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Show OUTWITTED BY ENGLAND. France ami Russia Combined Not Sharp Euough to Pull the Wool Over Salisbury's Eyes. London, April !i. Lord Salisbury scored a Success in the diplomatic contest with France and Russia over the lirniau of investiture of the Khedive of Egypt. When the sultan's envoy, Eyoub, arrived at Cairo, the British minister, Sir Evelyn Baring, suspecting suspect-ing some duplicity, asked for a copy of the document, and, when Eyoub Pasha refused to communicate the contents Of the linuan until after the investiture. Minister Baring advised the khedive not to proceed with the ceremony. Eyoub Pasha then proceeded to disclose the substance of the firman, the nature of which had been known and approved by France and Russia before the missive left Constantinople. The Italian squadron, which was about to leave Alexandria, got orders to stay, and the officers on leave were recalled to their ships. Yesterday the British and Italian embassadors em-bassadors at Constantinople sent a joint note to the rand vjz;er) 6aying that the firman fir-man mnst be altered or Eyoub Pasha recalled. re-called. There seems to have been no mistaking mis-taking the emphatic and peremptory character char-acter of the note, and the immediate result Was a telegram received by the Khedive from the Sultan today, saying; that the firman fir-man would be modified, omitting the definition defini-tion of the frontier. Tonight's Cairo dispatches dis-patches state that the settlement has ex-Cited ex-Cited the greatest satisfaction there. The Foreign office is reticent, except to confirm the statement that the difficulty is on the point oi a solution, although the day for the Investiture is not fixed. -ev- |