232 THE STORY OF THE KHEDIVATE.

was composed of much the same personages as the I Commission of Inquiry, the only important alterations being that Sir C. Rivers Wilson, who had been made a K.C.M.G. on his return from Egypt, replaced M. de Lesseps as the nominal, as well as the acting President; that Major Baring and M. de Blignies became, as the two Controllers, ex-officio members of the Commission ; while the vacancies thus caused were filled up by the appointment of Mr. Auckland Colvin and Comte Bellaigue de Boghas as Commissioners of the Public Debt It is obvious that the deposition of Ismail had materially modified the scope of the Commission's investigation. The real aim and object of the efforts made so persistently by its predecessor, and resisted so obstinately by Ismail, was not to elucidate bygone history, but to make public a mass of information, which would not only compel the then Khedive to surrender the vast properties he had procured for himself at the cost of the State, but would debar him from ever again appropriating public funds for like purposes. With Ismail in exile, with Tewfik on the throne, with an administration virtually directed by the Anglo-French Controllers, and with the estates of the ex- Khedive and his family restored to the public Domain, it had become far more urgent to effect some compromise between Egypt and her creditors than to rake up the misdoings by which Egypt, under Ismail, had been brought to the verge of ruin. The change of name } given to the new Commission represented the change