NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Egyptian question has been twice raised in the Commons this week,—once on Monday, and again, with more elabora- tion, on Thursday. On Monday, Mr. John Morley put to the Prime Minister a question intended to elicit a declaration that our troops would soon quit Egypt. Mr. Morley referred to the well-known declarations of the British Government that they had no in- tention of occupying Egypt for an indefinite term, and to Lord Hartington's remark early in the Session that our troops would probably be evacuating Egypt within six months, and asked -what steps the Government proposed to take, in order to give effect to their various declarations. Before Mr. Gladstone replied, Mr. Bourke thereupon asked whether certain passages which he cited from Lord Dafferin's despatch of February 6th did not lead to the conclusion that the Government were pledged to secure for our intervention an " enduring " as well as a " beneficent " result, and whether it is clearly understood by foreign Powers that " no subversive influence shall intervene between England and that Egypt she has re-created." Further, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, wishing to fortify Mr. John Morley, asked whether Lord Dufferin had not declared, in a despatch dated April 29th, that "the material tranquillity of Egypt" is absolute from one end to the other.
