The New York Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1869, Page 5

EGYPT. Tho Empress of France at Cairo avd Her Reception by the Viceroy. Imperial Fetes, Promenades, Drivos and TP,cairicals. Sir Samuel Bakez, the African Explorer, in Company, and a Royal Banquet. an EngUshman’s Trip In the Suez Canal and Report of the Work. By mati steamship at this port we have London Journals of the 2th of November, supplying the fol- lowing interesting special correspondence from Cairo and Port Said to the 29th of October. Tho Empress of Frauce at CairoMagnificent Betes'the Viceroy Escorting Her Majesty Whrough the City—French Theatricals—{n the Bazaars and at the Barrage of the Nile. {Cairo (Oct. 25) correspondence of London News.] Alexandrta*s loss uas been Cairo’s gain, The time ir Majesty was expected to spend at Alexandria has been wisely devoted to explorations here, For the last three days Cairo has been en sete, and what thia means it 1s dimicult to put into words. The Empress herself, accustomed as she 1s to magnifi- cent speotacies skillully arranged, has probably never beheld such an amaigamation of unusual sights as greeicd her during her midnight drive With the Viceroy and suite on the night before last, and humbler people may be content to record @ few of the wonders to be seen at every turn. Strangers are told that the illuminations are nothing to wiat take place on a great reiigious fes- tival, that the proceedings on last and preceding eveninus should be regarded as rehearsals, and that the rejoictuys to celebrate the opening of the canal ‘Will throw them all into the shade. 11 1s impossible to thik so, When the Empress, after dining‘with the iudies of the Khedive’s harem, was escorted by his Hihuess wirough the hignways and byways of his captiai; whea the brilllant cavaicade of rau- Ding footmen—staiworthjArabs, With taming torches at tue top of long poles, whose siriexs couid be “heard hall a mile off, aud who left a long wake of burning sparks in their train; of dainty carriages, with siern Nudian eunucus or guards all round them; of outviders in briliant uniformis; of military. figures, whose array revailed equally Salaata the Maguliicent and the gorgeous ne mobuity of our own Life Guarda; of youtits and inen in Oriental garb, who ran and ejaculated through the narrow strecis until the turbaned crowd made protest, and beat the peripacotics wack with sticks; of velled women who Were drawn Up against walis and kept in order while permitted to gaze by thelr lord aud masver and lis Onloer—waen her Imperial Majesty drove through all these sizits and sounds the spirit of the Kast tobe joining foi with Uat of the West in & Warvellously striking display. The French theatre and circus were both open; the eighty Parisian bailet yiris engagea for the new opera house, Le season at which begins in a few days, though it is but four months stuce the Khedive commanded its erection—some or other of these fair ladies were to be seen driving past the iliumina- tions or among the audiences at the places of amuse- Ment Nained; the ex-prison Where tiey are comfort- ably housed, at the dccvrated entrance of which pri- vate broughams and vpen carriages were not untre- quently taking up or setting down; the large open Space upon Which Sheplierd’s, Abbat’s and the new raud Hotel look, and whichisnotonly European ia its general aspect, but has recently been levelled and Partitioned o4 by wicker-werk into what may ve eligibie building lots, but which recall the new cattle market at Isilugton, was noisy with rockets and the notes of admiration of the passers by; the cafés were full of customers, among whom the turban was in a minority and the fez barely heid its own. Again, the many shops full of Kngima ana Frenci goods; the gay liqueur bottles ike liquid sweet- meats; the houses of tue various ambassadors, with European servants lounging at thelr doors; and the chairs and tables, the curtains and mirrors of Belgra- Via visibie Ubrough their open windows; the build of oarriages, upon Le sides of which you could almost read “Long-acre,” ali spoke of the West. By con- fining your observation to a limited but not incon- siderable series of girects, you might easily have fmagined yourself in a large french or Italia pro- vincial city into Which an unsuai influx of Oriental giranugers had taken place, and which had made every conceivable eifurt to express Welcome and re- joicing. Tricolored flags are waving everywhere, ‘and outside the hotel where Abd-el-hader 1s lodged enormous Nubians ia tri-colored robes, and with Toug ‘ri-colored spears, forma guard of honor. All here ls modern and handsome. Turn a corner, ad- vance a hundred yards, and you are in a@noiker world. 11) juuminauous are as frequent, the orgaized briluanucy, for which illumination 1s but a feeble word, meonceivabiy More striking ; bub the streets, ibe shops, tne vend- ors und the passers-by beong to tie life of ine “Thousand and One Nuyghis.”” ‘The tortuous streets, destituie of pavement, aud of the width and with the footing of a Qusty village path, are curtained ; that 13, the smali space between thew projecting roois, Which the eye only reaches ater traversing 1a Mts upward glance struagely latticed windows and many @ veiled face peering shyly oui, are spanned by jarge aud parit-colored shawis. Pendant, ag it seems from these, and at ieguiar iovervals, were chandeliers of the Venetian racter of those purveycad by Salviati, but destituie of color, and in festoons, and as the compo- meut parts of the ictiers “W. E/E.) (tue iwo V's ior viva, Viva, being so intertwined as te make W.) Were composite candies e:cased in giass and volored oii lamps in an extent an variety wich made every effort of our Singlish caterers in tiie direction seem mild aud weak. if the traditional “thousand addi- tional iamps’’ of old Vauxhall were @ reality, and Were aii clustered upon a single bouse or # single gaieway, aud U these Louses and gaieways were Placed side by stde and made to extend through Many a devious turning for iailes, the result weuld be as far below what has been seen here for the last three nights as the gleam of a sinall taper 18 to an e'ectric light. ‘hat there should be 80 muny lamps and candies in the world was in itseif startling; but that they ehouid be produced on an occasion whic ts con- fessediy Out a forerunner of greater siguts to come gives an impression of inaguiticence and resource Which is positivery staggeriig to any one who has strolled down Kegent strect on & Queen's birthday night, or who remembers the peace Liluminations at the termination of the Crimean war. It was the sheer exicutand muitiplicity of these oils aud candies Which, coujolutly with the scenes they sione upon, Inade thetr charm. I saw no transparencies, aud gas ‘Was certainly not used in the parts of Vairo which Counnanded one’s admiration most. But just as B& ball room which ts ihoroughly Lighted by wax candies tar exceeds in eifect oue iiumimated vy gas, Bo the sixeets aud squares and minarets tue Kaipress @rove through presenied au indnitely betier tout en- semble tor picturesque brilliance than anything the Most cunning arufice has or could produce witn us. At avout half past ten on Saturday eveniug soine wid flames were séea, and some wilder cries anuounced the Viceroy’s and the Lmpress’s approach to tie bazaars. If the meinmast of a @bip at sea were Well rosined and set fire to when the wind was iresa ind the waves turbulent, 1¢ Would convey not inapily the effect of the long ih) of tho ruaning Arabs, and the cases of une they bore aloft. Preserving a regular space between themselves and the Viceroy’s carriage and pair, which followed at 4 brisk trot, these men ci¢ared the way eifectuaily, The Linpress—who must surely have drank of the waters which pre- serve youth and beauty, wore a pale blue saun evening dress, with a sieuder fillet of velvet of the same color ornamented by 1 diamond of unmense aize, aud with clusters of the same precious stone in her hair—was without bonuet or hat, and in- deed had come direct from the dinner taole at his Highness’ hateem to the wedding of an oicer in the Khedive’s service, aud irom thence to her inspection of Usiro at night. Actuated by the hospitable desire of showing his fair and illustrious guest as much as possible of the manners and customs of the people over whom he Tuies, the Khedive instructed one of his court to ‘take to himseif a wile jast Saturday