ENGLAND AND EGYPT.
170 TUE EDITOR OF TRH .SPEOTATOR-1
SIE,—A few days ago I received a letter from a young relative who is in the service of the Egyptian Government. He writes from some place on the White Nile. "The Sirdar honoured this district with a visit on the 11th, and told me that he was very pleased with what he had seen. We certainly gave bins a great reception. Some ten thousand yelling natives—many mounted on camels, others on most beautiful horses—certainly made an imposing sight. I led the three hundred horsemen of our own neighbourhood at the gallop, armed with a long spear, right up to the dais on which the Sirdar was standing." A year or so ago this young fellow was working for the Oriental Languages School at Oxford. I have no wish to exaggerate the importance of such things, hut they give me a comforting conviction that our race is not by any means "played out."—I am, Sir, &c., BENEX.
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