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of London declared upon oath to an in! ad a crowd of London contemporaries that a land- 1p had occurred near Ei Guer which had almost Diled the canal, Auvther press gentieman sald that rock had been found near Ohalouf 1 Terraba, in the very centre of the canal, which had occasioned great anxiety to M de ps. Finally the worst ofall rumors was that De Lesseps bad blown his brains out because of bis mability of enduring the suspense, Upto the 14th 120 vessels (some of them of very large tounage) had been inscribed ty pass throug the canal, to andfroim India, Among tuese were two oi the Messayeries [mpériale’s Une indlan steam packets, which Were waituung at Suez and were to return to Marseilles to be relieved by others, So far ak was Known the programme of the inangu- Tation was as 1ollows:— On the i¢th the benediction would be pronounced by the Predicate of the ‘Tuileries, Rev. Patner Bauer, Coniessor Lo the Empress, the Bishop of Aiexaudria pronouncing it in Arabic, On the following morn- ing, 17th, ai eight v’cluck, the procession would be- gin moving, headed by the Empress of the Freach in the Aigie, and the other vessels would follow at invervais of five minutes, so as to arrive the same afternoon at Ismaina, where a grand dinner and bail would be given by the Khedive and grand iltu- mminations and fireworks would take place, On the following morning, the isth, the procession of ves- sels Would resume their course for Suez, where, on 1a arrival the same evening, new festivities would take piace aller @ salute of 101 guns troin the bat- teries and ships present, Tne order of return was not decided, a3 it Was expected that some of tle Toyal personages wouid proceed by rail to Cairo. It ‘Was suid that the Knedive would assembie ali along the shores of the canal thousands of fellow work- meb, Who would shout “hurrahs’’ during the puss- ing of the procession, LEAVING ALEXANDRIA FOR THE RENDEZVOUS. On (he 14th the steamer on which your corcespond- ent bad found an exceileut verti let Alexandria, mm Company Wisi Lue Vieeroy’s sveainer, the Fayoune, bowl bound for Voré Said. The Suvope was a strong new sica er of 4,00) ons burden, ihe second of a line oi steamers Which Marc Fratssinet & Sons are constructing to run from Marseilies Lo Port Said and Suez. A Leavy gale was biuwing, and the oar at Alexandria warbor ig a most dangerous piace to oross mM rough wouther, as there are only twenty- seven fect of water, and below are reefs, Every- body on board was in tie greatest suspense while crosslug, Dut luckuy Dovwlug parted, aud excepting & lew very heavy suukes We ex,erienced nothing very remarkable. Tie Fayouue, on the other band, Was Wo be ihe scene of great jolhty and banqueting thas night, aod chaupagne and other fine ‘wines were set on the cabin tabies, Which were to be drank alter crossing the bar; but, Wiile crossing, the uuge Waves aimost turped her compleseiy over, and, though tue vessel Was not damaged Lu the least, the supper and Wines were irretrievably lost, Damietta was sizhved atten tho following morn ing, aud ip an hour afterwards the masts of the im- mnense tleet gatuered at Pury Said were seen. At vo We passed the Hnglish iron-clad Meet, consisy- ing of the foliowlus vessels, lying outside the road- stead of Pore Said:—Bellerophon, Captain Francis Morton, 4,270 tous, 1,0u0 horse power, 14 guns; Caie- donia, Captain Thomas Vochrane, 4,126 tons, 1,000 herse power, 30 guns; Lord Warden, Captain Thos. Braudresh, 4,050 tons, 1,080 horse power, 18 guns, carrying the flag of Vice Aduiural Sir Alexander Mine, K. C. B., Commander-in-Chief of the Medi- terrenean squadron; Prince Consort, Captain Wil- Mam Arimytage, 4,045 fons, 1,000 horse power, 24 fans; Royal Oak, Captain M.S. Hilyar, C. B., 4,056 us, $00 horse power, 24 guns; and the wooden ships Newport, Commander George Nares, survey- dng vessel, 425 tons, 80 horse power, 6 guns; Helos Lieutenaut A. T. Powiett, despatch boat, Bu tons, 260 horse power, 2 guns, carry- tng Mr. Eliott, the Wuglish Amoassador at eed teh the Rapid, Cummander the Hon- F. L. Wood, steam sivop, 672 tons, 150 horse power, 11 guns. 1t was quite a sight to see this voud feet of England assembled to do honor to tie Inauguration of UM Suez Canal Ou account of their great draugat the iron-clads found it impossi- bie w enter even the roudstead of Port Said, and ‘Were consequently obliged to lie at anchor at the distance of turee liles Out at sea. fue Europe closeiy followed by the Fayonne, steamed towards Port Said, entered the fine, capa- clous roadstead, and anchored alvngside of the outer quay amidst the assembled fleets of Europe, all of Wh.co were dressed iu gayest bunting. Port said may be called tue maritime capital of the isthmus. This city on a sea beach, this Dow opu.ent and populous hive of industry 1s entirely we creation ot (ie Suez Canal Company; for nota ves- tige of a dwelling existed within me@es of the spot When M. de Lesseps and his few adventaroua com- panioas first pitcaed their tent upon this barren coast. A narrow strip Of laud risiag but a Jew leet avove tho sea served to divide the Lake of Menzaleh from the Mediterranean, and on this, 1n the centre of an awphivious region of lagoons, amid bare patches of moist sand, much frequented by pelicans, sporuve fist and tishermen, sprang up the thriving city of Port Said. it counts aiready 20,000 inuabitants, nut Who shall say Wiat te population will be fifty years hence? Peogie hypercritically say that Porc Bald wil never become a@ great city, because there ts 00 land to support it or to invite strangers to live near it. To those 1 would say, reclaim the land overflowed by the lagooa of Menzalen, which was ce Called the “Fields of Zoan,’? and you have ao area of tne richest Jand twenty-five miles long by twenty brvad in extent, At Port Said the great workshops of the company are fouad. All the steam machinery, foundries, forges, &c., are stationed on the left of the harbor, whue the city proper occupies the might of the har- bor. ‘Lhis ls also Lue greal entrepot ior the dredges, the barges and Lighters and all other material that were required for the eXcavations along ihe istomus. All the inachinery aad ironwoik were brought im Pieces from France, and were here put togetuer in the workshops. ihese workshops and beach wharves necessury for the use of the company cover an area ol wwenty acres. From the ship in the harvof tuese bulidings, with tueir tall chimmeys of brick and stone und iron smokestacks, appear as if a part of Pivisbarg had been plantea nere. To your right lies the weil built city, with no very remarkable archi- tectural Churacteristics about it. Two modest church gpires peer above the compact mass of buildings; but the harbor and wharves wouid be @ credit to auy large cy, especially the wharves, which are em- banked with solid blocks of concrete and granite, Jad with suca regularity and nicety that command Uugualited aduiration. ‘The attention of visitors 1s always drawn to the concrete olock manufactory on the company’s side of the harbor. These large biocks were made out of lime from Teil, near Marseilles, sand and w by Messrs. Dussaud, for the construction of the jet- ties necessary for the protection of the harbor, Alter allowed to be dried in the sua, the heat of which is very powerful in summer on the beach, the biocks, which measured ten feet long, six in width aud four in depth, were dropped into the sea, and have proved capable of resisting the action of the Waves as well as the hardest stone. The company contracted with Messrs, Dussaud for 250,000 cubic metres of unese blocks. The two Jetties required for the protection of the harborform an excellent road- stead, one veing 1,300 feet from tue otuer, narrowing tue space between them at the entrance to the roadstead to 300 fect. On each termina- tion erected a lighthouse, and the jetties aro made 20 firm and strong that when entirely completed they will form ad- mirable promenades in calm weather, Asa proof of the Balety of the anchorage this roatstead affords since the foundation of Port Said, in April, 1559, the toral losses of vessels in the roadstead during the ten years have been only fifteen out of 5,000 which have entered and departed from Port Said. ‘The port has an extensive quay, rendered firm by asphalte, on which are