Year: 1876

Empire being able TO take the least part in
that which most nearly touched its existence Sud
denly the voyage Of the Prince Of Wales TO India is ar
ranged Tho passage through Egypt is converted
into a political manifestation, a threat TO
man@uyre the banks of the Nile Russia and
Austria man@uvring on the banks Of the Danube may
be pictured IN this Tho purchase Of a important
portion OF the suez Canal like complete poll
toa programme whose base is the necessity Of Eng
land to sustain her preponderance the seas and to
strongly the road toward her Asatc Empire by
direct Intervention in the great canal an interven-
ton which strengthens her property in the fortified
town of Alden away in the Straits OF Babel Mandeb
which was taken IN 1888 when the question of the East
was revived and the property also Of the small island
of Perrin In the Red Sea, occupied aud fortified 1S47
when it was seen that the suez Canal be opened
TO tho commerce of the world


DIsRAELI's CANAL SHARES.


The purchase Of this great number of shares which
were in the power OF the Vcoroy of Egypt and which
constituted nearly half Of the suez companys capital
has been very widely commented upon because II
represents change in English policy. These
same commentaries have been well studied because
they pointed out with clearncss the currents OF public
opinion in this important of subjects the Eastern
question. At once the French newspapers deplored
that their country the of the project should
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scruplc OF economy, when the shares offered to
the government and for sale IN the market
The irritation pontedy increased learning that the
proposition for the sale rejected through
miserable hucksterng and undigniled sordidness
which placed the bargain in the power of England.
Tho German Empire, which leaves to Russia and to
Austria great liberty the East in exchange for ask
ing them in their turn great liberty the West looks
upon the matter as if it solely mercantile, al
though its organs propose international treaty that
Will the free passage of the Suez and will take
from England her exclusive prepondcrance there
The Austrian Journals vacillate OF the vacl
lating position of their Empire and Of the already
ccnt uncertainty of its policy. They would wish as
is natural extension of their frontier in lllyria
but they fear that the Slave people might neutralzc
the two prcpondcratng elements of to-day-thc
German and the Hungarian. They would desire
that Herzegovina and Bosnia should emancpate them
selves from Turkey, but they fear that this emancpa
ton might augment the superior power of Russia, and
carry it 10 create a Greco-Slavonic confederation
favorable to that superior Power and Injurious to
Austria Therefore they do not view with an evil eye
that great Western Empire should to arrest the
absorbing and subugatng authority of the great East
crn Empire


RUSSIAN JEALOUSY OF BRITAIN


In Russia there three very powerful par,ics-the
orthodox party the socialist party and the imperial
party The recently prosecuted socialists cannot ex-
press opinion, but the other parties express
it with marvelously painful clcarness. Tho orthodox
people, at the head of whom is Katkon, hate
two nations in the word-Germany and England
If the Muscovte government was in their hands they
would raise the purchase of the Suez Canal the cat
egory of a for a European The imperialists
less ardent, would themselves with saying that
the step Of England has aggravated the Eastern ques
ton and that it would not be strange if tomorrow
grave resolution should be taken Turkey without
her counsel vote, in the way that England has
adopted grave resolution Egypt without consulting
any The English newspapers lay aside all their
Quarres praise the secrecy with which the negotla
tons were conducted and the adroitness with which
they have been concluded the consequences favorable
TO the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ofGreat Britain and the develop
mcnt OF her commerce. There is only exception
70 This chorus of praises IL is the exception of the
journal which represents the economists which says
that tins acquisition has been little lucrative The in
uence of the English government given to the statutes
OF the company as a shareholder is OF little impor-
tance; and the need of sustaining by these risky
properties becomes each day more apparent Thus
nobody surprised that at the Fshmongers Hall ban
que the commander Of the British army should speak
about the necessity Of attending to the increase OF tho
military forces, In view of the immnence of great
fcts that within short space Austria has edited the
propositions of an arrangement with Turkey, with the
necessity TO obviate new complications True the
tranduil harangue of the Emperor Alexander at the
banquet the order OF George has spread breath of
peace these suspicious of war although this har





NJ LEssEPs' PREscENcE AND TALENT


In this matter the person who has remained highest
in favor and who has received the greatest homage OF
public opinion is NJ. Lesseps the genius who with his
intuition OWNED and by his perseverance opened
the heart Of Africa that marvellous communication be-
tween Asia and Europe His old opponents, the Eng
sh those who thought his gigantic project pure
dealism, who denied him all resources; those who de-
cided 10 oppose that rapid road to the Asatic Indies
which about TO give an incontestable superiority
TO the nations on the borders of the Mediterranean
llm
to-day the premium due 10 genius, to vaor and to
constancy and bind on him the crown of light
which always succeeds in every martyrdom TO the
crown of thorns How did this superior divine
that Egypt would unite the East and West; Egypt
the school of the ancient Heenos the link uniting
Greece with Asia the sanctuary in which the seed OF
all liberties and the idea Of human personality com-
menccd TO spring up where that statue was begun
that to be alike the apoheosis and the consecra
ton OF our civizauong Where else the oracle
OF philosophers and the observatory OF astron-
omcrs. the sublime incarnation OF Alexandor's genius
and tho extensive zodiac OF the wlsest thoughts? How
did he como so to consider that nation, which by
Thebes aud Memphis. gathered into It's bosom the en-
tire East and bv Alexandria all the West; the nation
who was the scientific synthesis of ancient history as
Rome had been the political synthess the mysterious
sibyl who called the inspirations OF the Plaonlc Verp
into the bosom Of Christianity the founder and
the intator OF all the systems which have torn her
crets from nature and the rc from the heavens How
did he decide that Egypt is TO be in the modern world
thanks to few strokes OF industry and few efforts Of
science the material and visible band which Is TO unite
the contincntsg II this work had belonged TO moro
heroic and more poetic times than ours, II would
already wear the roseate hues of the poetry which
qilded the voyage of the Argonauts the efforts Of
the first Homeric navgators The sirens hidden be-
meath the OF the Mediterranean would now raj SO
an Odyssey IN its praise.


TnE GREAT ESG1SEKR AND MS ASrEcEDExrs


The other day saw Lessops aud obs rved him with
the attention due to all men who really cxtraor
binary. He originally from the coasts OF the
Mediterranean. from those coasts which gave Marco
Polo his daring and Christopher Columbus his
genius. He has in his talent something Of Mar
settles mercantile colony OF the Creeks and
OF Barcelona, the city which sent her navies from
Maiorca Sicily, from Sicily TO Athens and Constan
NOBLE augmentng by light OF her soul the bright
stars OF the mediterranean Marscilais by his father
Catalonan by his mother he unites to the vivaciy
OF the Marseillas the thoughtfulness OF the Cata-
lonans To these advantages OF birth he adds pro-
dieious advantages Of education begun In Oriental !
palaces under the shadow OF the Pyramids on the !
banks Of the Nile, among the ruins Of temples; on
the sands OF deserts which have consumed !
80 many peoples and have cxhacd so many |
Ideas, where the phenomena of each day |