Arabi Bey has been created a Pasha, and seventeen of
the officers who supported him have been promoted to Colonelcies, and the Bedouins who were on his side have been confirmed in their privileges. The military government in Egypt is, in fact, all- powerful, Tewfik has fallen into contempt, and it is asserted in Constantinople that he will be dismissed, and replaced by Arabi Pasha. It is affirmed that brigandage, an unknown evil in Egypt, is breaking ont intwo provinces, and that the peasantry are rapidly losing their lands. They find that, under the decrees of the International Tribunals, they can borrow money from the Banks at 9 per cent., a fourth of the old charge; they do borrow, to pay the heavy taxes levied for thebondholders, andthen they are evicted from their lands. Sir George Campbell, in the House of Com- mons, called attention to this evil on Monday, and, inopportune -as his speech was, he was right in the main. The Egyptian peasantry have nothing but their lands, they have never lost them since the days of the Pharaohs, and they will, un- doubtedly, meerbeariction by insurrection, directed against the Europeans, whom they will consider the cause of all their miseries. It is true that, as Mr. /Moan said, they are re- lieved from the bastinado, but, like the peasantry of the Deccan and of Ireland, they consider any suffering trifling, compared with being turned out into the road.
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