Egypt and the Christian crusade . ay claim exemption from generaltaxation (customs dues and land tax excepted),the inviolability of his domicile, and exemptionfrom the jurisdiction of local courts. Let aGreek kill a native, he may escape to his houseand the native police may not enter to arresthim without a warrant from his consul. If heis arrested on the street, the police may onlytake him to his consul. He is then judged byGreek law. Thus, the foreigner is lifted aboveall native law, and, where consular justice isnot exacting, above law of any sort. The establishment of the Mixed Tribunals,
Egypt and the Christian crusade . ay claim exemption from generaltaxation (customs dues and land tax excepted),the inviolability of his domicile, and exemptionfrom the jurisdiction of local courts. Let aGreek kill a native, he may escape to his houseand the native police may not enter to arresthim without a warrant from his consul. If heis arrested on the street, the police may onlytake him to his consul. He is then judged byGreek law. Thus, the foreigner is lifted aboveall native law, and, where consular justice isnot exacting, above law of any sort. The establishment of the Mixed Tribunals, in1876, granted some relief, by providing a courtwhere cases of one foreigner against another,or against a native, may be dealt with. The re-maining abuses of the Capitulations can becorrected only through the consent of the four-teen Powers—Lord Cromer is now moving tosecure this—or by the less probable severance ofEgypts tributary relation to Turkey, whichwould rid Egypt of a double burden, the tributeand the History 89 Althougli hindered and even balked here andthere by political complications such as havejust been described, yet the British redemptionof Egypt has moved on steadily, in every depart-ment of government administration. Britishbrains and British energy and British honestyhave wi*ought out a transformation of condi-tions. In all this work of reconstruction, nofigure has stood out more conspicuously thanthat of Lord Cromer. Theoretically, he is noth-ing more than Britains diplomatic representa-tive in Egypt. His Majestys Agent andConsul-General, as his Reports read. But infact, he is the real ruler of the land of thePharaohs. That is another feature of the para-doxical political situation. Unostentatious, akeen judge of men, a genius in administration,the impersonation of the German proverbOhne Hast, oline East, * with a measurelesscapacity for detail, Lord Cromer has done morethan any other man to give direction to Britishpolicy in the Nile Va
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