1 JULY 1876, Page 2

The annual Report of the Suez Canal announces that the

first dividend has at length been earned for the original shareholders -t being lf. 88c. per share. This is little, but the expenses are hardly increasing, while the traffic grows larger year by year ; and the Company is shortly to have the benefit of its fluvial canal, connecting the great Canal with the Nile, which will make its lands at Ismailia and Port Said of great value. Three Directors' Chairs have been assigned to. the British Government, wed Colonel

Stokes, Mr. Rivers Wilson, and Mr. E. 3. Standen have been appointed to fill them.