in order that the Empress might be" ‘d the ceremomes atvend- ang a Mahommedan inu..iange. In 80 small a mater of course to speak wis (oO be obeyed, and the officer in question was made happy to order, apd with much pomp, the Kuedive giving away the bride, or performing the Egyptian equivalent vo that formal act of duty, and providing her witha Iunidcent dowry. Thus the Empress has seena Mabommedan marriage under the most favorable circumstances, and with @n approach to that prin- Ciple of selection by the Lord Chancellor: which a late eminent jurist insisted upon as the safest key to domesiic happimess, 1 am not inforined as to the number oi nupfhials between people of lower degree prompted by the Kimpress’s visit, but, judging from the quantity of wedding parties to be inet In the Bireets during the last night or two, it mast bave been considerable. ‘They ali made much acise, and What the dragomen term “Arab musike ver good"? Pormeated the processions, the members of which elbowed weir way through the crowds, singing. Nor were these the only formal ceremonies to be remarked. When in the midst of the thou sands of loungers, who were smoking, slecplug end talking among the bazaars, a series of moctallic jingles aud yells, as if of men in agony, were heard, Then, two-and-two, came @ string of men, all old or imildio-aged, ail hanu- souiely attired tn dowing robes Rud turbans o! gaudy hues, all walking slowly and grimaciog in a way Which would have been ‘conic, save that there was evidence of a strong purpos underlying it, ‘The din geomned hideous to unaccustomed cars, and the flaring torches of some ot the party lit up famatical countenances which Werd oblivious to the banuers and jamps, to the many tongues whieh hushed at pod pe or, Indeed, Of aught bat the mission they had set nselves, Of Which had been got for them, of doing honor to tho Prophet and to the Bholk accompanying them, whose cay (or might) it NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEEP. Who 1% should be sald sat side by side with the Vieesoy m an open barouche, and with one of the lad gs of her suite as her only other companion, ®°w many such sights as these, and came upon “many a long and narrow street so full of tnrbaned Tigares that it seemed tmpassable—the sea of red and white heads moving to and fro with quite as yauch vivacity as in an English crowd, Tho run- ning flame-bearers soon made way, however, and the face, Naif amused, hall scandalized, of the Cairo citizen, the bazaar keeper, ine public sertbe, the pasury cook or the barber, was bowed respect- iully to the beautiful lady who bent and smiled #0 geaciously, and whom tue Kiedive had decreed to honor, Alter the carriage containing the Empress and the Viceroy came those of the chief Ministers, then those of the ladies and gentlemen of the Em- press’ suite, then a portion of the harem, with some of the fair Europeans sitting with them, and guarded by Sou ree. attired; then more of the court oMcials and runners, criera and horsemen innumerable, Thi long cavalcade made the tour of those bazaars by which driving 13 possible and through the chief squares and public buildings the Viceroy and the Empress cenversing with anima tion, aud the turbaned men add shrouded women looking on with o general feeilng that what must be must be, but that times have changed Indeed. At several street corners we saw dancing girls pursuing their ca'ing for the entertainment of those asgemLied, and with the City Guard keeping order, a function they exercised by beating all who came too near lustily with sticks, ‘These street performers did not, probably, furnish any very favorable ex- amples of an art concerning which much has been said and written, heir gestures and performance were in some Segise those of which readers of Lano’s “Modern Egyptians” will remember tue de- scription, and appeared to give great deligut to the lookers-on; but there was Jess of grace than one ex- pected, and the display was curious rather than pleasing, Yesterday morning the Bmpress, accompanted by the Viceroy, drove to the Barrage of tue Nile—the costly attempt to dam up the great river which was abandoned some years ago, but the massive inasonry of which yet stands; aud the long drive to the Palace of Shoobra—the Row or Hyde Park of Calro, upon Which European velicles and equestrians are seen in great variety for an hour before and after sunset—las been visited twice. The museum of Egyptian antiquities at Boolak 18 to be seen to-day, aud the Pyramids laver. it must be understood that the Empress’ incognito 1s strictly observed and that in none of her appearances in public is she treated otherwise thau as an exalted private lady whom tae ruler of the country desires to pleas ‘rhe party of French, German and Italian guests orthe Khedive who started for Upper Egypt a few days since will precede the Empress by about a week, and the imperial trip up tne Nile, which will be a strictly private one, will commence, a8 at pre- sent arrauged, on Wednesday next, The 1uunda- tions, which are greater than they have been for jive years, bave submerzed such large tracts of country that the road to the Pyramids made by the Viceroy across the desert twelve months ago is in many places under water, and visilors lave co leave their donkeys and take to bouts, Seen from the citadel the Nile itself looks an insignificant stream by the side of the vast plams of water it has created; yet such is the effect of the improvements and appilances introduced recently, that while the great river has tisen several metres higher than tt did five years ago, ithas been tar more thorougily under cohtrot than then, and those versed in ts modern history speak gratefully of the enoruious dierence to agriculvare aud to the vil- lages on 1ts bauks of the security, proved by the severe test of the current season, The canal, upon which s0 many hopes are cen- tered, is, We are assured by some authorities here, in such a state of forwardness that the in- augural ceremonies of the 17th will be no mere formal opening, Wille that large vesseis will pass dowa it with ease from aud after that date is spoken of ascertain. On the other hand, gossips are not wanting Who take a somewhat mouitied view, numberless visitors are now inspecting it to judge tor themse:ves of the probability of that which will be ascertained beyond doudt in three weeks’ time. ‘The luke of Aosta, 18 one of the several strangers who bave honored M. de Lesseps with a Vist, and inspected the Caual within the last few days. The Empress’ Vistingulsked Incognita—Her Moajesty’s SuiteMnarringe Ceremonials—Sir Samuel Baker in Company—Public Procese sionsjand Visplay—A Royal Banquct. eb Catro (Oct, 29) correspondence of Londor News.] Although her Majesty the Empress of the French, for reasons best known to herseli, continues her incognito under guise of the less exalted title of Countess of Pierre Fonds, it does not prevent her from being the object of the greatest possible dis- linetions at the hands of the Khedive, her host. Her Majesty left Catro for Upper Egypt on the 26th lnstani, shortly after noon, in a steamer, which has been fitted up with incomparable elegance, and is wortny of a better fate than invasions by myriads of ilies, shoals of mosquitos and frequent detachments of sandilies—tor tne weatner here 13 still very hot, and her Majesty will not fail to suifer from heat the more southerly she goos, Besides the steamer which carries the iinperial visitor, eight others have escorted it, tor the accem- modation of her Majesty’s suite, which 1s composed of tue Erapreas’ two nieces, tue Mile, a@ Aloe and Mme. de Saucy, Prince Joaciim Murat, Geaeral Douay, Count Reynaud de St. Jean d’An- ty, Pirst is td to his Majesty the Emperor, M. nbeaux, Equerry to his Majesty the Emperor, unt Cossé Brissac, &c. 1 mentioned in iny last week’s letter thet the Khedive iad on the spur of the mement ordered one ¢ alde-de-camp’s to Prince Mohammed Tanfik a Lo entér the bonds of holy matrimony with a fair faxen haired Circassian maiden, to whom his highness Had given a haadsome dowry. The mar- Triage took piace at the palace of Kassz Aali, and her Majesty was much diverted at the sight she saw. During her stay here tue Empress had aiso tue cere- mony of an ouwoor Arab marriage procession offered to her view, and as this is one of the siguts Which the natives love to see, a large crowd had collected on the occasion. On Monday last, at about ten, the