TEH SUEZ CANAL.
A Trieste telegram states that the works of thfe Suez Canal have been entirely discontinued The note fivm the Grand Vizier to the Viceroy of Egypt reserves to the Sultan the right of deciding the question of constructing a canal. Mufti Bey.is the bearer of the dispatch from tbe Porte. Tue suspension of the canal is generally believed in Paris to be a fact; it is there ascribed to the ageucy of Lord Palmerston. The • Patrie, which originally published the news of the Sultan's having ordered the suspension of the works of the Suez Canal, now announces the intelligence to be unfounded. Monkta Bey, the Viceroy?s representative at Constantinople, has: arrived at Alexandria on some matter concerning the canal, a3 the Patrie believes, and it was said that the Consular Corps had beeii convoked; but it results, from itiLrmation received from Constantinople, that the Bey's mission has neither the sense nor the bearing attributed to it, and that it was, not the hostile character it was said to have towards the jpiefiaption of^be« jwt •-> Y--,y,.-y ly ZiL.XX, ..I Z 'tfi'.uVimimi y . ... ....-,
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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 3
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184TEH SUEZ CANAL. Colonist, Volume III, Issue 227, 23 December 1859, Page 3
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