Ex-Khedive Ismail was buried in Cairo in his own mauso-
leum in his own mosque on Tuesday. It was resolved to make the ceremonial, which is foreign to the genius of Islam, as splendid as possible, and a procession was arranged in which the East and West were, as is usual in Egypt, strangely com- mingled. The procession from the railway-station to the tawdry Rifai Mosque under the Citadel lasted nearly an hour, and included the Khedive and Lord Cromer, Egyptian cavalry and British officers, the students of El Azhar, and hundreds of black-coated boys from the new European schools, native officials by the score and their English "advisers," Mussulman Mollahs and Christian clergy, native women screaming as per order, and the European Commissioners of the National Debt, the most significant figures in the cavalcade. It must have been a wonderful spectacle even among the many that Cairo hes witnessed. There appears to have been no real mourning ; and the Khedive, who is physically weak, grew so bored with the affair, that he left the procession and drove to his palace before the body reached the tomb. Nothing is known as yet of the disposition of Ismail's vast fortune.
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