The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-19
A KING IN EGYPT.
Lord Cromer the Real Ruler of
the Nile Delta.
Abbas Is Sovereign in Name, but His
Sovereignty Goes No Further
Than England Permits.
special to THE MORNING CALL.

New YORK. Jan. 1S-SmaIey cables 10
the Tribune from Paris: Once more have
the hopes which the French based on Glad
stones accession 20 power risen high. and
once more have they fallen fat. They
thought yesterday that their hour mad come
in Egypt. They hailed the little coup d'etat
of the Khed,ve as if il had sounded the knell
of the English protectorate. They are
sadly disappointed. The coup d'etat and
crisis which accompanied it have lasted
hardly forty-eight hours. There are some
things which even Gladstone cannot do,
and one of them is to put French interests
before those Of the English on the Nile, or
10 suffer England to be deiied by the boy who
is The nominal ruler of Delta. The real ruler
is Lord Cromer, s,ill better known TO the
world as Sir Evelyn Barring.
His brutality and clumsiness are well
known" says the Republique Franchise.
He has shown his brutality by constant
care for the interests OF the Egyptian fela-
heen, and his ciumsness by successful re-
sisiance to French and Russian and Turkish
intTigues and unbroken maintenance OF
English power in the face of open and
secret opposition Tor more than ten years.
The khedive." says the journal just
quoted. writing before his surrender was
known 10 Paris, has undertaken to resume
the legitimate authority which his father
had allowed to pass into English hands"
That is the French Interpretation Of this
crisis. think that We may take il as author
itstve.
The dismissal of Mustapha Fehmi P, sAa
and the appointment Of Fakhri PAsha as
Prime Minister were really meant by the
Khediye as defiance of English authority.
To what authority he intended to submit
instead of the English Is not clear. lie must
have had some authority and some support
In view. Even Abbas, in the plentitude of
his nineteen years inexperience, cannot
have imagined that he could stand alone
We may or we may not hear what his pro-
gramme was or who were his hackers The
authors of a conspiracy which fails are not
usually eager 10 claim credit for their dis
aster
1t is not many days since there was in
certain French journals of importance a
flourish of trumpets over the retirement OF
Waddington from the embassy in London,
which he has administered with ability and
discretion. Now. cried they. France will
have an Embassador who Will soon make
England understand that she must quit
Egypt. 1t is possible to imagine a connec-
ton between these faufares and the present
escapade of Abbas
BE that as it may, it is clear that some
body had got hold of him; somebody had
persuaded him that he could relieve himself
from English tutelage. SO confident was
the young Khedive that the remonstranees
Of Lord Cromer were unaVailing that it be-
came necessary to refer the matter TO
London. That did not cause much delay
LORD Rosebery is sometimes said to have
his own views of foreign policy. No doubt
he has. and no doubt they differ widely from
Gladsfone's
But this crisis was thought important
enough to lay before the Cabinet. A meet
ing OF the Cabinet was summoned. and II
was with the sanction of the Cabinet over
which Gladstone presides that the ultima
tum which Rosebery proposed was sent to
the Khediye. lie was given twenty-four
hours in which to decide whether he would
dismiss his t-English Ministers. He was
able to make up his mind in less time than
that. The alternative was deposition.
Yet more than any other single issue does
this Egyptian wrangle affect the relations
between France and England Those rela-
tons, in the interest Of both countries
should be more friendly than they are. Ii
is no fault Of England that they are not
more so, and they would speedily improve
if France would relinquish her emotional
views OF Anglo-Egyptian affairs. The real
interests OF France in Egypt are financial
and those Frenchmen whose financial in
terests are largest are opposed to any dis
turbanee of English control.
That single fact is evidence enough that
English control is beneficial to Egypt and
not hostile to France. That England has
aims of her own in Egypt may be conceded
The difference between her ana France is
that France seems to consider no interests
but her Own, while England does promote
those of Egypt and of the Egyptian people
alsO.