The Khedive of Egypt, it will be remembered, recently confis-
cated the property of his Finance Minister, Ismail Sadyk, who was banished to Upper Egypt, and died either there or on his route. His property included some 300 female slaves, and it has been reported that the Prince, who is so civilised as to owe £80,000,000, has ordered these slavesto be sold. Mr. Anderson asked a question about the matter of the Under Foreign Secretary, and Mr. Bourke replied that there had been no " public " sale of slaves "in February." Mr. Anderson thought this an evasion, and on Thursday persisted in putting questionsobout the slaves, even moving the adjournment of the House. The Tories tried to show he was out of order, but the Speaker ruled in his favour, and Mr. Bourke was obliged to reply that the sale of slaves in Egypt was "an every-day occurrence," though he had not been informed of the particular sale in question. Mr. Bourke's clear acknow- ledgment will probably astonish a good many people in this country, who think that because the Khedive has a Debt, neither slavery nor any other oppression can exist in Egypt. They for- get that Egypt is a Turkish province, though its Pasha, also a Truk, happens to be hereditary.
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