New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-23
EGYPT NOT MONOTONOUS.
rrs SKIES AND ITS LANDSCAPE NAY BE.
But NOT IT'S POLITICS.
ruy IRON RULE OF THE ENGLISH CoNFEIs
BENEFITS WITHOUT WINNING GRATITUDE
EVEN THE gELLAHEEN SHOW NO
PLEASURE AT THEIR RE


EVEN TIE gELLAHEEN SHOW NO
PLEASURE AT THEIR RE
LEASE FROM OPPRESSION
Cairo, March 20
The air of the Egyptian capital is surchargcl
Nth electricity. and man knows what the
,norrow will bring forth. The feeling against the
British is bitter. but lis accompanied by whole
.ome fear The pachas who have seen their rev.
.nues curtailed and their powers abroGatc. hv the
prtish would many of them gladly welcome an
unrisiuc Of the people The Mah0mctan pOr-
zion Of the people have got themselves into a state
of religious frenzy against the rcdco1ts. or rather
have been melted to such a state by those who
desire that Egypt should not pass wholly under
the control of the English without a struggle
Rrcenty there came near being n rising in the
streets of Cairo and for two days the British
troops were kept i'll their barracks under arms
The trouble fomented by Europeans. who
found, however that in case of an uprising all
Christians would he killed on sight without r.
gard 10 nationality. and that they themselves were
marked for slaughter They therefore worked
hard TO undo their work. and the threatened STORM
blew harmlcssly over
The feeling against the English is found princi-
pallv among the people Of the cities. The fell
laheen. the farmers who scratch with their wooden
pouchs the rich soil of the Nile Delta. are as we'll
satisfied with British rule as with any other in
fact better. for their taxes have been lighten"d
and their condition much improved. They are
the remnants of the subjects of Ramcscs and Seti.
Persian. Grecian. Roman and Arabic conqueStS
have swept over them and oppressed them That
The British do not Cypress them, but. on the CON
trary. protect them from the rapacity of the
pachas is matter of mild surprise to them moth
Il. ,n,.li
sign of weakness.
A class of people fercely inimical to the English
are the Bedouins. whose trains of camels can be
ssen constantly coming and going in and ont of
Cairo Their hearts are with the Mahdi, fighting up
in the Soudan and the way these villanous ODD
pirates glare at European or an American. for all
white men are the same to them, is enough 10
make one chilly even in the tOrrid heats of Cairo.
The person who gives the British the most
trouble is not Abbas. The young khedive, not
any disgruntled pacha. not any leader OF the
people, bat woman, the widow of Tewhk ana
mother of Abbas Tewili had only on" wife, but
she has caused the English more trouble than If
be had left a whole harcm. She is woman OF
extraordinary diplomatic and strategic ability,
and inordnately ambitious She aspires TO make
Lord Cromer and her son the vassals of her VIII
and does not hesitate to play of against
Il
probably send her to cultivate coffee with Arab
Bey in Ceylon. but being woman the problem
Is more complicated Meantime Lord Cromer rules
Fovnt and rules it with rod of iron. Some
,dea Of how he is regarded by the Egyptians
may be- gained from the fact that the natives. WHO
know him better as Sir Evelyn Barring, have
pcrpetrated an English pun on his name and call
him Sir EVELYN Overbearing.
As 10 the Khedive-here two opinions con
corning him from two opposite sources. III"
.yr;ter's dranoman. standing in the Khedival gar
tlrns looked at the palace and SAID: Anpas
e. a good Khedive, but we Egyptians have seen
nothing good from him yet and accompanied
Che remark with curse upon the Engiish. An
American for twenty-five years resident IN Egypt
regarded bv the English an authority on
Fpvptian affairs, said: 1.-THE trouble with AooaS
"a that he was taken from school too young
1I;s oducation was not completed. In history he
had evidently not got down to the nineteenth
century"
Ahbas II is said, regards himself as the sue
,ossor If Rameses the Great. and dreams OF an
ro,ntian Empire The English regard HIM ana
treat him as they would some Indian raJai'
Whatever NAV be said of the khedlNe, lie GER
family does not rest upon bed OIL roses DIVE"
The English, the French, the Sublime ror''' III,
.wn neoplc. and his mother" between the de' vi
and the deep sea" but family expresses MS posi-
,ion. He cannot please all his masters ana 10
far has succeeded in pleasing no one except ms
.uz.rain the sultan, really the last person 10
be considered.
Cromer 20 dismiss one of his Ministers was HUI
becanse that Minister was particularly opJec'io"
able 70 the British, but because 1t was coh,iuoou
ON onnor,une time for the display Of authority.
.la Rr;t themselves
4, ia nrobablv true The Khedive is most en-
orr,arr vonnr man regarding Office hours, ana
~ dars in tbe week works hard at aralfs OF
cat. A. g o'clock in the morning NE "IN'S
from, b;s city palace out TO his palace on the
,osd N Helionolis. where he tansacts business
until a o'clock. In his going and coming "oop'
OF native cavalry in light blue unilorms' a'' a.
his escort He is a fat aifable young man dn''
although only nineteen years Ola, LOOKS 10 "
abop, thirty. In a month he is to be married 10
his cousin and will follow the example OF ms
father, Tewfk. taking only one wie
Tho BLACK Watch has settled down here COM
fortablv for a GOOD long stay, and kits are COM
mon i'm the streets Of the capital. o'hef i'Si
ments are expected TO arrive SHORTY. H""-
red coats CLEAN everywhere III ana apouo N'','
and Alexandria, and in each OF thcs'' ciue' VIZ
stone building bears ostcntatlousiy idr9'
sign reading IIeddQ quarters Army OF Occupa'io",
There il no attempt to avoid irritating the people
by display Of force, but rather an app"'"n.
design 10 keep the British nag ana '"e
British uniform constantly III sight anu
in the minds OF the Egyptians. Few na'i'r
troops are to be seen. They are most o'
them up in the Soudan under British officers ng"'-
ing the Maldi The forts of lower Egyp' are
mostly dismantled The fort OF Ras-el-lih' az
Alexandra. is the ruin the bombardment Ie'' It,
and under its walls are three British mch-oi-"a''
The Army Of Occupation is nothing numeri"a'l
10 the army Of British tourists when has s"'p'
down on Egypt to spy out the land. lh'N swarm
everywhere from Alexandria to the Secohd Vac
sraCt They have laid out tennis court near
tbc base of the Pyramid Of Cheops drive dog