National Republican., 1882-08-18
TurlxcY in EgYnt.

England has now been at war with
Egypt for more than month, by request
of the Khedivc, and has been patiently
waiting to be requested by the Sultan to
continue it, England says she has no
quarrel with Egypt herself, but is only
putting down a rebellion against the
Khedive. She also acknowledges that
the Khedive is subject to the Sultan, and
hence her desire to have il understood
that she is fighting Egypt more to oblige
the Sultan than anybody else except the
Khedive. But the Sultan says her in
vasion Of Egypt is without right and
that her bonbardment of Alexandria
was an outrage on Egypt and Turkey,
and gross offense against international
law. The following dispatch from Con-
stantinople, under date of the 10th in
slant, is wholesome reading:
The draught ofthe military convention proposed
by the Porte TO England was rs follows: The
Turkish army undertakes the pacifcation of Egypt
without foreign assistance, the British to remain
in their present positions aud not to participate in
the operations The Turks shall be allowed 10
use Alexandria as a base of operations, and the
Turks and British both to withdraw after the paci-
flcation Of the country"
This is in exact accord with the situa-
ton as stated some days since in these
columns. Turkey is q higher authority
than England to determine whether there
is rebellion in Egypt. Turkey has not
yet assentcd to the protense that Arab
is rebel because he refused to be in
completely with the Khedive's surrender
to alien control. The Sultan's position
seems likely to he vindicated by the COM
plete submission to him by Arabi and
the Egyptians. A dispatch from Con
stantinople to the London Daily Ner
says:
1t is stated in Turkish circles that the hesitation
to issue the proclamation against Arab Pa,ia &
owing 10 the fact that n telegram was received
from him five days ago, expressing his readines
TO submit to the authority of the cdliph, bu
stating that he could not leave his soldiers with
out head until tho arrival of the Turkish troop
| in Egypt, when he would instantly hand over hi
command TO the Turkish general. The military
convention is still uns tiled for the same reason.
With Arab submitting to the Sultan
and the Egyptian soldiers under the
Turkish general, what need will there be
of English aid to pacify pacilied Egypt
OF course all this does not meet the
approval of the English intruders. Lore
DufIerin, the English ambassador a
Constantinople, did not agree to tn,
Turkish programme, but submitted
another stipulating that the Turks shoult
not undertake operations without tn,
previous consent of the British com
mander; that British officers should b,
attached to the Turkish headquarters
and that the question of evacuation
should be the subj ect of special con
vention. No one believes that the Sultan
will agree to any such conditions a
these. And so England's sole excuse 70
being in Egypt is the authority of tn
Khedive, whose own family denounc
him as either the prisoner or the puppe
of Egypts English foes. When Turke.
proclaims Arab loyalist instead of
rebel, and has command over him ant
his troops, the tables may. be turned OF
England, and the other powers may in
sist that she shall cease to obstruct tn
pacifcation of Egypt.