Show TELEGRAPHIC I LESSEP5 CANAL A Grand Bcjrlunlncs Bet What Will He the End New York 21The Star and JTeraW of Panama just received says The 30th of December 1879 will be forever memorable in the history of this isthmus At3 in thoafternoon French steamer Lafayette with Count Ferdinand Ue iieiseps on board was signalled at Colon and scon after1 entered the harbor The steamer cams immediately alongside the wharf where a cimmitteo of reception appointed by the government a delegation delega-tion from the state assembly and a large number of invited ctzens were collected to welcome the illustrious engineer and other members of his pasty In the evening many housea were illuminated and there was a fine display of fireworks On the morning of tho Blat DeLesseps and an engineer of his party made an examination ex-amination of the harbor from tho Pacific Hail wharf Lesseps says thero are only two great difficulties to bo ovor cpme the Chagrin Ittver and the deep cutting nt the summit The first can bo surmounted by turning the head waters oftbo river into another channel and the second will disappear beforo wells I which will be sunk and charged with i explosives of sufficient force to remove ssat quantities at each discharge On the 31st Leepi had a brilliant reception re-ception on his entry into Panama and on New Years Diy ho made an address at the mouth of the Rio Grande River three miles from Punam in which he announced the fulfillment of his promise to begin practical work on his great canal enterprise on January 1st 18bO He remarked that his labors were begun under authority of tho epublic of the United Slates of Colombia with the benedict on of iloiisen r Bishop of Panama Pan-ama in the presence ot delegates of the general government and those of the States of ColorabtX and with the assistance assist-ance of members of technical commission com-mission charged with definite Itudi for a universal inicroceanic maritime canal DoLcssepa expressed his entire confidence confi-dence in the success of the enterprise and had no hesitation in counting upon ample assistance from the financial world for means to open another greet highway to tho commerce of the world The bishop then formally bestowed his benediction upon the enterprise and tho blessing of the universal church upon the labors of science fur the benefit of commerce Panama 1OAn international commission com-mission of engineers has been assigned the geological surveys under direction of M Boutan a miningand civil engineer of largo experience who is astisted by other experienced workers M DeLes sops anu family accompanied by G Bionic and Mr Dauprat are expected to leave for New York on February 6th but not until sufficient progress has been made with the survey to pronounce upon verification or otherwise cf the Wyse project Today a number of persons iccompanied DeLesseps to tho Cero Cailebra where the first blast to make the deep cut to the tide level was made t |