The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-23

The storm was lulled, but il has not passed
over; and now when the celebrations of the
great canal are terminated we are to realize
It's consequences The ire of Abdul Aziz,
stirred up while the Viceroy was visiting the
courts Of Europe last summer, and but i'll con-
cealed while the honors of the occasion we're
being dispensed with bounteous hand to royal
guests at the grand levee along the Isthmus of
Suez, will not contain itself longer, and the |
dreaded ultimatum must be again submitted, |
and this time with threat of suspension from |
the viceroyalty.
Were several interested powers of Europe |
in less critical condition as regards the pre- |
servation of peace were France at liberty to |
follow her inclinations and sympathies, and |
were it not essential for the time being that |
tranquility should prevail until Napoleon |
shall have passed through the ordeal of re-
form which his Government is now under
going, it would be no difficult matter to fore
see the issue of these exactions on the part
of Turkey, and to predicate an opinion,
amounting almost to a certainty, that they
would be met with an indignant refusal from
Egypt. Unfortunately for the Khedive,
neither France nor England is prepared for
rupture on this question; and while their me-
diation might moderate the demands of the
Sultan, it is not probable that they will ener-
getically protest against the humiliation of
the vassal. Without the hearty support of q
Viceroy to defy his master, and as the part
of prudence and wisdom, we shall expect his
submission. In this, however, we see no
promise of permanent reconciliation. Such
humiliations, if endured for the present. will
embitter his spirit stimulate him to renewed
exertions towards securing the aid of Euro
pean potentates, and prompt him to strike
for independent royalty whenever favorable
opportunity shall be presented.
N
future complications, which are to end in q
struggle for the mastery of the Suez Canal,
and which in their Importance must enlist
several of the great powers of Europe. Ismail
Pasha, conscious of the future of Egypt and
of his own coming Importance in the destiny
of that country, may well afford to bide his
| time, make concessions and submissions to
| his jealous master, and do everything to pre-
vent rupture at this time. Patience and
prudence will yield an abundant harvest of
| good at no distant day; and the time will
| come, if we may be allowed to indulge in
the most reasonable speculation, when
the jurisdiction of the Sublime Porte
shall cease to enthrall this Gland of promise,
and no Oriental master shall question
the right of Egypts sovereign to use the
| public treasure whenever he may see fit for
the.advancement of national enterprises. The
| designs of the Sultan, actuated by natural
| desire to continue to control over tributary
| power which promises to become a source of
immense revenue to his Government, will be
tolerated only just SO far as the present neces-
sites of the European situation require. The
sovereignty and independence of Egypt will
| be accomplished whenever the free operation
of the canal and the interest of neighboring
powers shall make it expedent to guarantee
for the enterprise that security and liberal
direction which it will hardly experience
while under the CONTROL directly or indi
rectly of the Ottoman Empire.
OUR CIVIL SERVICE - IT'S RADICAL
| DEFECT.
| From the ". Y Times.
| Few questions of domestic policy, at this
time, present higher claims on the attention
of the people and their representatives than
that involved IN the civil-service reform advo-
Gated with such zeal and good Judgment by
| Hon. MIR. Jenckes of Rhode Island. Congress
should take up this subject in earnest at the
coming session, and admit into its considera-
ton some elements not embraced in the
polemics of this or that party. 1t is subject
| essentially too broad and permanent in its
character, and too intimately connected with
| the general welfare, to be narrowed down to
party traditions or assumptions
We only give expression TO well-proved
proposition when we say that for many years
our civil service has fallen far short of that
measure of efficiency reached by it in the
earlier days of the republic. The result
should and would have been quite the reverse
of this were it not for certain vicious partisan
doctrines which the indifference of the people
has suffered to crystalize into powerful but
mischievous system. The present adminis-
tration has succeeded, to large extent, in
infusing spirit of thoroughness and fidelity
into the Government service. But the prac-
tical limitations and difficulties are SO nume-
rous and great as to make it impossible for
any Chief Magistrate to effect radical and
lasting reformation.
1t would be impossible to calculate. or
even to state, the amount of injury and
wrong endured by the people, more or less
consciously, for the want of some adequate
and uniform standard whereby to test the in
tellectual and moral fitness of aspirants for
Office. This want has not only impaired the
efficiency of the civil branch of the Govern
ment itself, but is largely chargeable with in
trodncing much that is disturbing and cor
rupting into our national politics. Since the
test of fitness for Office became matter of
, fealty to party, availability, or the trick of
|. catching votes, we find men anxious for place
relying more on these things, and working
: immensely more for them, than on or for
| those solid qualities Of intellect and suitable
} ness indispensable to the discharge of public
duty. So we have the peoples business
taken in hand, every little while, by host
l of new men, fresh from the exalted latitudes
J of politics. who, SO far as technical knowledge
{ and applable skill are concerned, have to
! begin learning the simplest rudiments of the
) duties devolved upon them. Thus vast and
. important national trusts relating to the in.
3 ternal economy of the Government and the
| everyday concerns of the citizen are peri