Khedive and hts distinguished guest, and their respective suites and some few other personages, amoug wiom was Sir Samuel Baker, starved tn Prei char-a bancs drawn by Normandy grays, on an excursion to the Virgin’s ‘Tree, and jancned after wards in one of the viceregal chateaux at Koovbe, near the race course, on the plain of the Abasaich, Towards tive o'clock in the afternoon baicouies, windowa, the flat housetops (the Italian architecture predominates in the Karo- pean quarters), pavements and roads through which the procession passed, eventually w emerge trom the street Known as the ouski,"? opposite the paiace which the Prince and Princess of Wales lahabited when last here, were filied with a motley assemblage Of ;many natonaiues anxious to behold the pageant a3 tt passed, but more so still to see tie Empress, wio, t was surmised, wonld appear on the balcony of the palace I have just mentioned. The natives, in there bright costumes I have said, had mustered strong likewsse, aud, be it remarked here, that a sight of their own 18 indinttely more at tracuve to them than wha’, in their vernacular, they term an inildel show. When, then, shoruy alter five a dutter and murmur in the crowd, and the sound Inthe distance of timbrels, trombones, files and lates aunounced Wat the Arab procession was advancing, the cavasses on duty on horse- back backed thelr horses to Clear. passage in the throng, in which they were asaisted by the newly imported body of policemen from Switzerland, who in dress similar to the one worn by their consreres at the councts of the “Bund,” and with an iatellt- gent superintendent, who js aaid to understand his duties well, are organizing a native force for the Khedive. The procession was led.on by a brace of fwarthy gentienen, wit dress that at Trouville and Dieppe ts considered orthodox when mingling m the waier with the fair sex, although the trantic gesticu- lations and hitting sud parrying biows made with slaves at ope another by the two gentlemen afore- said was anything butrefrigerative an a hot summer day, aud night not therefore by the laculty have been considered advisable immediately before asea dati. After these two men came others less divested of garments, on while curvetting horses, which, with sudden jerks at cruel bits, they brought on their nauvaches, while with their sword lands they poised Jereeds, and & portion of the evolutions consisted tn pretending to burl them at one another. Then came a fatiened ox, wally dressed, and with bells tinkling from tp to toe,’ worthy in short to have been paraded through Paris ona Mardis Gras. The ox dragged % six wheel cart, on which was a boat sufticientiy large for the comfort of twelve corpulent oarswen, who did not, judg. ing from toe way in which they ‘pad- dicd away at vacuum, give one the appear- auce of having undergone aquatic trating. ‘Their turbans and embroidered clovkes 2nd general “get up’? would have becn @ caution, I overheard 4 egy aa exclaim, for an Oxford crew—and 80 it would. Afterwards came @ man in sheep skin, although his Lo ena and representation of the innocent auimal was, ag he capered onward, fe thing but sheepish. Dromedaries, richly capari- soned, horses equaily 60—the Jatter aged and trained to their work, a» 1f from some circus—followed in quick succession, with diminutive boys and vener- able, white bearded men en their backs, we former clapping their live haads, the latter smoking pipes. Men there were whe represented the various guilds in witch Cairo rejoices. ‘inere were master masous and master tailors, master sioemakers, butchers and bak- ers, and for augut I know there might have been mas- ter swectmeut- era, mM iherbet-concoctors and 80 onad infinitum. Presently boys carrying trays avith presents for the bride strode ov wards, and then other beariog brass-framed fooking glasses on their heads—the iatier supposed to Keep away the evil eye. And tinaliy—preseced by mugicians playing thetr strange, Unharmonious Arab airs, and by Choristers singiag incantations for the coming event—came tne bride, Leraided again by what in Engtand one would conelade to be bridesinatds—ail shrouded, like the bride berself, in voluminous dra- pery, and walking under a canopy supported by poles, which wen held. To the restdent a procession of the nature I havo eudeavored to describe 18 no novelty, Although somewhat antignated In the heart at Cairo, it 1s a matter of frequent occurrence in the minor towns aud villages. But to the stranger this heterogenous Tuass of human beings, hemmed tn where the crowd was greatest, liso Yarmouth dioaters in thetr barrels, must Dave beea interesting and amusing. But great as Was the crowd in Jac streets that wind round the palace } have mentioned, was a8 nothing com- pared to what it would have been bad i beew Kaown to te natives and to the foreign popiation thas tielr Kuedive was abroad on @ donkey, escore ing her Imperial Majesty the Empress of the French on a Uke animal, ond that Egypt's great dignitaries of State, and Princes and rrincesses of the biood belonging to her Majesty’s suite, were similarly mounted. it might have gleddened the a too, of many @ Parisian to have seen the Huy Pp Wis, and whose holiness they were celebrating, In adrive of two nours duration to ‘suiprone, “this at the same time, the samo precautions wul reas, scampering Alongside the Khodtve, with ther suites obsequiously folowimg—on donkey-back all of them, except the Duchess d’Albe, bir Samuel Baker and his Ex Ries who rode dromedaries from Kobbé to the Mouskt, which 18 & distance five mtics, or thereabouts, When the Arab marriage procession had passed the Emprees, who ‘was intensely interested at what she saw, her Ma- jesty lett her trusty littie donkey for her more dig- nifled conveyance—which stood withia hall—with the other court equinas te Tn the evening her Majesty gave a banquet fn her alace at Gizireh, at which Sir 8, Baker was present. er Majesty, who is @ fellow of the French Geo- graphical Late to which Sir Samuel likewise be- longs, expressed the livehest imierest in the great euterprise, in which the distinguished travellers will ina few days embark. It may not be generaliy kuown that some two months ago the Emperor of the French requested the sanction of the Knedive for a countryman of his to accompaay Sir Samuel’s expedition, aud it was a request with which the Kbedive could not refuse to cmoply. Vis@unt de Bizemont, a fellow of the French Geographical So- ciety and an oilicer in the French navy, Was instructed to accompany the expedition, and the Empress has now interested herseif in the welfare of this gentleman by recoramending him to the kind consideration of Sir Samuel, who had already ap- poiated him an aide-de-camp upon his ataif. An Englishman’s Voyage Through the Suez Canal—From Ismailia to Lake Timsai— The Harbor and Breakwater—Strange Scenes on the Banks of the Transit—Opin- ion of the Pilotage aud Passage of Large Ships. [Port Sald (Oct. 27) correspondence of London News.) Ihave been ever since the date of my last letter on the Suez Vanal, have given twenty-four hours to Ismailia and Lake Timsah and a@ couple of days to the harbor and breakwaters, of what Will be, if all goes Weil in the future, the most important place 1 kgeypt to ampere commerce, A hot and dusty railway ride of flve hours takes the traveller from Cairo to Ismatila, the drouglty and barren desert his only view for miles. When the brilijant blue of the waiters of Lake Timsah at length greet him, he knows that the end of his weary journey is nigh, and welcomes even the shricking crowd of Arabs who fasten on the tralia the instant it siops, and who seize upon and fight over his baggage, quite as if they thought it had been brought down to give them @ merry but pugnacious scrainbie, The backsteesh hunters of Cairo and Alexandria seem mere slaves to conventionality compared to tie veri- table children of the desert whose acquaintance you begin to make now, and whom you never lose sight * of for long during your inspection of the canal aud the lands it runs through, Yet you have scarcely recovered from your angry struggles with the ma- rauders, scarcely regained the breati you have expended in protest and expostulation, scarcely done wondering at the ease with which they are beaten back and the timid patience with which they submit to the blows freely distributed by a swarthy oftickal armed With @ long stick, When you see other figures atured