, 1896-05-02

49, '~ANA OAth' hOo liz III
lain maintained that Egypt was at present
"a British dependency" and spoke through
out as il the Government were pursuing q
definite policy cujas pars magma fui. Mr..
Balfour entirely supported him, but pointed
out very plainly that we We're to work with
Egyptian resources, and therefore must Limits
our conceptions, and that France ought to
remember that if we dispersed the EGYPTIAN
danger to the southwark we made the
evacuation of Egypt easier and not more
difficult.
The Russian al French Governments have
voted against the use of the Egyptian Reserve
Fund for the advance to Dongola, but En-
gland. Germany. Austria. md Italy have
sanctioned that employment of the money.
The reason assigned by the protesting Pow
ers is that the security for the Egyptian Debt
will thereby be lessened, but the real reason
is that as Great Britain, by creating q diver
sion in favour Of Italy. is approaching the
Triple Alliance, she must be embarrassed as
far as possible. Tho British Government
will note the protest aud pursue its way in
peace,
France, it is said, has yet another Preten-
der. The son of the Due de ChartreS,
Prince Henry of Orleans, has recently at
tracted much attention among Monarchists as
the ablest, or AT least the most attractive,
among the Bourbon Princes. He has achiev-
ed a reputation as an explorer in Indo.China
and Thibet, and recently was presented with
the gold medal of the French Geographical
Society. He was thereupon, as is customary,
offered the Cross Of the Legion of Honour,
which to the surprise of many Frenchmen,
he accepted, calling at tho same time, as
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Republic. at q dinner given in his honour,
the Prince observed that be remembers ed two
counsels given by his grandfather, the Duo
d'Orleans, in his will,-to be "the passionate
servant of the Revolution, and to manage to
get forgiven for being a Prince" He thought
he had achieved that forgiveness. 1t is said
that all that remains Of BOulangism gathers
round the Prince, that he is rapidly forming
q party, and that HIS idea is to be elected
President of the Republic, and then-what
fate shall decree. OF his political ideas no.
thing is yet exactly known, except that he
processes to believe strongly in colonial ex-
"pansion for France, and to be unusually hos
tile to Great Britain. There is no evidence
yet that he is q strong man, though he is q
brave and enterprieing one; but his desire to
play the part of philippe Egalite" seems to
be unmistakabls. The House of Orleans, say
the 16SILllulStB, Will u sLlll0 anu u Suo0IJ
naturally produces traitors.
The death on Sunday last at Brighton of
Tam Haghes, or "Tom Brown" as he was so
often called after his own hero, will probably
have caused a more difused and general feel
ing of personal grief than would have been
caused by any other death that could have
taken place. Geniality never took a more
frank aud manly form than in his person.
He was born under the Berkshire Downs, and
there was always something in the sight of
him that brought the fresh, cool air of those
delightful English uplands, with the great
White Horse, of which he wrote so admirably,
~scrawlsd upon their surface, to ones mind,
almost to ones very senses. Something of
'the freshness of the early world" was in
him, and the elasticity of the soft short turf
which spreads over those chalk downs,
seemed to have entered into his soul. There
was a cheeriness in him which did not belong
to any other man of his generation, though
he had his intervals of deep melancholy
too. Probably no public man OF our time
was 80 sincere and just, so utterly frank
and independent, a democrat, and yet at the
same time so profoundly genuine a Christian.
In these days Christianity and democracy
have managed to fall out with each other,
but in Mr.. Hughes's case it was not so. In
the great Slavery conflict of our time, he