Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-30
| News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FLIGHT FROM EGYPT. Great Alarm Caused by
 the Cholera. ONE CASE ALREADY IN FRANCE. Fears of its Spread Over
 Europe. CHANGES IN REVENUE DISTRICTS. The Matter Discussed by
 the Cabinet.
ONE CASE ALREADY IN FRANCE
EGYPT.

The Cholera Epidemac-Its Effect on the Canal Tramc-The Government Care- fully Concealing Details.
 PoRT SAID, June 29.-A rumor prevails
 this evening that the government has issued
 such stringent regulations for the control of
 the canal traffic while the cholera prevails
 that the Suez Canal company can no longer
 transact its business and has decided to shut
 of traffic altogether. The local officers only
 answer by the statement that vessels are
 passing and anyone can see that traffic has
 not been stopped. They refuse to say what
 instructions they have or to admit that they
 have any at all, but that they shall for the
 present. at least follow closely the regula-
 are stringent enough and which in outline
 were suggested by the English government
 officers here. The belief in well informed
 circles is that the canal has been ordered closed at once or within few days. When this question was propounded to M. Gen.
 netti, the highest canal authority whom your correspondent could reach, he refused
 to answer at all. Cholera has closed Port
 Said tighter than government.rules or quar-
 antine laws. Coal and water are not taken here even when crews have to be put sn short allowance all the way to Malta. The mo- ment captains learn of the epidemic they re- fuse to allow anyone to approach from the shore and get under way with as little loss of time as the somewhat lax local quarantine regulations will permit. This fear of the contagion is, if possible, exceeded by their fear of losses and delays resulting G-o- I>--1 points of destination. No vessel can afford to spend twenty-fvesdays at Malta or shorter periods at more distant points and run the chances of longer detention should there be any suspicion that they are carrying the con- tagion. The passengers by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship company's boats, many of whom have business of the most of being stopped at Brindisi or intermediate stations or being held at Gravesend within sight of home. The fear of this is greater than any danger from the contagion. The French Messageries line has given notice that it's sixty vessels making every port on the Mediterranean will take no transfers of merchandise from points beyond Alexan- dria unless they have been subject to quaran- tine, and there is danger that they may ap- ply the same rule to passengers. The ves- sells of the French fleet will leave here as soon as possible. and the activity on board GASu Co-uay 1uO1Cae6S pE0paFablOuS 1OE 1nLn0- diate departure.
 It is not known whether other deaths have occurred on board the ironclads L'Invincible and La Battaile, but it is probable they have. Deaths have occurred in town, but details cannot be procured, the government having taken such strict precautions.
 Tue Epidemic Laid to the English. Eza - LONDON, June 29.-Foreign governments are universally placing the blame for the spread of the cholera epidemic on the Eng fish administration in Egypt and what is said is said very forcibly. The Spanish govern ment has made the most direct complaint in 8 diplomatic way by demanding that England shall comply strictly with the resolutions adopted by the sanitary conference, the poll cy of that conference having been very large ly dictated by the English representatives and suggested by the needs of English com- merce. The French press is especially loud in it's denunciation of England's management in Egypt and not only charges British officers with the greatest lack of foresight in failing to take the most obvious precautions against the admission of the dise&se, but of criminal laxity in taking the necessary steps to pre- vent it's spread at a time when that could have been easily done. They say that the Khedive's government unhampered would have done much better service while his care less English advisers have laid all Europe liable to the plague