. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. riots en-sued in consequence of the authoritiesattempting to enforce some loyal demon-strations. Banners, lanterns, and deviceswere torn down and destroyed, whileChristians were grossly insulted ; andthe same outbreaks occurred where therewere no British troops to overawe thepeople. In the streets of Cairo many openlycursed and reviled the Khedive andspat upon Christians, though the latter,who had long trembled at the prospectof a revolt, were rejoicing, while theMoslem population were full of rageand mortification. At Damascus, the centre of Syria
. Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan. riots en-sued in consequence of the authoritiesattempting to enforce some loyal demon-strations. Banners, lanterns, and deviceswere torn down and destroyed, whileChristians were grossly insulted ; andthe same outbreaks occurred where therewere no British troops to overawe thepeople. In the streets of Cairo many openlycursed and reviled the Khedive andspat upon Christians, though the latter,who had long trembled at the prospectof a revolt, were rejoicing, while theMoslem population were full of rageand mortification. At Damascus, the centre of Syriancommerce, and the rendezvous of all 16 CASSELUS IIISTOBY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. the pilgrims from the north of Asia toMecca, the news of Tel-el-Kebir createdincredible grief and disma3^ On thevery day the battle was fought, reportsamong the ignorant but exulting Sir Beauchamp Seymour had beenstricken off with ignominy; that theBritish troops were departing fromEgypt in disgrace, with arms reversed;and that the princess Beatrice had been. PALACE, CAIRO. population were current in everymosque, bazaar, and coffee-shop, thatthe Duke of Connaught was the miser-able captive of the conquering Arabi;that the Queen, his mother, in her con-sternation, had been compelled to paythe latter a heavy war indemnity ; thatthe heads of Sir Garnet AVolseley and bestowed, as a peace-offering, uponthe victorious Arabi. The numerous Egyptian officers thenunder arrest at Alexandria and else-where were now conveyed to Cairo, fortrial by court-martial, while the Britishauthorities were careful to eliminatefrom the forms of iustice the secret COURTS-MAKTIAL IN CAIRO. 17 Influences of personal rancour or re-venge. Without tlieir full consentno execution could take place, andthe court-martial itself was supervisedby British officers of rank, with whomthe final decisions rested. So early as the 27th of this eventfulSeptember, by a decree of Tewfik, a over by the Commission in each
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