Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . ixed tribunals of commerce, whichbad hitherto existed in Alexandria and these were carried up numerous easesfrom the consular tribunals, and suits whichhad been for a year awaiting the opening of 246 EGYPT. the new court. About 400 claims and com-plaints of Europeans against Egyptians, oragainst the administration of the Khedivesestates and the members of his family, whichhitherto had been prosecuted diplomatically,were awaiting final decision by commissionersto be appointed by the European members oft
Appletons' annual cyclopædia and register of important events of the year .. . ixed tribunals of commerce, whichbad hitherto existed in Alexandria and these were carried up numerous easesfrom the consular tribunals, and suits whichhad been for a year awaiting the opening of 246 EGYPT. the new court. About 400 claims and com-plaints of Europeans against Egyptians, oragainst the administration of the Khedivesestates and the members of his family, whichhitherto had been prosecuted diplomatically,were awaiting final decision by commissionersto be appointed by the European members ofthe court, May 23d. While the court at Al-exandria was engaged in hearing complaintsagainst the daira, or private estate of theKhedive, its proceedings were interrupted bythe appearance of persons claiming to becounsel of the viceroyalty. They protestedthat, while the Khedive recognized the author-ity of the court, he had not surrendered thefunction of making the laws, and asserted thatthe court was pledged to recognize every de-cree of his as of legal force. In the category. A STREET IN CAIRO. of such decrees were the new financial con-vention and the arrangements made in con-nection with it for the consolidation of thefloating debt, both of the state and of thedaira. They therefore protested against thecourt taking proceedings or entering judgmentagainst the daira which should not be in ac-cordance with his decrees in reference to thesematters. The Court of Appeal, May 24th, as-serted its jurisdiction in the case of the daira,and ordered judgment to be issued against the defendant (the Khedive). The Khedive, how-ever, refused to permit the judgment to be ex-ecuted against him, whereupon Mr. llackman,president of the Court of Summary Justice atAlexandria, refused to hear any more cases,closed the court, and resigned his office. was appointed to succeed him. LeNovember the judges of the Court of Appeal,by a majority of three-fourths, dismissed The vice
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