in complete Buropean costume, aud who might be trausferred as they staud to the Bou- levards of Paris cr the steyne at brighton witnout sense of incongruity. ‘the tattered robes, the bare brown legs and arms, the naked chests, the coarse and ragged vurbans, the biack and bronze laces, the long dark velis with garish brass fastenings of the women, Which look like 80 Maly orua- mental nose bags; the strange yells aad shrieks, belong to the dweliersin yonder Arab village; the European dresses, tue well appointed carriages, tae handsome villas, the luxuriant gardens are those of the French colony of which M. de Lesseps is the courieous King, ‘The contrast between civilized and savage life, Walch 13 forever forced upon you here, 18 at lis strongest now; and if you are fortunate enongh to be inciuded m the list of M. de Lesseps’ guest this cvaning, you assist at a private din- ner aud goirce, at which you meet royal visitors, as well a8 a crowd of ladies and gentlemen whose evening dress is 80 faultless as to make your Own traveling attire seem sauly out of piace. Still te same contrast through. ‘Lue diner & la Russe is brought from the spacious eMices: and handed to the Frenchmen tu fauiuess olack who wait by barefuoted Nubians, whose jetty handsome teatures are set off by their white robes and crimson lezzes, ‘The pathway by the garden gate, where tae Chinese lanterns glimmer gaily through the rich creepers, is strewed with Orientals, who squat and smoke and sleep; and whea you leave, to grope your way through the sand to your hotel, the strains of the plano miugie with the howlings of wild dogs and the harsh cries of men who are still wikier. Seven years ago there was nothing to distinguish Ismailia or the smiling lake before you from the rest of the desert, and all was sand. It is the canal bich bas raised up the numerous handsome vitias and tine gardens. Fresh water is.all that is needed to turn the arid desert into a fruitful soil; and tae supply of this ig provided by the subsidiary canal wuich the com- pany has formed side by side with that broad salt one Which now unites two worlds, Wonaertul stories are toid of the productiveness of the gardens, and a walk through any of those belonging to the leading olilcials siationed at Ismailia 1s to verily them all. Vimes with large bunches of grapes pendant from their brauches; orange trees wish the green fruit just showing @ golden tlut; ivy, roses, geraniums from Engiawd, and an endless va- riety of rich tropical piants ave all dourishing. Ia the centre of the town is & square with trees aud a builaing clothed with rich creepers im 1ts midst, Liverything here looks French, A handsome voule- vard runs down to the poiat of euivarkation, the siveets and squares are On the true Parisian model, and there are cases, billiard rooms and ove chan- tants wiich might easily velong to Nantes or Lyons. shops will be, the roads are many of them still of sand, camels draw carts and generally pervaae the pluce in Jong strings, but with ali this you are kept in & state of wonder during your stay at Jsmatiia; Urst, at the marvellous couversion which has taken place and 1s taking place under your eyes, and secondly at the supreme coniidence which looks forward to entertaming 600 guests im three weeks’ time in a piace Where every huouse—i had aliuost written every bed—seeis occupied, and at a palace Which has yet to be built. ‘The stately building being erected oa the banks of Lake Timsah by tue Viceroy Will be of stone; but 2¢ 1s littie more than a carcass now, While the greunds in which fé/es are to be held is sunpiy & Luge stonemason’s yard. If itis suf- ficientiy finished for 1s purpose by tue 17 of No- veuiber the iuarvel will be as great as any worked by Aladdia’s lamp. ° Tickets for the dally steamer to Port Said are issued to all travellers Wishing to avail themselves oi the Snez Canal, and | embark on the day after my arrival at ismaila, not a litve curious as io tie character of my one knows, about midway Longin the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, 890 that the ection about to be described embraced in round numbers fity miies of the canal, or half its eutire length. ‘ihe experi- ence was 80 utterly unlike what liad beon expecced beforehand that 1t partook of the nature of a sur- prise. The very word canal secias misapplied to a continuous sheet of water, toe surface of which is wider than the ‘thames at Ricumoud, where fying fish skim before you, and -which 13 literally crammed with sea-fish, as the eon- Stant jumps aud eddying circles prove. A caual, again, in spite of all one has read of this particuiar ue, does vaguely suggest locks und tow-ropes and barges dragged by horses. Heve sailing vessels, with tue curious sails and loity tapering masts of we Nile boats, are almost always in sigut, some bearing stores to the Various Stations, others carry a motiey load of Mussuimans, Byypuans and griay mechan- icians te and from their work. A broad and hand- sole river, Which ruas straight to its destination, {nstead of Induiging 1a devious winuings, ts what the Suez Canal resembies most at a first glaac You embark at Ismailia, at a recuiar sleam- boat wuarf, and afier turee soundings of a shrill Wiistie, pursue your way lato the ceuire of a lake which is so extensive (nat you cannot trace the course of the canal on the otherside of 1 Your steamer is licensed to carry forty drat and tuirty second class passengers, aud has saloous aud a deck over them like some of the boats running be- tween London and Gravesend. Jor vie first quar- terof an hour or so you might be going cut to sea, 80 rapidly do the waters expand to right and leit. ‘Then a corner to the left is reached, and the word is given to go slowly, aud in a few minutes more you i, aud having the potnt at which it h on its ower er Suez side shown you 10 the distance. Bejore recording what turned out to be.an exceed- ingly uneventiul voyage, it may be weil w remind my readers that Ismailia 1s so called after the pres- ent Viceroy, just as Port Said is named after bis predecessor, and that the lormer 1s desigaed to be the great commercial centre on the Canal. It 1s to this end that the wharves, the spacions streets and market places, the palace of the Viceroy and tho enormous deep water harbo! have been de- signed. When the Suez Canal is the high- way of the world, Ismailia will be the most convenient landing place for Egypt, and hence, it 19 said, the efforts being made to fit it for being the busipess capital of the conutry. We J me through @ narrower part of tho canal on leav- ing Lake Tumsah than we meet with again Even here, however, the waters are of considerable width, and for the first bour we see camels, donkeys and laborers, literally by the thousand, at work upon the banks. Past groups which took sirange to our unaccustomed eyes, naked Nubiaos swimming out to meet us, their white teoth gleamune in the sun as they give us @ welcome, Other Nubians taking thew rest im holee in tho soft saud, t! heads alone being visible above it; groups of devout Mussulmen workmen, wvo, while the string of camels at their side are being Jadea with sand, employ their time im prayer, and sland up and prostrate themselves, and touch the ground with their foreheads with profound indifer- ence to all around; children,@naked as tuey were born, helping to Mil the panniers; men to blue robes and red caps, digging away at the canal sides wilh some of the energy of Engitsh navvies; a flock or vultures, at leost a bundred strong, leeding ona dead camel, and here and there a wild dog, who comes to the top of the embankment, or is roused ftom his sandy iatr to peer, ail these goes the traveller down tne canal. No view of the coun- ty is to be had. A _ magnified raiway cutting, the sloping banks of which are of sand, And the space vetwesn each side of which is the width of many railway lines, 1s what the canal rosembles most. The breadth from point to point from each embankinent top ts enormous, and when 118 remembered that this represents the degree of excavation which bas taken place, the wondors of the Suez Canal far transcends a/l your previous esti- mates coneerning it, It will be understood that the ‘width of surface water does not aifect its practica- bility for the transit of great ships. These must keop in a prescribed channel in the centre, and It Is agreed on all hands that as two cannot pass each other in have (o bo taken as on a single