, 1898-11-12

ter, replied by citing y speerI which lie had
delivered before the French SO IA . on April
., 1885, Is speech which ws Intended to be
a reply tA Sir Edward Grey. Ihat rtininder.
instead Of supplying a justification Tor Nj,
March&uds exprdlti ~. strikes Mt the root
of the FrcnoIl case. Il one sentence VI.
l[aro1aux established the validity Of the
contention insisted upon by Lord Salisbury
in his latest deSpltcles. In any case he
said. the pc itl'u taken up by France is a.
follows: the regions in question are uudrr
the nigt sovereignty Of the Sultan. They
lave a lawful master, the khvdive." This
statement may probably be read III cuu-
nection with Lord Salisbury's Instruction to
our Ambassador at Paris To point out TO NJ.
DeIcasso that, ''by the military events OF
last week, "l the terIitories which were
snhject to the kha'ifa passed by right of
conquest to the British and Egyptian Govern
ments. Her Majesty's GoveJ ument do not
onsider that this right is open to discus.
sion" just so; the Khedivp. ''the lawful
master" as NJ. Hanotaux justly described
him, came by his. owlS again, aud, III The
language Of DR.. Johnson, There's Oil end
ont" This however, was rot the only
warning given to the French Government. in
astute anticipation of events before they
occurred. Slr Edmund Monsoon spoke very
cand:dTy to NJ. Delcass6 before the news
arrived of the actual meeting Of tie Sirdar
and the "omis,aly Of civilizations" Our
Ambassador pointed ont that '%'uothiug could
be gained by con;raling'' frcm the French
Minister the gravity Of the situation ~ |
regarded it, or the fixed determination of her
Majrsty's Governments to viudiuate claims. Of
the O5solute justice of which they hold that
tbap ~ q H. M n,0kiA. -
t@'0iled tho use of any expression which
might sound like q menace, but, short of this;
| did my best to make my declaration of
the inpossibility Of tn, French being allowed
to rcmain at Fnh6da az clear and distinct
as Spnd be expressed in words"
There, for the moment, the matter stands.
The "emissary of oiyilisation'-for whose
pluck and enterprise as IN explorer no praise
ID too highs established on "a dreary
peninsula at Fashpd5 surrounded, to THO
north, as the Sir,lar reports, By lmpaSsable
marshes, and faced On til, south BY a gnrri-
son of 'one S5udanase battalion, four gus,
and q sunbpat under Major Jackson" VIII
is appOintel COMMA ldant Of The F%asllolA
district, The site Vi his en%canpmemL is
VIGOROUSLY mAlarIo IS, and Lord Salisbury
was we'll advised in mstructiug. Sir EdmunI
Mouse TO explain that her M~pjesty's Gov
ernmeIlt lre unable TO accept any TeSponSi-
billy for ths results to the. safety and
health OF the explorer which the delay III
quitting his present situation may bring
about" Nothing realy remains for tue
Frd"cil Government but t. 0 der IL. Marchand
to take the first available steamer to- KhAr.
tonm, an 70 abandon place which is not
only politically and StralegicaTIy unteuabls,
but Which is, from a sanitary point Of view,
exceedingly unhealthy The closing words
of tue onI2id papers put the. problem
as neatly u possible. "In the view, Of, her
Majs,ty's G,vernment," says Lord Sails
bury, his M. Marchmd's) expedition into
it (isyptian Ierr,'ory) with an esooM, Of
one nf"drel StneaaleHe troops has no ppoliti-
cal effect, nor Gu aoy POLITICAL Significance
be attached to il" From which it would
seem that the Municipal Council Of Paris
has been somewhat premature, in giving
to one Of their new streets The name Of
Fdshoda.