"SPOILING THE EGYPTIANS."

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1125, 8 September 1882, Page 2

"SPOILING THE EGYPTIANS."

+. „ A Parliamentary Paper, by Sir Edward Malet, has just been issued (says an English exchange), which pretty clearly accounts for the general dissatisfaction with the Khedive's rule, and for the popular rising which has ended in the murder of 250 Europeans. The fact is scarcely to be credited,. but throughout the whole Government of there is scarcely an official appointment, which is worth having, tilled by an !■ gyptian. At the present time ,there are some 1 300 Europeans with comfortable salaries living iv comparative luxury, while the Egyptians are excluded from taking part in the Government of the country. English, French, Germans, Italians, Greeks, Swiss, Americans and Poles swarm thti various public offices, while the Egyptians are elbowed out into the cold. The secretary of tho Khedive's own private office is a Frenchman with £1200 a-year ; the permanent head of the finance, department is an Austrian with £2000 a-year; at the head of tho and Registry are'an Englishman and a Frenchman, dividing £3000 between them. The Director of the Lighthouses and his deputy are Englishmen i one with £1600, and the other with £1000 a-year. At the head of tho War Department is an American with £1500 a-year. The Director of the Police at Cairo is an Italian. Kosseau Bey, a Frenchman, gets £2500 a-year, as Director-General of Public Works. An Englishman with £3000 a-year is President of the Railway Council, and his second in command is a Frenchman with 1.2500 a-year ; the commissaries of the state domain, who get L3OOO a-year each, are English and French. Altogether L 400,000 are an nually received by Kuropean officials. Wlitn Ismail was Khedive it was only necessary to belong to the races which lent him money to get a place of some kind in his service. The army alone was allowed to remain Egyptian, and it is the army which has at length risen in protest. " Spoiling the Egyptians " has been a game as old as the Pyramids, but few persons supposed it was carried to such an extent as this.