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ular. and the National Committee will do well
| to leave it alone.
BRITISH INFLUENCE ON THE NILE.


BR1T1SH INFLUENCE ON THE NILE.
The British Government has revoked the
orders for the withdrawal of the troops from
Egypt. This is the first result OF the disaster III
the White Nile country. The Government
however, is not committed by this act 10 the
suppOrt of the Khedivc's territorial claims us
interior policy is undetermined. IL Is uhder ho
obligation to send an army twelve huhuieu
miles up the Nile in order to avenge the uele"V
of the Egyptian expedition and TO restore inc
sbodo,yv sovereignty either of the khedlve OF
If the Sultan over that benighted region Inc
British garrison nominally remains IN caro- hoC
bocause there is any immediate danger OF the
False brophet's sweeping down the Nile VIII
bis v;ctorious horde, but because there Is I'M
minent ncril of an outbreak of panic ana re-
,,;,.ot of RELIGIONS excitement in Lower Egypt.
A sirole incident illustrates the situation. A
hodv of EGYPTIAN troops Differed by Turks was
ordered to embark for Suakln, a port OH tno
Red Sea n long way north ana easC Vi hn'i
toum. They would not have been exposed 10
attack from the False Prophet, ana coulu h"'o
dcnended rpon transports and shlps-ol-"ar "
rescue them in any emergency. 1t was neither
= dangerous nor an arduOus field of duty; yet
tbo officers were unwilling to go even to the
sooboord of the Soudan and sharply reminded
RoI,cr Pacha that their contract called for ser
vice in Egypt alone. If the Turkish ohicer'
nrotest against garrison duty in Suakln, no dc-
nendence whatever can be placed upon the rank
and file for field operations in Upper Egypt
Fcvnt nroper extends from the Mediterranean
!, lntit ind M
prises 216,OOO square miles. The Egypt over
which the Khedive and his sovereign the oui-
fan. claim jurisdiction stretches SOUTHWARK
thirty-one degrees to the Equator and INCLUDES
an area of $4,000 square miles. III coiS'
oropce of the annexatiOns and conqncstS Oh
To1onol Gordon and other soldiers OF fortune Il
,,on,;rol ascendancy had been secured beyond
u,o Cotorocts to the borders of Abyssnia ana mp
the White Nile to the great lakes OF Cen',"
| Africa KhartOum, which is now mchaceu ol
| tho False Prophet. ostcnsbly owes allegiance u
| tba Khcdivc and is the centre oil the Egyptian
| Government of the SOudan. 1t Is city WIN
noruI,tion of 2O.OOO and is situated nj the
| noint whore the Blue Nile rushing headIohG
| rrom fine mountains of Abyssinia pours ITS dark
torrent into the sluggish current OF the hl'e
| Ma Il Kbartonm falls into the hands oil the
| False Pronhet the asccndancy OF Egypt III the
Soudan will be brought to an end. Inc Nhe-
dives authority, which once extended as la' as
Lake Nyassa, will not be recognized beyond lie
first Cataract. The question arises whether 'n'
| British Government will take any measures 10
nrcvent the capture of khartoum ana the
snreod Of religious fanaticsm III the Nile conn
tries south of Cairo. The hating OF the foreign
,,,,,ison will merely secure Lower Egypt
AGAINST ia own panic-strickcn army and popu'
lation. 1t will not arrest the False Prophet III
his career of victorious conquest rs the sell
STYLED Vice Regent of Allah.
If the English were swaycd by the same
crccdv desire for territorial extension winch
the French are maniicstlnS III i"hq"'h anu
| Nad,poscar. this would be golden opportunity
for founding an African Empire. An expedition
against the False Prophet would be most
arduous undertaking, but 1t could undoubtedly
he brought to as successful an ISSUE as III,
Abvssinian campaign. A single defeat woulo
! disnel the religious prctcntions of the leader
and disprrsc his fanatical followers. AT one
| hIoU the supremacy of the Anglo-SaXon race
would hr c>tabli she'd from the delta 10 the heart
of the Dark Continent. In Lavclcyc's glowing
language. ian unbrokcn current OF civilization
would speedily cross Africa from Alexandra
- TO the Cape along the line of the high table
Glands" Snglaly enough Mr. Gladstone
himself before he became Premier predicted
this far-rcaching Empire As the outcome OF the
occupation of Egypt by British army. 1t WI
he. he wrote in 1877, the almost certain cgl
@of North African Empire, that will grow
u and grow until another Albert and another
= Victoria, titles of the lake sources OF Tho
White Nile, come within our borders and I'll
eve finally join hands across the Equator witt
"Natal and Cape Town, to say nothing OF tn
@Transvaa and the Orange River on the south
. or of Abyssinia and Zanzibar, to be swallowed
sbv way of viaticunI, on our journey In
prcdiction was made when Mr.. Gladstone wa
in Opposition dcnouncing an Administration
that was bent upon increasing the burdens o
empire in every quarter of the world. VIII
now be within his power to preyentiits fulfil
mcnt
TWO KINDS or DEMOCRATS.