NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Sultan, in order to avoid a Conference at Constanti- nople, has made an effort to settle the Egyptian question by himself. He has despatched Dervish Pasha, an able and unscrupulous Turk, who quieted Albania, as Commissioner to Cairo, where he arrived on Thursday. He was accompanied by a suite of fifty-eight persons, including eighteen Colonels, in- tended, we presume, to take the Egyptian commands ; and the Sultan's confidential agent in Mecca, who will influence the Ulema. The Mission was received with every demonstration of respect, the soldiers lining the roads, and it is rumoured that the Colonels, after an angry discussion, have agreed that they must obey any orders from the Khalif. No indication of those orders has, however, transpired, and the members of the Mission will probably spend some days in dis- covering how the land lies, and where the Sultan's adhe- rents really are. They desire also to sound all parties as to the removal of Tewfik, which we may take for granted is one of the.secret objects of the Sultan's policy. According to all telegrams from Egypt, the situation is still strained to the last -degree; but we must not forget that all Europeans in Cairo desire to secure armed intervention.
