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Show However incompetent others may regard the khtdive of Egypt, that mouarch evidently doesu't propose to consider himself ai a bad financier and a babyish sort of rulor generally. He is disposed to run bis own government, govern-ment, and defy not only England and Franco, who have a morigagoon him and liia poaseeeioue, but al;o the sultan by whose auDorance be holds his titia. It ii reported of bim that lie will fight before longer submitting to loreign interference in hia finances, or permitting any further Anglo-French Anglo-French control of his expenditures. Tiie ai.lt.tn is not in a condition to go to war w Ih bis feudatory, and announces that he will not revoke tbe kbedive'a title, but ia nevertheless liitploattd with the latter' unruly conduct. It may be unpleasant for the Egyptian ruler, but he must smother bis obstinacy, or England and France will quietly sit down on him, and tako Egypt unto theraaelvea. England needs that country in her business and as pretty nearly the whole of the $-150,000,000 debt is due to Britain and British subjects it is only a question of time when tbe ktiedi7e'a territory will be a British province. |