Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-26
News by Telegraph
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
| FRANCE and ENGLAND.
A Bitter Feeling Against
The Latter.
ALL ON ACCOUNT OF EGYPT.
Where England Quietly Stole
A March,
THF CUSHION CAR0M TOURNAMENT. |
DAILY Walks Off with First
Prize.
THE OLD WORLD.
Great Britain.

The suez Canal-De Lesssps and Egypl
In League Concession for a New
Company "A Bitter Feeling Against
England In France.
LONDON, May 25.-The Suez canal prob
lem is getting daily into more tangled con-
dition and de Lesseps is much more active
in his efforts to save himself than is the
British ministry in its efforts to protect
English interests. Parliament seems dis
posed to take hand In the discussion, which
will not expedite matters. This evening Mr.
Gladstone sent to the House of Commons
the communications which have passed be-
tween the cabinet and Count de Lesseps
They show how energetic the Frenchman
has been. The so-called Egyptian commit
tee, consisting of one italian and two French
lawyers, seems to have been constructed es-
pecially to serve the Canal company and the
manner of its appointment and the haste
with which it acted would indicate that de
Lesseps and the Egyptian government are in
thorough sympathy with each other and
that they are little inclined to consider Eng
land in the matter. They were selected nomi-
nally for the purpose of examining into the
legal aspects of questions arising under the
existing treaty and out Of the plans for a new
canal They spent less than two days in con-
sideration of the whole matter and conyen-
iently found what they were probably appoint
ed to find, that M. de Lesseps had treaty
monopoly which would effectually debar the
government from granting any concession to
a new company, they did, however, find
what is in one way equally friendly to Mr..
de Lesseps at the same time. That it will
mands and English bondhelders claim, that
the Egyptian government has power to COM
pei the canal company to widen the present
canal and to make any such modification in
the administration as shall render it's ser,
vice efficient. This report was sent to Sir
Edward Mallet, the British consul general,
and forwarded to Paris on the same day on
which it was drawn and on the second day of
the SO called consultation. This evident haste
has caused much comment In Paris and will
greatly affect English opinion and probably
the action OF the government should the ad-
visers of the crown reach different conclu-
sion on the question of monopoly. These
complications and others have had, It is
thought, much to do with the recall Of Sir
Mallet and with the visit to Paris
and London of Lord Dufferin, the aabassa-
dor to the Porte.
Paris dispatches show q very bitter feeling
towards England in connection with Egyp-
tian matters, and the French ministry hints
at, and the French press insists on, the ne
cessity of a return to the system of joint
contract work with which at one time much
fault was found. So deep is the feeling that
there are symptoms of an effort to find
scapegoat in M. de Freycinet and to accuse
him of all the guilt of frances oversight in
not accompanying England to Tel-el-Kebir,
which would have kept her in position
equal with England on the Nile and the Red
Sea. M. de Freycinet's friends, however,
deny that he had any
in the matter and
should not accompany the English army of
invasion was question most effectually set
tied by the chamber of deputies when it re-
fused to vote the necessary appropriation.
They say also that the evident feeling of the
chamber did much to influence the protest
ing policy, which he afterward adopted dur
ing the English invasion. Il is reported that
Lord Duferin's letter to Sheriff Pacha and in
lishman, said that England would
regret her policy if she
persisted in organizing system of govern
ment in Egypt without the cooperation of
France. This reported statement is proba-
bly, true since the Republque FRANCHISE,
thoroughly in sympathy with the head of the
French Department of State, says editorially:
In refusing to restore to France the place
which belongs to her, MIR. Gladstone COM
mitted mistake and enc which the Judi
cious statesmen of England will before
great while have cause to reproach him Bit
terly with, while in the end the joint control
will have to be reverted to-" Such is the
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