New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-10-06
OTTOMAN POLITICS.

The Turco- Egyptian question is like dance
of opposite partners-a step forward, step
backward, and now we have the return step.
Ismael Pasha had hardly manifested his sub
mission TO the main demands of the Porte
when we heard that he had started for Con-
stantinople; but he had not put his foot on
shipboard before he concluded TO stay at home.
Now, again, he is reported reconciled, and, as
ever, through the mysterious offices OF what
are known as the friendly powers. Niceroy
Ismael's chief troubles have been-first, the
active presence in tho Porte of his disinherited
brother Mustapha FAIL; second, his supposed
ambitious coquetries with the Courts OF En-
rope, and especially that of Russia; third, his
purchase of ornaments; and fourth, his con-
traction of budget loan. Having yielded
every point but the last, it was feared that
this final straw of exaction would break the
cameps back of viceroyalty. This was prob
ably the one point of the difficulty mentioned
recently by telegraph.
At length, however, we are apprised OF the
settlement of q quarrel in which we suspect
that there has been cordial interchange OF
Mohammedan duplicty. God forbid" writes
the Vlceroy, "that should have ever taken
"any decision beyond the limits of the rights
"and duties prescribed by the imperial fir
"mansn He submits that il he invited the
worlds sovereigns to Suez, it was in virtue of
the high position which he fills under the gra-
cious auspices of the Sultan, and il he was
well received in Europe it was likewise due
to the benevolent favor with which the Padi-
shah has hOnored him. lie recounts that he
has scrupulously respected the representatives
of the Porte, and that both his withdrawal Of
troops from Gambia during the Greek rebellion,
and the European mission of his Min
lister, Nubar Pasha, respecting consular
jurisdiction, were approved and recog-
nized by the Sultan's Cabinet. He
represents that, notwithstanding the charge of
the Porte that his people are overtaxed, his
revenue system is matured by an elective
assembly having tho right Of examining and
fixing his annual budget. Reminding the Sui
tan of the deplorable state of Egypt when he
assumed the VicerOyalty, he points to numbers
of schools and institutions formerly suppressed.
to the redemption of great quantities OF land,
and-despite the debts left by the late Said
Pasha-the construction of 700 miles of rail-
way. as some of the results of Viceregal we'll
doing. Add to these immigration, financial in
situations, increased trade, telegraphs. and the
Suez Canal. In short, the Viceroy ia enter
prising-almOst too enterprsing for those who
haye lately inspired the councils of the
Porte. But one point he has not
answered, however well no has met the Turk
ish structures with respect to his taxation
namely: that of "the enormous expenses which
"have been incurred in the purchase of fire.
arms, vessels of war, and the like" With
this objection, the brevet King of Egypt
appears to have avoided anything like a
statistical encounter. The arms were reported
10000, and the budget loan which the Vice
roy was supposed to have contracted for their
purchase, among other objects, was Sl2,OOO,OOO.
Despite an air of collapse and genudsXion.