THE "CONDOMINIUM. 509 entitled to princely rank will be the brothers and sisters of the reigning Khedive, and his own sons and daughters. I hope his Highness may prove equally successful in inducing his relations to follow his own example in having only one lawful wife, and in managing their estates intelligently and economically. My hopes, however, in this respect are stronger than my anticipations.

The only other event of grave importance to Egypt, which occurred during the period that elapsed between the fall of the Khalifa and the present day, is the death of Nubar Pasha, which took place in December, 1899. Its importance consisted not so much in the withdrawal of Nubar from public life, as in its historic interest. In the closing days of his last Premiership, Nubar sustained a serious accident, which to some extent crippled him and which rendered it advisable for him to leave Egypt, in order to undergo medical treatment in Europe. I think, however, if he had been an inmate of the Palace of Truth, he would have had toadmit that his ailments were rather the excuse for than the reason of, his voluntary exile. Under the administration of Egypt by British officials there was no room for a native statesman with strong individual views and ideas of his own, which were not altogether in harmony with the policy of the Power whose armies occupied Cairo. Given the existing conditions of Egypt, a native Prime Minister is necessarily a sort of fifth wheel in the administrative coach,.