THE NATIONALITY MOVEMENT Arabi secures English supporters — Sir William Gregory and Mr. Willnd Blunt — The cry for Egyptian nationality — Daoud Pasha appointed Minister of War — Renewed demonstration of Arabi's troops.

After the surrender of the Khedive to the demands of Arabi and his colleagues, the Government was for the time in the hands of the conspirators. My own impression is that the trio of colonels, having got very much what they wanted, would have preferred not to push their advantage any further. Mahmoud Sami, however, who was immeasurably superior to his fellow-conspirators both in courage and in intelligence, realized the insecurity of their position. In the event of the Khedive's regaining his authority, they were all, he knew, marked men, whose lives and property, according to Oriental ideas of justice, were justly forfeit. There was no danger of the native popula-I tion rising against the military government on behalf of the Khedive. But there was a possibility, and even a probability, that the European Powers might think it their duty to intervene, in order to prevent Egypt from being ruled by a self-appointed junta. I have always held that the idea of preventing foreign