New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-07
ISMAIL'S DOWNFALL.
STEPS WHICH LED TO HIS OVERTHROW.


TiJr PART OF ENGLAND AND FRANCE
typov THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUSE.l
pArIs June 1S.-lt bohOoves the Tory party IN
Great Britain that n step should be rapidly made
forward in Egypt 1 am in position to know that
little time will be lost in taking it. The Prince OF
Wales was sent over here TO throw oil on troubled
waters end overcome the opposition OF NJ. Gambetta
10 the Egyptian and the Turkish policy of Lord
Salisbury. lie has done much TO soothe iritated
spirits here, though he has taken no direct
or indirect part IN the negotiations reia-
tive to IsmaiPs chastisement which are
going forward, and which have dragged on since
last March Rightly or wrongly the French Gov
eminent Thought that Lord Salisbury had Tory
minus against the Republic and was manGuyrlngto
place IL in Illuminating position when the due
Book correspondence FOR this year should bepnIed'
Ii could not enter into the heads Of men unac-
uuaiuted with the branch OF the Banacle family In
possession Of the Foreign ONCE Bureaus, that
clerk there and an exclcrk, MrNivian had power to
unset the tripartte convention and 20 enable Inc
Khedive 70 overthrow the Rivers-Wlson Ministry,
Quite lately efforts have been made here, and 1t
would appear with some amount Of success, to en-
tighten French statesmen about the action OF the
London Foreign Office Bureaus on public business,
and the facilities obscure ciICumOcutiOnists ENJOY
for rayclling ont the webs their superioTs weave,
md for rpuing ND outsiders who appear 10 them IN
a way to pick up fat semi-diplomatic posts.
II has vet TO De explained TO NM WaddIngton
aul Gambetta why Sir Stafford NOrthcote made the
declaration in the House Of Commons which, by adj
uniting the Khedive's right to eject the European
ministers appointed last year. omboldened Ismail to
assert his independence and to snap his fingers at
France and England. Perhaps means will be found
TO show that, after the dismissal of Nubar Pacha,
which took place in that month, Queen Victoria
relied for information on Mr.. Banaclc Vivian, and
that ne. acting according to the usual course of
tbe Office" quite miscd Lord Salisbury who in
strnctcd sir Stafford NorthcOte his porte roir in the
House of Commons. Until this "kittle" point is
explained away. a heaven of mistrust Will Turk in
the minds of NJ Crews Ministers, and, indeed in
that of NJ. Gambetta also They will continue to
regard the tactics of the noble Marquis at the head
OF the Foreign Office as being no less CarthaSniah
than Lord BeacOnsfeld's.
The entrance of Prince Bismarck on the Egyptian
scene will be attended with decisive consequences
Germany looks forward TO "a war with France, and
endeavors before il breaks out TO detach the latter
Power from those nations friendly to her. Prince
Bismarck does not want 10 prevent the English
taking possession Of the Delta Of the Nile and the
Valley up TO Thebes What he aims at is England
Selling on them in spite of the French Government,
in which case TO compensate for the grOwthlf) of
her neighbor's power France would make herself
Ile MISTRESS bl ulilS III opbO9I'iou " 1OhN' 4 ho
move Germany has made in Egypt will oblige the
Cabinet Of the Elys6s either to wash its hands of
Egypt or to at once agree to act in concert with
England What with the natural unreadincss Of
his mind with the suspicion he harbors of tTickery
nj Downing Street and with the Prussian Ogre
straddlng across his path, NJ. WaddngtOn is in a
very perplcxlng situation, and Lord Salisbury must
be hampsrcd by his perplexitv The best thing
which could happen the NcerOys creditors here and
Il. L..
French Government, and the advent Of Ministry
led by a reader man than NJ WaddingtOn, and one
Invested with the prestige and authority derived
from strong parliamentary support NJ. Wadding-
ton Is good Just and learned, but unequal to cope
with the difficulties spriugng around him. He
is a slow thinker slow to act, and his incapaciy to
grasp a complex subject is to extent the source
OF his actual troubles His eye not TO take in
at glance q diplomatic c1ess-bnard, nor does he
perceive the drift of an opponents move before the
game is nearly over. Reflection does not clear his
head unless he reflects ON scholarly hard nuts,
which he cracks easily enough. Being himself
thoroughly honest, he takes for granted the hon
csty of Others On discovering they not
what ne took them for, he mstTusts Overmuch.
When he told that Lords Beaconsfeld and Sails
bury wiuked at the TlcerOys coup sdttdt, and be-
Icved what he heard, negotiations with hm, l
know from various sources, came 10 deadlock.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs felt like man in
the dark surrounded by pitfalls, and could not be
induced 10 STIR an inch. Finding himself now face
To face with Bismarck, who Is direct and rapid Iii
Va.
sea than ever, and have no doubt would De glad
of hostile vote in the Chamber, 90 enable blm next
week TO retire from office. But the evil wind from
Germany has blown him some good. 1t has brought
him and NJ. Gambetta into more friendly relations
than they ever were before and it may be that the
Minister for Foreign Affairs will thus acquire the
needful degree of CELEBRITY IN the dispatch OF Dusl-
ness which he has not so far shown.
ASH Egyptian affairs have been mysteriously con-
Quoted 1t may be interesting to note what course
negotiations have taken since last February. From
an official source gather that, after the Khedive
made his coup Gftat, Lord Salisbury proposed his
deposition. This NJ Washington judged to be too
extreme a measure. Negotiations dragged on. Her
Maesty's Government had on their hands IN India
and elsewhere more than they could attend to. The
ways OF the Foreign Once tedious and the natur
, ally-slow NJ. Waddington rendered slower by
his suspicious, which NJ. Gambetta was reluctantly
brought TO share. The Afghan trouble suTmOunted,
Lord Salisbury grew more pressing. NJ.
WaddingtOn turned as deaf an ear
rs he properly could and asked: "What
about Greece" He took M the cause of the Greeks
breast high. The noble Secretary for Foreign AZ
fairs in London treated il bore. Some partsans
of Greece, on terms of Intimate friendship at the
Palais Bourbon, had promised the Left Centre MEM
bers of the Cabinet to obtain for them the Parlia-
Inentary support they wanted If NJ Washington in
sisted on the Greek frontiers being extended to
Janina. When this was proposed, Lord Salisbury
threw cold water on it, and returned to the charge
about Egypt. NJ Washington then asked what the
English Government would think Of a French and
English official being sent TO control the Treasury
accounts and general administration or the Khe-
dive. What would be the use y was the
response. What could pair Of foreign
ers without moral or material support do
at Carrot Nobody would obey them. To
send them out there would be to expose ourselves