There has been a sort of scare in Morocco. The
French, annoyed at the apparent success of Sir Euan Smith in repre- senting British interests, are putting pressure on the Sultan. According to the correspondent of the Times, who wrote from Fez on June 28th, and who must have official information, the French have granted to the Shereef of Wazan, who is under their protection, and who, failing the present dynasty, would
claim the throne, a pension of £800 a year, a sum most useful in Morocco. They have also admitted the Masara, a turbulent tribe devoted to the Shereef, to French "protection," which exempts them from chastisement by the Sultan. It had been previously announced that two French men-of-war had paid visits to the Atlantic coast of Morocco ; and all these things taken together, have iaised a great fer- ment in the Court, increased by the fact that the people of Fez desire a change of dynasty. We have stated elsewhere reasons for thinking the panic premature ; but an excited Moorish Sovereign might easily be guilty of some act of violence which would bring the Morocco question rapidly to the front. A report telegraphed from Berlin of an agreement between France and Great Britain for a partition of Morocco, must be unfounded.
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