New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-19
Tile KH[DIVE.

THE KHIDIVE.
T,e leading Pasha of the Sultanate or in
other words the Khidiye, has come to be the
hero of growing question and event, both
interesting to the world. The Suez Canal
whence this Egyptian Viceroy draws the bet
ter part of his fame, will be opened on the
nth of November, in respect TO the
convenience of its chief visitor, the En-
press Eugene, instead of month earlier
os WAS promised. Meanwhile, the question Is
discussed whether Ismael Pashas journey to
the European Powers has not the sinister pur-
nose of gathering to himself such undetermined
and left-handed recognition of his peculiar
power in Egypt as may help him to assert,
with the least possible fear of failure, his am
btion to make Egypt an independent State.
The most significant remark upon the Pasha's
movements occurs in the Turquie, semi
official newspaper of COnstantinoDle. The vice
ROY is accused of ignoring the rights oil the
Porte and giving himself the airs of SOW
ereign, while his supposed aim to have
the Consulate in Egypt raised to the
rank of a Legation, and his negotiation
for the naturalization of the Suez
Canal, are deemed to be REASONABLE
to the Sultanate, and multiplying to the conces-
sions which its Yiceroys owed to the generosity
of their sovereigns. Hereupon the semi-oiiical
paper gives warning that it will be necessary
for the Sultan to correct his vassal by auto
graphically inviting his royal cotemporarics to
the opening of the Canal After this
expression. there can DO no doubt
that the Yiceroy's visit to the Great Powers is
viewed with jealousy by the sovereign to
whom he must retain, in courtesy at least, the
relation Of dependent The Sultan, however
has need to remember his former suicidal
policy with respect to the Egyptian question.
What damage Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim
Pasha, father of the present Khdive,
contrved to inflict upon the Sultanate
out of tho immense resources of their
Viceroyalty, must be fresh in the mind
of Turkish diplomats. These great rebels
dealt even more staggering blows upon the
Ottoman Empire than it received at the hands
of Russia. The qualified independence now
enjoyed by Ismael Pasha is the net result of
the struggle waged by his father; and the
Sultan will not foolhardily risk the lax hold
which Turkey has upon Egypt, much as he
might desire to absorb that power which the
Viceroy maintains with such pomp and cir
cumstance. -
Abundant reasons exist to give pause to both
Sultan and Viceroy. Should they quarrel,
Egypt is likely to squander the prosperity
which might accrue to her from the great
Canal, and Turkey TO become PROSTATE before
any effort which the Russian giant may make in
her way. Perhaps the most striking news with
reference TO this subject is the statement that
the Prince Regent of Egypt has been invested
with the Order of Saint Anne by the Consul
General of Russia at Alexandria. No other act
could suggest with more point the vast self
interest which Russia has in fomenting and
maintaining q quarrel between the Sultan and
the Vceroy.
While thus the Car affects no conjunction
in recognizing Ismael Pasha, the other Powers
of Europe are seemingly troubled with tender
qualms of policy. The Khidive advertises his
loyalty by having with him Turkish suite
but the question Of his official treatment has
up to this hour been subject of anxiety, I'M
less Napoleon has cut the Gordian knot of
doubt by his resolve to send his Empress to
Suez. The Emperor, it is said, refrains from
joining the royal excursion to the great Canal,
from wish not to offend the Sultan by direct
imperial recognition of the Vceroy. Austria,
with like conscience is determined not to
send king, but only some few princes
nearest the throne. England will, in
all probability, make return of Ismael
Pasha's magnificent hospitality to the Prince
of Wales, and atonement for her former dis
creditable reception of her Egyptian guest, by |
deputing a few of her princes. The kind
Of envoy which Russia will send to the |
vassal of her sick neighbor will powerfully |
testify, we imagine, to the strength of impe-
rial prOpensities. Looking at the general re-
cepton which the Pasha meets with in |
Europe, the shrewdness with which he treats,
and the easy astuteness with which he Is
treated, we cannot fail to admire the grim del
cacy, the immense nicely with which the
Imperial Powers have once more saluted the
East.
A curious inatonce hoa come under our no.