line of ratiway. Ac+ cordingly, sidings will be constructed every six or eight milles, into which the ship goiag one Way Will be shuted, while those on the opposite tack are shunted, At present, however, the chief polut of interest is the effect of the opening oa tie 17th; and yesterday some of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's officers arrived here from Suez, weing careful soundings ai) the way, with the view sacersaining how far the canal 13 already prac- tucable for large vessels. Their report is that much has yet to be done, but that the engimeers admit this, whiie insisting that all wul be ready before the opening day. As the soundings taken yesterday gave ive feet anda half in certaln Doge it ws to be hoped the engineers are right, On the 1ith, however, the Viceroy’s yacht, which draws from seventeen to twenty-two leet of water, will leave Port Said for Suez, making an experimental tip, and if ali goes Well the Viceroy bunself will go over te sane ground (or water) in her the next day. ‘The programme for the 17th Is, of course, able to alteration, but that of men of war of seve- ral nations will take part in it, that the Emperor of Austria and the | ey Prince of Prussia will bo here, and that 100,060 of the Viceroy’s subjects will be encamped at ismatita, to represent the various colors and customs of the tribes over which his ba nee has sway, is the present beilef, fhe passenger by steamer finds it dificult to real- ize that there is anythiug in the way of the inaugu- ration being @ success, for Lis crait draws but lite water, and though he feeis it grauing against the bot- tom once for @ moment, it ls explained that this is before he 1s outof the shallows of one portion of Lake Tismah, aud does not bear upon tie canal. ‘The astoumbing thing is the extentof the traiic already going on. One does not consider at first that these large satled barges are all of hight draught; and as Port sald aod its break- waters are reached at night the sight of large steamers and enormous harbors streagthens the illusion that the Canal is virtually open and that the inauguration 13 aformalily. itis right to add that Luis assuiuption 18 utterly erroneous, and that, while those best qualified to form an opinion are confident of tts Ulumate aud speedy success, they are pnd certain tat it is being opened too soon and that the regular trailic of large Ships will have to be postpone ISMAILIA, Oct, 29, 1869, Since posting my letter I have steamed along te Canal again aba steady rate of nine knots an tour, and have speat another day in sounding its depuis at parts said to be erlacal The circumstances uuder which I was enabled tu do this were cullarly favorabe to independent observation. No Frenchinan and no oficial connected with either the Egyptian government or tne ‘Sueg Canal Cumpany were of the party; and the iead was heaved and the measurements were taken and recorded until the precig¢ state of the canal and the excent of its fh for great ships are as well known to us as they ¢all possibly be to one. Whenever there was a doubtful return from the man witb the lead our litie sveamer was stopped and its boat put out. One of our party Was tuen pulled slowly across tho canal, With @ lead line in one hand and @ measuring rope in the other. ‘The eud of the latter was held by one of us on the steamer, and as each yaru was pald out the depth suown by the lead line was called from the boat aud entered in a book, Every precaution Was taken agains’ (ie possibility of error, and whenever the return of tae number of feet of depth differed from what we expected the waters Were gauged avain and by another hand. Careful noies were taken throughout and compared and verideda while we were ou the spot, so that what Il have to record may be accepted as being as authea- uc aad accurate an account of the present state of the Suez Canal as can be possibly arrived at under any conceivable condition, itis highly satisfactory to be able to confirm gen- eraily the statements of the French engineers. There can be no sort of doubt thar a deep passage exists all tne way between the Red Sea and the Mediterra- mean, thal iuere 13 an abundant suppiy of water, and that vessels can aud do pass along the entire canal. The width of tis passage on the 17th of No- vember, and whether all its remaining shoais will have been remoyed by that date, are the only points upon which didcreuce of opinion can arise. ‘The great suriace breadth of the canal, to which [ have already alluded as most impressive to a stranger, haa, of course, nothing todo with its capacity for bearing large ships. It 13 tne freodem from obstruc- uon of the central channel apon which thelr sately must depend, and upon which English owners must be satisued before availing themse:ves of the route, This can ve only tested by suc a course as I nave taken part in, or by a slip of @ certain draught passing through or sticking fast. ‘aking the posts or buoys which mari this channel aS our sianding-point, we measured and gauged ag 1 have said, and arrived at the unanimous conclusion that while it would be impossibie tor the Viceroy’s yacht, the Mahroussa, which draws eiguteen feet of water, to pass from sea to sea now, It is quite provabie that matters will have been so far advanced by the l2tu, the day fixed for the experiment to be tried privately, that sue Will do so Wilhouc material bitch, We fouud several places in which the dredging machines—which Thames, bringiug up & succession of bucketstul mass into @ long tough, Which tilts its con- todo. ‘Che lead not unfrequently gave depths cou- » the return jumped irom a low to a sufficiently Ligh be removed by the day of tie Inauguration, direcuon. tion w and deepened unt chorage ground. bays uereusver, 80 that there wil be opportunities ot stopping or Of turning at every ten aniles. Ou iisbanks. The scene tere recalis Mr. Poynter’ worked, overlagea camels and donkey, whos moans, can be seen and heard frota tae sleamer we spoke to declared there was a rise"‘and fall would agree to this being dus to wihid, but pomte: high water mark. Another poinf, to which wi sand wich is intermingled with mud and compara tively hard, ‘{hroughout you i tel yourself on migiity river rater Wan O@ Bu urtificial chaane soil, he ripples irom two Bieagvers imectug ce: tainly bring down lumps of! sand, and coun jess “small holes, as if ourlowed | by Animals, shOW Wat these port ous are undermine by tue action of the water, ever, the stunted shrubs of tae desert bave bee! pi rock was been placed at the water's edge, and bi: ‘The conaition of some of the banlts, particulariy road wear the Viceroy’s cladev—ao editice While of opinion that large ships may be pile through from tue Mediterranean to the Red Sea oo! and perhaps continuens, expenditure of capi tal, to see. of the proportions stated by the engiaeers—namely, twenty-six deep—-is formed, always excepting cer- chiaery is, and will be during the next three weeks, which { cannot belp doubtiug Will be by the day fact that the average draught of the iargest steamers running to the Bast ig some twenty feet, and trom the circumstance that the Great bastern, on leaving the Nore with the whole of the Atlantic cable on board, drew bat twenty-seven feet wrward and thirty-two or thurty-turee att. Toto the commercial aspect of this Canal question { do not care to enter. ‘he reader can work that brauch of the eubject aut for himself, and as well in Noglaud as here, it hes been to tost Sbrere what las been done and what remains to e done thas i have given up the last few days, and circumstances have enabled me to do 80 very fuily, and with 9 minule completeness for which | scarcely Loped. rent Suez THE POPULATION OF THE GLOBE, There are on tue globe 1,288,000,000 of souls, of which 860,000,000 are of the Caucasian race; 52,000,000 of the Mongul race; 190,000,000 of the Ethiopian race; 176,000,000 of the Malay race; 1,000,000 of the Indo-Amencan race, ‘There are 8,642 languages spoken, and 1,000 diferent religions. The yearly wortaltty of the glove is 83,959,534 per- Bons. ‘ihis ts at the rate of 91,554 per day, 3,780 per hoar, 62 per minute, So each puisation of tie heart marks the decease of some human creature, ‘Tne average of haman hfe ts 33 years, Married men itve longer than siagle ones. One-elghtn of the wh population 13 wliltary, There are $38,000,000 Cur Tiana, 6,000,000 Isradiites, 66,000,000 Asiatic reltgio , 190,000,000 Mohammedan, and 