Review of reviews and world's work . le it possibly would be a real relief to oureastern frontier, and that England being in Egyptshould stay there. The British ^^ch a remark from such a man naturallyGrasp on makes one reflect upon the possible conse-gypt. quences of the Liberal victory at the pollson the future of the Nile Valley. There are somewho imagine, from various ill-considered utterances,that when Mr. Gladstone reoccupies Downing streetEngland vdll evacuate Egypt. England will make nosuch mistake. The English occupation is Mr. Glad-stones own handiwork. Sir Evelyn Baring, who hasbeen
Review of reviews and world's work . le it possibly would be a real relief to oureastern frontier, and that England being in Egyptshould stay there. The British ^^ch a remark from such a man naturallyGrasp on makes one reflect upon the possible conse-gypt. quences of the Liberal victory at the pollson the future of the Nile Valley. There are somewho imagine, from various ill-considered utterances,that when Mr. Gladstone reoccupies Downing streetEngland vdll evacuate Egypt. England will make nosuch mistake. The English occupation is Mr. Glad-stones own handiwork. Sir Evelyn Baring, who hasbeen raised to the peerage in recognition of his mani-fold services at Cairo, is an old Whig diplomatist,and the redemption of the land of the Pharaohs frommisrule and oppression is the one bit of work abroad THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 657 ?upon which the Liberal party can honestly prideitself. As it has to bear the responsibility for thecarnage of Tel-el-Kebir and the Sondan. it wouldsimply not dare to sanction so gieat a betrayal of. SIR EVELYN BARING,Recently Created a Peer of England. trust as woiild be the evacuation of Egypt. LordEosebery will be at the Foreign Office, and Sir and Mr. Labotichere will have to keep si-lence. So far as British imperial interests are con-cerned in almost every part of the world, there arefew well-informed Liberals—even on the front oppo-sition bench—who would not admit in their candidmoments that a change of ministry would be a changefor the worse. But although that is admitted, it isabsurd to assume that it will be so much worse as toentail a scuttle policy in Egypt. November is notso bright as June, but even in November the sun isstill in the skv. Representatives from two British colonies^epatatfsti ^isited London last month with very dif-ferent petitions, deputations for andagainst the demand that the elected representatives of40,000 whites in Natal should practically be investedwith sovereign power over the 600,000 blacks in t
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