New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-19
THE CRISIS ON THE NILE.
,,prvcI HOPES DISAPPOINTED BY ABBAS'S
SURRENDER TO ENGLAND.
ar cLApsroNE's MMNTENANCE OF ENGLISH
INTEREsTs-LoRD RosEBERY's ULTIMATuM
THE FRENCH VIEW OF ANGLO
EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

fBy CABLE TO THE TRIBUNE.

lBY CABLE TO TRIBUNE.l
ropvyiqht; 1893. BIZ The Tribune Associauon.
P,ris Jan 1s-Once more have the hopes which
.,e French based on Mr.. Gadstones accession
,c power risen high, and once more have they
,.llon fat. They thought yesterday that their
hour had come in Egypt. They hailed the little
.,nn d'etat Of the khcdive as il 1t had sounded
,hr kncll of the English protectOrate. They are
.,dlv disappointed. Tie coup detat and the
crisis which accompanied it have Taste! hardly
tortveight hours There are some things which
even Mr. Gladstone cannot do. and ore of them
I. 70 put French interests before English on the
Nile. or 10 suffer England to he deed by the
hov who is the nominal ruler of the Delta.
The real ruler is Lord Cromer, still better known
N the world as Sir Evelyn Earring. lis brutality
and clumsness are we'll known says the " Re-
nubioue Franchise" lie has shown his bru-
fality BY n constant care for the interests oil
the Egyptian feaheen, and his clnmsness by
sueccssfnl resistance to French and Russian and
Turkish intrlgucs, and the unbrokcn maintenance
of English power in the face of open and secret
opposition for more than ten years.
Tho Khedive SAYS the journal Just quoted,
,r;.ing before his surrender was known in Paris,
had undertaken TO resume the legitimate authority
,,hich his father had allowed to pass into English
b.rds That is the French Interpretation of this
.r;s;s 7 think that VIC may take ii as authorlta-
two Tie dismissal of Musta pha Fehmi Paclia
snd The appointment Of Fakhri Pacha as Prme
Minister were really meant by the khcdive as q
ds6ance of English authority. TO what authority
n. intended 10 submit instead Of the English Is
NOT clear. He must have had some authority
and some support in view. Even Anbas, In the
nlenitude of his nineteen years lneXperence, can
not have imagined that he could stand alone
We NAV or may not hear what his programme
was. or who were his hackers. The authors OF
a conspiracy which fails rot usually eager to
claim credit for their disaster.
IL is not many days since there was In GER
tain French journals Of Importance flourish
Of trumpets the retirement OF NJ. wal
dington from the Embassy in London. when
he has administered with ability and dlscfe-
ton. Now cried they, France will lave an Am
bsssador who will make England under
stand that she must quit Egypt. IL Is posSipie
10 imagine connection between these ian'areS
and the present escepade of Ahbas lie uiat
as IL NAV, il Is clear that somebody had So'
hold Of him; somebody had persuaded him that
he could relieve himself from English tuteidee'
So confident was the young htedivc that the
remonstrances of Lord Cromer were uhaVaiiihs'
II became necessary to refer the matter to
Rosebery ia sometimes said 10 have his own
xews Of foreign policy. No doubt he has, and
M doubt they differ widely from Mr.. Glad
stones: but this crisis was thought important
anouUb 10 Law before the Cabinet. meeting
~ the Cabinet WIS summoned, and il was with
the sanction of the Cabinet over WHICH MI.
Gladstone presides that the ultimatum which
Lord Rosebery proposed sent 20 the hhe-
dive He was given twenty four hours In WHICH
10 decide whether he would DISMISS MS anu
English Ministers lie was able to make up his
mind in less time than that. The alternative
was deposition.
Eurone saws a leading French journal which
takes French interests in Egypt under its special
protection-Europe is entitled to know once LOT
all whether Mr.. Gladstone holds himself bound
~, bis former declarations or whether Egypt is
IN be henceforth nothing more than an Englsh
dependencv. Well, Europe has now had some
l;obr on those questions 1he last intrigue. whose
over IL was, has failed as the others falled lle
Khedive has, perhaps. learned his leSsoh' why
cannot France learn hers? In no sense IL 'he
English occupation Of Egypt hostile 10 France
L. was not in the beginning, 1t has never p'F'ii
since 1t was brought about by the lorce Vi cir
cunstances. The same force has continued IT,
There used TO be in this country disposition "
recognize accomplished facts. There stll Is wien
they do not conflict with sentiment The Lnsiish
protectorate over Egypt is one OF those ac-
complished facts 1t has lasted since July. 1882
II she is to be driven out, it must be by war is
there a French statesman ready TO go to war Tor
that cndo Not one has ever vcnturcd to say so,
though there are writer's in the press and notaov IN
the "Debats." who would say that, or anything
Their rhetoric avas little. The opposition ol
French agents, on the whole, has availed little
Dispatches 10 London and remonstrances nave
avaed little, and NJ. Ribot himself must DE
secretly convinced that England is not to be dls-
lodged by diplomacy.
Yet more than any other single issue does this
Egyptian wrangle affect the relations pet"eeh
France and England. Those relations ought, In the
interest of both countries, 10 be more lrlehdy
than they are 1t is no fault OF England tiat
they are not more 80, and they WOULD spce"iiS
improve If France would rcnquish ncr emotiohai
views of AngO-Egyptian affairs. The real inter-
ests Of France IN Egypt are llnancinl, ana the
Frenchmen whose financial interests are largest
are opposed 10 any disturbance OF English con-
trol. That sjneIc fact is evidence enough that
English control is beneficial 10 Egypt, anc not
hostile a. France That England has aims of
her own in Egypt may be conceded. Inc dIi-
ference between her and France Is that France
seems TO consider no interests Dut Her owh' Whi@
England does promote those OF Egypt ana Oh
the Egyptian people also. She has been supreme
on the Nile not much more than ten
years During that short period she has sup
pressed rebellion: she has restored order; she
has restored the iipances: she has createu
Constitution: she has reduced taxation: she has
abolished the lash she has abolished forced Ia
Dor: she has established justice; she has turned
doubt ard decay into security and prosperity.
II il not a bad record. Ii is better still II
sou consider that every reform has been re-
sisted that she has had Paris and Constantinope
to deal with at every step. Paris sees in each
reform nothing but another proof of the hated
British influence. The Snltan sees that and secs
his Empire slipping away also. Nothing is more
certain rhan TINT the cNpnlsinn Of the Engllsh