I I i 278 THE STORY OF THE KHEDIVATE.

/in the restoration of order. The Sultan acceded / gladly to the request, and a special Envoy of the ( Ottoman Government, Dervish Pasha, made his entry \ into Cairo before a week had passed. His first act J on arrival was — after the wont of his class — to arrange with the Court on the one hand, and with the Ministry } on the other, as to the remuneration he should be entitled to receive in return for his support of their respective interests. When these preliminaries were settled, he proceeded to assure both parties that they might rely upon all their grievances being redressed by the intervention of the Suzerain of Egypt, the Commander of the Faithful. With the inborn arrogance of his race, he treated the Egyptian Ministers with unveiled contempt, and — if a story told by Sir Mackenzie Wallace is correct — recalled at a meeting of the Cabinet in which he took part the story of the massacre of the Mamelukes by Mahomet Ali, and requested Arabi's attention to the fact, that the one Mameluke who escaped was " singularly lucky."