THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 23 October 1882, Page 3

THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.

• The Revue Politique et Litteraire contains an article by M. Weiss on the Egyptian question. He says: — "England is now released from the Note and from, the Anglo-French concert, and the head of the Cabinet of the 30th of January has himself been the man to give her repeated opportunities cf releasing herself^from them. It is to be feared that England will profit by the liborty thus restored to her for the purpose of settling, at her pleasure, all that we have abandoned the settlement of in concert with her. Nearly a month ago we told the Ministry, ' You have rejected the Anglo-French concert; beware of the Anglo-Turkish concert. You assert 'that it would have been folly for England and Prance jointly to prevent or to avenge, by a common intervention the Alexandria massacre. Beware lest in the end England intervene singly and instal herself at Port Said, never to leave it.' We are now apparently on the eve of that serious event, the occupation of the canal, which, according to tho English theory, does not concern tho European Conference. Whenever it happens it will be another heavy blow for our country. For the second time in five years the British flag will shine forth in the East, from, the eclipse of the French .colours. For the second time in five years the English name will echo on the Mediterranean shores at the moment when the sound of our own is silenced. We might recriminate; but this would only be adding to our mistakes the injustice and childishness of vexation. We have henceforth no solid ground for blaming England. From February up to the present time has she not been proposing to us every possible and impossible plan ? And before accepting them all, one after the other, in every case too late, have we not begun by rejecting them all ?"