Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-25
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Arabts TriaI-The Khedfve Anxious to
 Slave 1t OT-The News From the Sou-
 dan.
 CAIRO, Nov. 24.-The impression is gain ing ground among the best informed Euro pean residents that the Khedive's govern ment has no sincere intention of pushing Arabi's trial to conclusion. It is an open secret that negotiations have been pending between the palace here and the Yiediz Kiosk, having for their object the discontin- uance of all proceedings against Arabi. It is true that the government strenuously pre- tends that the contrary is the fact, but that course is one quite natural to Orientals and the total want of coincidence between it's professions and practice leads to an utter dis belief of it's most authoritative assertions.
 The theory is advanced by some of the most far seeing observers that the whole scheme
 of the trial Is nothing more than blind de-
 vised to gain time and amuse the British
 officials until 8 plot which it is alleged has dive and Arabi himself can be perfected.
 The believers in the existence of
 such scheme assert that the initiatory move ment in it's execution is the recent demand
 of the troops now being organized for ser
 vice in the Soudan that Arabi should be
 placed at their head. This demand, it is al-
 legged, was instigated from the palace in pur-
 suance of design previously contrived. It IS claimed with great plausibility that the
 scheme of the Mohammedam rulers and
 their confederate prisoner is to release Arabi
 without trial and send him in command of
 the troops destined to put down the insur-
 rection in the Soudan. Between Arabi and
 El Mehdi the so called false prophet, it is believed that perfect understanding exists
 and that the result of this measure would be
 to unite all the power of Egypt against the
 foreigner and put an end at once to Euro
 Intarvanfinr, Fro1
 The plan seems at first sight an absolutely impossible one and for that very reason would naturally
 commend itself to the Oriental mind. Sir Henry Bulwer's dictum that the best method
 of ascertaining the intentions of an Oriental first eliminate every probable solution of
 the question: anything else he may do he cer- tainly will not do"-is frequently quoted by those who believe in the existence of the plot
 above outlined, and recent events here indi- cate that they are not without strong grounds for such belief There is no doubt that the government dreads the trial of Arabi far
 more than the prisoner. Should the trial be commenced it will be difficult, if not impos- sible, to avoid series of most alarming dis closures compromising not only the
 Khedive and his advisers, but his Suzran,
 the Sultan and the ''police pashas" at
 Constantinople. Certainly if the govern
 ment were one-half so eager as it
 pretends about bringing Arabi into court it
 would not hamper their conducting his de-
 fence by every conceivable device of procras-
 tination. Yet it has done and is doing this
 continually. That a vast majority of the
 native population is in complete sympathy
 with Arabi cannot be questioned, and this fact gives point to the argument of those
 who claim that such plot as that just de-
 scribed is in actual process of development
 It now looks to an impartial observer as though England would find that in her con quest md occupation of Egypt she has opened Q veritable Pandora's box, and that her difficulties so far from being nearly end ed are but about to begin.
 The latest telegrams received by the Khe- dive from Abdel Nader Pacha, the Governor General of the Soudan, modify in some de- gree tue previous reports which represented Khartoum in imminent danger. The first news stated that the false prophet had apni- Inflated 2, 800 black troops who were march ing against him, and that there was nothing I to oppose his march from Obeid to Khar- | toum. The Governor General now telegraphs l that the black troops lost 1000 men and | many officers in the engagement, but were not annihilated and the survivors succeeded in reaching Bara, aided by the garrison of l that place. which made sortie and joined l them. Abdel Nader states that Khartoum is | not threatened at present and believes he 1 can hold the town until the arrival of the re- l Inducements now being organized. This in | telligence is partially confirmed from private | sources and some Soudan traders have re- l ceived news that El Obeid and Bara, which the false prophet has been besieging. have been relieved. This last report, however, is 1 not officially confirmed. Other reports state that the native population of Khartoum is 1 thoroughly dissatisfied towards the Khedive' s government. A rumor is reported from the Soudan that tho false prophet has received powerful aid in money from some mysterious | quarter. Photographic communication be- | tween Khartoum and Kardefan is again inter rupted and it is believed that the wires have been cut by small parties of marauders de- tached by Fl Mehdi from his main force.
 CoNsTANTINoPLE, Nov. 24.-The inquiry l instituted under orders from the Sultan 1 charging Dervisch and Ahmed Essad Pashas l with encouraging Arabi to rebel against the ! Sultan's instructions has resulted in the en- tire exoneration of both and they have been | invited to dine with the Sultan.