The Egyptian arrangement has been again in danger. Italy demands
a place in the Egyptian Cabinet, and M. Waddington requires that the French "representative," the Minister of Public 'Works, shall have control over the railways, the Suez-Canal irrigation works, and all the revenues arising from them. He will not, he says, let an Englishman be virtually master of Egypt, under pretext of controlling finance, but will rather resign. This opposition will greatly fetter Mr. Rivers Wilson, but it is more important from another point of view. It shows that M. Waddington's object is not the good government of Egypt, but political influence there, and that the jealousy of France as to English designs is not ex- tinct. It will, of course, be the Khedive's first object to pro- mote this jealousy, and we may therefore predict that the Nubar Pasha Ministry, which is to do such wonders, will not be long- lived, even if all difficulties have been removed for the moment as fully as the Stock Exchanges think it profitable to believe they have been. Nothing can save Egypt, except vassalage to some one European State.
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