530 THE STORY OF THE KHEDIVATE.

its share in the reconquest of the Soudan, 484 Assouan, in 1885, 422 ; the great dam, 50s Atbara, battle of, 489 Austria, relations with the Khcdivate, 147, 148, 181, 233, 237, 294 ; represented at the London Conference, 371 ; action in the Caisse for the Soudan advance, 481 B. Baggara, tribe, 424, 496 Baird, General, 360 Baker, Sir Samuel, in Equatoria, 80, 165 ; his plan for recovery of Soudan, 452 sqq. Baker, Col. Valentine, Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Police, 331, 332, 439 ; in the Soudan, 348 sqq. Bank, a State, proposed, 143 Baring, Sir Evelyn. See Cromer Barrot Pasha, Foreign Secretary, 211 Bavarelli, M., member of Commission of Inquiry, 175, 181 Beaconsfield, Earl of, buys Khedive's Suez Canal shares, 102, 103 ; despatches the Cave Mission, 133, 138 ; his attitude towards British intervention, 138, 139, 178 ; his view of General Gordon's mission, 353 Bedouin Arabs, 329 Bellaigue de B<has, Comte, approached by Ismail's second Ministry, 210; Commissioner of Public Debt, 232 Berber, in the Mahdi's hands, 380; recovered, 489 Beyrout, bombardment of, 16 Bismarck, Prince von, policy in Egypt, 174, 194,214, 215 Blignieres, M. de, member of Commission of Inquiry, 175, 180 ; Minister of Public Works, 192, 197, 205 ; protests against Omar's dismissal, 203 ; proposed financial reforms, 207; his dismissal, 210; Controller, 231, 232 ; resigns, 272 Blum Pasha, member of Committee of Finance, 431 Blunt, Mr. Wilfrid, his support of Arabi, 259 sqq.y 266 Bonds, issued by Ismail, 93 Brassey, Peto and Betts, Messrs., 23 Broadley, Mr. A. M., counsel for Arabi, I Bulwer, Sir Henry, 336 Barton, Sir Richard, 330 C.

Cairo, French occupation of, 4; the modem city, 471, 517 sq, Caisse de la Dette, institution and regulation, 146, 147, 208, 23s, 333 ; dispute on Lord Northbrook's proposal, 399 436 ; refuses money for reconquest of Soudan, 481, 402 Capitulations, the, 91 ; explained, 119 sqq. ; modification of, 122 sqq. 171 ; continuance of, 334 Cave, Mr. Stephen, 134 sqq. See next Cave Mission, the, 51, 71, 08, 133, 152, 167 ; its object, 134; and report, 140, 166 Cazes, Due de, 151 Chamber of Notables, 209 ; convoked by Ismail, 239, 240 ; by Tewfik, 265 sqq. ; action with the Arabi party, 270, 272, 274, 292 ; in Lord Dufferin's plan, 334 Cherif Pasha, his action towards the Commission of Inquiry, 182, 183 ; Premier of Ismail's second Minbtrv, 210 ; urges Ismail's abdication, 216 ; takes premiership under Tewfik, 264, 267 ; resigns, 344, 345 Childers, Mr., at the London Conference, 371 Churchill, Lord Randolph, 161 ; scheme for Turkish intervention, 409, 410, 412 Circassian officers, intrigues against 253. 273 Colvin, Sir Auckland, Commissioner of Public Debt, 232 ; Controller, 245 ; opposes Arabi, 257, 264, 292 ; resigns, 272 ; financial adviser, 329, 431 .

Commission of Inquiry (1878), appointed, 174 ; its object and composition, 175 sqo, ; and report, 187 ; resumption, 208 ; resignation, 211, 231 Commission of Inquiry (Alexandria massacre), 283 Commission of Liquidation, appointed, 231 sqq. ; its investigations, 234, 238 sqq. ; report, 235 j its settlement unworkable, 30c Commission of Public Debt, appointed, 147, 208. See Caisse de la Dette Committee, financial reform, appointed, 431