Show THE LATE KHEDIVE EGYPT A DISPATCH last night announced the death from influenza of the khedive of 4 egypt tewfik pasha this gentleman was torn in 1862 1852 and obtained the throne of the land of the pharaohs Phara in 1879 when his father ismail pasha had ad been deposed by a decree of the sublime porte dictated by the governments of the powers of western europe then acting more harmoniously than they are now doing in the chinese question it was a critical time for egypt when tewfik pasha accepted the responsibilities pon ties of a khedive ve empt had been brought to the verge of bankrupt cy and the euro european ean powers demanded satisfactory security for the loans the country bad accepted the treasury was empty the army had not been paid for years and the taxes were hardly sufficient to maintain the luxury of the palace and to bribe influential ial dignitaries in constantinople but tewfik pasha applied his whole energy to the difficult task before him the friendly powers which had placed him on the throne used their influence in constantinople to secure for egypt a measure of independence A decree ot of 1879 gave the khedive the right to enter into customs and commercial treaties with foreign powers power and sand to control entirely the finances of the country and to maintain a regular army of men for these privileges he was to pay a yearly tribute of turkish bertelt beu telf or overa over 8 it was wah not to be expected expect ei that the dissatisfaction in the army could be quelled at once the treasury could not cot be filled without strenuous efforts and the py of the sold soldiers lers was not immediately forthcoming besides the new khedive endeavored to organize his army according to european pattern this necessitated a drill which greatly disturbed the indolent edans foreign officers were placed in command and preferred to the natives all these measures led to the revolt of the army under the leadership of colonel arabi bey which compelled the khedive to take refuge in alexandria and call upon england for assistance Ara arabi biBey bey went through the country and the people flocked to him from all sides foreigners and the friends of the khedive fled to alexandria and port said but even in the first fi rat named place the edans arose to arms for the rebel and many of the christians christian were cruelly massacred in 1882 1982 arabi araba fortified himself in one of the forts there was now no other means of quelling the revolt than for the english fleet to bombard the beautiful city this was done arabi fled but was again attacked by british and east indian forces at tell el kabir where he made a brief defense but was overpowered and aida captured this secured peace in egypt and made it possible for the Khe khedive diveto to continue his reformatory measures but it aso also gave england a plausible pretext to continue a protectorate over egypt which she still holds notwithstanding the protests of the porte and the dip declarations of france R and ad later of russia i it is to be regretted that england edgland having once assumed the responsibilities of a protector over egypt did not take energetic steps to subdue soudan which would have been accomplished had gordon pasha not been left to his bis deplorable fate in khartoum the commerce of egypt can never be fully developed as long as the mahdi maadi is allowed to continually harrass the upper parts of the country terrorizing the inhabitants in different ways the deatti death of the khedive will be the cause of many skillful skilful fill movements on the diplomatic chessboard so far as the orient is concerned the western po powers Je jealous silous of each other will no doubt beek to influence the sultan in the appointment of a successor and each of the interested governments has naturally a preference of its own the deceased Klie khedive dive is spoken of as an intelligent progressive reformer he was free from many of the poeju the east having no particular religion although professedly a disciple of mohammed towards strang on en he was uniformly courteous he never kept a imrem during his reign egypt has developed in the direction of occidental civilization as no other country has done while suffering under turkish misrule |