The New York herald., 1879-09-19
PRINCE TEWFIK.
France, England and Turkey Working
the Royal Puppet Show of Egypt.
pATERNAL GOVERNMENT In A FEZ.
Safety for the Khedve in Multitude OF
Counsellors and Carpet-Baggers

Egypt has ever been the same For the avowed OBJ
jcct of preserving the integrity Of the Ottoman
Empire England has twice foiled Egypts efforts at
Independence. when apparently she had secured II.
In the rst instance in 1910. when she. by her heet
compelled Mehenet Ais restitution of Syria to the
Sultan and submission to the Porte. In the second
plare. when his intriguing grandson Ismail had
bought Egyptian Independence from the Sultan.
England with French and German cooperation, has
permitted that bargain and sale to be nvaidated by
the Sultans trman Of succession to the hhedive OF
their creation-Tewfk. For III spite OF the false
statements made by the English and French press
and statesmen. in this regard. the new Khedive has
not been invested with the powers of the old; but
almost all the privileges by the latter have
been withdrawn the new perat OF investiture
approved by the European Powers. The frman of
1873 gave the Khecive of Egypt and his successors
entire jurisdiction and control over the internal
affairs of Egypt and its home government 1t gave.
besides. the right of keeping up army and navy
at the Khedive's discretion; of making commercial
treaties and contracting foreign loans Each and all
of these concessions have been Withdrawn in the
Sultan's last frman. and Egypt has been again re-
duced to the condition of Turkish province, under
. Governor General whose heredity would be but
slight protection against his removal should foreign
pressure be put upon the Porte, which is known to
prefer his uncle Hahn for that post. Hitherto the
traditional policy of Franco has been opposed to that
Of England in this regard, but they running in
couples now the clamor Of her pondholders having
drowned the voice of national pride in France in
England.
WITHIN.
So much for the external aspect OF the case-now for
the internal. When the young Prince Tewfk mounted
the tottering throne Of his father he naturally
looked advice aid and comfort to the two Powers
most interested in Egypt He asked Of England and
France only to be permitted to exercise his egiti
mate authority in the management OF public affairs
without being put under the tutelage of their CON-
missioners. who had proved their incapacty either
to understand manage the affairs Of Egypt. But
this natural request not needed The interest
of the bondhoders must be made paramou ut to all
others, and England and France insisted saddling
the new Khedive with the burden which crushed the
Old This is all the more curious since recent reve
lations show that the English Consul General in
Egypt antagonized and hwarted the English Com
missioners policy throughout-and sustained the
late Khedive in doing-doubtess by authority Of
the same administration now in power. Yet the first
act of the two governments has been insist tho
restitution of the Commission in the persons OF the
very who had made themselves so odious to the
whole population of Egypt, both native and foreign
1t will thus be that after all the fuss and fury
OF these diplomatic maneuvres at Conssantinople,
Egypt London and Paris, the only change actually
contemplated by the high contracting Powers was .
change of Khedive-not of OF measures
otherwise-and that the only person who
has really proited by this change has
been the Sultan, who has dishonesty bro
ken his bargain while retaining the millions
paid him by Ismai. Why. therefore, those Powers
should count the gratitude of the young Khedive
for permitting and sanctioning that dishonesty and
reducing his country and himself to vassalage once
,x~aI,a
content with saddlng him with "the Sublime
Porte" they so further and remount their Com
missoners kicked off by his father, 'leaving but
barren sceptre in his grasp" if the pretensons Of
those personages to be sustained. Doubtless the
young Khedive (who is well read in Eastern in
Westsrn iterature recollects that when SinDad the
Sailor succeeded i'll getting the "Old Man OF the
6ea" of his shoulders. he promptly picked up
stone and beat his brains out to prevent his getting
again. The "Old Man of the Sea- represented
IN Egypt by the European Commission and although
Tewhk will not proceed to such extreme measures
As Sinbads, yet doubtless he should and ouuht TO
try and shake of that incubus. by all allow owable
means, at the earliest possible period. He has
menced by protesting against the return OF Rivers
Wilson and de Bligneres, but 1T seems in vain.
That. under such circumstance. he would cordially
so-operate with them. or that their mission should
be success. seem seltevident fallacies Even
he Khedives most earnest and jealous cooperation
nothing could come out of that hybrid commission,
whose members are jealous and distrusttul of each
other and despised by the whole population.
What then. can be expected from revival
General also claim the right of interference
in this muddle. very pretty quarrel is now
going on between those of France and England, two
English enployes in the Custom House having uar
relied and the French Consul General demanding
the removal of one of them. while the English
opposes and protests against it. SO between the
English and French cabinets. consuls general
commissioners and employees the young Khedive
certainly has that multitude of counsellors" in
whom safety In said to be found.
BIRD s-EYR VIEW or THE NEW KHEDrvE.
On the personal characteristics of the young man
eO dly III hi
fathers throne the future Of Egypt and its people
greatly depends. His training has been pee uliar
aud so is his character. Two men more utterly
unlike than father and it is impossible to
imagine, both In appearance and natural traits.
There Is even outward resemblance Tewhk
seems to have Inherited from his Circassian mother
his physical attributes. Whether lie has inherited
which led both to his rise and fall time only can
Show; for the first task. and indeed necessity. OF
ayoung Eastern prince is to throw himself and
his personal attributes tar into the background
as possible. watched closely. he ever is, by
jealous and distrustful father. While bestowing
Cabinet appointment upon him the Khedive never
admitted Iewhk INTO his confidence, nor got him to
do any dirty work; as he did with his brothers
Hussein and Hassan-his Ministers of Finance
aud War-both OF whom more closely resembIed
their father in character. II not in intellect,
who respected his own religion and people, as the
others did not-they being electroplatod Europeans,
as lsinai was. Yet, as the eldest anu probable
successor Though Ismai tried to set him aside)
Tcwhk was carefully educated by European rue
tors aud is well informed tor prince. although he
mas never Decn aDroau LOT more thaf u rev weeks
Yet Egypt is such resort for all nationaities that
he has had opportunities OF seeing and associaing
with foreigners OF all kinds ana is quite cosmo-
politan such associations. Englishmen in
Egypt assiduous courtiers as FreichInen or
liaians, and with some of these he was intimate.
French Italian and English the khedive under
stands but for conversational purposes with foreign
ers the Court language is French. which he speaks
like Frenchmau. Though he wears the hideous
Ssanbouli costume--a bad imitation OF the Euro-
ps,n. with only the rod tez cap TO mark the dis
tinctive nationality-no one could mistake Tewhk
Pacha for a European. His face and figure are boIh
Oriental of the high Circassan type. An oval face;
large. dark. serious eyes; long. dropping mus
tache beard; dark hair. cut snort aud covered by
the red fez cap; square. heavy hguro not unwoldy
like mis- fathers, but sipcwy and strong; sonie-
what embarrassed manner-such are tie external
attributes Of the new khedive, now twenty
years old. But the face, whom animated, lights up
wonderfully with q frank, open smile. and. unlike
most Orientals, he looks you straight in the tace
when speaking TO you, and seems to mean what ho
says. winch is al ways very un-O ental. In fact no