Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1882-12-23 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE FRENCH PRESS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND.  Tde Republique Fraitc•tliae says that there teems to be every chance that Naar will be selected as met:moor to Iliac Pasha. In each a case the Ettglish might just as well colt on the Khedive to resign, send him to the Island of caylnn, and appoint Arabi in his place. It is, moreover, affirmed in Ministerial circles in London that England Ittends endowing Egypt with eelf-govemment. Bat all that has hitherto been done tends to prove tire contrary. When people are desirous of giving a country the "amount of independence which its justitied by its state of civilisation, they do not begin by rendering government impo.ible in that country. They do not systematically deprecate the authority of the Sovereign ; they do not force his enemies upon him as councillors. Any other line of conduct exposm them to suspicions that are not particularly flattering to them. One is le Ito believe that plate that they cannot well avow are concealed by fine words that tire tneant to deceive. The means employed to arrive at this point are, moreover, somewhat clumsy, England is perfectly justified In her endeavour to assure the road to her colonial empire but as for her none-log Egypt, that is too large a morsel for even her et tmech. She will rnd this out, too, when she tries to digest It.  Replying to this' the Tilegraphk asks 'low is the growing animo.ity which the most Important of the Gam. bottle. journals h. for a whole week displayed antain-t England to be explained ? Recriminations alternate with lantentations— threats with the most sombre prognontim. This passionate and quarrelsome attitude argues wounded self-love rather than a true comprehension of the situation. Really, they most have been somewhat simple to believe that if we let the Eaglish intervene in Egypt without taking for the preservation of France's interests the guarantees which we should have act-mired through a partial occupation of the Su. Canal, we could eevertheless dernmd the mlintertance, to our advautage, of privileges equal to thow ennyed by the English. Will they still say that they retuned to entrant the guardianship of the canal from Port Said to Ismailia to our soldiers and marines because they wanted to spare them the humiliation of remaining inert while our worthy friends did all the fighting? Is it not for more humiliating to the whole country to see French iniuence banished from the valley of the Nile, which lots been besprinkled with French blood? Will they Kill dare to maiutain that the simultaneous presence of the two flags on the letlanus of Sue, would have brought about a conflict? Supposing that difficulties had ;tri re--though this is very in-Troll-161 e, seeing that Otto proposed joint occupation would have been divided into two distinctly definet non.—would it not have teen far more etwy to smooth them down than to check the dimensions which now threaten to :Lase between the two nations? And now why do they continue to pursue cliimetlcal tics,?: Every one endowed with common sense clearly sees that England will not, in order to please at. ab onion her preponderaet position in Egypt. The Temps sayer We citell not deny that this lea bitter pill to mellow, but we should like to persuade the press and the public nat to submit to the consequentne of an error like children, with grimaces and wrath, but like men' with dignity, conscious that they, too, have thoir share of responsibility. Would it not, for instance, be unfair to abuse the ifinistry for iti want Of MlCOess in a situation which was already compromite I when it assume I office ? An for our relation, with England, they can hardly emerge without a certain mines, from a transaction in which that Power has dinplayed a spirit of rivalry and jealousy towards ne which enact of eon justified. And yet thee is one thing which should temper the bitterness of our rrsentment namely, the conviction that we ourteltee have contributed to our discomtithre. We deliberately gay.• England the pretest without which she could nev,r have done what she is now doing. , , The loss of nor influence in Ettypt, and all that our melancholy ran in this affair Irings with it in the shape of diminished credit abroad, will after all be only half an evil if we learn therefrom a lesson for the future. French democracy must understand that it mnnot dispense with a foreign policy, and that no foreign policy is plamted with narrow calculations and with Parliamentary murices.  JAMES HALEY has committed suicide by hang.. leg himself at Southwick. Until lately be war is the loot workhouse, and has been drinking heavily. He was 31 years of age, and unmarried. A FEW DAYS AGO, while in a fit of delirium hymen+, Menlo Macdonald, a corn feeler, of Inverness, attempted to cut his wife's throat, and then to commit euichle by throning hitmell into the river. Macdonald was, however, mecum!, and his wife survive., but is badly cut in the throat and cheek. Macdonald has been remitted to the Sheriff for trial.  Tna new public hall at Iloath, Cardiff, which has cost about 53500, and was built by a company, has been opened with an excellent concert. The main hall accommodates 500 persons, and the block comprises various other room of smaller dimension.%