Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-09
ENGLAND RULES EGYPT.
THE YOUNG KHEDIVE A SUPPORTER
OF THE OLD POLICY.

Salisbury's Shrewd and Quick Diplomacy
Ties His Enemy's Hands by Securing a
Prompt Recognition of Abbas-The New
Monarch Starts From Vienna.
| LONDON, Jan. S.-The Cabinet Council
to-day was intended to be the last until the
eve of the opening of Parliament. The
death of the Khedive, however, has upset
their plans, and the Ministers are now con-
sidering the new situation in Egypt.
As soon as the council met to-day, for
some reason connected with the military
position in Egypt the Ministers sent to the
/ War Office for Sir Redvers Butler, who re-
mained for long time in consultation with
the council. Sir Redvers Butler was at the
head of the Intelligence Department in the
Egyptian war in 1882, and in the Soudan
expeditions of 1884 and 1885, and was the
readiest source OF copious information ac-
| cessible.
| According to information cleaned since
| the council, the Cabinet has decided to
treat the accession of Abbas Pasha as an
event not altering in any wise the British
policy As Abbas Pasha will not attain his
majority until July II, the Ministers fore
see, and probably have already been
warned, that France and Russia VIII incite
suzerain, to establish regency. Even SIX
months of a regent nominated by the Sultan
might destroy British power in Egypt, and
certainly would lessen British prestige.
The character of Abbas Pasha, which is
not vet formed, might acquire under a re-
gent bias hostile to British interests.
Abbas is credited with imbibing English
ideas and sympathies from his tutor, A. L.
Butler, who was long in the Khedive's ser
vice, and who is now a lecturer in Brase-
nose College, Oxford. Abbas speaks En-
glish fluently, as we'll as French, German
and Arabic
question During his soiourn in Vienna,
he freely expressed his conviction that the
British occupation was necessary. Mr.
Phipps, of the Embassy, waited upon
Abbas to-day, and an interview between
Abbas and Mr.. Phipps afterward reached
the Foreign Office in London. 1t is under
stood that the telegram was of promising
nature, regarding the new Khedive's inclin-
alton not to trouble the British regime
in Egypt.
Abbas, with his brother, started from
Vienna to-day for Trieste, whence the Khe-
divial yacht will take them to Egypt. Count
Kalnoky, the Austro-Hungarian Minister,
who is a strong and steadfast supporter of
IulC III pt, IN
terview with Abbas and Mr.. PhipDs at the
railway station, and cordially bade Abbas
farewell. The action of the British Gov
ernment points to its determination to keep
a grip on the nominal ruler of Egypt.
The prompt recognition of Abbas as
Khedive by most of the European powers
has been due to the instant and unhesitat-
ing diplomacy OF Lord Salisbury. Stimuli
taneous communications from Cairo and
London elected kilograms from the Turkish
Grand Vizier to Fehmi Pasha, the Presi-
dent of the Egyptian Council, intimating
that the Sultan, as suzerain, named Abbas
as Khedive and desired that the present
ministry continue in Office until Abbas ar
rived in that country
Lord Salisbury's anxiety to secure a hold
on the new Khedive is due to the knowledge
that his predecessor was strong personal
factor in European politics, and not the
figurehead he was generally supposed to be,
and that the power of the new ruler, if he
chooses to create trouble, is unmeasurable.