New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-23

| Tor the present he is playing with him, but any
day that he thought it for his advantage he would
| use him." Then Abbassaad said; Come back to me
| in three DAYS" And he dismissed her. So she
came back to him IN three days, and he said "
have found ont that kiatib Is plotting against Tue
| life of Ethiop; tell him that have told you TINS
Let him arrest Kiatib and lie VIII save his own llio
and gain great favor from the Mogul whom God
So Selma told Ethiop this, and Ethop set spies
upon Kiatib, and behold it was discovered that
KIatib, who was man OF desperate character. had
determined in the event of Elhiop not consenting
TO be mis- tool, to take his life secretly and raise
up another popular Ethiopian officer to be the mead
| of the national military party ana lie had als99
| made friends with Circassian officers, VINO lated
EthiOp because he had reduced their pay ana pro-
| NOTED EthIopans their heads; and the whole
| plan was arranged. but it was not to ee put into
operation unless EthOp refused to do what Maud
| told him.
So when Ethlop discovered the treachery, of
| Kiatib. he made arrangements for arrcstlng MIN
| ana all his dccomplces. But Klatlb, who was as
| clever rs he was daring, escaped IN time to the
| LatInian city. where Schamyl dUells; but the
other cOnspiratOrs were arrested, and an ong them
no less n parsonage than Omer Stlifkl, whom tthiOp
had long wanted to get rid OF, because le was the
head of the Scliukian military party in Ethiopia
| The result that nstead of pleasing the Mogu
by the arrest of Kiatib, he incensed him nightly
| by the arrest of Omer. So the Mogul commanded
the boy TOOthplk TO annul the sentence;
How Ethiop resist d this order. and how Ham
| meret and Snkhlswits were constantly at Tooth
piks palace keeping his courage mp and how they
kept it up. and how he insisted upon the Ministry
fesigning. and how they wouldn't resign, ana how
eventually they did resign, and how Ethop first
| did and then didn't resign, and how Lord Granny
vile and VI. dEilraycnay began writing dispatches
TO each other in the most frantic way, ana now
they could not agree at first how Ethop was 10 he
dealt with and order be restored, and how the
llemas and Nota les came and said II he was not
dealt with somehow, and order restored, there
would be murder and boOdshed IN kahira, and
how EthIop convoled the Chamber of Notable
and how the Chamber OF NOtable5 wouldn't he con-
vDkcd, and how split 'hereupon occurred between
the Civil National party and the Military National
pnrf md
sedan Pacha to hold on to the Military party or
Mr.. Sadstoue would annex Egypt, and how Mr.
Sadstone had not the remotest intention OF anneNlng
ECVpt.-all these are matters OF history.
only wish had time and space to narrate all the
conversations between them There was one lot
instance. between Mr. S9IstOne and Mr.. ClamOera-
long rs to the probable moral effect upon Ethops
mind of SIX AlbnO- Galnian ironclads demonstrate
ing i'm the bay of the great Ethiopian city of COM
mercc which made old Sedan Pacha, with whom
through nv telephone split his sides with laughter.
because, he said ironically 10 showed 5uch
knowledge OF the Eastern character"
THE ALBINIAN CABINET.
