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New Zealand Mail, Issue 558, 14 October 1882, Page 18

T»B telegrams relating to Egypt are not very intelligible, but, Bach as they are, they serve to show that affairs there are by no means in a very satisfactory state. It appears that Lord Dufeerin, British Ambassador at Constantinople, is not in harmony with the Commission appointed to try the officers and officials implicated in the rebellion, as to the withdrawal of the muleteers' transport service; and the decision of the Commission has been altered only account of his threatened resignation. It is rather strange that the names of the persons composing this Commission have not been telegraphed; bub the above incident sufficiently indicates the imprudence of the Gladstone policy in placing thereon only one English officer, and the unhappy results which are likely to arise from an •verweaning desire that the British Government should pose before Europe in a aharacterremarkable for disinterestedness. Taken in conjunction with the fickle and deceitful temper of the Porte, it is also predictive of anything but smoothness in the carrying out of future arrangements. On the 30th ult., a message conveyed the intelligence that the Porte had abandoned its note domanding the withdrawal of British troops from Egypt, on the ground that the rebellion was now over ; but by

one received on the 6th inst., the Sultan is said to have pressed Lord Duffebin to state definitely when the troops will be withdrawn, and threatened to appeal to the Powers, unless an early decision were come to. The danger to which Britain is at the present moment exposed is that of appearing to yield to something like a collective intimidation, and nothing would more eertainly tend, not only to retard the settlement of Egypt, but also to encourage the Egyptian population to foster an insurrectionary spirit. We may be mistaken, but our belief is very decided that, if Mr Gladstone continue in the course he is at present pursuing,. the fruits of the campaign will all be lost, and the necessity for further war operations be renewed at no distant date.