4 Occupation Of Egypt

72 Many indications of this could be cited, if there were room. A
parade of the victors of Tel-el-Kebir through the streets of London
stirred little excitement. Two ministers went to make speeches at
Liverpool, and had to report on returning to town that references to
Egypt fell altogether flat.

M45 Egyptian Finance

73 Milner's _England in Egypt_, p. 185.

M46 County Franchise

_ 74 Saturday Review_, April 12, 1884.

M47 Bill Rejected By The Lords

75 Edinburgh, August 30, 1884.

76 Corn Exchange, Edinburgh, August 30, 1884.

M48 Negotiation
M49 Negotiation And Persuasion

77 Dinner of the Eighty Club, July 11, 1884.

M50 The Queen's Suggestion
M51 Conferences With Lord Salisbury
M52 The Question Settled
M53 Mr. Plunket's Speech
M54 The Case Of Ireland

78 Lord Waterford, July 7, 1884.

79 December 11, 1883.

80 "I am not at all sure," Mr. Forster rashly said (March 31, 1884),
"that Mr. Parnell will increase his followers by means of this
bill."

81 This was only the second occasion on which his party in cardinal
divisions voted with the government.

M55 The Mahdi

82 Wingate, pp. 50, 51.

83 The Soudan was conquered in 1819 by Ismail Pasha, the son of Mehemet
Ali, and from that date Egypt had a more or less insecure hold over
the country. In 1870 Sir Samuel Baker added the equatorial provinces
to the Egyptian Soudan.

84 Mr. Gladstone said on Nov. 2, 1882: "It is no part of the duty
incumbent upon us to restore order in the Soudan. It is politically
connected with Egypt in consequence of its very recent conquest; but
it has not been included within the sphere of our operations, and we
are by no means disposed to admit without qualification that it is
within the sphere of our responsibility." Lord Granville, May 7,
1883: "H.M. government are in no way responsible for the operations
in the Soudan, which have been undertaken under the authority of the
Egyptian government, or for the appointment or actions of General
Hicks."

M56 Policy Of Evacuation
M57 Despatch Of Gordon

85 It was a general mistake at that time to suppose that wherever a
garrison fell into the hands of the Mahdi, they were massacred. At
Tokar, for instance, the soldiers were incorporated by the victors.