The discussion which took place in the Altman
Cabinet the sane day was also most amusing |
Invited three or four friends IN kahra to come ana
listen to IT and must 90 SIR istoIlcu5 the justice
10 say that he made most gallant stand in favor OF
treaties, and the necessity ol complying WIN IN
trrnatiOnal law in matter where the rights OF the
suZerain power were concerned; for, SAID he,
" Look at the arfu precedent we should create IN
case the Wogu decided to send ships to the Cape of
Bad Hope for the purpose of reducing the Osyaal
to ORDER having previously notified Us through his
ambassador tfat we should not oe allowed t. send
any, III defiance of all international Obligations ana
rights OF suZerainty.' And Clamberalong replied
Rights of sulcrainty be- blOwed! We shouldn't
mind il al all-in fact we should rather like 1t
but they couldn't get there because theie IS no port
in the Cls.aai.' Sir IIistOricus maintained that
didn't matter where naval demonstrations were
involved: but he said. waving that point, sup
poslng EthOp does not care Tor the naval demon
stration then what would you do T. and Lord
Granville said. Something else ana Sir His
tor,cus asked, What else = and Lord Grannyvie
Powers for instance "Bu." said sir Hlstorcus,
"suppOse Ethiop does not mind the conference, and
the Mogul decncs y opne, sad Slr. Sadstone,
in tones which came vibrating through the tec-
phone. " that would not concern rs, but would be
til, affair of the Powers
Next day happened to apply my instrument to
the Cabinet of NJ dEil|ycinay, IN the City OF
Pleasure just ut the moment when NJ. de Galeowlls,
on the part of tho Albinlan leading organ sug-
gested to HIM the employment OF SeDuklan gen
darmcs in Ethiopia. But VI. dElraycinay only
seemed disposeu 10 entertain lS ue'i IN orLer NOT
to hurt NJ. de GaieoWitss feelings aud said that he
thought the dispatch of ironclads would 10 for the
pre- emit aud that his place was to let tn morrow
take care Of itself. which had been the method so
successfully tried III Carthagla.
A few DAYS aftcrwaTd the irOnclads arrived OF
thc coast OF Ethiopia and Sir Bechum Semur went
to call on the Galilnian admiral An, mon cheT
colisguc' lie remarked, striking an attitude, rs the
clown says IN the pantomlme, a. nous s2m"es
encore here we are again. Quot erGt dcE0u-
sraad'ma. as We used to say at Duicisno'" Slr
Bechem dearly loves his little io Se.
IL think we very much like clowns in a pan
tomme,' responded the Ganan admiral. and |
don't know anybody that plays the part better than
You do"
tons" said Sir Bechem who did not quite seem 60
like this last remark Suppose we man yards;
have got a man on board who stand on one leg
the truck OF tile man TOyal-thGf ought To
"As there is not water enough for us to go and
demonstrate inside the bay. you can't do 1t here"
said the French admiral. No man could stand on
the truck on one leg IN such u swell of the
this" lths was playful alluslonl. " must get
into harbor somewheIe-were looking more foolish
than usual out herc.'
"Suppose we run on to Aboullir," said Sir
Bcchem: and he began singing in fine mellow
voice. "'Twas in Aboukir Bay and then stopped
suddenly finding he could not 60 very far without
woundIng the French admlrals susceptlbilties, and
became pensye as he Thought what very different
kind of demonstration the Albinian and Gallniap
fleets were making the last time they were there
together and wondered how the great Albinian
admiral who commanded on that occasion would
like the kind of work Albnan admIrals
called upon to do nowadays. So they took the
ronclads to the bay OF the great battle. Whether it
was owing to the Yards oelng manned, or what,
don't know, but sure enough next day Ethiop re-
signed and Sedan and the national party seemed
thoroughly demoraiized but, most singular to re,
late the day alterward Sheik Abbassaad, who had
gone the city of the Golden Crescent to report to
the MOgul how matters had been progressing in
Ethiopia, immediately after he had discovered
KiatIbs conspiracy, returned TO kahira, and he
went straight to the house of EthOp, whom he
founl in very disturbed state OF mind. ard he
sad 10 MIN come 10 you from my master lub
Mogu who bids you cheer up and be of good cOur-
age, and not be alarmed at the Ghiaour who is
standing one leg the top of the mast of the
ship of that dog OF an Altman admiral nor can the
Gainan son of a sea-cOOk do you any hurt. Now
that the Ghiaours have combined together TO insult
the dignity of the head of our Religion it behoyes
all followers of the Prophet to forget their little
differences or postpone them to more convenient
season. The admitals ana diplomatic agents may
talk about exiting yOu, but IL is an empty threat.
my friend. My Imperial master has become so ac-
cusromed TO Acknowledgment blustcr that he has
long ceased to pay any attention to it. and he
ommends Won to do the SO 20 straight to