NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE Egyptian official Journal published on Thursday a Convention between the British and Egyptian Govern- ments dealing with the future of the Soudan. The document begins by reciting that the Soudan has been reconquered by the joint military and financial efforts of the two Governments ; that it is necessary to give effect to the claims which have accrued to the British Government by right of conquest to share in the settlement and future working of the Soudan ; and that Wady Haifa and Suakin, though not part of the reconquered territory, can best be administered in conjunc- tion with the Soudan. The operative part of the Convention declaresas follows. The Soudan is to mean the territories south of the twenty-second parallel of latitude, conquered or to be conquered, and the British and Egyptian flags shall be used jointly throughout the Soudan except at Suakin. The Governor-General of the Soudan, who shall be appointed by Shedivial decree with our consent and only removed with our consent, shall have supreme military and civil control, and shall be able in effect to legislate by proclamation. No Egyptian laws or decrees shall apply to the Soudan. No European shall have any special privi- leges. Import-duties shall be the same as in Egypt, and shall not be paid on goods coming from Egypt. The juris- diction of the Mixed Tribunals shall not extend into the Soudan, which shall remain under martial law. No foreign Consuls shall reside in the Soudan without the consent of the British Government, and the slave trade is absolutely pro- hibited.
