EGYPT.
Great festivities took place at Suez on the celebration of the opening of the Canal. Prayers for the success of the undertaking were offered by Mussulman and Catholic priests. The Empress's almoner blessed the Khedive. M. Lesseps in his speech regretted that Prance had offered the abolition of the capitulations. This offended the Empress, and he lost his promised. Dukedom of Suez.
The Viceroy's guests numbered 3000 and 25,000 Orientals. The recent accidents to vessels have caused the shares of the Company to decline; A French contractor has undertaken to keep the Canal clear for £40,000 a-year, and to make it double its present width for two-and-a-half millions. The quarrel between the Sultan and the Viceroy has broken out again. The Khedive positively refuses to submit his j budget to the Porte, and maintains his right to contract loans independent of the Porte. The latter sent him an ultimatum by the hands of a high functionary. The penalty of his disobedience will be his deposition from the rank of Khedive.
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Southland Times, Issue 1207, 8 February 1870, Page 2
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171EGYPT. Southland Times, Issue 1207, 8 February 1870, Page 2
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