The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1886-10-09 00:00:00

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ItziVislit OF Tli..E LONLON POLICE.
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Consequent upon the riots at the West-end which
followed upon the Socialist gathering in Trafalgar-
square in February, Mr. Childers, the late Mine
Secretary, appointed a Departmental Committee to '
inquire into the administration and organisation of
the Metropolitan Police Force. The report has now
been issued. The committee recommend the appoint-
ment of two more superior officers, which will raise
the number of superintendents of districts to four.
They also stggest an elaboration of the police tele-
graph system, and an increase in the number of
mounted police, and make other minor recommenda-
tions. Sir C. Warren stated to the -committee that he
thought the strength of the police force should be
increased; but into this subject the committee were
not authorised to enter.

THE AFFAIRS OF EGYPT.
A Parliamentary paper (Egypt No. 5, 1886) was
published on Saturday containing further correspon-
dence respecting the affairs of Egypt. The present
publication consists of 103 despatches, and brings the
correspondence up from the beginning of the present
year to May 19 last. There are, indeed, two despatches
from Sir H. Drummond Wolff, dated the 26th and
29th of December in last year, included in the book,
but they are inserted at the date at which they were
received, which was January 5 of the present year.
The earlier informs Lord Salisbury of the better feel-
ing shown by the Egyptian soldiery, and the latter.. „
encloses a copy of a report from Mr. Stuart Wortley, ,
giving the substance of information gathered by that
gentleman's interpreter on a journey from
Wady Haifa to Korosko. It was Mr. Wortley's
opinion that it was necessary to establish Egyptian '
rule as far south as Dongola in order to protect the
provinces of Upper Egypt from the contagion of
dervish fanaticism. The rest of the despatches—
many of them telegraphic—were sent from the
Foreign Office, the War Office and the Admiralty of
the one part, and Sir H. Drummond Wolff, Sir
Evelyn Baring, and Mr. Egerton on the other. The
subjects dealt with are the movements of troops on
the frontier, the attack at Kosheli, the decision of
Lord Salisbury's Cabinet that no retirement should
take place from the positions held hitherto by the
Anglo-Egyptian forces on the Nile, the remonstrance
of Cairo merchants against the prohibition of trade
with the Soudan, the negotiations with the Kabbabish
tribe, the progress of affairs at Souakiin, and many
other matters which have already been made public.
Not the least interesting portion of the book is the
report of Colonel Ardagh, enclosed a letter from Sir
H. Drummond Wolff to Lord Bosebery under
date May 7, on the discovery of petroleum -
at the mouth of the Gulf of Suez, in a
district extending from Gebel Zeit to the Island
of Jawatin. After giving a detailed account of the
efforts made in former years to obtain a profitable
result from the working of the oil deposits, the exist-
ence of which in this district has been known from
very ancient times, Colonel Ardagh sums up his
opinion thus: "When it is considered that the pre-
sence of petroleum has been observed over many miles
of coast, that a small quantity was met with at a
modeiate depth at the first boring, and that a large
flowing well was produced at a moderate depth at the
second boring, there is every reason to believe that
the field contains oil in such quantity as to insure the
commercial success of those who undertake to work
it." Colonel Ardagh thinks that the basis of the
working will be private enterprise, the Government
taking a share in the produce. He adds some remarks
as to the value of the discovery and the saving likely
to be made by the substitution of petroleum for coal.

THE boy said he thought his parents intended to
move, but he had not heard anything said about it.
He was asked for the reason of his.opinion, and replied
that he had noticed that his father had begun to empty
ashes upon the cellar floor, and they generally moved
soon after that.

"You've eaten next to nothing," lisped Smithers,
who was dining with his girl. "Oh, I always do
that when I it by yon," responded the young laqy•
pleagautly.

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