The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-24
Some Opinions on the Egypt
ian Question.
Gordon Said to be All Right
What He May Do.
A Very Pretty Quarrel AS 1t
Now stands.
The Wild Men of Paris-lhe
Cholera's Progress.
Other Partisan Points and
Paragraphs.
Especial correspondence of TIE HER Id.
n o. 100.

Especial correspondence OF IHE HEB Id.
PARIS, JULY 30TH, 1884.
Three distinct currents OF opinion
exist here on the Egyptian question:
the first, and the largest and wisest,
which believes England will never
leave the country till France leads the
way in disinterestedness by evacuats
ing Tanisia; the second, or inter-
national, that
DOES NOT CARE A DATE
who holds Egypt. or in what manner
it may be administered, provided they
be paid the interest on their bonds;
and the third, OF Ohawvinistic, that
would seize the Straits of Dover and
lombard Sh akespeare's cliff, il Eng
land did not at once evacuste Egypt,
or install M. Barrere there, ez eQuo
with herself. Strange to say, the
French are as satisfied as the Eng
lish at the collapse of the conference
faaco. For both, it was q screaming
farce. All it did was to make Sir e.
Barring i'll; exhibit France as the
champion OF the honey-suckers;
England as the friend OF the fellah--
(who is denounced. because after
ages OF oppression he Is not equal to
a Briion or a Gaul from a few years
of chaotic liberty and show the
superiority of the French financial
cure was limited to eking the taxes
out OF the fellaheen still with the
Kurbash, plus john BulPs foregoing
the interest on his bonds 10 allow the
international bondholders the more
securely to pocket theirs. Naturally
the powers aided with that philos>
opher's stone displayed by M. de
Blignieres. The latter dec AIRED thai,
from the export aud import statistics
of Egypt for 1888. and the cary
months Of 1881, this fiscal resources oil
the country were as good as in 1861
that is to say, sound. Why then all
the comedy about England having
ruined Egypt as Pitt did Britain
gratis? If France had shown a bold
front as her engagements bound her
to do, at the time Arab was posing
as aviour of socisty. and not held
wari!y aloof, she would not be left on,
in the cold to-dsy-and forever; mol
would bankruptcy be threatening the
Khedive. France ought to remember
all this when preaching the gospel
OF sweetness and light" for the bond
holders.
England purchases forty-fve per
cent. OF all the produce OF Egypt snd
supplies seventy per cent. of the i'm.
ports; the figures for France and
Algeria. are IA and 81 respectively.
Thus England has deep interest IL
the prosperity OF Egypt-besides cup
plying her with the leverage to griE
the suez Canal. TIE treaty con
cluded with the King of Abyssinia
ia considered as an Gble stroke c
diplomatic business. 1t means too
the beginning of the end Tor tht
Mabdi, and the paramount influence
| OF England in the Soudan and at th'
"coult o KING John" The belief is
that
| GORDON Is ALL RIGHT,
and will soon give an unpleasen
account of himeell to bis enemies.
The revision bill has sunk deepe
and deeper into the ''msrmalade.
The ministry has escaped defeat b.
the skin OF its teeth; in any case
has been severely wounded in il
Wresi!e with the Senate. fhe esseno
of the revision bill wac, to close th
era of conflict With the Senate respect
ing the budget. That fiscal Gordial
knot will neither be cut nor united
1t will be left out, like Hamlet in .h
play. Nothing then remains to revis
because a simple vote of both house
could, by not examining too closel
the process. modify the mode OF cleo
ing life senators. Cur'ously enough
the only clause that all sgreed upo
was tibet for abolishing public prayer
| for thu E public.
As to China. the dispute has no
sunk down to case olmutual blund
ering and IS Cbins is accused c
troubling the water. she must pay
| few millions. 1t is the minister {
| finance who is TO be syn pat zs
With; he had already discounted Ri
$50, 0C0,0C0 to square his budget. Fl
must still wesr Foriunatus' cap. Pei
haps he may make up for his disaI
pertinent with the Malagasys-cnl
they DO keep Paul Prys at distanc
rom the military chest.
| The Bonapartisls have their Jeram
lists and Victorists-fon against paps
parties. but possessing no more pub
tic interest than to split the ears {
the groundlings. The Royslis!s hav
exactly two family divisions also; ID
right divine and-.white-flag sectio
repudiate the Comte de Paris. It
the Count d. AudigEe the Psui d
Cassagnac OF this new patty. snd th
private secretary of the late Comte d
Chsmbord. who Il ads the crusade:
He viii have no king ut.Charley
THAT is 70 soy, Philippe, the father {