10 401 ill any previous year, namely, L12, of whom G7 were Moslems. All the 28 students of the fourth year were granted the diploma and 23 have entered the irrigation service.

The School of Agriculture is unable to accommodate all the applicants for admission, and out of 77 candidates in October last only 35 could be received. Of 138 students, all but 10 are Egyptians, and 80 per cent, are Moslems. A native vice-principal has recently been appointed and the post was given to one of the earliest students of the school, who was subsequently a successful member of the staff. Of the 14 students who jDassed the final diploma examination last June, 9 have found employment in Egypt and one has gone to England for further study.

In the Boulak Technical School there was inaugurated last October a section of industrial arts and crafts which will specialize in weaving, internal decorative work, and furniture making; an English instructor has been ajjpointed and 11 candidates were admitted to the first year s course; the most promising students will be selected at the end of two or three years for further training in England. Another new feature has been the introduction of a practical course of training in the building trades.

42 applicants were admitted to the Mansourali Trades School, bringing the total attendance up to 90. A second teacher of drawing and mathematics and a mechanic instructor in the engineering workshop, both Egyptians, have been appointed. All the 10 students who completed the school course in July successfully pjissed the certificate examination, and have since found places in neighbouring workshops.

At the Boulak Model Workshops 01 boys completed their four years’ training and obtained remunerative posts within a short time. The workshops have maintained the good quality of their work and an unusually large number of orders has been received. As an experiment, evening classes were started for boys who had finished the four years’ course ; 04 students were enrolled and the attendance was good.

The first four years?’ course at the Assiout j\lodel Workshops was completed in December aud there is good prospect of the first batch of 49 hoys finding remunerative work. The attendance numbered 228 as compared with 199 last year.

Hoot- and shoe-making was commenced in tlie saddlery section as bging a trade likely to provide employment in the neighbourhood.

58. Khedivial Library.

The number of volumes in the library at the end of the year was 70,580. Of the new acquisitions, 2,207 volumes were added to the European department, for the most part works on English and French literature and jurisprudence. In the Oriental department there were 752 additions, but no manuscripts of much value.

There has been a decrease in the number of visitors to the reference rooms from 24.000 in 1908 to 19,000 in 1909, while in the exhibition rooms there were only 22.000 visitors, as compared with 41,000 in 1908. On the other hand, the number of volumes issued has risen from 24,000 to 25,000.

59. Conclusion.

The foregoing pages are written chiefly for the information of the public, both iu England and in Egypt, who are interested iu the affairs of this country, aud I trust that it will be considered that, under circumstances of exceptional difiiculty, the co-operatiou of the British and Egyptian officials in the service of His Highness the Khedive has succeeded in maintaining the normal rate of progre.ss in the various departments of the State.

Before concluding I should like to add a few words for the benefit more especia,!ly ut the Englishmen at present in the service-and those who may be desirous of entering it. My observations are intended not so much for those in higher positions, to whom they will contain nothing new, but for the numerous class of junior officials, with many of whom I am unfortunately unable to be in personal contact.

Some uneasiness has been caused among the latter aud apprehensions felt that their careers and prospects of promotion may be unfavourably aliected owing to the fact that the efforts made during the last twenty yeai’S to train the young generation of Egyptians for administrative functions are now beginning to bear fruit, with the result that natives are becoming qualified, to fill posts of responsibility hitherto held by Europeans. It may therefore be as well to explain how the matter stands, in order that these apprehensions may be dispelled. Notwithstanding tiie improvement in the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online. Copyright (c) 2006 ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved.