Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1882 — THE WAR IN EGYPT. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

The Anglo-Turkish military convention has beejl signed, and the Sultan has issued hia proclamation declaring Arabi Pashat a rebel fat disobeying the orders, of the Khedive, and causing BMtlsh intervention. Four thousand fedditlffiml troops have Deen ordered to propped* from Woolsack to Egypt Alexandria dispatches of the 6th inst. ' state that 8,000 Arabs were fortifying Salihiyeh, and nurAbers of Bedouins were prowling on the bunks of Kthe canals betweeh Ismailia and Port Said. Victor De Lessens reports that Gen. Wolseley accepted for the British Gijyprnment the responsibility for damage to the traffic of the Suez canal . «. Lord Pufferin is dissatisfied because the Sultan’s pnilamation against Arabi simply i asserts that deserves to be declared a ’ rebel Alexandria dispatches pf the Bth inst | represent that a general’movement to the front of the British forces had been ordered. The army numbered 15,000 men, with fifty guns; Arabi’s strength was. estimated at 100,000 men and 150 cannon, one-half i *of whom were rated as flighting ■ men. British troops at Alexandria burned a house on the left bank of the Mahoihoudieh canal, from which the enemy had been sig- I naled with lights, £!en. Wilkinson, with a body of cavalry and mounted infantry advanced to within a mile of Tel-el-Kebir, and took sketches of the enemy’s positiou, not being seen until he was retiring. An Egyp- , taan, who murdered two Englishmen at Al- I exandria, was hanged by the native police, | in the presence of hundreds of spectators. An Arab mob at Alexandria overpowered the police in charge of the corpse of the native hanged for murder and carried it off, together with the rope, intending to ha” 6 the hotly embalmed as that of a saint. h .-ecohnoissance by the British from f assassin on the 7th inst. caused a brisk exchange of shots between the opposing forces. The Khedive issued stringent orders to stop the torturing and ill-treatment of prisoners at Alexandria. The fresh-water canal was cut above Tel-el-Keblr, thus flooding the low lands ip that section Gen Wolseley arranged with fche Water ' ompany to give Port Baidsoo tons of water dully and furnish Ismailia a sufficient ."mount The Colonels of three English cavalry regiments’ 'were in the hospital at Ismailia. Aral)! I’tudia was reported to bo suffering from dysentery. The Khedive has assured the British Consul General at Alexandria that he will stop keel-hauling and other punishments repugnant to modern times. Arabi Pasha forced the lighting near Kassassln, where an artillery duel was kept up for two hours along a line of three miles, the Egyptians firing with groat precision. Gen. Wolseley telegraphs that he sustained trifling loss and captured four guns. The enemy retired to their works. The Egyptians left 200 dead on the field. Great difficulties are experienced by the English troops while on the march from excessive heat. A large body of Bedouins approached Meks. The English shelled them, but a small party succeeded in entering. They were dislodged at the point of the bayonet. The British shelled the Bedouins’ intrenchments south of Meks. The outposts at Ramleh being generally strengthened, owing to the activity of the Bedouins between Ramleh and Mandara.