, 1890-07-16

with the consent of the Sultan, and if the
agreement is ratified, the African island
passes thence fol- ward under the sole PRO.
tectorate Of Great Britain. Wehave tried to
explain the great advantage of this agree.
ment elsewhere, and need only remark here
that henceforward theBritish possessions in
South and East Africa are split into two
sDominions," the German territory divid-
ing them, and reaching from the ocean to
the Congo State. Each of these British
D0miniOns, however, is of vast extent,
South Africa in particular stretching from
Cape Town to Lake Tanganyika, a distance
of nearly two thousand miles, and covering
a sort of world, in which great kingdoms
nigh be lost. East Africa is not so large,
but it inclndes Zanzibar, the key of the
coast, and stretches from Mombassa over
the northern shore of the Victoria Nyanza,
including the Kingdom of Uganda-seven-
ty thousand square miles the Albert
NyanzA, and the country around the head
waters OF The Nile. With is ceded to us,
and with it the control of the SOmali coun-
try. In short, we come out of the scrim-
mage with our hands q little too full.
The Germans are delighted with the
agreement, and thank their Emperor with
enthusiasm. They are aware thai HeligO-
land is nothing, but declare that they can
see the British flagstaff from Cuxhaven-
a bold metaphor, as the distance is thirty
miles-and that in pulling it dow the Eng
lish have in amost hOnOritic way cOmplet-
ed Germany. The Emperor IS equally pleas
ed, and has given General Won Caprivi the
Order of the Black Eagle, the PruSsiaA
Garter. In England opinion is more mode
rate, a good many people not knowing the
value either of HeligOland or Zanzibar,
and a few more who do know thinking it
prudent to tell fbS to the Germans. The
experts are, however, we'll content, and the
Scotch are especially delighted. They
have got, as they always do get, precisely
what they wanted and intended to have.
The Liberals, therefore, will not resist,
and the Parnelhtes have no feeling except
one of Joy that England has lost Colony
which, however, might be put in Tough
Neagh and then not be found by the fish
ermen. There will be no serious resistance
to the agreement, and it now only remains
to settle accounts with the POrtu gueSe,
who, of course, look on all this very gloom
lily, and believe anything anybody may
say about the English. Just now we have
murdered two sepoys. Their Government
is fortunately wiser, and it is possible that
a clear agreement may be made on this
side also.
Ii IS a pity mat MT. OIinIey mas called
Emin Pasha's satrapy "EquatOria," for the
name would have exactly described the
dominion of the British East Africa Com
pany. "Mackinnonia,'' we fear, will not do,
but "Cecilia' might. The name is unap-
propriated and easy to spell, and Lord
Salisbury is the author of the Agreement.
The Bulgarian Government has sent in
to The Porte a Note, believed to be serious,
demanding the recognition of Prince
Ferdinand. In this note, NJ. StambOuloff
declal es that the Turkish Government has
delayed recognition for five years, and has
thus brought Sofia into difficulties with
the BulgariaDs of Macedonia, who, he
says, are two millions III number, and are
nevertheless refused all ecclesiastical IL
herties. The Bulgarians at home feel,
therefore, a dangerous sympathy for their
brethren abroad, and if recognition is
longer delayed, the Government of Sofia
will he compelled to seek means of its own
for ending an 'intOlerable situation"
This amounts to a yelled threat Of insur-
%rection in Macedonia, where, however, the
number of Bulgarians is exaggerated, and
may extOrt from the Sultan ecclesiastical
concessions. MuSSulmanS do not care how
Christians arrange their hierarchy. The
recognition, however, will not be granted,
nor any serious steps taken of any kind,
until the Gar and the German Emperor
nave met at KraSnOe-SelO.