BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2613, 22 August 1882, Page 3

BOMBARDMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.

[By Thlhgbaph.] [Per Te Anau, at the Bluff.] ALEXANDEIA, August 13. Since the recent attempt by the rebels, the garrison now occupying Eort Mex has been reinforced. The Bedouins are menacing the poaiticn at that point. LONDON, August 15. The British have prohibited the importation of coal and munitions of war into Egypt. Baron do Lessops has prevented laying tho cable between Port Said and Suez.

The following additional details have been received regarding the bombardment of Alexandria:—All the British ironclads wore fully manned, and most of them were fitted with torpedoes and Nordenfeldt and Gatling guns. The Egyptians used no torpedoes. The fortifications attacked extended from Pharos Castle, extreme east of Marabout Plains, to tho extreme west. The chief forts between these extreme points are Eort_ Aida, northern point of the town, a long line of batteries from the east of Bssobitin Palace, the lighthouse on tho shore, the great breakwater, and a row of forts bearing upon the outer harbor and covering the roadstead, by which the vessels steam after passing the shoal. Adißiral Seymour so arranged the men-ofwar that he was able to bombard the whole of the forts simultaneously. The telegraph ship Ohiltern took up a position outside the harbor with other vessels well out of danger. The net result of the first day’s fire was that all tho fortifications threatening the English were either annihilated or disabled. On the resumption of the bombardment there was no reply from the shore, and it then became apparent that the forts had been abandoned. The soldiers on leaving the town set fire to the buildings with a view to pillage, and massacred all the Europeans whom they mot. The soldiers were joined by released convicts and marauding bands. Many Europeans who had been unable to leave the city, or were reluctant to leave their shops and property, remained, notwithstanding the warnings of the consuls that the bombardment would be continued. It is supposed that all were slain except those who fought their way to the beaoh, where ships’ boats took them aboard. Alexandria is All the handsomest buildings are destroyed, and the streets present an appearance of indescribable desolation. No human beings are about, and the roads aro strewn with plundered articles and dehrit of all kinds. The only sounds are those of conflagration and fallmg houses. Tho whole of Admiral Seymour's landing force was quite inadequate to restore order or to attempt the arrest of the conflagration. Several London papers condemn the Government for not having taken sufficient precaution to prevent these lamentable scenes. This feeling finds expression in foreign papers also.

During the bombardment, two-thirds of Arabi’a troops refused to continue resistance, hence their retirement to Kafradowar. The Khedive narrowly escaped with his life, as Arab! sent Toubla Bay with a strong force of cavalry and infantry and surrounded the palace at Bamleh, An armed party entered the Khedive’s apartments and declared they had orders to kill him. After long parleying, the fidelity of 500 eo'diers was assured, and the Khedive was conveyed in safety to the British fleet. The British contingent consists of six regiments of cavalry, twenty-one battalions of infantry, fifteen batteries of artillery, four companies of engineers, eight companies of commissariat, and a transport corpi, one company ordinary store corps, a full medical staff and twelve field hospitals, and a post, telegraph, and railway corps. Publio opinion is strongly In favor of the perseverance in the resolute course of action adopted, if possible with the European concert, but otherwise without it. Above all it is demanded that England’s interest in the canal shall not be jeopardised.