The cultivation of cotton in Egypt. Projected rail-
way between Cairo and the Red Sea. Public
sentiment in the east in regard to American affairs.
The cotton crop.
The Suez canal. Steamers build-
ing in England for the Viceroy. Foreign travel in
Egypt. Death of Mohammed Habbat.
The European press, and influences brought to bear
upon it by emissaries of the insurgents.
Celebration of the opening of the Isthmus canal.
Steam communication with European ports.
posed re-establishment of the port of Berenice, on
the Red Sea.