The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-07-04
FOREIGN NEWS.
The English Premier Trying to Brighten the
Egyptian With the Talk of War.
The English Crops Five
Irish Members Of the Houses Suspended.
WAR PREPARATION " BLUFF.

LONDON, July 3.-..War preparations,
the cable will have have told YOU are go
ing on rapidly at our dock yards. anC
arsenals, but it must not therefore be
assumed that the English government il
prepared to adopt extreme measures Or
the contrary. it hopes, by warlike demon
stratlon, to inspire Turkey with fear, but
Turkey has struck up close friendship
with Germany since Mr.. Gladstone's acces
sion to office, and it is shrewdly suspected
that her statesmen are not likely to be
scared by mere threats
The Sultan believes with Arab Bey that
a Gladstone administration will not fight
and sees the advantage of the strong
position given him by the blunders of the
British Ministry. In May the government
demanded the expulsion of Arab Bey from
Egypt uuder menace of employing force,
and lol Arab has driven out the Euro
peans and is master in
the Khedives nominal dominions
TWO YEARS REvENGEs
Two years ago Mr. Gladstone warned
the Sultan to get out of Bulgaria, bag and
baggage-the popular version makes it
Europe" but Mr.. Gladstone said nothing
about Europe or the Bosphorous, so this
error should be exploded like that which
makes Mr.. Forster responsible for the
''buckshot" circular issued by Mr. Lowthar
now he goes to to that same unspeakable
Turk begging him to suppress Arab the
Unblest. Al the same time Mr.. Gladstone
insulted the Germanic powers, which now
maintain a good understanding with
Turkey. These are the complications
which make the present situation SO dam
gerous.
Mr.. Gladstone has rendered it impossi-
bic for the other powers, or any of them,
to act with him, and now England must
either occupy Egypt alone or else back
down ignominiously, with a certain loss
of prestige and the probable loss of her
command over the Suez Canal. from which
would naturally result the most imminent
peril to her dominions in India.
PREPARING FOR A SURRENDER
A large section of the radical wing,
which is now exercising so great an inf1u
ence over the ministry, is utterly opposed
to any intervention whatever in Egyptian
affairs, and is urgent in advising the gov
ernment conveniently to forget all about
its ultimatum of May and to make any
terms it can with the Khedive de facto,
Arab Pasha. At the same time, our Am
bassador at Constantinople Lord Dufferin
has been instructed to offer the Sultan a
reconsideration of the terms imposed upon
him in 1877 if he will consent to join the
conferences and give effect to the conelu-
sions at which it may arrive. These con
cessions all round will, it is thought, get
us out of our present scrape though, as
can readily be seen. it would leave much
more serious complication to be dealt with
in the future, possibly under even more
disadvantageous circumstances
THE RADICALS AT WORK
+ The suspicion is prepared and preparing
to make this wholesome surrender do much
to destroy the effect of the war prepara-
tions. A forcible occupation of Egypt
would be resisted by at least three mem
bers of the Cabinet, despite all we have
told about its being unit on this and on
all other questions, and to strengthen their
hands the radicals are employing all the
machinery at their command to get up the
cry that the Egyptian question is merely
an affair ofbondholders who ought to be
left to take care of themselves.
All these facts, too, are well known to
Arab Bey, who does not lack for inter
ested and active friends in England, and
the knowledge viii encourage him to play
his game out, especially as thus far he has
taken every trick. The fuss at the dock
yards and arsenals need not lead any one
to suppose that war is really intended.
FRANCE ALIENATED.
In France, too, / hear on very good
authority, the feeling against going in any
Egyptian expedition with England is
growing deeper and stronger every hour.
This leaves Mr. Gladstone more isolated
than ever To add to the general confus-
ion and apprehension, no information as to
the state of affairs or its preparations and
intentions is vouchsafed by TIE government
whose members were 50 Indignantly elo=
quent only three or four short years ago
over extra parliamentary government by
Lord Beaconsfeld.
THE cRoPs A FAILURE.
The information which I cabled to you
last week about the unpromising condition
of our crops has been verified by the many
inquiries have since made in all quarters.
Hay and clover are very heavy. but much
of the growth is down, and the weather is