300,000,000 2: gens. In the Onristian chare 170,000,000 prote: tne Roman Catholic, 75,000,0 profess the Ureek faith, 90,000,000 the Protestant, out one side of are on the same principle us those working on the ofearih and sand from the bottom, deposiung the tents on to tle laud—had portions of vneir work still siderably under that which is to be guaranteed, though the rapidity with which the statistics recov- ered ihemseives, and the suddenness with which | ig covered by nine strands of wire and hemp, each figure, proved Lue ebstacles still existing to be of in- considerable size. Their existence 1s not denied by the autuorities, Who insist, however, that they will Of the e1dings, or stations as (hey are marked in the last map Of the canal published by authority, only one exists, This is at Kanvara, between Laxe ‘There are of course huge gaps Where the houses and | Ballah and ki Ferdame, aud is of suficient size for ls purpose—i. é., lor aimuitting ships to temporary anchorage, While ovber ships pass in a0 opposite | the covering Wires 18 that these are not in contact, but separated from each other by abous their own | what singul ‘Yhe section next in length consise of 1,205 miles for the deeper portton of the Ked Sea, ita covering consists of twelve galvanized iron wires, without ‘There ts no jock aud none of the incon- veniences Which the word “station,” used in connec- ith a stoppage in mid-transit might suggest, being simply a vay scooded out Of the canal’s sides it aifords an ample an- There will be ten of these ‘The parts of the canal Known as tue Suez and Serapeuin Cuttings show the narrowest suréace of water, and | goyered with one covering of Latimer Clark's com- the suit ground by tue coruer ef Lake Timea) has tue greaiest number of men, camels and asses busy picture of “Israe in Egypt” foreibly-—-save that the suck is being applied, Lot to men, Buc to the over- and occasional siubbora upsets of, and reiusai to carry, their burdens of sand and stone, ‘Tnat there is some tide 1m ihe canal was insisted voyage. Laxe Timsah is, as every | 00 yesterday by more than one dwelier on its banks. We were at some pains to collect and compare tne local evidence on is disputed peany aot winie all ary- ing i their statement from two incties to six, none vo aregu.ar water iine, which they averred to be Where tue sides look softest and where the marks of camels’ hoofs sink deepest and clumsicat ito the minate In many parts, how- ted; und in others a sinadi barricade of Noose these preservaiives appear efectuai where tried. near ismaila not to be confounded witn the palace pre- viously alluded to 2s in course of erecttou—sh ows observers, regard 1b as Unforcunate Laat the for mai Insuguraiion of thus great enterprise should not have been delayed at lev st a few months longer; and the lita November, consider that the procee ling will pot be free irom risk and will need the nitest pilotage. But that tue unproken communication ve- tween ser and sea is uO wiyth, aud that a furtiter, labor and skill im the aivection Wuich has alveakly accomplished so much are alone needed to make the Suez Canal a practicabie highway for the nations of , the earth must be obvious to all who have eyes Inaependent investigation has proved that a canaly sixty or sixty-five feet wide aad twenty-four or tain Ovstructtons not yet qeared away, and which would produce disaster at present, but the wherea- bouts of which. ere Known, aud upon which the ma- at work, What tis wiil me when all 18 clear— 1Xed for the opening—will be mndersiood from we 5 OCEAN TELEGRAPHY. The British-Indian Submarine Cable—Sailing of the Great Eastern and Her Consorts for Bombay—The Bombay and Suez Wire—Its Length Just the Same us the French Atlantic Cable—Splicing at Sea, {From the London Times, Nov. 9,) On Saturday morning the Great Eeastern steam- abip left Portiand, ou her way to Bombay, carrying once more the precious freight of a deep sea cable, and fitted with all appliances for submerging it. Her tanks contain 2,735 nautical miles, and her com- Panion ships, the Hibernia, Chiltern and Hawk, carry among them 1,225 miles more, making a total of 3,600 nautical, or about 4,050 statute miles, This Jength will suffice for the communication between Bombay and Suez by way of Aden, and will join the present Malta and Alexandria line. Another cablo 1s projected, to be laid from Falmouth to Gibraltar and Malta, and its completion will unite bombay and the British fortresses in Ue Mediterranean aloug one line of submarine velegraphy wich will be un- broken except at Suez. ‘The success of the Malta and Alexandria cable as a dividend-paying property, and the successiul lay- ing of the French Atlantic cable, are circumstances whieh have rendered capitalisis favorably disposed towards other projected jines, and which have greatly factiittated the present undertakmg. [ts accomplishment will in like manner prepare the way lor other great enterprises of a similar kind, and an extension to Singapore, and irom there to some point of the Australian continent, is already spoken about as one that must undertaken, The iengta of the Bombay and Suez cable, now on its way, chances to be precisely the same as that of the French Atlantic between brest and Duxbury, and, excepting for the liberal use of ground flint or silica, a8’ a protection aguinst the vages of the teredo, its coverings are also similar, ‘The teredo attacks hemp with great readiness, and in acable recently raised that had been lying for some years between Toulon and Algiers was found to have reached and eed f to have channelied the wutta percha of the core. Like the French Atlantic, tne cable now on its way will receive extra cover- ings fora great distance from the shore. Expe- rience hag shown that motion on the bottom of tae sea extends to ® Much greater depth than was at one ume belleved, and, therefore, 1n addition to the ordinary massive shore end, it is now the practice to have many miles of an intermediate character before the comparatively weak deep sea section com- mences, it may not be without interest to give some account of these various sections and of we maode in which they are manufactured. ‘The central and essential portion of the cabie, the conductor, consists of a strana of seven copper wires, six of Which are wound in long spiral colls around a central one. In the section between Bom- bay and Aden these wires are one-fourth heavier than between Aden and Suez, but in both sections they are quite fine and slender, weighing at most only 180 pounds per nautical mile. The strand of Wires 1s then covered with alternate layers of Chat- terton’s compound, a mixture of gutta percha, india rubber and oiler gums, and of gutta percha itsell. The Chauerton’s compound 18 first applied, and 1 flows into and fils the interstices between the wires. In the Bombay and Aden section four layers of each kind are employed, in tue Aden and Suez sec- tion taree layers, and im both cases te con- ductor and these iayers constitute together what is cailed the core of the cable, Tis core 1s a litte more than a quarter of an inci in diameter aud is sont in three mile lengths from the gutta percha ‘works to the factory at Greenwich for completion, Each three miie length 1s wound upon @ huge bob- bin, and on arrival at Greenwich is put into @ tank under water and tested electrically after some hours of submersion. If its condition be satisfactory tt is next covered with a serving of Jute yarn steeped in asolution of cutch or other preservative mixture and being, in fact, a protective padding between the core and its outer coverings. This jute yarn applied by @ machine consisting of several bob- bins, revolving around a tubular axis througa which the core Steen 80 that it is clothed as it goes on its way. itis important as regards electric condi- tion that the cavie should be aiways wet. The core on its bobbin retains enough moisture by cohe- sion to fulfil this requirement, the jute yarn itself ts ‘wet, and the clothed core passes limediately into a tank containing water. Up to this point, except for the slight difference of thickness already mentioned, the whole of the cable is slike; but alterwards its treatment varies with its destination. The greatest length, or the 1,874 miles of deep sea cable between Bombay and Aden, requires the least protection. It h | strand composed of a galvanized homogeneous iron wire, rather less than one-tenta of aa inch in diame- ter, and surrounded by five yarns of Kussiau or Bach strand is first passed through } killed at the spot where found. Manila bemp. a mixture of pitch, tar and ground flint, and the whole cable again through a simi lar mixture. Lastly, strand or strands of diameter. and this is more strongly protected. hemp, each about the sixth of an inch in diameter, f | and Wound on spirally, 80 a3 to be in absolute con- pound—that 1s, of ground flint and mineral pitch. 