The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-15

| States and the radicals will find themselves
next November left out in the cold.
Egypt and the Iberian Peninsuaa-The Duty
of France and England.
Our correspondent who did such good ser
vice in Abyssinia is now in Egypt His letters
on the Suez canal and on political and judicial
reform have left little to be desired in the
shape of Information regarding Egypt-the
old granary of the world, the land of
the Pharaohs and the Ptolemies, the
| land famous for the sweet waters of
the Nile, for the time-defying Pyramids,
and for the immortal loves Of Antony and
Cleopatra. What the Suez canal actually is
and what the Suez canal is meant to be all the
readers of the HERALD now fully understand.
| What Egypt really is, what she ought to be,
| and what her present ruler is ambitious to
make her is known and understood with equal
clearness.
| All our recent news, full and satisfactory as
| it has been, only confirms us in the opinion
which we have again and again advanced, that
the cause of Egypt is hopeless unless trans
ferred from the hands of its present rulers into
the hands of the English-the only modern
| Power that fully understands the principles of
| colonial government. Mr.. DisraeG has said
| that England is now less an European than an
| Asiatic Power. A little more reflection would
! have enabled Mr.. Disraeli to give England
! her true place by calling her cosmopolitan
Power. Her possessions are everywhere-in
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Indies, in North and South America-where-
ever, in fact, the light of heaven falls. Ii is
not to be denied that the Suez canal, so far as
it has gone, reflects the highest credit on the
enterprise of France. By means Of this
canal France has made Egypt her debtor to
the extent of many millions of pounds ster-
| ling. 1t is, as it was intended to be, mag
nifcent Offset to the great Central Railroad and
| the telegraph system, both of which are the
result of English enterprise, and to large
extent even now under English control. The
railroad and the telegraph systems have
long been a success. The Suez canal is as
yet only an expensive but doubtful enter
prise. 1t may succeed, but it may not If it
does succeed it will be gain rather to Eng
| land than to France. If it does not succeed
| England will be still more a gamer, and the
pecuniary blunder in Egypt will be more
serious blow to the prestige of Napoleon than
the pecuniary blunder in Mexico. The twenty
million dollar loan for the Suez canal sane
toned by the French Chambers may yet prove
a bigger sorrow for France than the now
famous Jecker bonds.
Our plan gets over all these difficulties.
England is rich. She needs Egypt. 1t is the
thing for which she has been watching and
waiting for several generations Long before
the first Napoleon made the oft-quoted state
ment that the European Power which held
Egypt was necessarily mistress of India
English statesmen knew and appreciated the
fact. The full opportunity of England has
never yet come. She is rich enough to buy up
the Viceroy, to buy up the Suez canal or any
other property which France may have in
Egypt. France ought to be willing to sell.
England ought not to be unwilling to buy.
| We could not allow ourselves to take this view
of the case did we not feel that, in permitting
France quietly to take possession of the
! Iberian peninsula, England was comforting
boon upon France which no money could
purchase-a boon which would Justly enttle
her still to hold possession Of Gibraltar. 1t is
| for England and France to come to an under
standing The whole case is in their own
hands. The other nations would not inter-
| fere. The Germanic empire would satisfy
| Prussia and the house of Hohenzollern.
| The Danubian empire which Talleyrand
wished to establish in 1909 would satisfy
| Austria and the house Of Hapsburg Russia,
! as we have all along said, has another game
| to play. The United States, now one of the
| greatest of the Powers has right 20 voice
| in the matter. To the plan proposed the
| United States could have no possible objec-
ton. As we will not permit any unnecessary
| interference on this Continent so we will
not unnecessarily interfere in the affairs Of
Europe
The opportunity is good for Mr. Disraeli.
-Four thousand years ago his forefathers were
| In bondage in that country. Time and nature
have curious ways of taking revenge. In the
country where Jews have been worse treated
than in any other, Jew, genuine son Of
Israel, has risen to the rank of Prime Minister.
It would be q revolution beautiful and striking
in itself If an English Jew, and that Jew the
Prime Minister of the country, should avenge
the wrongs of bis countrymen perpetratcd
some four thousand years ago.
Pardon for CuIlicott.
We learn from Washington that an applica-
ton, numerously signed by very respectable
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