450 THE STORY OF THE KHEDIVATE.

Mahometans, in a Mahometan country, were liable to be tried and punished, if convicted, by Christian judges. He consented reluctantly to a small increase in the number of European judges. But when the Khedive was called upon to appoint Sir John Scott, the late Chief Justice of Bombay, as Legal Adviser to the Egyptian Government, and when Sir John reported that the whole system of native judicature was most unsatisfactory, and could only be improved, by filling all the principal posts in the administration of the law by European judges, Riaz opposed the report, and tried to excite popular opinion against its acceptance. Our Consul -General, however, supported the report in question, and Riaz thereupon resigned his office, and was succeeded by Mustapha Pasha Fehmi, a good type of the educated Egyptian official, somewhat after the fashion of Cherif Pasha, but not a man of any strong personal individuality.

On that account, perhaps, he was all the better fitted to carry out a policy which is practically, though not nominally, directed in accordance with the instructions of the British Agency.

Throughout both the Premierships which intervened between Nubar's fall and the death of Tewfik, the war between the Dervishes and the Egyptian army, commanded by British officers and reinforced by British troops, continued to run its course without any very decisive results. A succession of raids by the Dervishes, wuth the view of forcing their way into Egypt, were repulsed with success. A number of