THE "CONDOMINIUM 99 Convention between England and Egypt for joint administration of the Soudan — Conditions of Convention — Autocratic character of existing administration — Anomalous system has worked satisfactorily — Khedive restricts number of princes — Death of Nubar Pasha-Reminiscences of his last days — His funeral at Alexandria.

There is a certain appropriateness in the fact that the last important event I have to narrate, in the tangled complications which have characterized the relations between England and Egypt throughout the existence of the Khedivate, should be the creation of a new form of government, for which, in as far as I am aware, the annals of history afford no parallel.

In the first days of 1899 — s, while the Khalifa was still wandering about the Soudan at the head of a powerful army — a Convention was concluded between the British and Egyptian Governments as to the form under which the administration of the Soudan was to be conducted in future. As a matter of fact, the British Government recommended the Egyptian Government to adopt certain arrangements with regard to the Soudan, and under the existing relations between the two Governments, as I Jiave already explained, a recommendation from the