Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1882 — THE WAR IN EGYPT. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Admiral Seymour is arranging with other naval commanders for police service on the Suez Canal Intrenchments are thrown up by the Egyptians to the southward of Meks, and two rebel battalions have left Abouklr to occupy the adjacent isthmus. The British have established a blockade of the Egyptian coast. Two thousand Albanians have been enlisted for service in the quarantine and other departments. Riaz 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 has become so scanty that each inhabitant is to be furnished a gallon daily from the condensing apparatus DeLesseps 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 gunboat Bittern is sent each night to prevent the Arabs from advancing upon the strand at Port Said. The commander at Aboukir released the men belonging to the Austrian frigate Nautilus. At Alexandria yesterday afternoon the British artillery fired twenty rounds of shell upon the Egyptians on the left bank of the Mahmondutn canal,, to Which a feebe response was made. The (Minotaur shelled the enemy’s outposts in the direction of Aboukir, where several thousand laborers were at work on the intrenchments. The British forty-pounders at Ramleh also cannonaded the rebel lines The men of the Austrian frigate Nautilus saw Arab! Pasha at Kafar-el-Dwar, and he would only release them on their pledge not to. disclose what they had learned. The man-of-war Minolaur has successfuyll shelled the enemy out of Mandara, on the line between Ramleh and Aboukir... .It is stated that the British intend to ,cut dikes near Meks, so as to flood a portion of the dry bed of Lake Mareotis and prevent any attack from that side... .The garrison at Meks was reinforced in consequence of the Bedouins having formed a camp on the opposite shore of Lake Mareotis....A ministry has been formed with Cherif Pasha as President of the Council and Minister of Foreign affairs; Riax Pasha, Minister of the Interior; Haidar Pasha, Minister of Finance, and Omar Lufti Pasha, Minister of War Sultan Pasha, attended by Fuad Pasha and twelve subordinates, will start for Port Said and Ismalia to accompany Gen. Wolsely as the Khedive's commissioners to explain to the population of the districts through which the British pass, that their mission is solely to establish the authority of the Khedive and overthrow military despotism. General Wolseley reports that late on Monday night his position at Kassassin was attacked by Arabi Pasha, who was repulsed with the loss of eleven guns. The British had eight men killed and sixty-one wounded. Toulba Pasha was poisoned in the rear of Alexandria. Sultan Pasha has arrived at Port Said to install representatives of the Khedive in the territory occupied by the British. The porte now insists that the troops of Turkey and England shall jointly operate from Alexandria. Three Arab sailors, guilty of mutiny, were keel-hauled on the Egyptian frigate Souda, in the harbor of Alexandria, and soon died. A fresh entrenchment of Egyptians has been discovered near Kassassin....Forty seamen from a British olad have succeeded in destroying a house on the canal which was occupied by the enemy’s sharp-shoot-ers and gave British troops much annoyance... .Arabi Pasha is withdrawing bis troops to Tel-el-Kebir, leaving at Kafr-el-Dwar only those necessary to hold the position.