seen at reguiar intervals sirong granite mooring columas, wnicn lead from the einbouchures of the canal away through the city, and along the southernmost jetty to about half of iis length. Close to this vessels may moor in ee safety in thirty feet of waver. Tie port itself divided into three basins, eaca capabie of contain- fog 100 vessels of large size. From the end of the piers which separaie the basins to tho other side of the port are some 1,000 feet, and along that may be moored from the ler 4 of the port to the entrance of the canal 100 moi® vessels. The harvor of Port Said being 500 acres in extent, we may say that 600 vesscus may easily find room within it, But when the northern and southern jetties are fully conciudei, with a lighthouse at cach end, broad promenades running along the top, the roadstead will eg eet 1,000 merchant ships with ease. At present, however, the concrete blocks are mereiy pe one apon another loosely to the helght of ten t above the water, against which the surf beats unceasingly. ‘ ‘The town of Port Said I have said contains 20,000 inhabitants, mostly engaged in keeping small ete and hotels, Especially are the hoteis numerous, for 1 counted during my pevambulations through tue sandy streets ‘twenty, named principally alter the great Parisian potela. The Hotel du Louvre stands on the aie of the Hotel d’Angieterre, where 1 stopped iast year, and unbiushingly charges twenty dotiars per day for board and lodg- ing. ‘The Hotel diem, aud at the cheapest I Knew of the eigat doliara a day. There te one piaza c de Lesseps, anotuer called Pi city has two grand boulevards—ot sand. the scabeach ace a row of gothic cottages rily fitted up for restaurants and hotels, all of which were flied and doing what one may call an excel- Jeut business. The city has further twenty streets, and for any extension required it must extend itseir along tie beach, for on one side of this strip of eand is Lake Menzaech, on tue other side tho Mediterra- nean sea. It has two casinos and the usual round of amusements, Buch a8 are to be found in seuil- Oriental towns, Such is Port Said and its harbor. It was this city on & beach with ita harbor that on the morning of the 16th of November | saw decked out in bunting, from the housetops to the ground, gicft and below on board siip, streamers of ali colors, fags of ail nations, gauzes and musiins wav- tng ail avout. ‘The whole scene reminded one some- what of a Chinese play enacted on the stage, for the Chinese lanterns and kickshaws were countless, strung on lines of wire as far ag the eye could reach. ‘There were three hundred vessels of all nations in ri, mostly men-of-war and passenger steamers. Jugiand, France, Italy, Spain, Hoiland, Russia, Austria, Prussia, Turkey, Egypt, Greece, were ontan charged twelve dollars per rice was led Plaza represented here by fleeta of iron-clada, frigates, corvettes, sloops, steam yachts, great packet steam- crs. ‘ihe Emperor of Austria was in port on board an Austrian frigate; the Prince and Princess Henry of the Nethorlands were on board the royal Netner- Jand steam yacht De Vatk; the Viceroy of Egypt was on board his yacht the arousse; the English Am- bassador Was On board the British sloop-of-war tue Psyche; General Ignaciett, the Kussian Amoassador, was on board a Russian frigate; the Groek Ambas- savor Was on board & Greek Ifigate, and the Italian Ambassador was on board a war vessel of Italy. These areat people being In Port said lained Why the cannon thundered their salutes the whole Gay, ur irom snnrise to sunset the roar of cannon ‘Was incessant, One time jt Was a reguiar discherge NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1869.—TRIPLE SHEET. for the number of war vesecls was s0 great, and #0 many countries represented, that if one snip fired the ships of ten other countries ¥ ould have to follow. On the evening of the 15th the Viceroy sent around to all the steamers in the barbor, inviting ail drat class passengers on board hia yacht, the Maharousse, to a ball and supper, Over 1,000 ladies and gentlemen availed tneuseives of the invitation, joing on board, however, appropriately dressed. ‘ue bail lasted until two o'clock in the :norning. A most ciegant supper had been provided, consting of rare viands and fruit of Upper and Lower Eg) pt. Barly on the morning of the 16th visitors to the Suez Maritime Canal berthed on board ships were awakened by the thunder of the salutes, which oom- menced at sunrise. This time it was the Crown Prince of Prussia, on the North German Confedera- on frigate Arcona, of thirty-two guas, with Prince Louis of Hesse and two or three other German rinces. The salutes to his Highness the Crown vince lasted until seven o'clock; then it Was Big- nalled that the Empress Eugenie had entered the roadstead on we French yacut Aigie, The French frigate Themis annouiced her arrival with a salute, witch was fired with excelient time and order, each canuon being fired close on the otner to the last, The Emperor of Austria’s yacht took the salute up, alter Which it was continucd by the Arcona, then the Netherlands irigate Adiiral Van Wassauner, and so on round the entive ficets, The Empress looked lovely as she stvod in Light moruiog costume on tue burricane deek of toe yacht, Ler dress, bo far a8 1 could make 1t out from the Europe, was of blue suk, with @ white cape thrown over her shoulders, while on her bead she wore a sailor's cap Jauntuiy set off with @ blue vel. ‘fue steamer’s decks as she passed by were crowded with passen- gers, who snouted out enthusiastically “Viva lm- peru(rtce /? whica sae kept acknowledging with graceful bows. italian, Krench, English, Spanish, Turkish or Kgyptian steamers kept coming in continaally turoushout tne morning, and as there were many emment personages ou board, the din of cannon sa Jutes was someting tremendous, AL two o'clock the invited guests Jeft their steamers to go ashore to the ceremony of blessing the canal. our excellent fashions correspondent will, } believe, give you a fall description of this most Interesting event, 60 1 shall but vriedy touch Upya it. Stouated on the sandy beach at the distance of halt a mile irom tue canal, aud buta few paces from the sounding surf of the Mediterranean, were threo pavilions, erected and decorated to the utmost of Egy plan taste. One, suruouuted with a croas, was for the performance of the benedtotion in Greek ana French; tue second, surmounted by the crescent, was jor the Ulcmas and Mussuiman priests; the vhird and the largest was jor the Viceroy aad lis guests, From these paviions led a weli-made piank road to the quay iu the barvor, aloug which the luvited guesta came crowding between two and three o'clock, ‘There were so many uninvited among these that the unfortunate Arab guards, never hav- Ing seen So inany Well-dreased turopeans before, Were completely nonplussed as to what they should , and in their efforts at disoriminauon blundered, @ mater of course, Most ridiculously. 1 nolced a group gf London correspordents, dressed in the height of tue mode, in white kid gloves, snowy Leckties and mostrelaborate shirt frou's, uncere- moniougiy stopped by three Arab guards with drawo swords. Our britisit friends had. therefore, recourse to deception before they could pass, with which doubtless they were experienced hands, if one m: judge by the facility with whicn they evaded Ara Beruuny. Several Worthy diplomats Were also com- Delled to exercise subterfuge in order tw get within the desired precincts, The Ulemas took Weir seats wilhin the Mussuiman pavilion tu company with the imaum at a quarter belore three. About the same tame the Greck Bishop of Alexandria, followed by twenty-four Greek priests, occupied their pavilion. ititteen minutes elapsed; @ general discharge jrom all the feels announced that their Majesties were en route from the quay, and in a few minutes a screaming chorus from Kgypuan bugies informed tne thousands of European and Egyptian speciators that they for whom the cere- mouy watted were present. “Swo dozen children, clothed in white, wearing chapleta of fowers on their heads .and hoiding bouquets in their nands, fHauuked the stairs up which their Majesties ascended. Among the notables present were the Empress Eugenie, tne Emperor of Austria, the Crown Prince of Frusea, the Viceroy of Egypt, the Prince and Princess