Of Justice, ii. 514-23

Committee of Surveillance, ii.
518

Lord Cromer's advice on re-
form of, ii. 521
Of Education, ii. 524-42
lack of money for, ii. 527
Pashadom and, ii. 528-9
public desire for schools, ii.
532

religious instruction, ii. 533
elementary education, ii. 533
pupils and teachers, ii. 535
value of educating the women,
ii. 539-42

Of the Soudan, ii. 543-54
general system, ii. 543-8
finance, ii. 549
taxes, ii. 550-2

slavery, ii. 553

Airolles, M. Liron d', Secretary of
Commission of Inquiry, i.

45

Ala-el-Din Pasha, i. 359
Alcester, Lord (also see Sir Beau-
champ Seymour), instruc-
tions to, i. 294

Alexandria (see also Bombardment),
Arábi's responsibility for
burning, i. 297-

Anglo-French Agreement, 1904,

ii. 388-93

Annexation, the question of, i

93

Annexation of Soudan by England,
its inadvisability, ii. 113
Anti-Slavery Society and the
Soudan, i. 403, 517, ii. 50

Arábi, Ahmed, Pasha-
mutinies, i. 176-86
summons Notables, i. 187
motives of, i. 190-3, 208-9
and Sultan, i. 194, 198, 272
Minister for War, i. 243
the Arábi Ministry, i. 254-78
resignation and reinstatement
of, i. 274-8

and slaughter of Christians, i

288

dismissal of, i. 300
surrender, trial, and exile, i
323, 336

returns to Egypt, i. 337
Armenians, the, ii. 219
Army, British (in Egypt)—
in 1884, i. 420-1

Lord Northbrook on withdrawal
of, ii. 370

Wolff Convention on withdrawal

of, ii. 376-81

comment on withdrawal of, ii. 380

Bahr-el-Ghazal under the Mahdi,
ii. 41-3

Baird, Sir Alexander, i. 34, 35
Baker, Sir Samuel-

on the Soudan in 1870, i. 349
on Gordon, i. 562
Baker, General Valentine, i. 362,
ii. 482

on evacuation of Soudan, i.
376-7

despatched to Suakin, comment
on, i. 400
instructions to, i. 401

his defeat, comment, i. 404-9
Bank, Egyptian National-
proposed creation of, i. 12
created 1898, ii. 582
Baravelli, M., appointed Italian
Commissioner of Debt, i. 12
Baring, Sir Evelyn. See Lord
Cromer, also under British
Government's Egyptian
Policy

Beaman, Mr., ii. 493
Bedouins, the, ii. 198-9
Beit-el-mal, i. 53

Belgians, King of the, Gordon
and Equatorial Provinces,
i. 464-5

Berber Expedition, the corre-
spondence re, i. 537

Berbera, condition of, ii. 49

taken by Great Britain, ii. 51
Beresford, Lord Charles, ii. 9
Billot, M., ii. 385
Bismarck, Prince-

on the claims of Egypt's credi-
tors, i. 33, 132
epigram, i. 131

on proposed Conference, i. 284
on Arábi's power, i. 293
on international mandate, i.
303

his hostility to England, 1883-
1884, i. 419

Black troops in Egyptian Army,
ii. 476

Blignières, M. de—

French Commissioner of Debt,
i. 12

his character, i. 40
succeeded by M. de Bughas, i.

103

Minister of Public Works, i.

63

dismissed by Ismail, i. 77
French Controller of Finance,
i. 159
resigns, i. 257

Blum Pasha, i. 103, ii. 291
Blunt, Wilfrid, i. 235

his Arábist sympathies, i. 255
employed as intermediary, i

256
relations with Mr. Gladstone,
i. 279-80

Secret History, i. 285, 287,
297, 323, 335
Bombardment

of Alexandria,

the-
negotiations prior to, i. 267-76
British Fleet arrives, i. 277
batteries raised at Alexandria,
i. 293

Lord Alcester instructed to stop
work on them, i. 294
French opinion on, i. 294
Austrian opinion on, i. 295
Turkish opinion on, i. 296
the bombardment, i. 296-7
Bondholders, the—

point of view of the British, i.

41

point of view of the French, i

42