The Government last week selected the Right Hon. Stephen Cave,
lately Judge-Advocate-General, as Commissioner to Egypt, to assist the Khedive in-reforming his Treasury, and on Tuesday the names of his Staff were announced. The chief is Colonel Stokes, for many years British Commissioner for the arrangement of the dues payable at the mouths of the Danube, and recently employed to settle the tariffs of the Suez Canal. He retains his appoint- ment at Chatham during-his absence, which will only, it is imagined, last three months. Mr. V. Buckley, of the Foreign Office, is appointed General Secretary to the Mission ; and Mr. W. H. White, Deputy Accountant-General at the War Office, Financial Secretary. This latter officer will have the most difficult post of all. It is understood that Mr. Cave's recommendations are to be attended to, and we do trust we shall not bear when Parliament meets that the whole Mission is unofficial. There is a disposition just now to explain away the importance of our Egyptian policy, which can only end in depriving it of the national support indispensable to its success,
