Abstract

Special Correspondence

For a few days the plot against Arabi Pasha seemed as if it augured the beginning of a new crisis which would not be resolved without finally clearing the air. But the latest news is that in spite of the courts-martial and judicial inquiries which are going on with Oriental ostentation and tedious prolongation, the Minister of War, that is, Pasha himself, is now bent on hushing the whole matter up. The progressive influence of the policy worked out with such success by Ismail Pasha in the direction of separating Egypt from the rest of the Ottoman Empire has resulted in the vastly preponderant weight of the Arab element in the Army. This is so much the case that during the last few months even the Coptic element has been discountenanced.