INDEX.

537 Finance, 431 ; again Premier, 449 ; attitude towards reforms, I449, 463 ; resignation, 450 ; reappointment, 463 ; after the frontier incident, 465 ; his resignation, 466 Ribton, Mr., 283 Romaine, Mr., appointed financial controller, 154 ; connection with Ismail's first Ministry, 192, 196, 210 Rosehery, Earl of, Egjrptian policy, 463 Rothschild, Messrs., Suez share loan, 103 ; Domain lands loan, 192, 197, 199. 233 Rowton, Lord, 103 Royle, Mr. C, 287 Russia, intervention of (183 1 ), 16 ; represented at the London Conference, 371 ; action against the Anglo-Turkish Convention, 414, 415 ; action in the Caisse against the Soudan advance, 481 S.

Said Pasha, Viceroy, 22, 49, 56 ; his accession, 22 ; raises Egypt's first loan, 24, 52 ; grants concession for Suez Canal, 24, 73 ; death, 71 Salisbury, Marquis of, 178, 390 ; Egyptian policy, 406 sqq, 412, 440 ; in the matter of Fashoda, 494 sqq, Scott, Sir John, legal adviser, 450 Senaar, occupation of, under Mahomet Ali, 10 Seymour, Sir Beauchamp (Lord Alcester), bombards Alexandria, 288, 289 Shendy, in the hands of the Mahdi, 380 Sinkat, besieged by Dervishes, 347 ; taken, 349 Slavery, Ismail's plans for suppression, 80 ; Gordon's crusade against, 165, 247, 248, 317, 376; nominal abolition of, 316 ; its consequences, 317 ; Gordon's plan of re-establishment, 355» 356, 376. 377 Smuggling, prevalence of, 121 Soubreyan, Baron de, on the British occupation, 343 Soudan, first invasion of, by Ibrahim, 9, 10 ; Ismail's expeditions, 68, 80, 164 ; under Gordon, 165, 247 sqq, ; rise and spread of Mahdism, 319 sqq. ; evacuation decided on, 339 sqq, 346, 381 ; evacuation unpopular in Egypt, 341, 342, 344, 451 ; British intervention necessitated, 373, 378 sqq, ; indifference in Egypt, 381 ; progress of the campaign, 381 sqq, ; the Mahdi Wctorious, 386 ; the Suakin campaign, 386 sqq, ; evacuation of, 390, 393 ; British apathy for its recovery, 452, 473, 474; Sir Samuel Baker's plan, 452 sqq, ; resumes trade with Egypt, 473 ; French negotiations and expedition, 44 sqq, ; British reconquest begins, 478 sqq. 483 ; completed, 491 ; new administration of, 499 97-Stanton, Colonel, Consul -General, loi, Stead, Mr. W. T., 3J2 Stephenson, General Sir Frederick, 379, 422 ; at Ginnis, 423 Stephenson, Sir Robert, constructor of first Egyptian railway, 20 Stewart, General Sir Herbert, at Abu Klea, 382 Stewart, Colonel, accompanies General Gordon to Khartoum, 355 ; murdered, 381 Stone, General, Commander-in-Chief, opposes Arabi, 257 Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, 337 Suakin, British occupation of, 349; first expedition from, 358; second expedition from, 387, 380 Suakin-Berber route, importance of in Soudan war, 359 ; railway, construction of, 387 ; abandoned, 388 Succession to the Khedivate, rearranged, 61 sqq, Suez Canal, first concession granted, 24, 32 ; early theories and opposition, 26 sqq, ; terms of the original concession, 33, 34 ; Ismail's revision and assistance, 34, 65, 66; the corvee arbitration, 38, 39 ; cost of coastniction, 40 ; the Khaireddin lawsuit, 41 sqq, ; the opening, 52, 73 sqq. ; concessions granted by Said recalled, 66 ; no profit to Egypt, 55, 103, 401, 405 ; shares sold to Great Britain, 102, 103, 132 ; threatened by Arabi, 295 ; occupied by British troops, 297, 298 ; neutrality question, 297 ; at the London Convention, 399 sqq. ; a rival canal projected, 401 sqq. Suez Canal Company formed, 32 ; negotiations with Said, 33 ; and Ismail, 34, 65, 66 ; the corvee arbitration, 37 sqq. ; the Khaireddin suit, 4i» 43 ; and the London Convention,