AFTER THE MUTINY. 313 allowing day, on their own confessions, sentenced, ad reprieved ; and on the 26th of December, 1882, le exiles were embarked at Suez and transported y a vessel sailing under the British flag to Ceylon, here they lived in comfort, at the cost of the Egyptian Treasury, for over eighteen years, until, LSt year, they were wisely, or unwisely, allowed to iturn to Egypt, in deference to the advice of the Iritish authorities.

After the collapse of the State trial at Cairo, it as idle to entertain the idea of capital punishment eing inflicted on any of the minor offenders. L few of the more prominent conspirators were jciled to the outlying provinces or set free on leir undertaking to reside in future in their own omes. In accordance with the topsy-turvydom hich prevails in all Egyptian affairs, the only man ho suffered a criminal's death for his participation I the mutiny was the unfortunate Suleiman Sami, ho was hung at Alexandria, six months after Arabi's eparture for Ceylon. He richly deserved his fate, ut that he should have been hung while Arabi was ving in luxury as a State pensioner and a distinuished exile, could only have occurred in the land of haraoh and Joseph. As I have said already, I fail ) see how any British Government, occupying an )riental country with British troops, could have llowed the native Government of the country to eal out the wholesale, indiscriminate, brutal punishlent upon the authors of a defeated mutiny, which /