EGYPT. 



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whereupon the Sultan was seized and be- 

 lii'tul.'d in the presence of his brother, and the 

 chid-, liis fellow-conspirators, about 100 in 

 number, were also put to death. 



I l> to the 16th of December, 1875, Colonel 

 Gordon, of the Egyptian expedition to the 

 oouutry of the Upper Nile, had formed mili- 

 tary stations at Lardo, Ragerts, Bedden, 



RUINED MOSQUE OF TULUN, CAIRO. 



Moogi, and several other places. He had met 

 with much hostility from the Moogi sub-tribe 

 of the Baris, and had had several conflicts with 

 them, in one of which his companion Linant 

 had been killed. He finally subdued the 

 Moogi tribe. The rapids of the river offer- 

 ing impassable obstructions to his boats, he 

 had a steamer and two boats taken overland 

 and set afloat again. While this work was 

 going on, he undertook a journey overland 

 from Fatiel to Anfino, on the left bank of the 

 Victoria Nile, and thence to M'ruli, the capi- 

 tal of the chief Kaber Reger. Colonel Gor- 

 don affirmed in his reports that during his 

 whole expedition he had striven to avoid hos- 

 tility, and to exercise the kindest demeanor 

 toward all the natives with whom he came in 

 contact. July 22d Ishmael Pasha Ajub, Gov- 

 ernor-General of Soodan, arrived in Cairo in 

 the unprecedentedly short time of twenty 

 days from Khartoom, bringing dispatches from 

 Colonel Gordon's headquarters at Lado, on 

 the Upper White Nile, dated only six weeks 

 previously. On the 2d of August Colonel Gor- 

 don reported that, at the request of King 

 M'Tera, he had left a garrison of 150 men in 

 his capital. He had also established military 

 stations at Urodogani and Kasitza, and had 

 reached Maynugo, July 19th, in seven days from 

 Duffli. lie found the river navigable, the 

 shores well peopled, and the soil tillable. Colo- 

 nel Gordon returned to Cairo early in De- 

 cember, after an absence of three years in 

 equatorial Africa. He was cordially received 

 by the Khedive, and was decorated with the 

 grand cross of the order of the Medijie. 



The grant asked by the British Government 

 for the payment for the purchase of the Khan* 

 of the- Kln-.livc in the Suez Canal was vt< >l 

 by the Parliament early in the year, with but 

 little opposition, and without a division. 



The general meeting of the shareholders of 

 the Suez Canal was held in Paris, May 28th. 

 M. de Lesseps presented a report showing that 

 the total receipts of the company for 1875 had 

 been 80,827,194 francs, and its expenditures, 

 including all the charges of the undertaking, 

 and the payment of the interest on the capital 

 stock, had been 29,727,047 francs, leaving the 

 sum of 1,100,147 francs to be distributed &e 

 dividends. Fourteen hundred and ninety-four 

 ships, of an aggregate of 2,940,708 tons real 

 measurement, had passed through the canal. 

 The work of improving the canal had been 

 carried on to a certain extent during the year. 

 The British Government had been given a 

 representation on the board of the company 

 of three directors. M. de Lesseps stated, in a 

 communication made to the French Academy 

 of Sciences in May, that the work of the dredg- 

 ing-machines on the canal had been attended 

 with good and permanent effects. The Serapis, 

 a vessel of 4,582 tons, which had brought the 

 Prince of Wales back from India, and her con- 

 sort, the Raleigh, drawing twenty-six feet of 

 water, had passed through the canal without 

 any difficulty. A merchant of Marseilles, M. 

 Amelin, in a pamphlet advocating the neutrali- 

 zation of the canal, publishes the following 

 estimate of the relative proportion in which 

 each country is represented in the Suez mari- 



MOSQUK Of MEHEMET ALL CAIBO. 



time traffic : Germany, 1.64 per cent; England, 

 74.16 ; France, 9.21 ; Italy, 2.68 ; Holland, 4.85 ; 

 Austria, 8.47; Spain, 2.9; Russia, 0.50; Swe- 

 den, 0.27 ; Norway, 0.56 ; Turkey, 0.56 ; Greece, 

 Egypt, Belgium, Denmark, Portugal, and Ja- 

 pan, only furnish together a total traffic of 0.66 

 per cent. 



The viceregal library of the Darb-el-Gema- 

 miz was founded in 1870, in pursuance of a 

 decree addressed by the Khedive to All Pasha 



