Excerpt from The War in Egypt and the Soudan, Vol. 1: An Episode in the History of the British Empire; Being Descriptive Account of the Scenes and Events of That Great Drama, and Sketches of the Principal Actors in It Egyptian Debt - Ismail's Public Works Defects in Administration - Rights of Bondholders - Britain's large pecuniary Interest in Egypt, Construction of the Suez Canal - New Har bours, Lighthouses, and Railways, Taxation - Privileges of Foreigners - Divi sions of Real Property - Domains of the Khedival Family - A Financial Inquiry The Khedive and his Family surrender their Estates - French Jealousy of English Influence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.