L E T . Weekly Newspaper and Review.
DUM VOBIS GRATULAMUR, ANIMOS ETIAM ADDIMUS UT IN INCCEPTIS VESTRIS CONSTANTER MANEATIS.
From the B r ie f o f His Holiness Pius IX . to T h e T a b l e t , June 4, 18/0.
V ol. 81. No. 2750. London, January 21, 1893.
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C hronicle of th e W eek :
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The Coup d’Etat_ in Egypt— The End o f the Crisis— Lord Winchilseaat Ipswich— Mr. Chamberlain on Local Relief Funds— Sir Charles Dilke and Uganda— R eorganization of the Labour Department— Lord Justice Bowen and Popular Education — A Cunard Liner on Fire— The Samoa WhiteBook— French Finance—Collision in the Straits of Messina— Fifty Persons “ Exploded to Death ”— A Railway Train on Fire—The Insurrection in Hayti— Sir Chaides 'Russell at Leicester . . . . 77 L eaders :
■ Emigration and Immigration . . 81
CONTENTS.
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The Late Bishop of Galloway . . 82 The Rev. R . Clarke, S .J ., at Sid
ney Hall . . .. . . . . 82 Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury . . 83 N o t e s .....................................................86 R eviews :
Hymns . . . . . . ..88 Geoffory Hamilton........................... 88 Mrs. Meynell’s Poems . . . . 89 South Africa and its Future . . 90 Studies by a Recluse .. . . 90 The Redemption of the B ody.. 91 Compendium Philosophiae Moralis 91 Our Country’s Birds . . . . 91
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Death of the Bishop of Gallow ay.. 91 Correspondence :
Dublin :— (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . .
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L etters to th e E d itor :
Happiness in Hell .. . . •• 95 Some Impressions of a Convert . . 96 On Christian Art . . . . . . 97 The Great En’gm a . . . . . . 99 Catholic Hymn-books . . . . 100 A Christian Name . . . . . . 100 Cardinal Vaughan , . . . . . 101 Happiness in Hell . . . . . . 102
Catholic D isab ilitie s ........................... 103 Irish Christian Brothers . . . . 103 “ D e Propaganda Fide ” . . . . 104 Social and P olitical . . . . 104
SU P P LEM EN T . N ews from th e S chools :
American School Statistics.. 109 N ews from th e D io ceses:
Westminster ...............................n o L i v e r p o o l .................................... n o Salford . . n r St. Andrews and Edinburgh . . n r Argyll and the Isles . . ..nr Plappiness in Hell . . . . . . m Kettering Catholic Church . . . . 114
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
THE ■ COUP D ’ÉTAT
IN EGYPT.
BOLT has fallen from the Egyptian blue, and the young Khedive has suddenly set himself in revolt against the English tutelage. Without consulting the English representatives, he has dismissed the Premier and the Ministers of Finance and Justice, and, by placing Fakhri Pasha at the head of the Government has directly challenged the British authority. All three of the retired Ministers have steadily supported English reforms, and the administration is at present at a deadlock. The sole reason given for the dismissal of Mustapha Pasha Fehmy is the plea that he has recently been ill, and was not expected to be fit for his official duties for two or three weeks. But though,a passing indisposition is the sole avowable reason for this action on. the part of the Khedive, the real motive is almost certainly the fact that the late Premier was in complete sympathy with the English policy in Egypt. The more emphatically to assert his right to name his Ministers without consulting the representatives of this country, the Khedive has called to the head of affairs a man whom his father was compelled to dismiss for opposition to all judicial reform, and who is now known for little except his strong French sympathies. Fakhri Pasha was a schoolfellow of Tewfik, who made him Minister of Justice some ten or eleven years ago. He filled the same post in the Riaz Ministry which came to an end in 1891, and continued to hold it until the end of that year. In Mazloun Pasha, the New Minister of Justice, the Premier has a colleague who ■ seems quite worthy of him. It may be noted that these two men occupy the posts over which there is least English •control. War, Finance, and Public Works are looked after by English Secretaries, but the Ministers of the Interior and of Justice are not thus controlled. Abbas Pasha is a young man, but he is probably not unacquainted with the famous memorandum in which Lord Granville laid it down as indispensable that as long as the provisional occupation of the country by English troops continued, the advice given by her Majesty’s Government to the Khedive should be followed: “ It should be made clear to the Egyptian Ministers and Governors of Provinces that the responsibility
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which for the time rests on England obliges her Majesty’s Government to insist on the adoption of the policy which they recommend, and that it will be necessary that those Ministers and Governors who do not follow this course should cease to hold their offices.” That is the policy which Lord Cromer still carries out in Egypt, and the new departure of the Egyptian Government will be watched with very considerable anxiety by all those who are interested in Egyptian bonds.
But the difficulty was soon overcome. A
- T“ hastily summoned Cabinet Council in England t h e c r i s i s , enabled Lord Rosebery at once to strengthen
Lord Cromer’s hands with a cabled promise of support. The Khedive was quietly shown the error of his ways, and made aware that while the British Government is answerable for the peace of the Nile Valley, the advice given by its representative must be followed. Lord Cromer may be trusted to have made the situation sufficiently clear, and then there remained nothing but submission. The Khedive pointed out that to have to recall Mustapha, besides dismissing the Premier of his own choice, would involve unnecessary humiliation, and suggested that he should be allowed to nominate Riaz Pasha in place of Fakhri. The Khedive further gave assurances that he would do his best to work in future in loyal co-operation with his British advisers. Lord Cromer replied that her Majesty’s Government had no wish to place the Khedive in any humiliating position, and that he himself, recognizing the conciliatory nature of his Highness’s proposals, would undertake, and without reference to London, to say that the proposal now made should be accepted as a final settlement. The new Cabinet is composed as follows: Riaz Pasha, Premier and Minister of the Interior; Boutros Pasha, Minister of Finance ; Mazloum Pasha, Minister of Justice ; Zeki Pasha, Minister of Public Instruction and Public Works ; Tigrane Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs; Youssef Chouhdy Pasha, Minister of War. The last three named were members of the late Cabinet. Roullier Bey, who had been the Khedive’s tutor in Vienna, and recently had been attached to his person as his Secretary, will now be sent away on leave of absence. To his advice much of the recent trouble is attributed. Although a portion of the French Press has indulged in somewhat menacing language there is no reason to suppose that the Khedive found support from the representatives of either France or Russia, and the good understanding between Lord Rosebery and M. Ribot remains undisturbed.
