The final arrangements for the appointment of two Con- trollers
for Egypt are, at all events, distinct. They concede the ultimate sovereignty of the country to MM. Baring and De Blignieres, in the interest, of course, of the Bondholders. The decree contains seven clauses. By the first, the Controllers may demand all information from all officials ; by the second, they are made irremovable, except by their own Govern- ments; by the third, they are precluded. from "the actual direction of the public service ;" but by the fourth, they have entry into all Cabinet Couucils, with the right of speech ; by the fifth, they may unite with the Commissioners of the National Debt, "to take such measures as they deem fit ;" by the sixth, they can publish anything they like in the official journal; by the seventh, they can name and dismiss all officials they require. These powers are really equivalent to direction, and make Lord Salisbury and. M. Waddington responsible for everything that occurs in Egypt. Suppose they disagree, or that, as is nearly certain to happen, the Controllers themselves fall out ? Are matters to be adjusted by a war, or is there to be a deadlock It will be observed that the Controllers can do nothing for the peasantry, who can be reached only by a direct exertion of power on the public servants, which is forbidden.
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