ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND EGYPT. IIS 



by Said Pasha, the Plenipotentiary appointed by the Porte, and by 

 Sir Henry Drummond Wolif, on behalf of England, by which it was 

 agreed : — 



' ' That Turkey and England would respectively send a High Commissioner to 

 Egypt, to consult with the Khedive upon the best means of, 

 (i) TianquiUising the Soudan. 



(2) The reorganisation of the Egyptian Army. 



(3) To examine into all the branches of Eastern Administration, and as soon 

 as the two High Commissioners have attained the security of the frontiers, 

 and the stability of the Egyptian Government, they shall report to their 

 respective Governments, who will then proceed to the conclusion of a 

 Convention, for the withdrawal of the troops from Egypt." 



On the 30th October, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff left Constanti- 

 nople for Cairo, and for a period of nearly two years, in concert with 

 the Turkish Commissioner, Mukhtar Pasha, he laboured to achieve 

 the object of his Mission. 



Having read every despatch in the numerous Blue Books dealing 

 with his Mission, from the Constantinople despatch of August 7th, 

 1885, down to the last despatch from Cairo, that has been published, 

 November 29th, 1886, in all 180 despatches, dealing with the 

 negotiations at Constantinople ; with the trade in Eastern Soudan ; 

 Egyptian police ; movements of Soudanese in revolt ; military affairs ; 

 the organisation of the Egyptian Army ; Daira and Domain debts ; 

 Nile ; railways ; judicial organisation ; negotiations with the Soudan- 

 ese for the re-opening of trade ; petroleum deposits ; cotton produc- 

 tion; pacification of Soudan; withdrawal of British troops; irriga- 

 tion of Egypt ; state of affairs at Suakin ; movements of Osman 

 Digna ; position of Lupton Bey, and Slatin Bey ; public works ; 

 advance of dervishes, (and there the published despatches cease), 

 it must generally be admitted that this record is worthy of his 

 Mission, and shows an amount of energy -and hard work, , which 

 might be very suitably imitated to advantage by the Consuls of 

 England, all over the world. 



In the beginning of 1887, Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, having 

 conferred in London with the British Government, returned to Con- 

 stantinople, to submit to the Porte the result of the operations of 

 the Anglo-Turkish Convention, and to continue the negotiations set 

 on foot at his previous Mission in 1885. 



He arrived at Constantinople on the 28th January, 1887, and on 

 the ist February, the Porte appointed the Grand Vizier, and Said 

 Pasha as the two Turkish Commissioners to confer with the British 

 Envoy. 