3 one-fiftn of an iach in diameter. ic 826 unites, covered with ten wires of one-fitth of a inch, before the deep sea portion is reached, e ires are covered exteruail, mailes of shore eud, the Wi a a he in value. Her design is to call at St. Vincent to fi sumed, but loading deep, Her next stoppage wi be at the Cape, and from thence she will procee 1. t- | in Jannary, and where she will be, joined by th Chiliern, “The Hibernia will proceed direct to Ade: d | and the Hawk to Suez, Wi n lete ie company to Aden, the 1ormer jaying wie c When the Hibernia, Great Hastern and Chute are ready to leave Aden they will proceed tn Gou pany for 335 miles, by which time the Great Waster will have exhausted her Red Sea portion. a a ra lJatd her shore end at Suez, and have come sixt miles to meet the Chiltern, A splice betw portions wili complete the undertaking. T, m | knots an hour, submarine cables the manner of splicing has scarcely at all described. A great variety of ', } cut and joimed again, and the joining 1s effected a: votne cover! f th he coverings of the core, whatever they may are irst ravelied back for a considerable aisea generally about sixty feet, and the core ttself 1s cu straight through. The operator then warms th gutta percha of the core over a moulds it back with nis fingers the conductor 1s laid bare for about two inches, he solder 18 run among the wires of which it 1s posed, so as to unite then into a solid rod. Th ad of this rod is flied obs ¥ and to this the other end, similarly prepared, is piled. Fine copper wire is then wound irmiy’ round tue jolpt and the ends of this wire are the conductor, one on a arn are wound spirally roudd it; it is again passed through the mixture, and so into a tank to be ready for shipment, ‘the eifect of winding the yarn around ce, conductor is then washed with naphtha, s cicanse it from all grease or extraneous matter, ald f tact. Above this there are strands of jute yarn, laid on in two servings in opposite directious, aud ‘The shore end at Bombay receives for tea mites the adaitional protection of 12 strands of galvanized iron Wire, each strand consisung of three wires of For 86 mules further it is covered by ten single wires, each a quarter of an inch in diameter; and for 6) miles more by 12 wires, each one-fifth of an inch in diameter. Approaching Aden, the shore end bas 20 miles like the past described portion, and thea veo miles covered with the strands of triple wire, In the Red Sea, both at Aden and Suez, there will be ten miles with triple strands, and ai the Aden haronen an In all the portions the strands, or single wires, sre wound on spirally, and in ail excepting each ten iy wave more attention than was able to this by @ coating of Latimer Clark’s bestow upon it during previous visits, was efi na y td the action of the water Upon toe canai’s Tue Great Fastorn left England carrying 5,512 tons sides. These sides or banks vary considerably in | of cable, 4,8¥4 tons Of fuel, 6,499 tons of coal, and character, Now stretchiig lo ® jgreat heigit, Bow | apparatus and appliances making up a freigit of low lying; DOW composed of ine dry sand, uow of | 9],090 tons in weight and of about £3,600,000 sterling ul up with coai—not only replacing what has been con- ny ri through the Mozambique Channel to Bombay, where she will be due alter sixty steaming days, or carly ie m hen the Great Bastern and Chiltern have com- their coaling at Bombay they will §proceed vie. a a- rn @ Hibernia will then spiice and carry on the werk, the Great Eastern leaving ner consorts and return- however, how the ine dry sand drifts, 1t being sbree | ing by way of Aden to Hnglaud. When the liber feet deep yesterday im sand, wilch had evidemty | pas paid out all her cable the Chiltern will sp n not laid on tt longs. her turn, and continue laying as far as the Gulf of Yo sum up conclusions, t, {n common with other | Suez. By the time this ts done the Hawk will have y 2 speed at whict the cable is laid must not exceed live Iu the many accounts that have now been given of circum stances reader it necessary that the cabie should be 3 t e spirit lamp aud as it softens until The quely into @ smooth scarf, Boice hn sule of the joint. ‘Joder 15 also run over the whole and the gutta - Placed by the fingers in the sameway teas trees moulded back. Alternate layers of f Chatterton’s compousd are head Sprllvo; er tne ore over the joint {8 somewhat thicker than els: where, and tie coverings of yarn or wire, or both, are replaced in the ordinary tanner of’ nautical spicing. | ‘The effect of the whole process Is to mace borates the strongest part of the cable, t ef the original conductor could be pulled Apart t zie td one scart could’ be elongated to * of ten inches ai ve p 29 iis eieare Curmegiies and Would stilt give passage ‘The Great Eastern and the are under tho command of Onpentn aaiane whole assisted by the same staf and carries the sume mi. ciuinery that laid the Atlantic eable of 1sco and tho 4,100 sniles of cable, he 18 abie in some degree tO Bosion Commercial Bulietin, Nov. 20, tendency to produce a reaction and Fealize the bulk of the vessel in which such strae ture can be enclosed. By no means ap uninteresting feature of the preparations is the liberality with which the creavure com- forts of all in hares of the cable have been provided for. The directors of the Telegraph Constraction and Maintenance Company are prac- tical believers in the sound doctrine that Engiish- men musi be well fed if they are to do good work. To this end the judgment and resources of Mr. Simonds, of Leadenhall market, were called into re- quisition, and he supplied the ship with 35 bullocks, 120 Southdown sheep, 10 calves, 50 pigs, 100 dozen of poultry, 20 tons of potatoes, three or four tons of fresh vegetables of other kinds and @ quauuty of dead game preserved tn ice, The cost of the supplies of iresh provisions thus taken on board amounted to @ sum of nearly £3,000, and the members of tne expe- dition Wil fare as well, from its commencement to its close, as they could have done if they had re- mained in London. The novelty of the attempt to lay the two first Aulantic cables, and the great purposes that they were expected to subserve, attracted public atten. tion to them in no ordinary degree. Their com- ree success, and the facility with which the renuch cable was laid this year, have had some unduly to diminish the interest felt 1n similar undertakings. Bat it should not be Jorgotten that the apparent eas aresult of the Combination of the most pro- found scientific knowledge with tue highest degree ot mechanical skill, and that a submarine cable must long continue to represént one of the greatest of man’s triumphs over the forces of nature. Achain which rests beneath the sea, beyond the reach of hostile interference, which in this position of safety will unite us to British India, and, before very jong, to the Australian colonies also, may well be & source of pride to Englishmen. ‘The pride will ot be diminished by the reflection that tue enter- prise and its success are wholiy our own. In such achievements no other nation has even started inthe race, and the last evidence of Eagland’s empire over tlie sea has been her use of ita greatest depths as wie resting place of tne links by which ehe is ding togetuer the uttermost parts of the worid in sympatuelic and instantaneous lutercommunica- be speedily | Hou. CUBA. Ravages ot the Cholera and Yellow Fevers The Bayamo Massacre—The Revolution. KANGSTON, Ja., Nov. 7, 1869. We have intelligence from Santiago de Cuba to the 8d Inst. Cholera, yellow fever and smallpox were raging in that town and its suburbs, There had veen 300 deaths from cholera within a period of thirty days. in acholera ditch which had been dug for the re ception of 100 bodies 300 corpses had been thrown, with barely sufiicient earth to cover them. The stench from the cemetery had become so intolerable that the corpse bearers would not venture near the place. The consequence