Heury Of the Netherlauds, the British Am- bassador at Constantinople, Right Hon. H. Elio, and tue Kussian Ambassador at the same court, General Iguatiell, All of tise occupied the front row of chaurs, fooking towards the other pavilions, Benind these were Aba el Kader, the Algerian chief- tain, with its whiskers dyed a jet biaekness, dressed in flowing waite garments and turban, looking a§ imdouutaole as ever; M. Verdinand de Lesseps, active looking a3 a young man of thirty, hair and mustache oi snowy, whileness; Madaine Charies Lesseps; the young and ugly iookin, Duchess of Aiba; Mademorselie Marion, ‘fat an painted like a doll; Madame de Soucl, grave and learned-iooking blue stocking, au authority about Oriental Inatiers; aud bepmd these again were an intaity of ambassadors and diplomats, such as Baron Prokca, Count Audrassey, Count de Beust, generals, and admiral juodures and captains, lieuten- anis, happ. young middies aud grave-look- jug Messicurs, errs, Senors. Misters aud gentlemen. Whoever Was great and grand; waoever had a title, whoever was 01 distinction in any service, whether uray, wavy, diplomatic and consular; who- ever’ had ‘acquired disifuction in his pro- fession, Whether in the arts, sciences or lverature: whoever was & mcwoer ot @ Board of ‘Trade, Cham- ber of Commerce, society or club; whoever had ever had wnycuing to do with the Canal; whoever was a corresponacut of @ newspaper of any novoriety—all these and an inflnitude of many more were surety to be found bere, aud bad a right to oe here. All the great ones of Europe were here assembled. ‘Those peopic that I had heard of with awe and vene- raion in early youth were before mo, the greatest and most famous of them not eleven feet from me. i had never seen any of them before, lor my traveis had tacen me in @ totaly different direction from the countries whict they claimed as their own. I am sorry almost tnat | nave seen them, for my prox- imity to them has robbed me of all viat schoolboy romance I onco possessed. Eugenie, of whom ali men speak extravagantly, to my travel-stained eyes seems bul a tine woman, with nothing very remarkable about her except ber giortous form and unsurpassed grace of movement. Her eyes are glassy, and gives at first aignt ao im- pression that she squiats, Witch 13 by uo means so, Her eyebrows are a pecuilartty seldom seen, but yet do not detract from her good jooks. Her mouth is neither classical nor Roiuan, nor of any particular kina. ‘The upper lip ts cut straight across the face, and contalns Several Seams in it as she speaks, wien is never pretiy. ‘The under lp ts il-furmed tu every way. ‘he mouth is positively too large, and the way it exhibits the teei when open does not seem nice, Her nose, though not fauitiess, does not neceasarfy comuund eriticism. — It the narrow orebead, the glassy, expres- sioniess cyca and tne coarse mouth which evokes @ critic’s dislike, Dut these objections are all Jost sight of when one gazes at the magnificent bust of the Empress and the glorious undulations of her form. The dress she wore exposed her bosom rather more than a decent man might tke his wife ‘to do, and | must say tuere were hungry eyes in that vast crowd Whicn were gloating on that fair waxen breast that should Rave been veiled with all ite weasures, ‘Tne kKmperor of Austria with his hat on his head 1s w comical looking geuiua. 1 have seen very many ood-natured Caiilorntans like him, especially when ie smiles; but when ke composes his features there is enough austerity and Rauteur in them not found in common men. He was very cool and bore the gaze of the curious crowd admirably, but the Empress Engéate, on the other hand, blushed every alternate minute and Kept ber gaze steadily away irom the crowd lest she might be put out of countenaace. ‘Phe Crown Prince of Prossia ts an ordinary gmat. Choose any fair-hatrod, blue-eyed private from the Queen of Sngiand’s Horse Guards, dress him in Prince William's clothes, and you will have an exact living repres®ntavon of him. The Prince has large, heavy features, set of with @ good, tengthy beard. He 18 martial and bold looking, with « coutideut, easy look, which sits well on Ris face. The Viceroy of Egypt w a short, fat, stumpy man, not much over five fect two laches; a gianvs nead and bedy set on dwartisn limbs would be a good description of him, While conversing with the Empress he appeared likea man who never had much will of hig 6wn, whose aim was over to please others. He has @ good-natured face, largo and round, and wears & sort, stubby beard. fis two sons, Tewflk and Hassein, educated, the ene at ee the other at London, appeared bright, tntell- gent’ jooking young men, of about eighteen and wix- n years of age. The Prince and Princess, Henry of the Nethertands, are very ordinary looking folka, es; wily the latter, who appeared likes common scold. The Nuchess of Alba, a young dowdy looking girl of eighteen, would, apart from her title and descent, never at- tract any notice. She ts fair hatred, fair complex- joned and biue eyed, but hor moutu, large aud coarse and always open, shocks good taste. ‘Tne diploinats were remarkable looking jnen, gentlemen and com- manders of mea to t at, especially Count de Beust, Baron Proxch, Oount Andrassey, General Ignatieff and Mr. Elliot. Nearly all the young officers attached to thetr Majestios wore due looking, siriking men. is @ man whom ai M. Ferdinand de Lessepa ny [ape would Itke for his remarkable pleasant looks, 19 gray hair and the courtesy which seems tospring forward to offer itself. le is ® man rather under the medium height, witha ind solid head, high cheek bones and all the factal characteristics of @ taorough- bred banker, bora todo shrewd thi; to turn over “lots of money” and doa “heap” of business. Every movement he makes iq quick, and betrays wonder- ful vitality, but cares of business, vast responsibill- ties, seidom cause him to lose for a moment his po- lite equiliorium. WHEN THEIR MAJRSTIES WERE SEATED the Viceroy motioned to the Imaum to proceed. The Imaum read in Arabic, from a written paper, a few minuies and his part of the ceremony was over, The Greek priests raiwed the Te Deum; Abbe Bauer, confessor to her Majesty, delivered an address in French, glowingly eulogistic of the Viceroy, the Empress, M. de ps and the Emperor of Austria, The words were eloquent, and the subject being grand and ail be! app! te—the bine " whieh he sppealed, the low thunder of the surf, the magnificent fleets beyond, the hive of industry in he ' ie sine a eee] best powers a je entire aympathy o augast nce, With cheers for De Leaseps the ceremony conchhded. The Suez Canal had been consecrated to the com- merce of the tg At night Port Said was filuminatea from top to bottom, from one end of the city to the other. The pale idbd ree Rg all over blag Chinese lights and Egyptian lanterns, over shrouds, masts, riggi funnel and porte. Tue splenaud Aentiarouniee the Viceroy’s yacht, was ali aglow with lighted fantasies, Later in the evening 1,000 rockets were fired aimal- taneously, apd scores of other flery delusions swarmed in the quiet, still air, to the intense admi- ration and delight of both furcigners and natives; crowns and crescents n'ermingied, myriads of bou- quets sparkled, golden showers tell, pyramids of tire reared, imsirvus obelisks sprang up to heaven; but the thousand and one things with which our senses were serie hied by the Viceroy tt is umosalvte to enumerate, It was a eon Huminatioa—as well devised, as well carried out as ever Egyps saw, and all tiis we are compelled to recall to our minds to the fact, to a city built on a sandy beach, in a harbor dug out of it 500 acres in extent, neither of which existed ten years ago. That it is great, that it 13 a wonderful, a veritable fact, the august majesties and princes assembled testify and guaran- We the same to us, To-morrow is the 17sh—to-mor- row 13 the day fixed whieh shali see the fubure of the Suez Canal, The magnituue and great importance of the work to mankind inciine al! good men to pray for its success, THROUGH THE CANAL NOVEMBER 17, The morning of the great day oa which the all important topic upon which men’s minds dwelt was torreach M6 cilmax, Which was lo see a new route to commerce Opened, Was ushered in with ail the apien- dor of an Egyptian sun, amid deiean‘ug cannon sal- voes and cheers