ARABI PASHA ON THE SOUDAN REBELLION.

Kumara Times, Issue 2712, 1 June 1885, Page 2

ARABI PASHA ON THE SOUDAN REBELLION.

'fhe St. James’ Gazette publishes the folhi ving as a translation of part of a letter written by Arabi Pasha at Colombo on the 2nd of March ;

“ I gneve with a great grief over the 'lecline of the star of England, caused hy her misdeeds in Egypt and the Soudan. But God has heard the cry <>f the oppressed and the voice of the lilood which has been shed, and the terrible cry of the widow and of the young children ; and surely He has taken His vengeance on the covetous. Yet, believe me, the people of Egypt used to believe good of the English nation. It was they of all others that they trusted as the foremost among the nations, and as the chief hope of those who sought to obtain their freedom, and they grieve now, seeing their belief a deception, and their trust a delusion. And what lias England gained by her invasion of Egypt, and what in the Soudan? Rather let us say, What she has lost ? For God knows she has gained nothing. She has lost her good name, the friendship of our lord the Sultan, and of all Moslems. She has lost, too, Gordon Pasha, through acting on false counsels, Stewart, and Hicks, and Earle, and how many other officers; and she has lost the respect of all hearts by this war against free men in the Soudan. When will she cease to rush forward on her course to send armies of revenge on men who are themselves avenging their Egyptian brothers; on men defending their country, and who delight to drink the cup of death rather than they should see an enemy left within its borders. I tell you 15,000,000 of such as these occupy at this moment the Soudan country and Darfour ; and all of them are partisans of the Mahdi, having made a convention with him unto death, and in accordance with the precepts of our noble Koran. Thus the Mahdi increases in strength with the English aggression.”