A number of telegrams have reached England this week intended
to hint, with more or less of obscurity, that the Sultan has been intriguing against the British in Egypt. According to the story, he has employed for this purpose his private secretary, Kadri Bey, who has been living in Cairo as his representative. Kadri Bey, it is alleged, has been instigating disturbances. The matter was brought before the Embassy in Constantinople, the recall of Kadri Bey was demanded and granted, and he is not to be replaced. Kadri Bey has clearly been recalled, but the Sultan's motive in intriguing is not clear. He can hardly hope to gain anything unless he changes the Khedive, and he cannot possibly do that -without obtaining British consent. It is quite as possible that he was only watching the movement towards an Arabic Kaliphate, which is said to have revived, and that Kadri Bey, while organising his forces against that idea, became suspected of intriguing against the Egyptian Government. Whatever its object, the Sultan's policy has once more failed.
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