uttered by over 4,000 sallors, This morning, of all others, 14 indelible in all minds from henceforth, with each of the manifold color- ings given to this grandest picture, wiih each scene of the muttiplex parts of the greatest drama ever witnessed or enacted in Egypt. Useless is 1 to think of auything else in eonnection with this day; no other idea has place before this greatest and last of al the magnilicent Ogures of Egyptian history. One by one the mind glances rapidiy by the outlines of it, from the mythical me of Osiris, through the ages of the Pharaohs and Ptolemies, Cwsars and Caliphs, to this year of our Lord, 1869; and as the mind rests upon this date the eye catches sight of the stately Aeeis of Kurope assembied in tue harbor of Port Said to inaugurate on this day the canal which 1s & success Won against nature and mankind, against stony khamseius, shifung quicksands, InacMMations of adverse governments, 1n spite of omeus and dark predictions. But vo the recitai of this day’s events. THE INSTRUCTIONS for the captains of all vessels were distributed to eaoh vessel the night previous, and in brief are as follows:— The departnre of the first veascl was to take place at six A.M. on the 17th. Each veasel was to leave ite berth in the harbor according to its number on the list. Each vessel was ordered to carry a white flag on its mizen bearing the number indicating position It held in the order of safling. The ships inscribed to traverse the isthmus were divided into five divisions:— First Divieion.—Yachte of crowned heads, princes and am- assadors. ‘Second Division.—Naval ships. Third Divison.—Sveamers belonging to commerelal com- nies. PMfourih Division.—Trading steamers not belonging to cot- anies, Hirth Division.—Private yachts, Each ship should hold three cable lengths astern of the ship ahead. ine distance between each division would be one kilo- me ‘The maximum of speed should be no more than five miles arved this speed should be an hour. lia the deepest part of the canal would be found marked by stakes. ‘The stakes carry- {ing pennants would show the depth “of from five to five and @ metres. In the straight part of the canal stakes placed at intervals of 400 metres would indicate the route to follow ; whenever the canal curved stukea would be found oniy 200 metres apart, placed on the outer ling of the curve. Between El Ferdane and ElGuisr, the canal having but fifty-eight metres width, no marks’ would be necessary to show the route, as it would be easy for masters of vessels to Keep the middle of the canal. Between Bitter Lakes and the Red Sea the stakes exhibit a. depth of from eighteen to twenty feet. For some reason the hour of departure of the first vessel was not observed, but punotually at eight o'clock A. M. her Imperial Majeaty the Empreas Eugénte’s steam yacht, the Algle, was seen to ob- trude her bowsprit from the line of snips at anchor and gracefully swing round with her head pointed up the canal. Within ten minutes volumes of white steam were satling upward from her funnel, a salute was fired from the French frigate Nemts, and the beautiful Algie was seen shooting ahead boldly'up the canal, displaying below and aloft as much bunt- ing as could be carried. Next the Emperor of Aus- tria’s steam yacht followed close on the Aigie’s heels. A salute greeted the Emperor also as ne passed by, the yards of the fleet were manned, and cheers were given by the entire crews. ; ens Jollowing is the order in which the steamers jelt:— | \~] ¢ 7a : 2 qq Carrying the Empress J nie and suite. “4 2)Steam yacht... 700! Carrying the Ei rik and suite. 18.6 8) Steam yacht... rrying the Archduke of; Austria... nga German Prince...|i ing the Crown Prince of} russia and suit Royal tlag of Pr } main, with Pri Heasé on bourd. rince and Princeas He: the Netherlands, british Ambassador, Mr. Hot, and Admirai ‘Sir Alex- i Her Britannic Majesty’ 00) Kr re vorvette.. Austrian Tide Austrian Lloyd’ 3) . 33 Amerie 24/ Russian steamer. | Russian steamer, | Principe Oddone. Principe ‘Tomaso, Steili Russi Odeasa and Alex. Russian Co, srindial line of steamers... Brindis! line of steamer rindiat line of sleamers. Brindisi line of steamer x00} Trieste line of steamers. | Egyptian government, Hgvptian governneni, Ottoman amer.. Turkish meauer, Ottoman Empire. “4 Steam yacht. vate, Britiah /Steam yach Private, British Steam yu wate, % Steam ya Private, Norwegi Steam yacht. Private, Austri Following these came the Cambria aailing sic and another Swedish yacht and several tugs, some of jarge burthen, belonging w the Suew Maritime Canal Company. Excepting a uttle confuston in the harbor, where steamers were lying thickest, three abreast in some places, there was not tie slightest diMeulty experi- enced. So great was the pressure, 80 douse the ves- ‘scl in the harbor, and yet go little noise and bluster were made that very many people actually doubiea Whether we would start this day; may, there were heavy bets laid that weshould not reach Ismailia that night nor even the next day. As your correspondent is on the Eerope, and as 1 mean to write tins as we proceed, 1 might ns weil take tie reader with me and show him tie canal as we giide up towards Suez, as your owa special sees it, THE CANAL AS SERN BN ROUTE. Precisely at noon the steamer Europe, ihe tweaty- Orat in the line, giides from the harbor under the siradow of two tall ovelisks of wood, which stand as temporary indications for the entrance of the canal. Once fairiy in it the great ship canal of the Suez Isthmua wm seen stretching away tll lost in the horizon, separaung Asia {rem re 4 On one side— your left as you front toward Suer—the desert, bathed in vapor, expanded wavingly; to your right ig the lagoon of Manzaieh, streaked with darkish lines of sand strips, spreading as far as tho eve can reach, dotted over with, besides its isianda, numerous dabvabians, whose imtecn sails, faintly quivering as the sunshine marks light and shadow, seems to us like swallows preparing to wing their way afar. Strangely does it appeur to us while now immersed in prosaic facts, how quickly the sbimmering, waving mirage floating above the land, the sup, with ite famed ‘pian magic light, the dessert and bine lagoon steais away al stern ideas, and plunge ua to day-dreaming. Kt ts the land that causes this sudden transformation from the prosaic, stern, matter of fact tuto dreamy, poeti- cal languor; the land, whose mysterious history creeps lato your mempry and es you from all common senso, practical worldly thoughts; the land, which rests tor ever tn silent repowg Ane His you With ite hasy, dreamy appearance. The land is tinged wiltn the mystery of the sun; the sun Rid his brightness, is no longer luminous, but is feovi and meilow, and the vault of heaven spans tho earth spottess, pores, et surcharged with the qual- ities which causes land and gun to appear so changed to European eyes. Ras-el-Ech stands at die fourteenth kilometer from Port Said. To thts point all went well. The lengthy line of monster steamers kept ateadiiy on their way, never swerving an inch to the right or the left seem- ina It looked like @ grand march of otvilization, with crowned heads leading the way past the vapory desert, past the shimmering lagoon of Menzaieh. ‘The canal, 246 fect wide, gives ample space to the largest sbipe; depth surticient to float there was also, with seventeen feet of water; for the great steamers of 2,600 tons burden plough throngh the cgnal as if this creation of Lesseps and they wel ell ac- quainted with each other. Phe nks are solid enough; bevelled and iaid out neatly, with slopes one foot tn six, which promises security to the Danks. The telegraph was along the banks, and small stations and reservoirs tor Nile Water mark every tenth kilometer. Kantara ts situated at the forty-second ktlometer, Which is reached at half-past five P. M. Five hours and a half to steam Ling bongeso kilometers is slow Work, but the Europe unt heen ction on account of her extreme length it has been didtoult pd ans g eee ae ae ree ; noeute came te mes, but gi to the extreme slope of the banks. ran gl on board as we proceeded that we could not reach Is- matiia this nigh, but confidence Lei red as we glide along with a straight avenue of wi infront. Not one of the twenty vi ad of us had come to grief, and “why should wasa Dataral question Kantara