The Suez Canal.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4532, 14 July 1883, Page 2

The Suez Canal.

[Fbom a. Fbench Point oe View.]~ ' (vzou ovb, fliis cobbmpokdbjtt.) The French are growing wry hot ova* the Suez question. The first thing to do is to let it cool down. ; ThesQCoaa, to eliminate all settlement from the discus* sioD. The dominant feeling is to excldde now and for. ever all .English .influence and'interest from the ladminiktratioo of the present and'the future Canal' Dvi viora verra. It would also be* well to cease praslaimiinic morning tad! evening like a mcuzzin from bit turret, that the English were, wrong to Oppose the cooooostiructtgn of the watery way, and Iff. d« Lessep'siri^bf^ ,' England' hits' repeated her mea culpa. She ha* made.atonement by sending fool-fifths of the total ship* ping 5 thrpngh the Canal, and it about illustrating that imitation is the belt kind of flattery, by putting a second route. , .. Jibe*" England Trimmest, thanks to the foursjght of Lord Beaeonsfield, holds more than one-third ef the Suez shires; purchased at some three millions sterling, they are now valued for ten. The French GovernmenTboids bo,scrip'. - Eighty -par cent, of the tonnage passing through the Canal is British. Yet on the Council of Administration, where M. de Lesseps it absolute, monarch, there aire 24 or 30 Frenchmen, and but three Englishmen, the latter only admitted by courtesy onsufferance. As de Lesseps himself stated, there is not a pilot, nor an official employed on the Canal, English. A ukase trom'M. de Lesseps can stop the whole machinery, as Admiral Seymour's Fleet experienced last year. History ocUt% isionally repeats itsellf. If the «anal is to befxe]«uiirely French, there is no reason #hy sootber is not to be exclusively English. But the boast of the French is that it ie. international. Jtow that's the point where the solution lies. Italy has taken ohsvrn of the CaoeJ regulations before the adjourned Con* fe/ence. At the next merry meeting of the Conference, let Bngland; propose that all. nations be represented on the Ad* ministration pro rate to the importance of their shipping: the would tank first, Holland "would be »seond, Spain third, and France or Italy fourth. No objection can be offered, since the aim is not to destroy but' to enhance the value of' the Canal, and to pwee all nations, with respect to transit, on an ex eguo footing. In war orjMaee let friend or foe pass through, settling their dispute* at the entrance or exit of the Canal. Prirate concessions, but secured front all material loss, hare erer to" give way to public interests; how much jfcbfe ought they to yield before the wanta of a world. Aud the obstinacy and i fjifiisi'm'ap of M. de Lesseps cannot prevail Cajiaittat the shipping interests of the anireree. England should resolutely form a company for cutting a second ejanal, propose an,, aataU gamation with the French Society^ thra, if refused, proceed independently.; That '&<»aiuailL4iaiig«-aiieii a fall in, scrip that the new company could not'do hatter than buy it up; retain de Lestept at honorary President, but infaie new Mood into the Council, reduce the high atantit tariff, and construct the second or ritym canal. Address the French not.aailtMHr were spoiled children, but sjea^of plain, blunt sense. Above all, avoid robbing against or down the,grain in esrioas matters.