As always happens when a Minister has the courage and
good sense to speak the absolute truth to them, the House of Commons were perfectly content with Sir Edward Grey's assurances, and Mr. Dillon's attempt to make mischief out of the situation, and to represent our rule in Egypt as a dangerous despotism, fell flat. Sir Edward Grey rightly promised to lay papers on the table giving the most complete accounts of all the tralisactica=s connected with the crime and the executions. We ourselves may peAans be allowed to con- tribute an item of evidence in regard to the ...,i2dition of the district around Tanta, where the murder occurred. About a fortnight before the murder we received a letter from a
spondent, an Englishman, living at Tanta drawing our attention to the extremely bad feeling towards the British and Europeans generally existing in that neighbourhood, and dwelling upon the dangerous and fanatical spirit prevalent among the natives. It should be remembered that this fanatical spirit is a religious one, and that there is no sense of oppression by the British in the minds of the fellaheen. It is the feeling of Islam against the infidel; not of the governed against the governors.
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