30 JUNE 1900, Page 18

The Khedive arrived in England on Friday week, but was

found to be suffering from sore throat, with symptoms which suggested possible diphtheria. He remained, therefore, on board the Royal yacht till Wednesday, when, having com- pletely recovered, he reached London, and was received in state by the Duke of York. His Highness is, of course, to be welcomed as an almost Royal personage whose singular position with regard to Great Britain gives him the highest claims to courtesy and goodwill, but we see no reason for raising hymns in his honour as some of our contemporaries

do. It is not to him that the regeneration of Egypt is due, but to Lord Cromer, and his highest claim to respect is that he endures with a certain resignation, and even dignity, a tutelage which must often be irksome, and always in a degree humiliating. He has once or twice tried to break loose, but has submitted to the inevitable fairly well, hoping always, one cannot but think, that his dignified subordination may one day be exchanged for independence, when he will perhaps express his real feelings with less reserve than he now imposes upon himself. For that reserve be is entitled, and will, we trust, receive, every credit.