THE BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA Khedive leaves Cairo for Alexandria — Difficulties of his position — Arabi orders armament of harbour forts — British Admiral demands cessation of armament as being inconsistent with safety of British fleet— Arabi refuses compliance — Bombardment conmienced and Egyptian forts silenced on the same day — Arabi withdraws army to Kafr Douar, and advises Khedive to demand a truce — Khedive places himself under British protection and dismisses Arabi — Chamber of Notables protests against Arabi's dismissal and repudiates authority of the Khedive.

It is not my purpose to enter at any length upon the military aspect of the campaigns which ended in the British occupation of Egypt. My object in these pages is to give an intelligible account of the chain of circumstances which have rendered Egypt, to all practical intents and purposes, a dependency of the British Empire. Nobody is less disposed than I am to underrate the importance of our military occupation. It has been throughout, and is still to-day, the bottom fact of the situation. But the broad results of this occupation are scarcely, if at all, affected by the character of the military operations through which it was brought about To any one who wishes for fuller details of these operations than \