Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-12
Wednesday Morning, July 12, 1882.
THE CRISIS IN EGYPT,

The crisis has come in Egypt and tons of shot and shell from English cannon have
 been poured into the Notifications of Alexan- dria It is not probable that the Egyptian forces can offer any effectual resistance to the English attack, and the "warn will prob ably not be a long one.
 England alleges two reasons for her inter- ference in Egyptian affairs-her interest in the Suez canal and the claims of her capital lsts for the payment of their Egyptian loans. Arabi Boy represents the revolt of the Egyp- tan people against the government of their country by foreign joint receivership in the interest of it's foreign creditors. Early in the present year serious difficulties arose in Egypt between the Council of Tewfik Pasha, Ismairs son and successor, and the English and French comptrollers of the Egyptian finances by whom the government of the country had been substantially monopolized
 At that time England and France joined in a note to the Khedive to the effect that they in tended to maintain his authority as the only 1 adequate guarantee of order in Egypt This note exasperated Arabi Boy and the native leaders who were bent on securing a l voice for the Egyptians in the financial I administration of their own country On | the 4th Of February Arabi Bey was called Into the Khedive's council as Minister of War, and since then the Egyptian national
 party has been growing in strength unti
 It has felt strong enough, or audacious enough, to brave the consequences of refusing obe- ! dience to England's mandate. Monday
 morning the English demanded the surren- der of the forts at the mouth of the harbor This demand was not compiled with and the English war ships opened fire on the forts I early yesterday morning.
 Arabi Boy. it is said has been looking for ward to constitutional government for Egypt. He has had the Constitution of tho United States and the life of Garfield trans
 lated into Arabic. Mir. Simon Wolf, late
 Consul General in Egypt, who may be sup
 posed to understand the situation there, says: Egypt and the whole of Europe could be at peace, the thoroughfare of the
 canal undisturbed. were England or France
 actuated by disinterested motives. All Egypt l needs and should have is guaranteed neu- trallty like Belgium or Ssitzerland Freed from the yoke of Turkey, and independent
 like Roumania, Siberia or Bosnia, she could
 enter into career of prosperity rivaling ! that of any country on earth. England, If honest would achieve all she needs, l the Suez Canal would not be impeded and the Eastern question would be shorn of one half of it's menacing danger I The bondholders whose clamor for their pound of flesh in London and Paris is most audibly heard on the banks of the Nile would
 be fully and amply secured, for the revenue ! of Egypt is el,OOO,OOo each year above it's 1 expenses, and in very limited time the debt could be entirely paid off. Therefore what Egypt needs is neutrality guaranteed by all | the powers, independence of Turkey, econo- my in its civil service abolition of it's army l except for police purposes-and last, but by | no means least, common schools, in which l the modern languages would be taught and spoken.
 England will probably suppress the fight ! ing spirit of Arabi Bey and his Egyptian na- | tional party without much difficulty, but 1 after this is done there will be difficult l work to do in readjusting the relations of Egypt with the western powers and also with Turkey. But it is not probable that Egypt will make much out of the read djustment" :"