ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND EGYPT. 10 1 



To have carried on this pourparler any longer would have 

 been useless, so the Khedive withdrew to his Palace, under pretext 

 of considering the demands, and after a consultation with the English 

 Consul-General and his Officers, it was agreed that the two first 

 demands should be conceded, and that the third demand should be 

 referred to Constantinople, and on this being announced to the 

 troops a general shout was raised, " Long live the Khedive ! " and 

 Arabi and his fellow officers entered the Palace, to receive pardon 

 for their action, whilst the Army marched off to the Barracks, 

 evidently pleased with the day's bloodless revolution. 



The singularity of the position at this moment was, that Arabi was 

 supported from Constantinople, whilst the Khedive could not rely on 

 any aid frorri the Sultan. 



On September 14th, after many anxious days spent in negotiation 

 with the Military, the Khedive, and the Foreign Consuls, Cherif 

 Pasha succeeded in forming the new Ministry, and announced his 

 programme to be to maintain the Anglo-French Control, and to 

 carry out certain Administrative Reforms; and on the 22nd September, 

 the Khedive signed the decrees summoning the Chamber, and thus 

 the new Ministry loyally carried out the conditions made on their 

 accession to Power. 



It may now be said that the National Party in Egypt, which had 

 long been the dream of visionaries, had become a reality, with a 

 policy, based on a strong hostility to the Control, by Foreigners, of 

 the political and administrative power in Egyptian affairs. 



On December 25th, the first Session of the Egyptian Parliament 

 was opened by the Khedive, in which he declared his confidence in 

 its wisdom and moderation to respect the Law of Liquidation, and 

 all other international engagements ; and thus ended the eventful year 

 for Egypt, of 1881. 



EGYPT IN 1882. 



In the first week of the year 1882, Arabi showed that he was not 

 disposed to play an insignificant part, and his first act was to secure 

 the appointment of Under-Secretary of State for War ; and following 

 close upon it he issued a Manifesto, which appeared in the Times, 

 in which he insisted that the Army was represented, and trusted by 



