seemed to have strengthened Mustapha’s determination to resist, and he summoned M. Conti to translate the protests. “This will do very well,” he said, “but we must show them to the Council.” Taking my hand, he opened the glass door of the second wardrobe, and we entered the large drawing-room, to which the Cabinet had adjourned its meeting from Kasr- es-Said. Here there was a large console table, around which General Bacouch, General Arbi Zerouck, Sidi El Aziz, General Muhamed Khaznadar, and two other members, were sitting in the midst of a wilderness of gilding, looking-glasses, and ruby velvet. The Prime Minister took his seat, and the state of affairs was discussed at length. A messenger was sent to the office of the Rubattino Steamboat Company, and the agent, Signor Ravasini, agreed to get one of the packets under steam at Goletta by ten o’clock. The protests were adopted, and M. Conti never left his seat till copies had been prepared for Constantinople, London, Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, and Rome. At last all was ready, and a special train conveyed the packet containing the messages to Goletta. As we parted, General Bacouch said to me, “Now at any rate England must say something, she cannot remain silent, and we shall at least know our fate.” Sy Arbi Zerouck answered, “England has always protected us, she will not abandon us now.” They were both doomed to be disappointed. After a brief gleam of sunshine under the new _régime_, General Bacouch was “placed upon the retired list;” General Sy Arbi Zerouck was banished from Tunis within a month of the anxious evening we spent together at Mustapha’s palace, and the faithful and honest Antonio Conti was dismissed from the Government service before the Kasr-es-Said Treaty was hardly a week old, because he had done his duty to the prince he served. Next morning the following protest was tendered to M. Roustan:— “Our Governor of Kef informs us that a French military column has entered the territory of the Tunisian tribe of Sharen, and threatens the city of Kef. The Governor of Beja informs us likewise that another French column has penetrated into the Khamír territory. The invasion of our Regency has taken place without any notice to our Government, and at a time when you yourself admit that peace exists between Tunis and France. We declare this invasion of our territory to be a violation of the law of nations. We, therefore, solemnly protest against it, in our own name and that of His Majesty the Sultan, of whose empire Tunis is an integral part, and must appeal to the justice of the Great Powers. We declare the French Republic to be solely responsible for the consequences which may ensue from this invasion of our state.” The text of the telegram sent to England from Trapani by the steamer which left Tunis on the night of the 25th April is as follows:— _The Bey of Tunis to Lord Granville, Foreign Office, London._