Show I LESSEP5 Waslilnctoa TIse IIc Visit Grr1t nmien Sfioarngua Scheme Wfthinpton BC 7 Lesseps attended at st Matthews church this masJ m early morning and afterward breakfasted with M DeLenn and wife whoso acquaintance h o formed in Egypt some years ago At Count 10 oclock tomorrow morning DcLe = cep3 will appear by invitation before be-fore the select committee of the house of representatives on interoceanic canal TomorroW To-morrow evening ho will dine with the French minister and afterwards attend the reception of Anthony Pollock On Tuesday he will leave this city for Philadelphia Phila-delphia where ho will pass the day and take tbe evening train for the west en route for San Francisco via St Louis and Denver He expects to finish his business in this country in time to ssil far England on the 31st London 8Ihe Standard referring to t the Unitd States claim for prepon derllti g influence in the Panama Canal says this pretention the British government govern-ment is bound to watch and if neces tarv resist No more at 1anam than at Suez can the preponderating influence unother power be allowed to lay hands on the trade of England Vashington8 The select committee on interoceanic canal gave audience this morning to DeLcsseps Panama bTho arrival in Managua is announced of J Tomirde Franco who i ii proclaimed the bearer of an important proposition from General Grant and Admiral Ad-miral Ammen Vking to obtain a conceSsion con-ceSsion from the government of Nicaragua Nicar-agua The Gacctla Official states that O G Merocil is expected here shortly to treat on canal matter and saj s We know it is now a fact that a respectable company of American capitalists and French banker among which figures the name of Ilothschill and wbich will bo presided over by Gen Grant wi 1 be organized as soon as the concession which will be asked from ths government is obtained with which object ob-ject and with proper power a civil engineer en-gineer of thc United State > A G Mon ocal will arrive by the first steamer Nicaragua papers generally denounce DeLcsscp visit to the isthmus as a part of a schfine of a French compauy and await vyth unxitty the arrival of Mcn oc < l ocTho Star and Ilcrald on the story that United States vessels have been orJtred to Panama to fjrmslly take possession I of some territory on the coast of Chirqui I Tho territory in question is supposed to becomprisfd in aconditonal grunt mad I lo t ono Thompson by the Panama government gov-ernment same 25 years ago but the conditions con-ditions of the grant were never carried out by Thompson or associate |