Week's News (Newspaper) - April 25, 1874, London, Middlesex April 25, 1874. The Week's 531 THE SUEZ U. de Lesseps has resolved to bring to a crisis the protracted differences between the Suez Canal Company and the Mercantile Marines of Europe represented by their respective Governments and acting through the authority of the The representative of the company in England has given in the name of its to the Board of Trade that will in future have to take the old route round the or discharge their cargoes at Alexandria for transit by rail to unless pay the legal and regularly fixed passage dues of the Suez Canal To the Admiralty he writes that consequence of a general Her Majesty's ships will henceforth have to pay the passage dues before entering the Suez Canal at Port I may add that the company's agents in Egypt have received orders to enforce the strict observance of this On April 29 the three grace during which the Company was permitted by the Porte to maintain its present charges will have and the rules framed by the International Commission will come into force but M. de Lesseps has announced that nothing will induce him to accept the new He has threatened to dismiss the put out the and declare the Canal This menace was made some time and it was thought the that as the day approached and the responsibilities of the position became clearer more moderate counsels would It seems that this expectation is to be M. de Lesseps is not afraid to face Sultan and ambassadors and the Peninsular and Oriental and the Messageries the merchants of India and China and the It is M. de Lesseps contra but the ruler of the Suez Canal Company will not His officials at the Canal will even his regulations on the war ships of the first naval Power of the Immediate action is therefore necessary to prevent any interruption of the So far as the mandates of authority can give us assurance we have it. M. de Lesseps applied to the Porte to rescind its adoption of the rules made by the and when he failed in he demanded that three months longer should be allowed to the old the time to be spent in devising some scheme of remunerating the Company for the change which the Commission had It is said that at various times he has assumed a lofty tone in his dealings with the Turkish and threatened even more decisive measures than his agent in England now announces to Her Majesty's navy and the British When these his latest declarations were officially brought before the Porte prompt action was Orders were at once despatched to the Khedive that should the president of the company abandon the working of the canal the Egyptian Government was to take it in hand and do all that was Whatever may be the view of Ismail there is no reason to doubt that the order would be But Eastern Governments are apt to be the Company's influence is strong at If would be only prudent to urge on the Porte the propriety of a summary interference to protect the advantages which the maritime nations By the terms of the original concession from the Egyptian and of the firman confirming it which the present Sultan the service of the Canal is to be efficiently performed in accordance with specified A defiant closing of the Canal to the detriment of the Sovereign Power and of the nations at peace with it might be justly considered to incur the forfeiture of the concessions made to the such an act is threatened in official communications such as have been made to our Board of Trade and the Porte is perfectly justified in anticipating and exercising its rights at The real grievance of the Company not in the decision of the Tonnage but in the unfortunate fact the Canal has been far from The shareholders have conferred great benefits on the world to their own sometimes almost to their This circumstance necessarily affects the acts of the Company's and its influence may be discerned in the present Parliamentary HOUSE OF April 17. The Duke of Richmond moved an address to the Crown in answer to the Royal Message presented on Thursday assuring Her Majesty that the House of Lords would cheerfully concur in the grant of 25,000/. to Sir Garnet in recognition of his eminent The motion was unanimously agreed and their lordships then April 20. Lord Carnarvon presented a copy of the instructions to the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the Fiji He observed that a telegram had announced the formal cession of these islands to Great but he had received no official communication to that and he had no reason to believe in the accuracy of the The Gas Orders Confirmation and the Cattle Diseases were read a second divine service in The Archbishop of canterbury brought under the notice of the House the present state of the laws regulating divine service in the and moved the first reading of the for the Better Administration of the laws respecting the Regulation of He observed that he did not propose to make any change in ecclesiastical as if the time had come for some unsettlement of the great changes made at the period of the for all he desired was greater facility for administering the A number of strange which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council had continued to be and from a statement which had been placed in his hands it appeared to be thought desirable in certain parishes among other a confessional box should be introduced into the He was not afraid of the people of this great country ever submitting again to the yoke of for he thought that as unlikely an event as the restoration of the or the destruction of the admirable Constitution under which we live but he believed if the sort of strange practices he alluded to went the and straightforward English people would have their confidence