NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Revolution in Egypt has so far marched quietly enough. Tewfik Pasha was proclaimed withOut opposition, and on June 30th Ismail Pasha, after a vain attempt to obtain permis- sion to live in Constantinople, departed—with his seraglio—for Naples. He is to receive £50,000 a year, and his family £50,000, his son, the new Khedive, deducting these sums from his own allow- ance of £150,000 a year. This, at least, is the telegram, probably written to reassure the Bondholders, as Tewfik remains as abso- lute master of his Treasury as ever his father was, and much more subject to Constantinople. This position, however, the "Western Powers," England and France, say they will not en- dure; and they have already remonstrated with the Porte for with- drawing the firman of 1873, which enables the Khedive to make treaties, raise loans, and keep a separate army. The Sultan is informed that he must withdraw his decree of revocation. This is a little hard. upon the Sultan, who is ordered to affect the possession of absolute power one day, and to declare his power strictly limited the next ; and who has already announced to his subjects, through an " inspired" article in the Valet!', that his action" is equivalent to a reconquest of Egypt ;" but that is the way in which Lord Beaconsfield, having " consolidated " Turkey, protects her independence. There is, we suppose, no doubt that the Sultan will recall his second irad45, or that the two Powers, if only they can decide upon a policy, will try to carry it out, without considering the rights either of the feudatory or the suzerain. The only doubt is whether, having thus asserted the superiority of civilisation to 'international law, they will justify their assumption by governing Egypt.
