The Government, on the request of the Khedive, has despatched
Mr. Stephen Cave, lately Judge-Advocate-General, to Cairo, to advise the Egyptian Government as to its finance, and, we presume, to report the exact state of affairs to the Cabinet at home. The Selection has rather surprised the public, who are not accustomed to consider Mr. Cave a strong man. He may, however, be under- rated, as men who cannot talk well in this country usually are ; he has had experience in the management of large undertakings ; and he is by position as well as character above the suspicion of tolerating the kind of" jobbery which spoils all such missions .1 the East. The danger is lest Mr. Cave should be hoodwinked, lent after all, it is the Khedive's interest that be should know the truth, and in the Khedive's power to. ruin any official who puts awith false information. His grand difficulty will be to nd where the Khedive's rights as private proprietor and his liabilities as ruler begin and end. Mr. Lowe would have been the man, but he would have eaten the Khedive, to begin with.
