The chief interest of Mr. Goschen's speech was the strong
light in which it placed the very gradual way in which foreign influence in Egypt has grown up, at the invitation of Egypt herself, and the jealousy felt of the prosperity of the improved Egyptian finance at Constantinople. Long before the Control was established, the international tribunals sanctioned by Egypt were composed of Judges of various European countries, whose legal powers in Egypt were undoubted. As for the European -employs, so much commented on, Egypt had engaged them for her own purposes, to train Egyptians in all sorts of technical 'natters. When Egypt obtained, a tolerably sound finance and a great mitigation in the pressure of taxation on the people, and a great remission of forced labour, the authori- ties at Constantinople looked on askance. Then came the unhappy Tunisian expedition, which frightened the Arabs, —especially after the seizure of Cyprus,—and they thought that what had happened in Tunis would happen in Egypt. `This view was encouraged by a party in the Porte, who -desired, to avail itself of the Mahommedan feeling, and dis- liked the independent prosperity of Egypt. Here Mr. Goschen proceeded to warn the House very seriously, that any success of the fanatic party in Egypt would put a stop for a long time to all those hopes of amelioration in the condition of Roumelia,, Albania, Armenia, and other outlying provinces of the Porte, 'which depend absolutely for their civilisation on the growth of European influence and the subsidence of Mohammedan fanati- -cism. Mr. Goschen has made no speech which will so greatly raise the estimate of his power as a statesman.
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