nd it is to be hoped will get for the people what
he demanded before his dismissal.

"It is against all reason to expect any straightforward dealings
in any Sultan, Khedive, or Ameer; the only hope is in the people
they govern, and the raising of the people should be our object.

"There is no real loyalty towards the descendants of the Sandjak
of Salonica in Egypt; the people are Arabs, they are Greeks. The
people care for themselves. It is reiterated over and over again
that Egypt is prosperous and contented. I do not think it has
altered at all, except in improving its finances for the benefit
of the bondholders. The army may be paid regularly, but the lot
of the fellaheen and inhabitants of the Soudan is the same
oppressed lot as before. The prisons are as full of unfortunates
as ever they were, the local tribunals are as corrupt, and Tewfik
will always oppose their being affiliated to the mixed tribunals
of Alexandria, and thus afford protection to the judges of the
local tribunals, should they adjudicate justly. Tewfik is
essentially one of the Ameer class. I believe he would be willing
to act uprightly, if by so doing he could maintain his absolute
power. He has played a difficult game, making stock of his fear
of his father and of Halim, the legitimate heir according to the
Moslem, to induce the European Governments to be gentle with him,
at the same time resisting all measures which would benefit his
people should these measures touch his absolute power. He is
liberal only in measures which do not interfere with his
prerogative.

"It was inevitable that the present sort of trouble should arise.
The Controllers had got the finances in good order, and were
bound to look to the welfare of the people, which could only be
done by the curtailment of Tewfik's power. The present
arrangement of Controllers and Consul-Generals is defective. The
Consul-Generals are charged with the duty of seeing that the
country is quiet and the people well treated. They are
responsible to their Foreign Offices. The Controllers are charged
with the finances and the welfare of the country, but to whom
are they responsible? Not to Tewfik; though he pays them, he
cannot remove them; yet they must get on well with him. Not to
the Foreign Office, for it is re