No. 658.
Mr. Beardsley to Mr. Fish.
Alexandria, July 6, 1875. (Received August 4.)
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that the Hon. George S. Batcheller, who has been designated by the Government of the United States for the post of judge in the courts of first instance in the new Egyptian tribunals, arrived at Alexandria on the 30th ultimo. On the 1st instant I presented Mr. Batcheller to his excellency Cherif Pasha, minister of justice, and on the 3d instant I had the honor of presenting him in special audience to His Highness the Khedive. On the 5th instant Mr. Batcheller received from the minister of justice an official notice of his appointment as judge in the new tribunals and the necessary data in regard to his salary and allowances.
The appointment of Mr. Batcheller gives the greatest satisfaction to the Egyptian government, and I am desired by His Highness the Khedive to express to the Government of the United States the earnest thanks of the Egyptian government for designating for the office in question a gentleman so eminent in the social, political, and judicial world.
Mr. Batcheller’s knowledge of the French language is all that could be desired, and I doubt not that he will at once assume a position at the very head of the foreign magistrates in the new tribunals, a position advantageous to the Egyptian government and honorable to the United States.
I am, &c.,