EUROPEAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1348, 28 August 1883, Page 4

EUROPEAN NEWS.

A. ..beat deal of excitement exists in London and the main centres of England just now with respect to the second Suez Canal, on account of the strong opposition of the public against the agreement which the Government have made with M. de Lessees. It appears that this gentleman intends to construct another canal in about live years, and the English Government have agreed to lend the Canal Company £8,000,000 at 3j per cent, interest, redeemable in fifty years. What the British public want is an English canal of their own, but this appears to be impossible on account of M. de Lesseps having a monopoly of this right. The question is likely to prove a serious one, as the whole of Europe is deeply interested in the matter, and feeling runs correspondingly high. Mr Bradlaugh has brought an injunction against Captain Gossett, Sergeant-at-Arms, to restrain him from preventing him (Mr Bradlaugh) from entering the House of Commons, An expedition left Marseilles last month en route for the Bed Sea and the Bitter Lakes, having for its object the dragging of these places in order to recover the chariots, treasure, arms, and other remains of Pharoah’s army, which are supposed to lie there at the at the bottom covered with saline deposit. At a meeting of the Panama Canal Company on July 17, M. de Lesseps stated that the Canal would be finished by ISS9. A very painful impression has been created in the House of Commons with respect to the insult offered by the French in Madagascar to the English consul. A new process of meat preserving has been discovered by Signor Pavesi, who is said to have succeeded in keeping pieces of meat for years without their flavor being impaired. During the whole time that it is required to preserve the meat, it is to be kept in a pickle, consisting of water slightly acidulated with nitro-muriatic acid’; ana, when required for u>e, the meat is dried at a temperature of about 60 degrees Bahr. To avoid a slightly brown colour, the meat may be steeped in plain water before being dried. The holders of Australian hops in London anticipate being able to command the market. A London cable at New York, July 25th, says that the report is confirmed of t he betrothal of Miss Nellie Fortescue, a favorite actress of the Savoy Theatre Company, to Lord Arthur William Garmoyle, second and eldest living son of Lord Cairns. The young lord is not yet twenty-two, and has for a long time, by bis pronounced love for theatricals and constant association with people of the stage, been in disfavour with his father. The prospective groom has, however, the strong sympathies of his younger brothers, who develope precocious predilections for theatricals. LadyCharlotte, wife of the Rev. H. Neville Shortbrooke,and sister to Lord Cairns, is making a tumulet over what she calls the impending degradation of her brother's family. The London “ Standard ” says great complaints were made at Hamburg against the excesses of the crew of the United States steamer Lancaster. Policemen had been obliged to arrest several officers and sailors belonging to the vessel.