French irritation at the enforced recall' of Major Marchand is sowing come siges of abating; and there are reasonable hopes that if the vexed question of the Bahr-el-, Colonel Shipway. The gallant volunteer Colonel, who is, I am told a partner in a tailoring business, was generous enough to appeal to the judge to deal mercifully with the man who had defrauded him; but Sir Charles, while not pas.ing & vindictive sentence, had to point out that the offeucs which Davies had committed upon the public generally by destroying and muti-
Ghazal is allowed to remain in abeyance' shape of Jating valuable historic records in the isters and wills was more for a time a settlement will then be arrived at which will bring Great Britain and 'France closer together than they have been' sines the Egypiian Question first came between them. It is true that some English politicians are still calling on -the Government to seize the opportunity for declaring a permanent protectorate over Egypt; but Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has em-basised Lord Salisbury's declaration on 1rd Mayor's Day against this course, while at the same time laying stress on the Prime Minister's pronouncement that the Battle of Khartoum has materially altered our position in Egypt. As a matter of fact, however, it is the Fashoda incident even more than the Sirdae's victory which has altered our position, for it has proved clearly that were Egypt left to her own resources she would be in serious danger of becoming the'prey of the Continental Powers, It is a curious fact that in all the British Blue Books and French Yellow Books published during" the Inst three or four years there has been a careful avoidance of all reference to the fuct that the Upper was the direct subject of negotiation between Britain and France 1894. The fact has, however, been brought to lit by Diplomaticus" in an article publ in the Deceraber nurcber of the Fortnightly Revi Those negotia-serious even than that which he committed upon Colonel Shipway himself. And the affair has brought the Colonel into quite undeserved ridicule, He was infinitely more careful than roast pedigree hunters re to obtain what seemed reliable evidence support of every step in and the evidence which Davies brought him—consisting as it did of certificates from clergymen and experts at the British Museum whom he had managed to bam-boodle, might have deceived anyone. There are a good many pedigrees in Burke—some of them obtained from Herald's College itseli—which would not bear investigation a bit better than that furnished to Colonel Shipway.
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