NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT was announced at the beginning of the week that Nubar Pasha had resigned, declaring that he could not work with Mr. Clifford Lloyd, who reduced him to a nullity, and that the quarrel bad been referred to the Cabinet in London. Nubar Pasha, however, denies that the quarrel is a personal one, -alleging that he resigned on the broader ground that he would not be responsible for acts upon which he had not been con- sulted. The general belief in Cairo is that Nubar finds the hatreds he excites by deferring to the foreigner too much for him to bear, but that Mr. Clifford Lloyd, though in the right, treats him with too little external respect. However that may be, the dispute was referred to Sir Evelyn Baring, who con- trived to compose it, all imputations on Mr. Lloyd being with- drawn, while he is requested to confine himself more strictly to his immediate duties. The occurrence is chiefly serious because it proves that the inherent difficulties of the dual Government are insuperable. Even "Nubar Pasha, who is a Christian and a friend of England, and a good Adminis- trator, finds that if his English adviser is efficient, his own office of "Minister's Cloak," as Carlyle called it, is intolerable. it is, in fact, impossible to govern Egypt on English principles without English administrators.