is a village now, called into more active existence and imporiance by the canaljwhich flows by it, Iti situated about twenty mil m lema- Mis, and ite more modern features standon the site of an ancient city, Kantara is on the highway of she caravans journeying between Syria and Egyp' and before the canal was opened a day seldom pi Without the arrival of numerous herds of cattle and long strings of camels bearing Egyptian and Syrian traveliers, The villige is amply supplied with ex- cellent water, led thither to pipes from Ismailia, and the caravans, when passing by her, rejoiced at the opportunity of repleuMhing their mushoks before roceeding on their journey, These water pipes 1ol- Ww the Maritime Canal to tts juncsion with the Med- Merrancan, torty-eizut miles from Ismailia, sup- plying ull the stations along its course, This 1s the only good Water ty be found on the Isthmus, a4 the wells tound, bere and there, 1n the lands, aithongh supplied by infiltrations from the Nile, are more or leas brackish. As a precauuon against accidents, such as might happen by the bursung of a pipe, or froin any other caise, the company have very pru- dently torined large reservoirs of water at Port Said, sailicient for itteen days consumption; but, in order to render the supplies aluug the canal more secure, there is @ second line of pipe running paratiel a few feet distant from the fret from Ismailia to Port Said. And now let us glance at the litte bits of his- tory which Kantara and its surroundings remind you. Fiiteen miles to the west of Kantara is “oan, the place of departure, or the ‘ania of the Greeks, cciebratea in Holy Writ for the deeds done in the tleids of Zoan, Lake Mengaseb covers tue Helds of Zoan; the city lweif is iu ruins. We may Judge of ts importance in ancient times by wie manner in Which the prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah speak of 1t, “The princes of Zoan are foois;” ‘fhe counsel of ‘he wise counsellors of Pharaoh 13 become brass.” Zoan was built seven years after Hebron, where Sarab, Abrahaim’s wile, was buried. The ruins are vast and most interesting, A temple, & gateway of granite, culamns, broken obeusaks and statues exist at Zau, as it is called, to-day, aud the name of the great Rameses, with his cartouche, 18 cut Upon @ great many of the statues; and these are all that is lem oi the joyous city whose antiquity 13 of ancient days. The great slip canal which we now traverse cuts across the “way of the land of the Philistines, that runs from Gaza to Zoan.’’ the place of departure, It 18 needless to enumerate ‘the celebritics tha: travelled the way from Zoan through tue henite laud to Philistla, All the Kings of Egypt who had designs against Palestine inarched this way, and the cruel lord, even Cambyses, invaded Egypt by the same road, “Baldness is come upon Gaza and Zoan ites in ruins.” Between these two ciues not @ single habitation 1s seen to-day. The Arab pitches is teat by night and in the morning Le 13 gone, and soon the sands are whisked about by desert winds and all ttaces of the camp fire and we sandalled footstep is swept away. Fiitveen miles to the east of Kantara, almost buried, Mes Pelusium, once potent in weaith and great in commerce, proud of its palaces and merchant rinces. Alas! Pelusium, the mart of nations, no more. Its strongholds are a heap of ruins, its palaces have become the nests of reptiles, the river that gave it @ harvest has wandered away, and the harbor whici floated great Pelusiuin’s fleets is a mound of sand. Daumas- cus Was @ trader at its gates; Tyre and Sidon ex- ported their purple and fine linen; the priucely chieis Ot Arabia and the sons of Kedar broughi to us markets the best of their focks, of their cainels and dromedaries; Meroe aud the far countries of Etalo- pia brought their gold dust and precious stones, Of the oaks of ashen were the ships of Pelusiua made; the cedars of Lebanon furnished masts, Peiu- slum Was the queen port of the great sea. Its inhab- itants were skiiful in war; they built mounds and strong forts; they fenced their cities round about with thick walls, Its fue liven manufactories sup- plied the Phoenicians with the work of their looms. Virgil says:—‘Scorn not the care of the Egyptian leat.’ The country round ubout Pelu- s1UM Was famous for producing lentils and all xinds of grain. ‘Tue pastures by the river teemed with fat cattle, and the trees on its banka grew so thickly that the rays of the gun could not penetrate the fo- lage. an, the whole country round about here 1s inter- esting and deserves the attention of all readers. Anthyilla, on the Canopus, inalntained the queens of Egypt in shoes and fine girdles. Naucratis, a few miles west of here, received the tributes of the nations, and its commerce rivalled Pelusium, Arch- andros, with its cunning workmen, excelled 1m broid- ered work, and occupled the jaira with earrings of coral, necklaces of agate and tabrets of gold and silver; and the fair ‘Fields of Zoan,” instead of being an immense lagoon, once boasted of (rests of strong, tall vaks; oO! groves of bristly arbutus, of wide-spreadiug ucanthus, of an abundance of lime trees und featuery poplars. Beech, for wooden utensils, aud virgin laurei to crown the victors at the games flourished here. Hazel, ash, firs with dense dark green tops, myrtle for the stout spear shafts, yews for Egypuan bows, the unm- brageous plane tree, the acacia with its precious guu, evergreen, box, slender tama. risks all grew bere in abundance. ‘the watery jolus sprang Irom the rich Niie mud, its matal motier; stately palms upreared their heads ana lus- cious dates hung in pendant clusiers from their \ops; vines that bore grape bunches which rivalied those of Eshcol; the orange, with its crimson fruit; giaut pines, with bristied crests, which furnished tall masts for ships, torches for the aarkness, and made such giowing flres to the gods; all these aud much more, with flax crops, vetches, bitter lupins ana beans did tue iertiie felds of Zoaa produce. And the traveller asks himself, is there not one tuing leftof all this ferdiitv’ Ah, no! Nothing. ‘the lagoon of Menzaleh has shrouded ail deep in its bosom among the sands, Nothing of all the matoa- leas cites, with all their gtided labors, whicn the Delia of Egypt boasted. East of Kantara swims the jake 1M ullrage; west and south far and wide the desert waves with tne saiue deceitful aspect. Over all float the vapory beats. Aiternately it is but siroc jervor and deathly whirlwind blasts, whirling and toying With the amber sands, forming dally vew dunes and levelling muands of the same material which stood but yesterday. At tne fifty-sixth kilometer the sun is seen going down in a perfect blaze of glory; the western fringe of the sky see:ns dyed in crimson. Periect stiilness reigns over the desert; not a man, nor any living thing 18 abroad, save the stately leviathaus of tne deep roughing tielr way tranqulliy turough the canal. Tue moonlight succeeds to dayligut, and if ever desert looked weird, it looked this nignt all ciothed in amber color, a8it was, with the moon casting long shadows of the ships’ masts and inon- strous linages of steamers against the banks which sunk into the stuuosities of the mage which tue silt from the canal had made. The evening siars jooked forth, and soon the heavens were decked in such splen@@r as may only be secu in tropic iands. ‘The moon being full there was nothing to prevent the passage of the ship by night, and so continued on our way, con- trary to false prognostications and adverse beta, Atthe s(ty-eighth Kilometer, near the Builah Lakes, we found the Egyptian frigate Latif, commandea vy ap Engiish captain, ashore. So far bad British pre- Judice tnttitrated itseif into bois man that he actu- ally telegraphed to London that his ship was ashore and that none other could pass him, whereas the Whole statement was an infamous falsehood. Ne slup was delayed im the sligdtest, drawing but fcen feet, it is supposed that he drove der asaore purposely. At the sixty-seventh kilometer wo came to the heights of Ki Guisr, where the canal was but iso feet wide, but with nineteen feet depth. ‘Chis place Was reached precisely atnoine P.M. Here the cauat looked perfect, for it Was a magnificent piece of engineering. New machines had to be batt gasped for this work, ail of which Dave been so vilen