Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-02
OLD WORLD COMPLICATIONS.

The Egyptian embroglio thickens. The
Turkish government has been fostering re-
bellion and aiding disorder for the purpose
of recovering its power to rule Egypt, which
means to tax and Cypress it. Neither Eng
lish nor French policy favors these designs.
France is especially opposed TO the extension
of Turkish authority along the Nile. 1t has
met with sufficient obstruction from that
power in Tunis to arouse all its opposition.
Those two countries have not the whole
game in their hands, however. All the par
ties to the treaty that terminated the war
between Turkey and Russia take part in
it. Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria, and
Greece also, manifest strong interest in the
matter. If things shou Id come to an inter-
position by force the Turkish aspect of the
question may probably become the impor-
tant one. Turkey is under bonds to pay
heavy sums to Russia, and Russia objects
to that power going into outlay for
ships and armies that would add new
embarrassments to finances that are already
badly crippled. Each of the other countries
have their particular object also, as well as
Russia and France and England, so that the
Egyptian squabble, if bad feeling should
spring up among the parties interested, is
not without important elements of danger.
That boa-constrictor among nations, Austria,
has apparently succeeded in swallowing
down poor Herzegovina, of which it was
most shamefully constituted the guardian,
and that country and Servia will have to
endure the grinding, hateful oppression TO
which Italy was so long the prey. Austria
is also engaged in subjecting the lower
Danube to its fatal grasp, and is known to
have designs upon Salonica and an outlet
upon the Adriatic. Russia remains SO thor
oughly unsettled that the car does not dare
to carry out his intention of being crowned
this year. Times are becoming hard
for monsrchs when the head of the mightiest.
territory in the old world, outside OF China,
dare not be crowned when he pleases. The
Russian people are discontented. They see
that they do not flourish as free countries do;
they feel that their manhood is insulted and
their rights violated. Were it not for this
and widely-sprea1 discomfort nihil-
ism could not live a week; with it all the
army, all the police, and all the spies the
directs cannot put it down. The
car appears likely to make some concession
to an agitation he hates but cannot quell,
and intimates an intention of comforting
some kind of representative government
upon his people. How much will he con-
cede? What he will think enormous will,
to the long suffering people, appear an atom,
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they have obtained that, until the car
is irritated by new demands and the |
people are infuriated with repeated re-
fusals. Then nihilism will be more
rampant than ever, and having a wider |
field to act in, while the government has
reduced powers of resistance, there will be a
recurrence of the scenes of the fret French
revolution. The misery of the Russian peas
antry is deplorable, and the outbreak sgainst
the Jews is but an expression OF their des-
peration. The hands that are turned against
the Jews to-day will, IN the end, seek other
and more prominent victims. Their Jewish
have whetted their appetites
for blood, and taught their hands how to seek |
in plumber a resource against want. English !
are manifesting discomfort be-
cause their interests are neglected that Par |
lament may attend to Irish affairs. In Ire |
land all attempts to discover the murderers |
Of Burke and Cavendish are in vain, and it |
is said the lords will refuse TO pass the ar
rears of rent bill. Should they venture to |
take that step they tempt the destruction of |
heir own privileges, whose basis becomes
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storm now raging in Ireland to a climax that
may appal and affect even their stubborn
natures.