EGYPT UNDER BRITISH SUPERVISION. 433 ft, received salaries, paid out of the Egyptian reasury, which were very largely in excess of the -dinary remuneration accorded to the native-born !Hcials.

Principles of economy were applied, under British >ntrol, to all departments of the State. Everyhere Europeans, chiefly English, were placed in Dsitions of authority, which rendered the native eads of departments, though nominally their iperiors, in reality their inferiors. I fully appreciate le benefits, moral as well as material, which British ipervision has conferred on Egypt ; but I doubt hether our reforms, however useful in themselves, ave done much to render Egypt better fitted to overn herself under an independent native adminisation. For my own part, I do not think it is Dr the interest of England, or of Egypt, that the Egyptians should become independent within any eriod which enters into the domain of practical olitics. But if I thought such a consummation ras desirable, I should say the method adopted, f training Egypt to self-government by placing very department of the public service under British ontrol, was singularly ill-adapted to effect the end lesired.

The new system of administration under British ' upervision was unpopular, not only with the partisans I f the old order of things, under which the country 1 idLS ruled by alternate doses of kurbash and \ >acksheish, but with the small section of natives, j 2 F -