334 THE STORY OF THE KHEDIVATE.

Arabi mutiny had been put down by British troops.

In all criminal matters the Capitulations still hold good ; and at every step the reforms introduced by the British officials in the Egyptian service are hampered and retarded by the International Boards, which exercise a jurisdiction in their several departments quite independent of, and in most instances hostile to, the interests alike of England and of Egypt All these inconveniences we have to put up with because Lord Dufferin was not allowed to contemplate the contingency of our occupation becoming permanent, and was obliged to make out a case which, while it not only justified the postponement of any immediate withdrawal of the British troops, gave no encouragement to the idea that the postponement involved any change of policy on the part of his Majesty's Ministry, or any modification of their resolve to terminate our military occupation at the earliest date possible. The Abb6 de Sieyes never devised a more ingenious constitution than that which Lord Dufferin suggested in his report, as affording guarantees of security and order, which, when firmly established, would enable the British troops to be withdrawn from Egypt without imperilling the safety of the State. The Khedive, in as far as can be made out, was to remain the embodiment of personal government. But his power, as an arbitrary autocrat, was to be kept within due bounds by the moral influence of an enlightened Ministry, a wisely selected Legislative Council, and a representative Chamber of Notables. Nothing of course