The only intelligence from Egypt received this week has referred
to the trial of Arabi. Having mutinied to expel Europeans, he has demanded European Counsel to defend him from the consequences of mutiny. The demand was backed by the British Foreign Office, under pressure from English public opinion ; but the Egyptian Ministry at first threatened to resign, or to hand Arabi back to British custody. They said, very justly, that if they could not be trusted to try a prisoner fairly, they could not 'be trusted to govern, and expressed a belief, probably correct, that the Egyptian populace, seeing Englishmen defending him, would believe the English to have taken Ara,bi's side. Lord Granville, however, does not mind about logic, and does not care one jot what Egyptians believe or disbelieve ; 130, further pressure was applied, and the Khedive at last gave way, and overrode his advisers: There is no objection whatever to Mr. Broad. lay attempting the defence of Arabi ; but it is absurd to compel the Egyptian Ministry to break its own laws in order i to prevent t from committing a judicial murder, and then to pretend that Egypt is governing itself. We shall see many more of these collisions between English and Egyptian ideas of justice, and of the proper method to secure it.
