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would be an anomaly within the Empire, as is India. The
relationship between British and Egyptian peoples is one
that would be better regulated by definite contracts than
left to the undefined solidarity suitable as between kindred
peoples with common interests and ideals.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the future relations
of England and Egypt will be those of two foreign but
friendly nations sharing certain responsibilities of inter-
national importance regulated by international treaties,
such as the Canal and the Nile. Nor is there any reason
to fear that in this relationship there will be any after-
math of the whirlwind that we have lately been reaping
in Egyptf For, as we have seen, the Egyptian nation is
no Phoenix like those unfamiliar and formidable fowls in
Moscow and Angora that frighten us as much as did the
conflagration from which they emerged. Egypt is still
the Magic Hen that is as ready to lay golden eggs
for Jack as for the Giant. The only question for us to
decide is whether we are going to play Jack or the Giant.
GROWTH OF FOREIGN TRADE.

| imports in thousand | exports in thousand | percentage of
| pounds sterling. | pounds sterling, | 1884.
| | Gold | | Gold | |
| Merchandise and Tobacco. | and Silver | Merchandise and Tobacco. | and Silver | Imports. | Exports »
| | Specie. | | Specie. | |
1884 | | — | — | — | 100 | IOO
1885 | £E   8,989 | 3,914 | 11,454 | 1,293 | no | 91
1890 | 8,081 | 2,971 | 12,004 | 2,085 | 99 | 96
1895 | 8,389 | 4,319 | 12,816 | 2,322 | 103 | 102
| 14,112 | 4,114 | 17,^4 | 2,602 | 172 | 136

1905
1910

21,564

4,782
12,964

20,360
28,944

3,869
7,046

264
288

162
231

1915
1920

19,364
101,880

721
399

27,046
85,467

132
12

237
1,245

215
681

| 58,224 | 617 | 59,198 | 93 | 712 | 472