The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-20
ENGLAND IN EGYPT.
There Is No Intention to Abandon
the Position Taken.
France Does Not Like 1t, but Lord
RoSebery Is Preparing for Emer-
gencies Likely to Arise.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

PARIS. Jan. 19.-The chagrin of the
French press at the Khedive's surrender is
extreme and the expressions of it are very
violent The ehagrin felt in the Foreign
Ofiice Is not less. but what De Velle said
publicly In the chamber is perfectly decor
Gus in form. What Waddington may have
said 20 Lord Rosebery can only be guessed.
1t is safe to suppose that he did not say
what the French papers declare he ought to
have said. The papers have good deal to
do with governing the country. They do
not rs yet frame instructions to the Embas-
sadors nsother capitals. IL they did their
language would certainly be more sober.
1t is. unfortunately, most immoderate.
1t may be assumed that French diplomacy
had no hand in the experiment which has
just come to naught at Cairo. II was too
crude to be anything but the individual act
of headstrong boy. under bad influences.
and those influences were probably Turk
ish. But the intsmperance of French COM
nents might give color to the theory that
the Khedive was acting under French
guidance.
England has treated :he Khediye as if
lie were a mere Rsjah." says the De-
bats. Lord Cromer." continues the same
force in an arrogant way in making up for
his own want of foresight and his own
clumsness. AS for England. she is bound
by promises which she has never fulfilled,
and it is high time she was compelled TO say
when she means 10 redeem her plighted
word"
The Khedive, says the Republique
Francaise, has suddenly shown himself
co. mol, ,lo of obor hia hi,,h dnt .,
authority and prudence. He has firmness
of Will equal to his political good sense.
The last proposition will not be disputed
by anybody who remembers that his po-
litieal good sense led him into a conflict
which his hrmness of wiz kept up for
something less than a single day.
The French are, in truth, astonshed at
the rapidity and decision shown By Lord
Rosebery. and if not astonished. dis
tressed by his manifest ascendency in the
Cabinet and in foreign affairs.
He is trying" sneers Temps, ito give
himself airs as pupil in the school of
Palmerston and of Beaconsfeld. Gladstone
is none the less held responsible in attempt
ing to confscate, in this brutal way, the
legitimate authority of the Khedive."
Gladstone has violated international
law" exclaims the Republique.
This seems but sad return for all Glad
stones professions of affection for France,
and of his belief in French friendship for
England.
"The main point" says this very angry
writer in the Republique. 'is that this
Egyptian incident must now be dealt with as
ais international question. 1t concerns not
France only. but all Europe. What Eng
land has done is in violation of treaties and
of the rights of the Sultan; in disregard of
public law aud of Engand's formal agree
ment with the other great powers"
So all Europe is solemnly summoned to
unite with France In reminding Great Brit
ain that the balance Of power in the Medi-
teranean and the neutrality of the Suez
Canal are realities. and not only realities
but political dogmas which she intends to
make every body respect and Eagland first
of all"
Neither the Mediterranean nor the Suez
Canal is in question, and you might dismiss
this as so much newspaper talk were it not
that similar views Of Angie Egyptian
affairs are known to be held at the French
Foreign Office. and have often been ex-
pressed officially. The answer OF England
has been the same. So far as she rs under
engagements by treaty she has observed
them and will continue to observe them.