Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — THE WAR IN EGYPT. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

The English opened fire with two heavy guns on Arabi’s forces on the left bank of the Mahmoudieh canal on the 28th ult., but the reply was feeble. A party of Bedouins advanced to within a short distance of the Meks forts, but found the position untenable and retired after considerable firing. Intrenchments were being thrown up by the Egyptians to the southward of Meks. and two rebel battalions left Aboukir to occupy the adj cent isthmus. The British established a blockade of the Egyptian coast. Two thousand Albanians were enlisted for service in the quarantine and other departments. Biaz Pasha will not form a new ministry for the Khedive if the Chamber of Notables be restored. Prince Ibrahim, a brother of the Khedive, asked permission to accompany the British army in Egypt, but Lord Granville declined the offer of the service. The water supply of Alexandria became so scanty that each inhabitant was to be furnished a gallon daily from the condensing apparatus. 1 De Lesscps claims to feel happy over his share in preventing France from joining in an adventure destined to be more disastrous than that of Napoleon in Mexico. The Turkish Pririe Minister informed Lord Dnfferin that the Council of Ministers had resolved to publish Arabi Pasba as a rebel and accept the British military convention. The attitude of the Russian representative was still antagonistic to England. The British embassy at Constantinople received information that Russia is making large purchases of wheat and storing it at Kars. Three Arab sailors, guilty of mutiny, were keel-hauled on the Egyptian frigate Souda, in the harbor of Alexandria, and soon died. The British were attacked at Kassassin on the night of Aug. 2'J, by a large lores of Egyptians under Arabi Pasha. Gen. Graham commanded the English troops. The Egyptians were repulsed with loss, while the English casualties were only tight killed and sixty-one wounded. The British captured eleven guns. Toulba Pasha was poisoned in the rear of Alexandria. Sultan Pasha had arrived at Port Said to install representatives of the Khedive in the territory, occupied by the British. Constantinople dispatches of Aug. 30 state that the Porte now insists that the troops ol Turkey and England shall jointly operate from Akxuidria. A further reserve of Indian troops I been prepared and will be dispatched to swell Wolse'ey nd. The British cavalry are highly praised for their gallant behavior in the fight at Kassassin. Alexandria dispatches of the Ist inst report that Arabi was strengthening his fortifications at Ramleh, wnile Wolseley and his entire army were advancing. Europeans who arrived from Cairo under escort, at Port Said, announce that owing to the energy of the Prefect of Police at Cairo Euroneans are not molested. Orders have reached Woolwich arsenal to forward at once to Egypt a light siege train. Its weight will be 2,000 tons, and it will require 1,136 officers and men. A report that Arabi Pasha was suing for peace, through the agency of the Governor of Zigazag, and that he had asked for an eight days’ armistice, was telegraphed from Ismallia on the Ist inst. At a meeting of the Chamber of Notables, held at Cairo, Arabi was declared to be the supreme ruler of Egypt. The mutiliations by Egyptians of British who fell into their hands at the battle of Kassassin, caused great indignation in the army. A Madrid dispatch says that all the powers, including England, have replied favorably to the proposition ol Italy that Holland and Spain be permitted to take part in the collective protection of the Suez canal. The British Government sent a telegram to Gen. Wolseley, laudatory of his conduct of the campaign, and the gallantry of his officers and men. Arabi Pasha’s chief engineer, who was recently captured by the British, has been handed over to the Egyptian authorities at Alexandria, the Khedive guaranteeing that

he should not be put to death without the consent of Gen. Wolseley. Dispatches of the 2d inst from Alexandria reported that Arabi was withdrawing his men to Tel-el-Kebir, and that he was confiscating the property of the Europeans in the interior, and selling it to the natives. Forty seamen from the ironclad Minotaur and a company of the Fifty-third regiment quietly approached the enemy’s position opposite Ramleh, under cover of darkness, and succeeded in blowing up with gun-cotton a house on the canal which had long been a point of vantage to the enemy's sharp-shooters. It was a daring deed.