A number of rumours have been spread this week as
to the action of the new Government in Egypt. It is asserted that Dongola is to be retained, that Sir H. Drummond Wolff is to supersede Sir Evelyn Baring, and that Tewfik, the present Khedive, is to be removed. The stories may all be true, but as yet they rest on very little evidence. What appears to be true is that Sir H. D. Wolff is to be sent to Cairo to make some inquiries, that the permanent frontier will be fixed at Akasbeh in Dongola, and not at Wady Halfa,—a difference of only fifty .miles,—and that Lord Wolseley has been summoned home to.a consultation. The statement about Tewfik is founded upon Lord R. Churchill's violent outbreak against him; but if we are to accept those outbreaks as indications of future policy, the prospect will be dark indeed. We must go to war with Russia at once to begin with. Tewfik may be removed in pursuance of a policy ; but past abuse of him will make no difference except to the-reputation of his violent assailant.
