26 FEBRUARY 1887, Page 3

A correspondent sends us the proposal of M. Albert Tachard

for ensuring the safety of Egypt. It is to entrust the country to a Swedish, Belgian, or Swiss force, under the orders of an International Commission, which would keep back the Soudanese

and put down internal rebellion, and then to retire. Our corre- spondent does not seem to detest the immorality of the proposal. It would arm the Pashas with the irresistible strength of civilisa- tion. They could extort as they liked, secure that the European force would put down all resistance. Burke impeached Hastings for that very crime, and it is the one charge upon which he was entirely in the right. If we grant] European strength to Asiatics, we most enforce obedience to European ideas.