To one of the monthly reviews M. de veleye contributes some observations on British Interests," with particular reference toRgypt._ Not that hohananythi out public by a foreigner print, they would outcry against English selfishness and greed. Mf. de Laveloye says measure of precaution imposed upon England, and that measure is the occupation of Egypt and Cyprus, T say Oypras and not Crete Grote ought to go to Greece, because the national sentiment there is too much awake to be restrained. In Cyprus this is not the case, and moreover this island, transformed into's Gibraltar, will be a, better and nearer commanding point for the shores of Syria and the entrance to the Suez Canal, England will be constrained to do this on Boveral grounds, To begin with, if when the time comes for peace Russia shall acquire con-nidorable territory in Asia, and England shall decide on no act of compensation, her authority in the East will find, iteclf distinctly touched, If, at the beginning, as the Liberal Batty wished, she had acted in acord with russia, the defeat of Turkey would not have at all compromised her prestige. Now that the English Government has deliberately figured as the adversary of Russia, it is evident that the complete success of Russia is a check for English influence. The only w: of parrying the blow is to restore the equilibrim by an act of wise vigour, which would echo and resound all over the astern world, Tu the second place, the control of the sago of the Canal can only be thorough secure itis is guarded on the spot by Euglis forces, Russia, by the annexation of Arinenis, would command Syria, and so would threaten the Canal with an attack by land against which the English fleet would be powerless, The purobaso of the Canal shares was an absurdity, unless it was the prelude to occupation, "The approach of Russia plainly makes the further step now necessary.
Such a atop, commended as it is by English interests, would be at the same time a great blessing to the Egyptiang, and a great gain to civilization in general. he and the Delta are among the richest distriote in the whole world: water, cun, rich soil, and all the products of Europe and the tropics; a gentle, intelligent, and prodigiously laborious Population, whom even incessant and organized village docs not disgust with toil!
ho lot of the slave in the Southern States of the American Union was paradise compared with that of the Egyptian fellah, As T looked at these poor creatures working all day long, and often half the night as well, to sati the insensate and prodigal rapacity of Cairo, Laid to myself, "Why does not Europe, that sends cruisers to suppress the slave trade, send hither afew good regiments to put an end to these barbarities?"
Egypt in the hands of the English would recover the splendour of her antiquity. With ublic works auch as toss: which Ar. W. 'I.
horton has described in his excellent book on "The Public Works of India," the extent of arable laud, the numbers of the population, and the' revenue would all augment, Thanks to the annexations conducted by Colonel Gordon, Egypt now extends to the great lukes of Central Africa, and she has thus become, in point of territorial extension, one of the largest countries in the world, Only let her pass under the protection of England, instantly the slave-trade is suppressed, steam navigation connects the interior of the continent with the Mediterranean, and vilization and commerce penetrate into an immense region of admirable fertility, and, by reason of its altitude, habitable by Europeans, By the Cape, by Natal, by the Transvaal, the English are advancing towards the Zambesi, Already they have a station on Lake Nyassa; oon they will have others on Lake Tanganka and Lake Victoria. The International Exploration Society, founded under the auspices of the King of the Belgians, will send into the country travellers, emigrants, artisans of every kind. It has been shown that a telegraphic line could easily be established from Cairo to Natal and the Cape. enscinber, go terrified waa; not, be in paying their expenses. If, the contro of {tia to the coset therefore, 18 consented to fx her atten: over, Lmade my-way tony try and find the life-belt aod: to put tion in this direction, an unbroken current of would speedily cross Africa from Then I fell on my krises, and, dia" Hak my hands were shaking. Alexandria to the Cape along the line of the i|high tablelands. The English would thus my children to me, I prayed, "All'this time on the bridge the confusion was at ite erect for themselves an as extensi that of to jump into the-sea without well kepwing ight, Some ofthe aulors threw themeelvse 0 braces, e others were preparing Glimate, and completely" fee from long ter fertility, with a more agreeable droughts. what was going on. The captain' and: the never lost their self-possession, and the As for Indis, necessarily England will lose fter, a hero, died of fatigue and privation la itin the end." The reason is plain, I say trying to save the others.—This'is how the nothing of the danger of the approach ofthe Russians, which must go on with time, with-near-sight imagined the dangerous seaidon be The captain, "who out necessarily ending in a shock. But t part had been passed, and ho left the more actively the English set up railways in and nearly bind, - He did not ea the mountain ip in charge of the first officer, who is old India, canals, manufactories, "'schools—the more, in a word, they civilize the native—by or the rocks, and quietly drove us 0 much the more rapidly will they be hasten-them. Thus we were tossed from one rook to ing the epoch of their coming of age, and another; but the sea, fortunately, was pretty consequently their aspirations after indopencalm. if such had not been the case,'we Waat do we stein Earope? In pro-could not have lasted more than five minates, fructed, and 80 0 great were the shooks. - After pasaiug hAlt ires consciousness of itself, the national an hour betwoon life and death footer feclivg awakes. came to me where I wee standing on: the minister the Indian Empi Companion, dumb with fright, and told mere other European Power would do, and infinitely were saved, for we were on ® sand-better than native potentates, But the better bank, and land was only forty yards or #0 the administration, the sooner will the hour of emancipation strike. It is simply impossi-fron on Tua ae a0 "Sitgh The night was very - we gained ble that a hundred thousand Europeans Tittle courage. "A boat' was sent to the land should continue indefinitely to govern two with one officer and one sailor, who were hundred millions of foreign subjects, when drowned; then again another boat, and by the latter have once been, in however slight means of a rope they were able to land degree, penetrated with modern ideas, fifteenth part of the passengers, who wore evitably take plas even ina remote future, If then the emancipation of India must in-much bruised, for they could not see in the darkness what was going ov, The Catholic a far-sighted Boglish Minister ought already priest was the first to leave us to save him-to take his measures. He ought to occupy self. The captain then decided that we should Egypt in order that the road to India may not be literrapted, And along the banks of the not land till daybreak, for the vessel might cop together for another fifteen days," The Nile he ought to advance towards the interior bumping continued to an alarming ox of the continent, 80 a8 to have a new colonial tent, and the water came over' us till empire when the old empire comes to cut the awful piece in called Cape Garo' de. Fuy, the moment of leaving the ship. This boud that attaches it to the mother-country.
Tu summarizing his argument M, de Lave-T took some money, but left mi jowels behind, love thus concludes for I was assured that all would be saved:! I Tu Asia Minor such annexations as Russia at last entered the boat,-or, to speak more any make will not bring ber sensibly nearer correctly, we were thrown: into it, and. thas to India, but they will considerably lessen the we left the ship. Shouts from all sides helped distance' that separates her from Syria: and to encourage us, and: the-sailors to. bestir the Saez Canal. To secure this passage, and themselves. The waves rushed in on ws. "At to preserve her authority in the East, Eoglast we came close to shore, the boat was land will therefore be obliged in spite of drawn back, and the sailors, who wore wait to declare a protectorate over Egypt. ing for us on the sand, took us in the sea, and 'This will be an indispensable measure of com: thus we waded in the waver,' hose good sation, which every trae friend of hu-sailors behaved like heroes, Ca arriving on inanity, to whatever nation he belonge, ought the desert, I found Mme, G. drenched—as we sincerely to applaud. were—she threw herself into ly arms, and then went off into. dead faint on not sooing
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