargy.
and be Immediately put himself into
communication with the representatives
of the British government in regard to
this second canal. The result of the
deliberations which he held, first of all
with Sir Rivers Wilson in Paris, and af-
forwards with Lord Granville and Mr..
Gladstone in London, were communi-
Gated to the House of Commons on
Wednesday by the Chancellor of the
Exchequer; Mr.. Childers. The Suez
Canal Company are to make a second
canal, as far As possible parallel to the
present one, of width and construction
sufficient TO meet the requirements of
| maritime construction, and be compelled
| If possible by 1888. The tolls are to be
reduced from Janury LIST; and after that
| when the profits of the company in
crease to q per cent. last year they
were 16 per cent, and 1t is expected
they will this year be 10 per cent, half
the pilotage dues are to be RENTED, an
| increase of per cent. in the profits
abOlishing the pilotage dues entirely.
And as the profits increase the transit
tolls will decrease, until the former are
80 per cent, when the tolls will be Just
half what they are at present. Should
the profits decrease, the tolls will be in
creased in the same ratio. The Com
pany are also to have larger reprssen-
tation of English directors, and an
English vice. president, upon the first
occasion that offers; an English in
spector of navigation is to be appointed,
and fair proportion of English pilots.
The British Government on their part
undertake to use their influence with
the Egyptian Government to obtain the
necessary concessions for the land re-
quired for the new canal, and also to
obtain an extension of the original con-
cession for 80 many years IS will make
a new term of 80 years from the time of
the completion of the second canal.
For which concessions the Company will
pay to the Egyptian treasury / per cent.
of the total net profits after the statu-
tory reserve. Her Majesty's Govern
ment will also lend q helping hand to
the Company by installments as re-
| quired for the construction Of the works,
Guiding the deep water canal, not more
than $S, 00O, coo at 81 per cent. interest,
with a sinking fund calculated to repay
the capital in 80 years, such sinking
fund not to commence until after the
completion Of the work. The consent
of Parliament will have to be obtained
to the above agreement, and no doubt
in matters Of detail some alterations
will be made.
While the Government has not only
assented to, but given substantial help
to construction of this great undertak-
ing in Egypt, another project of equal
| if not greater magnitude has not met
with 30 much good fortune. The joint
committee of both Houses of Parlia-
ment, appointed to consider the desira-
bility of tunneline under the English
channel, and thus hooking this country
on to the European continent, have re-
ported adversely to the scheme, or more
strictly speaking, have not reported at
all. There were seven reports in all
brought before the final meeting of the
committee on Tuesday last, one by the
chairman. Lord Landsdowne. in favor
of the scheme, which was rejected BY
majority Of two votes, and the ether six
adverse to the undertaking. But when
these six came to be discussed it was
found that no five would agree that the
sixth was the best report, and thus tho
voting for these was always equal, i've
for and i've against each report. Under
these circumstances it was finally decid-
ed that instead of making any formal
and elaborate report to Parliament, the
committee should simply communicate
| the peculiar facts of the case to the
two Houses, and all seven draft reports
will be printed. With only one or two
exceptions, all the good military author
titles of the country are opposed to the
undertaking. Lord Wolseley, whose
| opinion now Is held to be Of no mean
L k,.H has all nj -wsHAavn