ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5030, 25 February 1885, Page 3

ARABI PASHA AND THE FALSE PROPHET.

TferGonstantinople correspondent of the Horning Post has had an opportunity of talking with a gentleman, who recently arrived at Ceylon, and who daring the last fete months had many and continuous opportunities of seeing and conferring with Arabi Pasha. This gentleman said: —v.Tbe victory of the Mahdi would cause^ no surprise whatever to Arabi Pasha, who over and over again repeated to me that hit influence was very great, and that England ought to be prepared to see him march some -day or other on Cairo." Arabi Pasha said that nothing had struck him so much as the complete ignorance of Europeans as to the power of Mohammedanism. What Europeans were placed to call fanaticism was a spirit of self-sacrifice ' and devotion, combined with courage and organisation which must make Europe tremble. It was that sentiment, and not his personal ambition, which had made him in the space of a few weeks master of bis situation in Egypt. His name had be4jome popular all over the Mohammedan world; and as a proof of this Arabi Pasha •howed piles of volumes which during his ««Ue in Ceylon had been filled by the mos inineotial personages in India who still oontinu* going to Ceylon, as on a pilgrim--820, to confer with the promoter of tho EgyptiM rebellion and write their names and words expressing hope in « ipeedy

triumph in books which are purposely ■kept in the house occupied by Arabi. Ever since his. arrival in Ceylon Arabi Pasha expressed the opinion that the Mahdi would triumph, as ho knew better than Europeans appeared to do the spirit of the population, whose dread of being overpowered by Christian nations is indescribable.