de- scribed that here it cannot be necessary. Rocks had to be cut through, and mouutatos of sand had to be removed for two mies; in some places the cutting is 160 feet deep. At tue commencement 20,000 men were eng: on chese works, bu when the magnificent dredgers of Lavalict came into play it was not necessary Ww employ more taan 200 or 300, The bluffs on both siaes ure high and stecp, and being composed of sand, #ol) and graye, they form admirabie embaukments, The village of El ‘Guisr, which has population ot about 1,000 people of all nationalides, boasts a fine buit church and one of the preiciest gardeas imaginable, where all sorts of Egyptwn fowera seent 10 turive well with tbe least care. ‘Ine village is reached trom the canal by a long Night of wooden steps, aud the traveller on landing is agreeabiy sur- prised at its appearance. Hi Gulsr looked gay even la the ~moonlght; for, ifke all the villages on we canals, it was covered with streamers and pennens. it beiag lave when wo arrived at this place, and betug but & few miles from |; ia, ine Europe an- chored in the middie of the canal, haviag arrived bere Without any accident. Not one of the deat bad expericuced any diiticuity in its passage through me canal, except the Latil, which went agroeud, it {s believed, from sheer malice. THE 18TH OF NOVEMREN. The steamers ahead of the mares reached the port of Ismailia late in the previous evening. ine Km- press and Kmyperor of Austria arrived ative . M. and Were enthusiastically received by the authori- 2 ues. The steamer Europe got under weigh at exaetiy six A.M., and recommenced her journey through the eam followed by the tuirty and more steamers ‘ THR APPROACH TO ISMAILIA. Again floating majestically down tne artifictat river of blue water, our senses becoming graduaily deadeved to the azure sky, to the stern som- breness of the yellow cliffs, to the vaporous mirage that seems choking life, ® single palm tree's tops just wave shadowly through the vista a ravine af- fords. An ejaculation, forced by wonder, {nay it, and ml eyes are turped thither, when lo! the palm branca vanishes, and round a ridge to the south is seen & town in the very centre of the dosert, fenced seemingly with the same palms of which that shadow ofa branch was a member. This town was lainailis, the central port of the great canal. From this mo- ment tt is biessed—it has been sanctifled-py fervent blessings coming from relieved hearts. Like the eyelids of heaven opening to permit the child of faitn to gaze at ite full giory, so the first sigut of Ismatiia was to us. Ismailia seemed animated; the inland harbor pre- sented the appearance of an unusuafy busy port. Every piace wherein @ fag or streamer could be hung had been made use of for that purpose, and as may be ined, since this Offspring of the great canal was to be the sceneof great festivities, those harged with decoramng the city had done their tmost on this occasion. The ai of Lake Tim- broad and spacious as it is, seemed alive with abiahs and steamers. Where, im olden times “naked boys bridied tame waver snakes and charioteered jastly crocodiles,’ naked people sported in the waters and performed their morning ablutions. Boate decked with gaudy pennants darted hither and thither, gondolas an geyly painted and gave Kaleidoscopic varicty the scene, sounds of martial music, of bass drums and tamboure, of shepherd’s ‘pipes and castanets Lid upon the ear as the steamer entered this gem watainus. Mpa) from the laxe well butt city of some 10,000 iniabitants. the Viceroy’s villa shows prominentiy, nestling among riant ebrobbery and gardens. De Spesepe’ map: caiques sion, Votsin "3 chalet, M. Lavalet’s house and Hotel des Voyageurs give substance and Ornament to the front of the cy. The Viceroy has, stuce I was here est 76a, built @ magnificent palace, a large square building, wito much preten- #1/u8 to modern architecture, which looked novie and grand trom the 1ake. The fleet ol steamers were moored in the lake opposite the city, and looked im- posiug, A perfect forests of masts were here seen Trow steamers and Arab dahabicues. A quay, broao, firm and spacious bounds-iue water's edge on tue Eexnaha side, from which @ well built carriage and traiiic road rans to the city, haifa mile oif, which 13 built on ristug ground, a continuation of El Guisr bighiands, ‘Tue lake will permit FIVE HUND&RD SHIPS TO ANCHOR FRRELY !N IT. ita average depth is ninewea leet. The waters of the Mediterranean were le Ino it on the 18th of No- Veinver, 1562, amid great rejowings ana Te Deus. It regained 84,000,000 cubic metres of water to fill it, watch process lasted over tivee months, It is the inlaud harbor of tae isvoinus, and looking on Ite broad, blue waters one caunot help thinking that Ismatiia is going to be a great city. and that the Whole nature of the country will be changed from its barreuvess invo as verdant and iruitiui ap aspect a8 the finest iands of Egypt. The dragues le anchored on the eastern side of Laxe fimsah, and one giance at the dark mass, witt their forest of #pa 8 and funnels, Leis you ol the great work (liey have accomplished and of the immense usefulness tiey have been co cle canal company. ISMAILIA stand sat the confluence of inree canais—the Marl- ume, the Sweetwater, from Suez to Ismailia, and whe. canal from Zagasig to ismaiia, Which runs through ancient Goshen. Dilerent races of peopie nuw in- haoit the jaud of Goshen, aad all that is at present ferule of kgypt. Goshen 1s @ laud which recalls hosta of pcripture studies. Within its contines Gwelt the chudcen of Israel 400 years in bondage. It Was one of ihe most tertile parts of ie couatry, wit excellent pasture land, At that time Egypt Was powerlul, and for many centuries alterwards it Was the mistress of the world aud the cradle of the arts and sciences. ‘The desolation that lier eastward of Ismuilia 18 the firat giimpse we have of this once ceiebrated counuy. ‘She vounds of the vision are hailed on We same desolate expanse, which seems to embrace the azure mautic dropped protect- tugiy over it by the heavens; but the iivety fancy of tue soul springs over the iimitavie, halting mot until it has surfeied itself with all-devouring glances at the eternal Pyramids, Mempiis, the city of the Hundred Gates, at royal Memuon, at We colossi of Aboo Simbel, at Pile, where Osiris sull haunts the isle, and atthe thousand temple palace ruins of superb Egypt. Near unto us. just thirty miles, he the ruias of Pithorm and Kameses, the treasure cities of the Pharoabs, Sixty mules further od hes Bubastis, the city of Hiskah, aud seveaty miles further es Heliopolis, or Bethshe- mesh, Wale Gosien was famous for tts rich pas- tures Egypt was at the heigut of its glory, Her kings Were coiguerors over the nations; she was te fairest upuu earti. Fields shunimered with giowing gratu, Socks grazed in pieatcude and clothed by tuelr numbers the Jand turouga wich the seven mouths Of the great river rau, aud by the clear pools and stil waler its ridges were solt with showers, the furrows were filed with water and whe lana dropped fatness. Israel, thougi ina jaud of ilk and houey, could not forget lis surpassing fertility, its wealth, aud even hanxered after the I2scious Neshpois. ‘There came a time to end all this, and to punish the Egyptians jor taeir many sins, ney had for- gotten tie wonders performed by the living God; they had forgotten that the Supreme God had turned their rivers into blood, that they themselves had been tormented by Dies which devoured them, by frogs which dcsiroyed them; tha: their increase and roducts had been given to the caterpillar and the jocust; that tueir vines bad been descroyed by hail and their sycamore trees by frost, their eattle by Ball and their focks vy hot thunderboits; that God had let loose the flerceuess of lis wrath and indig- nation by sending evu angels among them, and by pestiicnce; that their tirstvorn and chieis were slain in one night, and that finally their King and all his great captains and hosts had been overwhelmed in the Xed Sea. Ail these had been of no avail; it waa ueceasary to punish vhelr everlasting obduracy, their unabashed tmimorality, and while Hgypt was still the mistress of the nations, while her bead towered up iuw the heavens, the prophets appear and launch their denunciauions agaiast ber. Joei trai com- menced tie feariul stram, “Hgypt shall be a Desola- tion.’ Isalah next comes upon tie scene and says, “1 will give over the Egypuians uuto tue hand of a cruel lord.’ Jeremiah takes up the awlul prediction with @ terrible particularity, ‘i will punish the mui- uutude of No, aud Pharoah, and Egypt, wita their gods and their kKlugs, even Pharvab, and all that trust in fim,’ and with oratorical grandeur aad lyric sublimaty, extending itself in breathless, long- drawn sentences, the wery spirit of Ezekiel unfolds its coming doom, ‘Woe Worm the day; I will scatter the Egyptians among the nauons, and i will disperse them Lhrough the countries, and there shall be 10 more & prince in Egypt.’’ Aud how were these prophecies fuililed? Come hituer, stranger, cact thiue eyes upon Egypt and listen w tie story, Apries Vharaoh-Hopral had his palace at Bubastes, or the Pirbesela of Seripture. Lhe cruel lord did come—even Nebuchadnezzar—and what be had left undone Cainbyses completed. ‘The shouting of their hosts was heard at Thebes, Mempiiis treabied at the sound of their chariots, Heliopolis shuddered at the neighimg of their strong ones. The cruel lords came; their warriors devoured the land; they laid Waste the cities, they levelled the vempies and cat down the forests. After these terrible kings left Egypt languished for many years. The seven mouths ol the river which watered we land wandered away from their former courses; the pools qnd the still waters became vapor; the moisture of the land was turned ito the drought of summer, into parched ground, into a lLowllug desert; the grass of the green pasiures shrivelled away, the trees withered, the branches, in whose foliage the birds of heaven had sheltered, crackled with the dry heat aud discovered the nakedness of the land ; the thirsty soll gaped in seams and panted in yuin for the rauning brooks; the ary earth became sand, tue whirlwind caught it and whisked it up- ward and the east wiud came and carried tt away, bearing ou its wings at the same time the sands of Arabia, of the wilderness of Puran, of the deserts beyond Edom, and then the fertility of land was buried under Mountains of sand—and it is these mountains, lushioned fantastically by the Khamsem, these sar-stretcling, scorching seas that teil the tale how the word of God was fulililed, But whére are the cities and the people? Nebuciad- nezvzar and Cambryses carried the people away eap- tive, aud as alter their death their empwes were divided the captives were scattered among many nations. As for the clues, the ip- hababitauis being taken away, the manufac- turers, selliul — artilicers and = agricuitulisie carried into Babylon and Persia. ‘Phey feil toto ruins, Zour ie left dry on the eh a 1s forsaken, Rameses is become dust. Hel olis is Duried under the sediment of the Nile. Bubasies is desolate. Meupuis stands foriorn under the shadow of her pyramids. Theves is out a wonder Lo the ourious @tranger from afar. The grauary of Egypt, truitial Goshen, the inajor part o1 itis @ deseri. The Libian #ands encroach upon the flne pastures of the Nile. ‘The river of Egypt(Wady Elerrish) is utterly dried up. Memnon 1s jorever silent and nd more rings tie morning alarum. Re and Apis, all are atoms. Ob, hyypt, venerable mother, how art thou falical Thy high piaces are made low, tiny wonderiul palaces have become as naught, thy forts and towers are dens of robvers. The shouting for thy summer Truits and the vintage vnouiing is utterly ceased, aud all gladness and joy 1s taken out of thee! e may hope that Egypt has remained long enough under the seai, and tiat now was arrived the time when, afver ly! so long tu dust, she will @wake and sing and again blossom and bud and fll ber deseris wita fruit. God's mercy ts great and His auger will not iast forever. Curlstianity has dawued upon the land, and already tt hag worked wonders through, mr faitnfui miuiste e oom merce of the Chrisan Worid is coming to her gates, to her centre; ii 1s w pass through the country. Great changes cannot be expected quickly. Civiliz- ing a nation is not tue Work of a moment. Troublous ‘was tue journey of civilization westward; troublous must be its return, That the civilization aud Chris- Yanizing of Egypt will be eifected some day no sane Man can douvt, for civilization magnetizes what- evér it toucues, and in Kgypt’s case it comes upon the country with @ sudden rush, an irresistible shock, sothatie cfete Mohammedanism will soon be obiiterated by it, Even now a good Christian king could change Egypt into a second class Power, Happy shali be the man who sbail reinstate Egypt ig her place under Christian rule, Before returning to the object and purport of this letter, I should say a word relating to the two sweet water canals—that which runs from Ismailia to Suez, and that which connects Ismalita with the Nile by way of Zagazig—I snould also describe more perfectly ismailia and its future, but dme will not permit me if 1 wy not close my letter now, in half an hour it woud be too late to send it by this tail, and I should have to walt unul next weel in my next letter will be found the continuation of our march through the fsiimus, with everysimag Liat appertains to the subject. THE PIRATES OF THE OCEAN, Gigantic Robberica on Ocean Steamehipe— Who Authors Unknown—James Irving as a Sailor. For many months importers from Europe have been astonished on opening their packages to dis- cover tkat valuable silks, satins, ribbons and other costly fabrics bad oven abstracted between the despatching and receiving house. These robberies were reported to the owners of the steamships plying acress the Atlantic, god energetic efforts were put forth to dis cover the perpetrators of the robberies and the modus operandi by which the larcenies were 80 successfully perpetrated. Keen detectives were put to work, but no clue was struck, and the disappearance of valuable goods ee until @ considerable amount had been en. ‘The steamship owners finally became slarmed and conferred with the police authorities of this city, Loudon and Liverpool, ‘The result wae that a pian of operation was agreed upon by the heads of the Barpewators, Cities with a view of uneartuing the Ore. The perintendent of Police of this city set forth che lly to the Board of Police Commissioners on Friday, and he obtained authority to send one of his Keenest detectives to Europe atonce. Mr. Ken- nedy detailed detective James Irving for that duty, @nd that gentieman left yesterday at noon on the steamship City of Vari. It ly that for some ‘weeks the measess of th mships will con- tain an English or American detective, wis It 1s to be hoped willbe enadied to clear up the mystery that gurrounds these sobberies, that it 18 sald re Already reached $100, 000, 5 BOARD OF CITY CANVASSERS. The Board resumed its session yesterday morning at eleven o’clock, with the President, Alderman Hardy, in the chair, A majority of the Board was Present and the lobby was crowded with as “tough” and rough looking set of ‘lads’ as could readily be got together. The hallways and corridors of the hall were also crowded by “gangs which looked as if ready to do any amount of “repeating” or any other “dirty work” they might be called upon to do “for money.” Bedides the members of the Board there were inside the railing several of the newly elected omcers, one or two chronic “sorenead” legal lights, looking as sickly as usual and moviog about With au air of much Lmportance as if to give the mob in the Jooby the idea that they were men of great weight and could make the dominant party quake with fear. Mr. Henry Murray, the defeated candi- date Jor Police Justice in the Seventh Judicial dis- trict, was hopping about the chamber “ike a live hen on @ hot griddle.” lia dark and paturaily large eyes almost bursting from their sockets and appear- in¢to stand out go far that one could almost up tuem off with a finger. Shortly after the Board had been called to order, protests were received from Florenoe Scannell and Joun Reilly, candidates for Alderman and Assistant Aldermaa in the 5ixteenta Aldermanic Ginmeice, pres testing against the canvassing of the votes for Alderman and Assisianc Alderman in the fieventh, ‘Tweifth, Eigteench and Ninetoenth districts of the Sixteenth Aldermanic district A provost was also received from Joun A. Stemmier against the can- Vassing of the votes cust for Joseph