in the clergy of the Church of England It never was intended that it should be in the discretion of any young clergyman going down to a parish to upset everything that existed there for it was laid down that in a case of doubt or scruple he should refer to the It might be said that the law could be enforced in the ecclesiastical courts but the delay and expense incident to those courts constituted serious objections to invoking their It thought that these matters of controversy might in the first instance be decided by a bishop in and the expense of employing counsel might be dispensed with but upon further consideration it appeared to be only fair to allow the freehold interest might be interfered a more formal and this result seemed by the formation of a somewhat novel consisting of the ordinary assisted by three As the hearing of the cases would be in the neighbourhood where they he expressed a hope that the which might be instituted by any rural or would be more summary and less expensive than the present process. It was also proposed that there should be an appeal from the bishop to the who should have the right to send the matter for final decision to the new court of If the declared that the acts complained of should cease to be he would then issue a monition under his hand and forbidding them to be done in any church in his and it was proposed that the monition should take effect In the Archbishop of Canterbury moved the first reading of the expressing belief that the advantage of the proposed course of proceeding would be that there would be an end put to the wearisome complaints which at present reach the bishops by every while the expense occasioned by keeping witnesses waiting in London would be Lord Shaftesbury said that there was a necessity for legislation on the as at present the law could not be Lord could not conceive that there would be any serious difference of opinion as to the necessity of legislation on the subject the as nothing was more certain than that no institution could prosper which not power to enforce conformity with the He therefore thought that the Legislature was bound to take some step in the present condition of and he believed that any measure which would enable a who conscientiously differed from as to the mode of conducting divine to have the law settled in a summary and inexpensive manner would be beneficial in its Lord Nelson expressed an opinion that the first step which should be taken to put an end to the existing state of licence in the Church was ta obtain a clear declaration of the law from the final Court of He hoped that the second reading of the would not be as he heard was on the very day on which Convocation was appointed ta The Bishop of Lincoln likewise gave expression to a desire that the should not be pressed forward with indecent The Archbishop of York observed that it might be expected that in fixing the day for the second reading the convenience of all interested in the subject would be The was a very simple its object being to put the law in force when once the law was thoroughly The Duke of Richmond observed that there could exist no desire to press forward the measure with intemperate but must admit the necessity of endeavouring to put an end to the differences unhappily existing in the Church caused by over zealous persons who endeavoured to introduce practices and ceremonies repugnant to the great mass of the people of this The was then read a first The Mutiny and the Marine Mutiny were read a second church The Bishop of in moving for a select committee into the laws relating to and exchange of benefices in the Church of said he was quite aware of the danger of raising such a question on account of the many interests involved but he believed that the danger was greater in leaving the evils connected with Church patronage Public opinion was now strong enough to ensure reform but reform neglected might lead to and therefore he Was anxious to see the subject now considered by a select He commented on the scandal connected with the open traffic in livings by means of but he looked on that as only the symptom of a greater which was that the rights of property were placed above the duties attached to a and consequently there was a possibility of the interests of the patron coming into collision with the interests of the The laws relating to simony stood in need of for the powers of the bishop to prevent the evils arising out of existing practices were very After describing some of the evils connected with the system of the Bishop of before proceeding to suggest remedies for explained that he did not propose to sweep away all patronage and substitute for it popular in the power or wisdom of which he had no but he thought that the evils complained of might be either by increasing the interest of the patron in the trust or by adopting safeguards against the abuse of the He did not desire or it possible to stop the sale of advowsons at the present Their sale was m the nature of a transfer of the and was not morally but he heartily wished to do away at once wth the sale of next and for this purpose he would enlarge the area of objection to improper giving the bishop a which he did not at present to object on the ground of personal incapacity resulting from age in the individual presented to a He would also provide that any persons who knew any cause why the individual presented to a living should not be and who acquainted the bishop should not on that account be exposed to actions for and he would free the bishop from the hardship of having to pay heavy costs in endeavouring to oppose improper He did not see why the declaration against simony should not be taken by the patron as well
