Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-02
ENGLAND'S AIM In EGYPT.
THE FRENCH SCENT PERFIDY
IN THE SMOKE OF WAR.

ners of Colossal Colonization
Scheme-FrancO-Ge War TheO-
rizings-Trickery of Club Gambling
The Denizens of the Zoo Half Starved.
Correspondence ~ the Morning Neqcs.
PARIS, Feb. 13.-''For l am nothing if
not critical" says IagO. A patriotic jour
nal, not much known TO fame, might state,
81 am nothing if not original" 1t
claims to have fathOmed the subjective
ness" of the mind of perfde Albion. AS
usual, she has been deceiving everyone
respecting Egypt. The English Cabinet
has simply been playing a MachiavslIan
game. 1t Intentionally remained in the
back part of the stage, putting forward
the Egyptians as Ministers, functiOnaries
and soldiers, the better to show up their
incapacities; and, when fully played out,
John Bull comes to the front, makes lit
tie speech to the powers and tie world:
"Gentlemen, you have seen how thor
Oughly rotten everything native is in
Egypt. We have given the country all
the rope desirable; it is now between a
breakdown and wreck; the moment
is come to brush aside the puppets, to
finish with organized hypocrisies; so
we Will now take over the management of
the country for our own accOunt-it may
be for years or it may be forever. Like
MacMahOn, we are here, and we will re-
main. Thus, secure of our grip, we have
conceded to NJ. de Lesseps his personal
direction of the Suez canal, having it in
our power to use the route as we please
when it is our interest to do so. We will
fix matters up with the Mahdi; Will make
IA Il .s,f, l.
weld together i'll the SOudan; we will con-
struct railways under his @gis, and in
time, when be shall post on al BOFdk to
rejOin MOhammed in the seventh heaven,
we shall succeed him as Stakeholder, and
so control the trade and commerce of Cen
trail Africa"
Be these day dreams, or Bismarck cal
oulations? Everyone, save the chauvin-
lists OF pure blood, are glad to see England
Egypt and manfafiy grapple with the diff
ticulties Of which she has undertaken the
responsibilities.
IT WAS ONLY FEW DAYS AGO
the ministerial journals were congratu-
lating France at having again become
Fortunes faVOrite. lie Paris notably
boosted the country was not like Austria,
a prey to Socialists, or as Germany, the
victim Of, say the seven capital sins.
a
England, her sun was set, though such
never sets on her dominions as was said
of the Empire of Charles V. Algeria
could vie with Australia, and as for
Tunisia, it never knew such tranquility,
thanks to a corps d'armee, and its mate
rial prosperity was a. 2. TODquin was
about becoming little heaven below.
The taking of Sontav eclipsed Tel-el-
Kebir-what must Bacninh then be? All
ial
ceeded, while those of England, still
harping ON my daughter, were tanta-
mount to Beau BrummePs craVats,
etc. Again, the day that tel
egrams were published that all was
serene at TOnquin, WIRE ar
riVes from the Bishop of that diocese,
stating some 260 Christians were massa-
cred, and imploring help, like Sinkat and
TOkar, when there is no help. The
Delta" instead of being cleared of Black
Flags, appears to be as France in 1893, in
a reign of terror. Unhappily there is no
impartial, foreign, special correspondent
70 reu us how matters are in TOnquin.
When Bacninh falls, as IN uu1 course IL
must, France intends, should China uo-
come ugiy. 10 EECmhard some of her lit
toral territory enough extensive to en-
able a choice to be made. 1t is more
likely the French will push from Bac-
mini through the big wall into Chine
proper, as their objective is to help them
selves to an empire out of tbG Flowery
Land. And if they only allow all nations
to trade in the new take on the same con-
ditions as themselves Europe will shut
her eyes as to the ways and means.
THE NEW LAW ON EMBLEMs
! will put an end to any manifestOes from
pretenders, and terminate any cries for
| Vive lie ROi! or Vive PEmpereurl There
! is no reason why the republic ought not
! to protect itself as we'll as q monarchy
! 1t would be better could either form Of
government do without exceptional laws
| NJ. Rouher's death has been seized as the
occasion for reading homilies to the repub
lie Now the nation displays no falling
of in attachment to the principle of self
| government which that regime embOdies
| eTPdyi4A il 4is he6fuef lt5geu FORWARD
to the coming of some ''happy soldier t,
sweep away the republic, That happ.
( soldier would be only possible in cas-
| France staked her fortune on a war witt
Germany and won. Much as the French
| detest Germany they will never attacI
her single-handed, although France cal
! mobilize l,OOO,000 of men in week anC
| 100000 more in month.
Could France count upon an alliance
for better for worse, with Italy, the con
ditiOns might be changed. For her, 1taIy
! is the key stone in the triple alliance: Il
detach her therefFom, France employs al
her seductive arts. But Bismarck has bic
higher for Italian love, and there Is nevel
| anything platOnic in his wooing. Italy
| has an Alsace of her own in Nice, counts
upon the return of Corsica to the fold
and Tunisia is her rosemary for remem
brance. The bug-bear is held out to Ital,
] that when Austria takes Salonica the
! Mediterranean Will be an Austro- German
| lake, and the Suez canal lost to England
In all these kinds of questions the cardi
nal fact is overlooked, that if the enemy's
| ships do not come out of their shelter
harbOrs they can do no harm. Cronstadt
| during the Crimean war, for example
The uncertain factor is, that once GU
they may not be able to get home again
PERHAPS ALL THESE EVENTS SINK
into insignifcance, for Parisians, com.
| pared with the astounding scandal dis
covered in the Rue ROyale Club, the first
Of circles in the capital. and that Daudet
depicts in his novel, "NabOb." Gambling
is the vice there, as in all other similar
"hOmes away from hOme.v The Paris
clubs are at best but limited MOnacOs.
During play few nights ago of the game
| French poker, a member drew attention
! to the fact that the cards were marked
examination proved he was right. The
coveted cards had been pricked with a
needle in the corners, a red color dropped
! in, and the perforation coated with gum.
| The secretary Of the club ordered all the
| rooms of the Wallets to be searched, while
! the President solicited the Commssary of
! Police to interrogate the members. The
box of one valet was discovered to con-
tain packs of marked cards, and he had
railway scrip valued for 100000 francs,
/ though three days before he had to borrow
80 francs from the club cashierOn account
of his wages. Arrested, he declines to
name the member of the club with whom
he was in partnership. Two suicides are
already ''reported''
NOW THAT FRANCE IS RAPIDLY EAIERG-
ING
from her late two bad years, the occasion
is seized as Opportune to demand that the
inmates of the Zoo gardens be no longer
confined to short commons. The lions
and tigers only receive eleven pounds of
fresh meat, bone included, daily; wild
cats but one pound, and imperial eagles
two pounds. We have two jumbos; their
ratiOns consist of per diem four bundles
of hay, three of straw. ten quarts of bran,
and five pounds of bread, water, diScre-
ton, like penny loaves in a restaurant.
OF course the smallest contributions from
visitors are thankfully accepted. The
keep of an elephant costs francs a day,
and giraffe one-third that amount. Yet
the Parliamentary grant to this section of