has been that collins are thrown alongside the road 200 yards nearer the city, and Santiago being on an elevation, the stench has almost become a pestilence. ‘The pudlication of the protests of the Cubans who were massacred near Bayamo, which appeared the New York Henao of the 18th October, and the leading article which appeared in the HsRaLp of the 16th, produced intense excilement on the arrival of the HEeaLn by mail. The revolutionary party continue to hold their po- sitions with great tenacity, and the Spanish foreea were com paratively helpless, a3 they confined thelr efforts to small engagements, which could be of little service in the suppression of insurrection; but by the annoyance of private individuals in many petty ways, unworthy of gentlemen or soldiers, the Spaniards endeavored to suppress the lasurrection. ‘fae revolutionists appear to receive material ald from foreign sources, which the Spanish authorities are powerless to prevent, A BLOODY MYSTERY £V MISSOURI. An Unknown Woman Found Murdered—No Trace of the Assassin. [From the St. Louis Republica, Nov. 17.) Among the crimes and tragedies daily occurring in every large city there are occasionally to be found some marked by peculiar and owéré features, either of horror or of circumstance, and such is one which was developed yesterday morning. A woman found dead ina vacant lot is, to be sure, no very startling announcement, but the interest deepens when investigation Inks other circumstances to the fact. Her skull has been smasied im by remorseless blows; her arm, thrown up to defend, has also been struck, and from other indications it ts evident she was the victim of a murder, But further examination reveals other rather singalar particulars. She has been dead longer than a night, and she was nob There are no indi- cations of a struggle in the vicinity, and the boota on the corpse are [ree from the wet, soft soll of the lot. Then, again, her nose and chin have been gnawed by rats, and the night has been one of Bteady, heavy rain, when rate, it 1s sald, are not likely to be abroad. These things, with the appear- ance of the corpse, pretty clearly establish 9 some- ar case, A woman has been murdered, concealed for @ day or 80, and then the body re- moved in the nighttime and thrown into a vacant lot some little distance frou the street. ‘Tuis is all that is known at present, aad the murderer and his motive are shrouded in mystery. As the case 18 & somewhat peculiar one we will give al the acuass It was possible to collect, FINDING OF THR BODY. About half-past six o’clock yesierday morning, as Robert Cloduf, in the empioy of James Verdin, lum- ber dealer on the corner of Tenth and Poplar streets, and a comrade were Lion 3 down Tenth street to their respective places of business, Coidiff came suddemly upon the ghastly and half-nude corpse lying in the mud, by the side of the street, about midway between Clark avenue and Poplar streets. On the right and left sides of Tenta street, for avout half a block going south on Tents street from Clark avenue, are the lumber yards of William Drube. On the rigut side, going south, and tor about half a block, 1s a higu picket-fence serving as au enclosure to that yard. Ic was {immediately at tne end of this fence, and just around the corner where it was dis- covered, Coldiff and is comrade coming upon it so suddenly, were eomewnat frightened, and barely taking a look they hastened on. Coidift rusued into the-office of te lumber yard belonging to Verdin and told the clerk that a dead woman lay ust by the corner of the tence, He wout up, and b thav time a few persons and apoliceman weret’ | +% AYERARABCE OF, THs oe ¥ ere. y rain of the night and morain~ ound about the place 4 had ren- The corpse lay with the head to the _a0ise muddy. dy, loamy soil. ‘The feet and le« ease ia the mud- inches higher than her head 4 wore about bon ary by arock. ‘The clothing * |, Wich was support . Oo pr «aS disturbed and the per- gon exposed. Obliqu F, “ forehead, and dow” ,-% down tie rignt side of the b ato the eye, was wu fearful gash, peeene s Skull, and another almost ag bad wane Nb wit the bead, either of Waich, It appebtedy » afve produced death, and had the appeays 8n.9 Of having been made With @ hatchet, She was wing at leagtu, with her right arm raised as if pro. tecting the head, and between the elbow and the Wrist Was an ugiy bratse, as if given by some hard Sabstance, While endeavoring to prote ue head, One finger of the hand was also broken, we believe, Blood was found on the growad at lier feet and a pool of blood at her head. Her face gay idence of some beauty and she seemed fo HF ahdut thirty years of age and prodvabiy five fect two inches in height. She was not only rather: poorly dressed, but quite light, Near her was a comiaon plaid shawl, but no bonnet or hat was found. Her hair Was dark and cut tolerably short. She had appar. eutly been taken there atier the murder had been committed or while in @ state of lusensibility, and Sine eae ed deed, finished there. At the cate pparentiy at the edges of tue fe, wounds rate had been at work, pia hiaheg Manan RUMORS, 8UEN' . In a short time after tho caseorer? of th appeared as if fully half the neighbornoo: blocks around caine plodding through the wud to see the ghastly sight. Mon, women and children came there to wonder and'ask unanswered ques- tions of each other, for not one of them scemed to know her or had ever scen her before. One tnought it was @ washerwoman (we forgot her name) W) lived in the neighbornood, but this was found to ‘The hea’ dered the ¢ 2 body tt or two anerror, It Was the generat impression th had been murdered somewnere ise od tho bot conveyed to whore it was found. It seewis a won- der that whoever brought tue body there pad not taken it a few ivet iarther on towards the Missourt Pacifte Ratlroad and thrown it into a large, deep pond which extsts there. The darkness of the night probably bad somethin 1, e x to dh con “oldie it where it was found. Probably the den became too heavy and the mud about too thick to go furthe si harass There was no evidence of a@ struggle there, marks of footprints hurriedly mix ras aa if thor had been a mice, noting to indicate aught else than that the deed was not committed the About laif-past ten o’ciock the body w 5 placed in a rade coil and removed by order ot ¢ D « » Cor- oner to Manning & Dei's stable, on North Kieventh street, Where it now awates the inquest. As soon av the body Was discovered to hay 0 at ave be murdered, the detectives went to work on the can fii it 18 0 be oped the mystery wow surrounding the crime will bo explained and u " brougat to the judgment of the iw ahiv patie —— RosTon SOE AND LEAT ER MARKET.—In the boot Freuch Atiantic ¥ R and shoe m 3 no! . 4 Halpin cOuManGed on ees prevent year. —C | Business is very quiets tho demant wreeey eote chief officer of tae Great Eastern on thet . | aa ae trom emote points, and ihe, uae port, tha: he brings Lo M13 Work all the ndvancnee | ducers aitd dealers are dtoney giaud trade. P erience and - | ducers and dealers are li rade. Pro- | peneuce and full knowledge of thoss wiio are unset | ing their books aud eying ae nate imore than poste | sta specially carried sor Tastee sd — | Ls the business ON Just duet tees | the cable the Great Eastern’ tas "300 ennd | thing they Lave mot yet begun to make any pre e : 860 13 | puraiton Tor the ne: “ nake any pre. Raplaven ty ~ a nagattude 1s couspicnousiy | will not do a ar ae probably | tion, Oa her deck there cauited, for the expodi. | guods are Wan for at reall = tine | that real m re several houses Jal goods are generally aie . Desirad! litaae oe dene and the guides for paying out th oO denlers® are gry, Old, Well up, though cea Hamat assive Machine (cr hauling in, the coo) s “KS adapted to the West holding — balance Anat peng for various live stock, aud even the wasis | market continues very eee, rade. Tho leather Waoelves combine to produce a siuilar effvet. But | soitied down to hard par dog gee eos eee fe have BA1000, EDO Vink ens fo what was Ouce a dintug | change. ‘There is nod a, Gad are without quoiable ‘ , the visitor comes to the edge oi the iain | ers to make aay po HOn on the part of bold tink, and fads himself looking across a circular pit | leather, Uppor nyrg tebe Concessions on sole TS ieet tn diameter 16 feet ta depth, and contuiuiag | rather unseitiod axe oust end Bauwued, continues and se Hing in siali Lots only,