INESS OF THE SUEZ CANAL FROM ITS OPENING. great ship canal, one hundred miles in length, connects Suez on the Red Port Saïd on the Mediterranean. It was commenced by a company, aided subscriptions of the governments of Egypt, France, and England, in 1858, ned November 17, 1869. It is 72 feet wide at the bottom, about 300 feet irface, and 26 feet in depth, easily passing the largest vessels. The controlerest in the canal was purchased for £4,000,000, in 1875, by the British ent, which now holds it. The following table exhibits the prodigious of business on this great work:

[From the Economiste Français, 1878-1880.]

Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. per cent.

The foregoing estimation, made by the Director of the Mint, of th eign coins above mentioned, I hereby proclaim to be the values of su in the money of account of the United States, and to be taken in est of all foreign merchandise, made out in any of said currencies, in January 1, 1882.

CHARLES J.

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