The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-09-24
OUR FRENCH LETTER.
Correspondence of the HERALD
PARIS. August 30.

1Alt4os -AUB.iSl 3D.
! The partition Of the Ottoman En-
pire is commencing to gain ground
as a thing that's got to be done. Tt i;
understood that England will keeI
/ Egypt, whether morally or individ-
ualIy. it is all the same, and thus
provided for, with the Canal OF
/ course safely secured, the sick man
can BE disposed Of People are sim
ply tired of the unspeakabie Turk,
Of his sovereign rights that are but
fctions, Of his blighting the fair
provinces where the camps, and
Keeping up centres Of fanatacism.
to massacre wherever the infidelS
are weak. The Russian advance has
now no teTTOrs.
The French commence to have a
glimpse that English intervention
in Egypt, means security for Al
geria and Tunisia. The lombard
ment of Alexandria. where the
promised aid cf the Sultan was con-
spicuouS by its absence, has already
told in TriPolitania, whore refugee
TunisianS, disguised at the desertiOn
Of the pGdtcbGh, have solicited the
G1lGnl from the French government.
and $4,000 of the self-eXlled patriots
are returning to the fold. Several
of the journals here aVoW that if the
many French advisers Of Arab had
not counselled him to resist to graf
fly their hate against England, the
latter would not now have Egypt in
her grip, nor would French political
influence in the East be a matter Of
ancient history. Arab, it is as
serted, will fight to save appear
ances he complains that Turks and
French have alike "sold'' him, but
that heiwill send them Parthian ar
rows by handing over to General
Wolseley a few strong boxes full of
very compromising documents.
The Anglophoblst press here con-
tinues to look upon Arab as an
e1lfa1lt perdu, though every brush
he has with the English is recorded
as if a pitched battle, and as for the
kilograms fabricated, one is Inclined
to remember, in respect to their
manufacturers what David in his
haste observed Of all men. FaIstaff
complained too in his day, of how
the world was given to lying.
Italy seems to be very down in
the mouth at the result of Der rid
iculous Growing at a conference
which has ended in smoke. She has
only still further dlienated France, |
but has cooled the English in her
regard. One of her own leading
papers fifty describes her position. !
She took the airs of an eagle, while |
possessing only the wings of bull
finch. She has discovered also, that |
in the coming position of Turkey |
all the new sets are allotted in adj
vance; nothing remains for her, |
but to seize corsica, Nice, Savoy |
and Trieste, tillibustering that
France and Austria would certainly
object to. Commanding the canal
as England does, and with no desire
to block it up, its guardianship by
other powers, as Italy proposed
would lie what theOlogianS call,
work Of supererogatiOn. Besides
the canal will ev,r belong, despite
all stipulatiOns, to the nation which
can close its entrance and exit by
its war ships. This truth doubtless
many, but as Madame de
Stael observed, nothing is so foolish
as to be angry against facts, such
being Indifferent TO the passion.
Arab disposed of, what will Eng
land do with Egypt? AS guesseS at
truth, Tewfik will DE maintained:
the army and the colonies will be
dissolved and the army recast: the
international financial control will
net be superseded, but modified.
But what liberty will be allowed to
the Egyptians: that is the capital
question. A distinction must be
made between the military and the
national party. and the latter can
not be taken either in the literary
or the European sense. In the poll
tical acceptation Of the word, there
is no NJ ton IN Egypt: there is in
the towns party more or less in
structed, that has travelled, capable
Of filling certain public functions,
and that it would be dangerous for
the foreigner to exclude or to place
in rivalry. By enfranchising the
people in proportion as they be-
came educated, and not in the dazzle
and illusion Of puerile limitations of
parliamentarism, can the future
prosperity Of Egypt be found.
France herself PLAYS with parlia-
mentaTy government as a ten-edged
weapon. The institution does not
work at all well. The political
world is broken up into sects, each
with its bronze, and its credo, out.
side Of which there is no safety. The
republican deputies separated for
vacation, agreed on the necessity of
sinking differences. 1t has another
Day Of Dupes. The extra parlia-
mentaTy utterances reveal that
these differences never were deeper
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