ENGLAND AND EGYPT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1405, 12 November 1886, Page 2

ENGLAND AND EGYPT.

It is probab'e (says the Broad Arrow, a j inrnal usually well informed on military subjects) that a step which has frequently been insisted upon by this j ournal at the ▼ary crux of the settlement of the AnglcEgyptian problem—namelv, the acquisttiou by England of the Khedivate—will be precipitated by the march of events In the Balkan Pen'mnla. Lord Salisbury is not the passive spectator of the RnssoAustrian counter-maoosuvrea which soma people appear to think. He is following closely the progress of the rival intrigues of Vienna and b't Petersburg, and wi'l be ready with decisive actioo at the right minute. Our interest in the East has been S' mewhst removed of late from Oonstan* tlnople, but it la and mast ever be fired on the shores of the Suez Oansl and in the Bed Sea. Therefore, upon any movement by Austria upon Sa onica—a thing which is more than a dream of the Haps-tnm-hs, consequent upon Russia’s final claim to a wtter exit by wsy of the Boar ph»ru», equivalent to a Muscovite domination of European Tmkey—our Government will formally se'sre and be prepared to ho'd Egypt. 1 We'ventured to prophecy at the time i f the British occupation of Alexandria in ISB2. and to affirm durog the subsequent semimmtal chatter about evacuation, that events altogether bovond our control, and moving In quite pa t of Kurope, would inevitably turn a temporary occupation of Egypt in to a permanent acquisition of the country.