Irvine Express. — 1883-05-25 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1883.  x revel:Me up to Saturday last amounted to 62,190, compared with £11,641,578 at the date last year. . ,  :it action taken by British ship-owners, with d to the construction of a second Suez Canal, inging M. de Lesseps to his senses. It is anced officially that the Suez Canal Company roposed to the English Government, first, to Mime the cutting at a parallel canal without er delay; sem:Mt-Hy, to reduce the rates at fixed ; thirdly, to allow England an effective control the traffic. These ,propoaala will be submitted e shareholders on the 4th proximo.  Grus CATHEnnaI., as restored by the late Dr iam Chambers, was re-opened on Wednesday a ceremonial befitting the occasion. At the ince to the building the Lord High Commisr was presented by Mr Robert Chambers with ddress which had been prepared by ids late rous uncle, while Lord Provost Harrison handed Key of the Cathedral to his Grace, who, after ng a brief reply in name and by command of Majesty, placed the key in the door as the al declaration of the re-opening of the church. 3ameron Lees afterwards preached an approe sermon in the Cathedral, which was filled a representative gat.bering of 3000 persons.  us triumphal entry of the Czar into St. Peterson Tuesday, and ;the other ceremonies minary to that of the Coronation, were mi of great brilliancy. The oust of the special on representing Britain is £4OOO, made np as ws:—l. Rent of house, £2,ç00; 2. Expenses of sport and incidental charges for her 'Majesty's lassador and ,members of the Embassy and nits, maintenance of ditto, hire of horses and ages, arid transport of ditto, £2,000; 3. Cost rausport and incidental expenses of Special easy, £1,000; 4. Gratuities' illuminations, and rseen expenses, £1,000; total, £6,060.  RESOLUTION lately passedyby, the Liverpool rals, expressing alarm at the recent avowal of 3tafford Northcote of what he considered the t of the minority to wrest from the majority, truction, the power of directing the course of Wien, has drawn from the Prime Minister, in a r pabluMed this.week, the sitggestive criticism the Opposition leader no doubt must have a into account, in using.the words attributed to the'responsfbility he was incurring. Mr Gladfurther believes his colleagues will join with in endeaVouring to the utmost to overcome the lative difficulties in the Rouse of Commons. imself looks-forward hopOully to the principle evolution by Grand Committees as affording is'efpromoting the despatch uf public bminess, an believes that by the other new Rules of Pro,re extreme powers of abuse have already been w1t..1.4 restrained.  MIRY Mnualt and Martin Scott, who, on the A February fast,- murdered two game-keepers ,Port-flasgow, suffered, on Wednesday morn'a Glasgow, the extreme penalty a the law. sous efforts were made' to obtain their &c-al, and, on account of Diamond being engaged dime, the execution did not take place on the originally appointed. Whatever disappoint; may bedelt that the efforts to obtain a reprieve e down, and however worthy of condemnation temporary respite to *lit the engagements of .ommon hangman—a respite well fitted to buoy se hopes of the condemned men, and lead them ae conclusion of a favourable considerat:on for case—it is as well to remember that the ler for which they suffered the extreme penalty ie law was of a particularly brutal character. he Glasgow News put it:—" The wilful and *rate murder of two men while performing duty is a crime whose non-punishment by the nme penalty would be most prejudicial to law order. The super-legal aspect of the morality iniahment by death is one which it is not necesto consider under present circumstanees, and endeavour to Poring it to bear upon the execnto-day was ill-judged in its effect upon the :utive, the prisoners, and the public."