The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGU,S7 6, 1869.

It has been evident, for some time past, that I
angry feelings are being engendered between the
Egyptian Viceroy, IsmAIL PACHA, and his liege
Suzeraine, the Sultan CAliph, ABDUL Aztz. There
has bean, more or less, a consciousness of this, ever
since the SULTAN and the VICEROY were over here
together—or rather, not together, Lut simultaneously.
The jealousy which has been springing up between
them has arisen, on the one hand, from the preten-
sionsof theVICEROY, and on the other from the doubts
thereby awakened in the mind of the SULTAN as to
the sincerity of his VICEROY'S allegiance. There can
be no doubt of this, that, whereas ISMAIL PACHA
has been more profuse in his attestations of loyalty
to the SULTAN than any one of his im-
media' e predecessors on the Viceregal throne—
than his uncle SAID, than his cousin ABBAS,
than his father IBRAIIIM, or than his grandfather
MEHEmEr—the present Viceroy of EGYPT, has evi-
denced more conspicuously than any other member
of his family an eager solicitude to make good his
advancement among the ranks of the European
Sovereigns. To this end he has got the succession
altered in favour of his eldest son, in preference to
his younger brother, FAZIL MUSTAPHA. lie has
aspired, moreover, to the modification of his own
title Obtaining the assent of the SULTAN to
his assumption of the all-but-regal name of
KHEDIVE, one advancing
,him not only beyond all
the PACHAS, but even placing him above the
BEY of TUNIS. Recognizing the force or pressure of
these pretensions on the part of ISMAIL PACHA, the
Sultan ABDUL Aziz not unnaturally has marked
with jealous curiosity the recent tour of his VICEROY
through many of the principal Courts of Europe—
noticing with something like suspicion the magnifi-
cence of the reception accorded to him by the various
European Sovereigns. When, moreover, in addition
to this the Sublime PORTE takes cognizance of the
fact, that those Sovereigns of Christendom have been
invited, that is to say, either themselves or their
representatives, to be present at the inauguration of
the Ship Canal through the Isthmus of Suez, by the
PACHA himself, as though he were no longer VICEROY,
but actually King of EGYPT—it can scarcely be
matter for much amazement that the ru?er of the
whole Turkish Empire, of which Egypt is in point
of fact little more than one of the integral parts or
provinces, should at length begin to manifest a feel-
ing, almost one might say, of indignation. The inti-
mation is at length at any rate.given to the VICEROY
that his ambitious pretensions are considered at Con-
stantinople to be really becoming somewhat excessive.
Either they must be modified, or there is imminent
risk of their leading to a rupture between the SULTAN
as the Sovereign of the whole Empire, and the
VICEROY as his delegate or representative, in the
wielding of authority over the Egyptians. European
diplomacy, there can be little doubt of this, however,
will in the friendliest spirit, alike to SULTAN and to
VICEROY, apply itself earnestly to the task of
bringing about a timely reconciliation between the
Pacha of EGYPT and his SUZERAINE at Constanti-
nople. As matters now stand, it is only fair to the
latter to state that his VICEROY is in a manner the
aggressor—lsmatt, PA CIIA having caused this est range-
ment between himself and the Sul:lime Porte, by his
overweening efforts to assume the pcisition of an in-
dependent Sovereign.

IT is not probable that there will be an early
" appeal to the country" on any question; otherwise
the Great Waste of Time in Parliament Grievance
ought to be considered in the " platform " of every
enlightened constituency. But electors will no doubt
have the opportunity during the recess of drawing
their representatives' attention to the crying evil of
useless talk, and it is to be hoped that they will not
fail to profit by it. The nation is suffering deplo-
rably from superabundant parliamentary
_oratory.