The Free Lances in the House of Commons have poured
out a torrent of qutations all the week about Egypt, but have extorted no information of moment, except that England adheres to its resolution that Arabi Pasha must go. On Thursday, however, Mr. Chaplin moved the adjournment of the House, in order to make a most indiscreet and im- proper speech. He pointed out that the stations on the Suez Canal were 100 miles from the nearest supply of fresh water, and wera consequently dependent on the fresh-water canal, which takes its supplies from the Nile at Boulac, and can there-
fore be cut by any one ruling in Cairo. He did not believe, therefore, in the safety of the Suez Canal, and hinted that Mr. Gladstone cared nothing about it. He then burst into a regular Jingo speech against the timidity of the Government, and its reduction of military establishments in India, which only affects native troops. The speech was received witlibut ap- proval, even by his own side, and it was not backed by Sir Stafford Northcote, who, however, insinuated, like Mr. Chaplin, that the Premier cared nothing about the Canal, though he might have changed his opinion, since he expressed it in the Nineteenth Century.
