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Show DOWN-TRODDEN EGYPT. Our telegraphic advices from Egypt indicate that all interested are working with a will, endeavoring to patch up the ill-feelings that have been engendered by the late war. the Khedive has made a triumphal return home, and appearances prognosticate that the country will eventually gain by the reforms that will undoubtedly be introduced by the civilizers. We trust that England will complete her self-imposed task, by seeing that the poor are not oppressed by those in authority, which has been the rule hitherto. Local rulers have preyed on the poor and procured the silence and support of the rich by bribes, without ever rendering any authentic account of their stewardship. Corruption and misrule in the past, were the main incentives that caused these people to rise in their might against tyranny. We hope that war reforms will produce a season of fruitful peace, open up new avenues of trade, and give more liberty to the subject than he has hitherto possessed. European intervention will assuredly strike a death blow to these time-honored fortresses of administrative abuse, and enable Egypt, so fertile in her resources, to pay off in a few short years all her former bonded indebtedness and the war claims, which England will undoubtedly make against her. Modern improvements will vastly aid her in her task, if the "Shylocks" who have hitherto ruled, are cast from their seats and significant warnings given that will prevent their successors from gliding into their cheating grooves. Rulers should be taught to give a true account of their stewardship, collect a fixed rate of taxes from all alike, whether rich or poor, and protect the weak from the strong. The result would be a general prosperity among a hitherto down-trodden people. Sir Garnet Wolsely, who has been laid up with sickness during the past week, has, by his, strategic ability, brought the war swiftly to a close, for which service his country will doubtless on his return honor him with a marshal's baton, and raise him to the peerage. General European satisfaction is expressed at the culmination of the war. Postmaster Fawcett, in a speech delivered at Hockney's predicted that reforms will be at once inaugurated. |