Sultan and Khedive Headed Toward War
THE long-pending troubles between the Sultan and his Viceroy in Egypt are to end, it seems, in war. Russia has interfered, but not as a peacemaker, and, assured of the Czar’s powerful aid, the Khedive prepares for war. It is well known that he has drawn much of his armament from this country, has shipped sixty thousand Remington rifles, and has more under contract, and has enlisted numbers of American soldiers as officers of his battalions. Such a struggle is likely to lead to other European complications of more serious nature, and this speck of war may possibly become, in brief time, a cloud obscuring no small part of Europe.—N. Y. Tribune.