McGuire as can- didate for Civil Justice in the Seventh Judicial dis- trict. The papers were reserred to the Committee on Protests, ‘The Board then proceeded to canvass the revarns from the Sixth, Seventi aga a portion of the Tweifth Aldermanic districts, Aldermen O’Brieu, Coman and Repper respectively acting as Canvassers. Ia the Sixth district of the Fifteenth ward fer- rrando Wood received one vote for Mayor. In the Miuth, Fifteenth aud Sixtesnth wards several votes were revurned for Sinclair fousey for Mayor, and one vote in ihe Ninth ward for Mar. Stout for Mayor. At the conclusion of the canvass of the seventh Aidermanic district the Board took a recess unt) Aionday morning at eleven o’¢lock. A BEPEATER’S PETITION, Application for the Discharge ef Jebn Carrol on a Writ of Habeas Corpus, Yesterday the case of John Carrot! came up before Jadge McCunn at the special term of the Superior Court on a petition for bis release on a writ of habeas corpus. Mr. Yard, counsel tor the petitioner, who was arrested and imprisoned on a charge of tilegal voting at the recent election, applied for an oraer to have him discharged. Counsel said that Carroll was arrested us a “repeater,” and, in violation of the law, was not oaly kept In duress until the close of the polls, but ever since, mobwithstanding that no person appeared to substantiate the charge against him before a magistrate. Judge McCunn inquirea whether aay one appeared to prosecute him now / Mr. Yard replied in che negative. Judge McCunn—Then | shall order hits discharge. When a man comes vefore me, and the evidence is clear that he has been guilty of voung fllegally, esther Without a right to voie or by voting more than once, Ishall certainly punish bim severely; but. at the same time, I must say itis a weit known tee ainong some of the police captatms in the it precincts to cause tlic arrest of numbers of men on election day on charges of this charaeter, and, under authority of the existing law, detain whem in the station houges until after the close of the polls, so that they may be prevented sem voting at all or Inducing others to vote. Assistant District Attorney Brant said there was another commitment against the prisoner for having broken into a house, and forfeited his ball to we amount of $500. Judge McCinn—I shail, tn shat case, direct that the prisoner renew ball in the same amount, or stand committed in dofault thereof. The prisoner was uccordingly remanded back to prison until he procures the req: ball, DEATH MOWING DOWNS THE MISERS. Another “Poor? Man Dies Wealthy—Edward V. Tardy, the Fated Feel of Fertune—The Moral of a Miser’s End. he King of Terrors is after the misers with a ver geance, and is reaping tae mobvest harvest of self- persuaded poverty he has had for many 4 long day. ‘Three weeks ago Lyman Allyn left his treasure of three-quarters of a rllion beaind him ina garret of Taylor’s Hotel, Jersey Clty, ana closed his eyes in death without a sou! to see er mourn bis depar- ture. Locky Ostrom, after grabbing pennies together for half a century, acoumulated a fortane and aied the other day without spending any of it. The last case is that of Edward V. Tardy, who gave up tbe ghost Friday night, at 264 Sixth avenue, after spending seventy-two years om thus miserable earth making money and usiug none of it. Tardy had the troe instinct of the miser. He not alone went grubbing for money, but grubbed im the etreet gur- bage for bread crusts and wassed vegetables. He had a keen eye for potatoes and turnipe, and left tew of these healthy esculents im she path of the ragpicker. Pieces of meas be picked up and carried home-with him to ees Place of abode in @ cellar on nwich enue and turned them into soup. Hdwara V. was born In this city 1n the year 1V0T, of French English parents. iis ancie, Alexis Dechauviere was at one tine the accreaited Minister of France to this country. Tardy’s father was well-to-do and along with his son took a eens pMeuous part in seek: ing the Rettlement of the Fre: spoliation claims, Tardy, Jr., When twenty-seyea years old had a ship of his own, in which he safled to almost Raha Be in the world, to the West aad Mast Indies, vi rs ie arts oi Africa, Asia and South Americ traded extensively an time pine tone of m and Paftip: ands an back t New York with Society, Sandwict was on his way @ cargo of immense vadie when ke sufiered com- plete shipwreck and lost gyerything but bis Twenty years more of his iiféeyere devoted to making of money, and in that time Qis luck was ne better, for he lost two fortunes im dar:ag specula- tion. Tired and disgasted wisn the fickie | dispenses the favors of weaita and Pte sy decided never again to run ceunter to what appex his 1uevitable destiny—that of fading in every spect® lation—and 80 1t happened he settled slowly down tothe slow,*cautious aad suapicious habits of a veritable miser. He became wholly altered in mind and manner, talked no more of grand cai ‘3 in Commerce and turned taciturn and misanthropical. He descended from nis Inga pesision as & speculator, oid and brave, and grovelied im the gutters for a paltry pile of pennies. He never mi |, but lived ‘With a sister, Whose eocontrietty of habit was about equal to his own. Both lived im the basement of a house tu Greenwich avenue, where they had three rooms and where they passed @ life of unparalicied penury. They were worth at this time per! $50,000, but they never t @ meal if taey coula contrive to glean from 6me garbage of the market places enough to eustam lfe. Finally the brother, deem- sister w sick, ead ar "of 8 attendance Bellevue Hospital, where she died. Sho left him $3,000, out of which he waa Pts! compelled to pay fifty dollars for her b@rial expenses. After this event ne was icit all alone ta the wortd; passing amid crawling vermin and Reape of Mth a life of semi- starvation, His stovepipe aat was built and twenty-five years ago, aad mia shoes came into éx- istence at the time of Mexioaa war. He followed no particolar business aad never wholly surrendered nis passion for spe ion. He confined it, how- ever, to limited investmeats im ratiway si and national securities, of whiok he left the fail of two oid trunks. Among his papers were discovered a number of shares in the to recover the Captain Kidd treasure. oid) sman ult mately fell sick and was in an almost dying condition in bas miserable Greenwich avenue when @ kind Rearted, old feliow named Dr. Wiliam Seoes Downey, a chi acter much like Dr. Rtocabocoo tn Bulwer’s \‘My Novel,” found him out and him to his place ‘at 274 Sixth avenue, laéd Bim im bed and attended faithfully to him night and day for two weeks, but in vain. Edward V. Tardy gave ap the ghost Friday evening, leaving bonds, seourtties, cash, &c., wortn, at @ hurried calculation, 650,000, and ree ma willof about ten limes, the waole to the chil- dren of a nephew wo Sted some time and whose widow is now married to 4 Mr. Houghton, of this city, He had @ wiece mi to a Colonel Stewart, of Philadelphia, buc he left her noting. John Cochran, sexton Dr. Gallandet’s chi Eighteenth street, will take his remains to Green wood at ten o'clock to-morrow. WHO IS A SCOBMBRELT In the Supreme Court, Onambers, yesterday § mo- tlon was made in the matter of Wiliam Winter, an alleged lunatic. This case, already frequently re- ported in the HERALD, came up on application before Judge Barnard for the eppoiatment of Dr. Hartley na a reeetver of the lunatio’s estate, instead of D. 0. Birdsall, resigned. ‘After the papers had been submitted Judge Bar- nard stated thas be had im his p posession the amMda- vite of two persons, from which he would read short extracts, ‘These extracts were to the effect that D: Hartley in & conversation recentt: hun (Judge Barnard) @ d——d acoui I, he thought, thereferc, he would not appoint him. Counsel for Hartiey claimed shat it was not his client, but Mr. Livingston, ene of the aManis, who had used the to, and thet he (Livingston) had drawn wp those aMdavits. Livingston said le had been so engaged, bat only for the purpose of unmasking these schemes. Judge Bene eee mrange! rf yd Piso men could get up suck a out of who * Mr. Birdsall said his nation was tendered in- aependent of the dispute of ir. ape artes. he resignation of Mr. Bi id was accepted, and the iurther hearing of the case and appolutinent of @ receiver adjourned to w furvure