"SPOILING THE EGYPTIANS."

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3514, 12 October 1882, Page 4

"SPOILING THE EGYPTIANS."

A Parliamentary paper by Sir Edward Malet, has just been issued (says an English exchange), -which pretty clearly accounts for the general dissatisfaction with, tho Khedive's rule, and for the popular rising •which has ended in the murder of 250 Europeans. I'ho fact is scarcely to be credited, but throughout the whole Government of Egypt there is scarcely nn official appointment, which is worth having, filled by an Egyptian. At the present time there are some 1300 Exiropeans with cornfortablo salaries Itving in comparative luxury, while the Egyptians are almost excluded fron taking part in the government of the country. English, French, Germans, Italians, .Austrians, Greeks, Swiss, Americans and Poles swarm the various ofliees, while the Egyptians are elbowed out into the cold. 1 he secretary of the Khedive's own private office is a Frenchman with £1200 a year; the permanent head of the Finance Department is an Austrian with £2000 a year ; at the head of tho Land Eegistry are an Englishman and a Frenchman, dividing £3000 between them. The Director of the Lighthouses and his deputy are Englishmen, one with £1600, the other with £1000 a year. At the head of the War Department is an American with £1500 a year. The Director of the Police at Cairo is an Italian. Eoseeau Bey, a Frenchman, gets £2500 a year as Director-General of Public Works. An Englishman with £3000 a year is President of tho Railway Council, and his second in command is a Frenchman with £2500. Tho commissaries of the state domain, who get £3000 a year each, are English and French. Altogether £400,000 are annually received by European officials. When Ismail was

Khedive it was only necessary to belong to tbe races which lent him money to get a place of some kind in his service. The army alone was allowed to remain Egyptian, and it is the army which has at length risen in protest. " Spoiling tho Egyptians " has been a game as old as the Pyramids, but few persons supposed it was carried to such an extent as this.