THE KHEDIVE AND THE CAIRORIOTS.

Press, Volume XXXI, Issue 4316, 30 May 1879, Page 3

THE KHEDIVE AND THE CAIRORIOTS.

['• Pall Mall Budget"] When we first hoard of the riots at Cairo, we were inolined to think them of small importance. Subsequent reports, however, and a little reflection thereon, somewhat modify oar/riewa. Whhb is She .probability that & military dmeute should break out in Cairo, ■without some understanding that it would rbe ! rather agreeable than otherwise to the Khedive himself, the lord of all things Egyptian ? Rioting in the streets of Alexandria,, apt outcry front the-'.mixed population of that city, would have been comprehensible enough without doop inquiry. But a militaryriot in Cairo is qaite another matter ; and if it is suspected that the rioters believed with: more or less reason thai th? Khedive would smile upon their proceeding?, his Highness'e general conduct and eharaoter certainly do not discountenanoa the suspicion. Story'Aq these reports of the Khedive's sallying out to disperse the mob do away with the suspicion by any meanb ; while aa for his declaration in the Oofincil of .Ministers that "he would not be answerable for the public safety," or, as .another report has it, that " he could not guarantee the continued traDquility of the Arab population," if Nubar Pasha remained in pfllp6, it is so ridiculouis a figment aa. to place ,hie whole conduct in the worst possible light. Ik is not only an absurdity~bufc a threat; and a threat of extreme audacity. What it comes to is, that it is quite easy far him* to whom every man in Egypt pays unquestionable obedience, to cast oil upon this little insurrectionary flame, and yet not allow bis hand to be seen; and that rioliog may certainly be expected to spread un- '. less he has his own way in Council.; .0* course it is te the last degreei v absurd to'talk of a fpantaneous rielng against Ifobar Pasha • and the absurdity, of it makes the Khedive's language so significant. Bat whether he will be allowed to introduce into Egypt the South American manner of influencing the ccoduefc of affairs may be doubted. .-For ourselres, we are inolined ■ to aay positively tbait be will not be permitted to- <lo so. If the Khedive had reason rto he dissatitfled wifft STubar Pasha— good reason, we mean—there could not have been much difficulty in displacing him is a regular and orderly way. The presuniptioilis; fctat there could havo been no reason, or the Khedive would not have resorted, to fcfae extremely rough insinuation that H jfTubor did not go he would abstain from using hia own absolute authority in quelling a dot} abatinenco being plain encouragement under tho circumstances. It seeas to tie impossible) bat that this little opitode should be'eharply examined by the Q-oTernments of Bngiand and Prance. Those Cbvercments can herdly insist, under any ciromnetancef, xipon the reetoration of Nnbar Pasha to office; but what they will insiat upon without donbt is, that their own effortw to remedy the mieebiefß of the Khedive's role ehall not be iu?doß9 in thie violent manner. And it eeens* only reaeoTable to anticipate that tho Saltan may have; some thing to say to hi* vsaa&l on the eubject. , It .is rather "too absurd for the Porte to be calling ont to the ooTernments of England and France" for Commi?sionara to assist in. settling its flnancittl difficulties, while m Egyptiimilar ofpcialfl are being terroriz?d by a wlticfr' evidently eupperues that ita conduct plaa«39j emd parjbape eerves, the Klutdixe, ... . .