EGYPT UNDER LIQUIDATION Accession of Tewfik — Nomination of Dual Control — Financial difficulties — Appointment of Commission of Liquidation — Summary of their report — The estate of Ismail Pasha Sadyk.

After Ismail had sailed for Europe, Tewfik received his formal investiture by the Sultan as Khedive of Egypt Probably few princes have ever ascended a throne beset with so many difficulties and provided with so scanty a training in the art of government.

According to the gossip of the bazaars, his mother had occupied a menial position in the Vice-regal harem, had caught the fancy of Ismail Pasha, and had given birth to Tewfik. The attachment of Ismail was of short duration; and other ladies of the harem soon supplanted Tewfik's mother in the favour of her lord and master. Her child, however, being the firstborn son of Ismail, was entitled to succeed to the Vice-regal throne; but during his father's lifetime \ Tj. -his position as heir-apparent was to him rather a / / disadvantage than otherwise. All his half-brothers were sent abroad to be educated, to learn foreign languages, and to become familiar with other races, other creeds, and other civilizations than their own.