Lord Salisbury on the Egyptain Question.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 5 January 1892, Page 3

Lord Salisbury on the Egyptain Question.

Lord Salisbury speaking at the Guildhall, London on Lord Mayor's Day (9th November) said, amidst the cheers of the audience: "We have no intention of retiring from the task that we have undertaken. We as, a Government are not responsible for the situation in Egypt. We did not go there. When we came into office we found matters in a state of considerable confusion whichfc the lapse of years has rectified ; bm we know that England before our time underwent great sacrifices, shed vWy precious blood, and scattered treasure freely in order to rescue Egypt from the evils which had overtaken her, and if England acted alone in that matter, it was not her fault.. Now that the blood is spilled and the treasure spent, and that a great result is in course of being achieved, we cannot allow all that to be swept away as if it were a last year's almanack, and suffer, the country, which at so much cost we have rescued, to fall back into the condition' of anarchy and confusion and danger to all its neighbours which it occupied a few years ago." The Premier showed that the duration of the British occupation of Egypt is, and must remain, a matter of uncertainty, and significantly remarked that other Powers may assist or obstruct the work we have in hand. The work is not to sever Egypt from the Ottoman Empire, but to make her strong enough to resist attacks, find to repress internal disorder. To this end she must lean on some other Power and that Power must be England.