§ MR. BOURKEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, To state to the House the circumstances under which Arabi Pacha surrendered his sword, and the statement made by him upon that occasion?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEWe have learned from Colonel Stewart that he was in possession of letters from the Khedive to the Prefect of Police at Cairo. The Prefect of Police was directed to make a prisoner of Arabi Pasha. Colonel Stewart offered to accompany the Prefect of Police with 30 men; but the Prefect said that he could make Arabi prisoner without British assistance. When the Prefect returned 1102 with Arabi Pasha the latter handed his sword to General Drury-Lowe, and began to make a speech in Arabic. General Drury-Lowe informed him that it was not in his power to discuss political questions with him; but that his duty, as representing the Khedive, was to make a prisoner of him unconditionally. We have no official report of the words of the speech in Arabic which Arabi Pasha had begun to make.
§ MR. BOURKEIs it untrue, as The Times' Correspondent states, that Arabi Pasha declared that he surrendered to the clemency of the English?
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKEI should not say it was untrue; but we cannot speak definitely as to the words, because the speech was made in Arabic, and there was no one there to report them.