In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord Granville, in
moving for papers, made his statement on the situation in Egypt, giving a summary of his despatch, declaring that we had the moral sup- port of Europe in what we were undertaking, stating that France would join us in the protection of the Suez Canal, and that our principle was an absence of monopoly, and that Europe had the fullest confidence in our loyalty to that principle. As to Arabi, Lord Granville declared that he had encouraged the massacre of the Christians in June, that he had made a fraudulent use of the white flag, and had attempted to destroy all Alexandria by means which were not calculated in any way to injure the English forces. Lord Salisbury, in a rather moderate speech, threw doubts on the wisdom of our interference with the earlier Minis- terial intrigues of Arabi, and censured the Government for holding a Conference in Constantinople against the wishes of the Porte,
and sending ships-of-war to Alexandria without the Sultan's sanction, Lord Northbrook replied with vigour to Lord Salis- bury, and Lord Cranbrook with _energy to Lord Northbrook ; while Lord Houghton, who was in Egypt at the time, and had watched the growth of the military intrigues, ridiculed the absurd notion that Egyptian patriotism was at the foundation of Arabi's policy.
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