SECOND EDITION. THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2579, 13 July 1882, Page 3

SECOND EDITION. THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS.

FORTY ENGLISH WOUNDED. THE KHEDIVE'S PALACE IN RUINS. THE KHEDIVE NON EST. BOMBARDMENT TO BE CONTINUED. FLAG OF TRUCE HOISTED. [BEUTEK'S TETjESBAMS.] LONDON, July 11. Telegraphic communication between Alexandria and Suez is interrupted. The latest intelligence to hand from Egypt states that Admiral Seymour has blockaded the entrance to the Suez Canal, and stopped the passage of all vessels. The Canal Company has protested against the action of the British Admiral. Great excitement prevails in consequence of the serious aspect of affairs. July 12.

Intelligence is to hand from Alexandria that the English ironclads have ceased the bombardment. So far as is known the English casualties only amount to forty wounded. . The loss on the Egyptian side is known to be heavy, but no reliable estimate can yet be obtained. July 13.

It ia now authoritatively stated that notwithstanding the protest of the Foreign Consuls, the majority of the European Powers approve of the bombardment of the Alexandrian forts by England. Musurus Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador, had an interview with Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary, to-day, at which, on behalf of the Porte, he urgently demanded the cessation of the bombardment of Alexandria, and dilated upon the gravity of the situation. ALEXANDRIA, July 12.

All the inland sea forts have been silenced by British guns. The ironclads will resume the bombardment tomorrow, when the forts commanding the harbor will be attacked. A party will shortly be landed to blow up the guns in the silenced forts.

The Khedive's Palace, which stands near the sea forts, has suffered severely by the bombardment, and is now literally in ruins.

The statement that forty persons had been wounded on board the English ironclads by the fire of the Egyptian guns is fully confirmed. It has now been ascertained that |the Egyptians have suffered the loss of five killed and twenty-seveu wounded.

The English ironclads have sustained very little injury from the fire of the Egyptians guns. Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the Khedive, whose whereabouts are at present unknown. 1 p.m.

A flag of truce has been hoisted in the city, and a boat with a flag of truce is now proceeding to the English squadron. Later.

It is now known that the bombardment will be resumed in the morning, as it has been ascertained that the Egyptians have repaired some of the damaged forts during the night.

The EgypMan army is raised by conscription. It consists nominally of eighteon regiments of three battalios each, with four battalions of rifles and four regiments of cavalry, and 144 guns. In round numbers the army comprises 30,000 men. The navy comprised at tho end of 1880 two frigates, two corvettes, three large yachts for the use of the Khedive (one of them being the Mahroussa, of 4000 tons), and four gunboats —the whole of the burthon of 16,476 tons. The population of Alexandria, the city, is set down at 212,000.