15th April. Many telegrams have been published of late announcing the dissatisfaction of the French with the appointment of Mr. Justice Scott as virtual Minister of Justice in Egypt. In April of last yess this tleman, who belongs to the may High Court, was lent to the organise the Egyptian Criminal Courts tian Government, that he might re-
that is, the native courts, without any reference to the international courts which have cognisance of matters in which foreigners are interested. It was understood that the native courts, though vastly improved since the English occupation, were still a little too oriental their action, and that the justice they administer is still tempered with the stick and amenable to thie" bribe. Mr. Scott has devoted' his year to their investigation and correction; with such success that the Khedive has offered him and he has ace] the chief supervision of the native tribunals, a post which, according to the Economist, makes him virtually Minister of Justice. Tu doing this the Khedive was perfectly within his rights, and no foreign power has any locus standi to object, but the appointment has been most distasteful to the French, who have not only made strong representations against it to the Khedive and his ministers, through the French Consul-General M. D'Aubigny, but have made it the subject of remonstronees from the French to the British Foreign Office, 'The French' cannot deny that they have no right to inter-fore, as the department of Justice: in has never been internationalised, and they are far too civilised not tobe willing and antics to see the native tribunals purified and reformed; but they are stirred to the depths by. "the insidious manner' in which England is laying her heavy hand on every branch of ian administration," and.b; "the ae ions'. whicl induce the English representatives at Cairo. to. treat' Heyptt as. if it were already a British province." The English press is in the habit of -bitterly reproaching the French for not being content bes cake cas ae oon Egypt 7 Bu luting out auld dogo det more tr than we now do, if the French wot only cease from their constant' retionstronees. Thus an unfortunate irritation
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