No hint has yet been given of the manner in
which the mutinous officers and soldiers of Egypt are to be treated. None of them have been cruelly treated, the two men keel- hauled having been ordinary plunderers, captured on board ship, and it is probable that all except the ringleaders will be dismissed unarmed. We trust, however, that all, especially the officers, will be held to have forfeited claims to pay, rank, or pension, and that the Treasury will be relieved of the Whole " service " summarily. It may be wise, too, to pardon the ringleaders who have done service by submit- ting, with the exception of Arabi, and all others primarily concerned in firing Alexandria and setting free the con- victs. They should die, as a warning to their successors that, even when mutineers, they are not at liberty to destroy civilisation, Arabi can have no defence for that hideous act, or for the torture of the Circassians, even though it should be dis- covered from his papers, seized at Tel-el-Kebir, that he had a defence for mutiny,—namely, an order from the Khalif. That is quite possible, and if such a document exists, we trust it will be published. It is right that the British people should under- stand the policy of their " ancient ally," who seized Sir Garnet Wolseley's mules.
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