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Show FOREIGN. Sir Garnet Wolseley is seriously indisposed. A water famine is threatened in Alexandria. The fort at Gabard was destroyed Saturday morning. The Sultan has decided to denounce Arabi Pasha as a traitor. Arabi Pasha has renewed his assurances of fidelity to the Sultan. Algeria will furnish a battalion of Zouaves, in French interests, for Egypt. Four British ironclads and five transports are ready to start for Egypt. Prince Arhsugawa, the Emperor of China's uncle has left Hong Kong for Naples. A French transport will take 500,000 litres of water from Marseilles to Port Said. The report that British troops in Egypt looted the Ramich palace is pronounced untrue. Tremendous conflagrations are again reported from Alexandria, believed to be the act of incendiarism. Arabi Pasha declares he will not injure the Suez Canal as long as there is no foreign occupancy. The Inflexible has gone to summon the Aboukir forts to surrender and bombard them if the do not surrender. The Quinnsbaugh is the only war vessel of the American squadron remaining at Alexandria. General Wolseley will not await the arrival of Turkish troops before pushing any advantage he may meantime acquire. Ahmed Pasha, the new governor of Alexandria, has virtually been placed under the orders of Lord Charles Beresford. Sixteen battalions of Turkish troops are to sent at once to Alexandria, and sixty-four more are expected to follow them. Lord Chas. (Charles) Beresford acknowledges the immense services rendered by the 120 American marines landed after the bombardment. DeLesseps protested against the British Corvette Orion entering the canal. She entered however without even paying dues. It is rumored that the Sultan has offered to sell Egypt to the English, on the same terms on which Cyprus had changed hands. It is believed that half the cotton, and the greatest portion of the wheat crop, will be lost through neglected irrigation in Egypt. A tornado swept through a belt of country half-a-mile wide, on Wednesday in Durham and Orange Counties, N.C. (North Carolina) destroying houses and crops. Eight hundred English soldiers disembarked at Alexandria from the Orentes on Thursday. The Orentes will afterward proceed to Port Said and land marines. The weather in Ireland is improving considerably the past few days. Though the potato blight has appeared in badly drained ground, there is a splendid crop in most parts of the country. The Turtle Mountain Indians have crossed the line between Manitoba and Dakotah, and pugnaciously ordered off white settlers from lands, claimed by them. Military interference seems the ???. Osman Pasha Elfid, and twenty-six Circassian officers, implicated in the recent plot to assassinate Arabi Pasha, arrived today from Constantinople, having been summoned by telegraph by the Khedive. They were received with great ceremony. There appears some doubt as to whether the bombardment of the fort will take place, because it is supposed the prisoners held by the Egyptians are contained therein. A large powder magazine at Mekhrrom, from which it was said Arabi Pasha had recently taken the stores, has been blown up by the British. In the House of Commons, London, England, the motion for the Egyptian war credit was carried by 275 to 10. Gladstone said Great Britain and France were in perfect accord. The Commons agreed to a supplementary vote for ten thousand men for the army. An unconfirmed report says that Arabi Pasha has proposed terms of peace, the conditions being voluntary exile and retention of rank and pay of colonel for himself and nine of his colleagues. It is believed this step has been taken at the instigation of the Sultan. The report caused a rise in Egyptian stocks. |