England and the Eastern Question.
By Uriah Smith
ENGLAND has bought the Suez Canal. In reference to this transaction the two following paragraphs appeared in the Detroit Evening News, the first as a news item, the second as an editorial comment:— London, Nov. 26.—The purchase of the Suez Canal by Great Britain meets with general approval in government and commercial circles and from the people generally. The foreign powers, while weighing the political significance of the purchase, are understood to have offered no obstacle to Britain’s acquiring control of this great highway of commerce. That is a pretty noteworthy piece of business, the purchase of the Suez Canal by Britain. It is impossible not to regard it with reference to the Eastern question. It gives England apparently one of the keys to the situation; the Czar holds the other. It is not unlikely that the present generation will see the Sphinx enrolled as a British subject, and the British lion roaming up and down the hills and valleys of Palestine.