profiter by tJbe system of financing which so disastrously
affected Egyptian credit was the Moufettish himself ; and
his sudden faU in November last was, therefore, inter-
preted as a break with that vicious policy, and has since
in fact been followed by a radical change in the character
as in the personnel of the Treasury administration. This
last now consists of Prince Hussein Pasha, the second son
of the Khedive, as Minister, assisted by a weMl, Omer
Pasha, for the routine work of the department ; of a Fi-
nance Committee, comprising the Minister and two Eng-
lish and French Controllers-general* (whose functions
will be described in detail in a subsequent chapter) ; and
of a Public Debt Commission — composed of foreigners f
recommended by their respective Governments — which
receives and applies the revenue assigned for payment of
the debt annuities. The Minister himself, though only in
his twenty -fifth year, has already had considerable official
experience, and, to a large share of his father's energy
and ability, adds the advantages of a very complete Eu-
ropean education. Thus organised, the department is
practically administered by high-class European function-
aries, and it is hardly too much to say that, if these do
their duty, it offers nearly as effective guarantees for
the control of the national revenue as our own English
Exchequer.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ranks next, rather in
accordance with the grade of this department in other
Governments than, as yet, from the importance of its
particular functions. As Egypt does not yet enjoy the
jus legationis, she maintains no political agents abroad,



* At present Mr. Eomaine, C.B. (with Mr. Gerald Fitzgerald, an ex-Indian
official, as his deputy), and Baron de Maloret.
