20 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 3

The Suez Canal Company are still endeavouring to settle their

,differences with the Viceroy of Egypt. It seems that the Pasha requested them to diminish the number of forced labourers to 6,000, to pay them Is. 8d. a day, to sell him the fresh-water canal, and to surrender the mile of land upon each bank. This offer the com- pany resist, and they induced Prince Napoleon at a dinner given by them to pronounce a speech urging them to proceed. The Prince declared that England was governed by three very old men, that she had abandoned two of the noblest of causes rather than fight, and that she certainly would not fight France to resist the Suez Canal. As for the rights of the Porte, they were merely an excuse for British diplomacy.