ENGLISH & FOREIGN.
[beuteb's telegrams.] LONDON, September 11.
An official despatch from Egypt dated last evening has been published. In it Sir Garnet Wolseley reports that all has been quiet in the neighborhood of Kassassin since Saturday afternoon. It further states that Arabi's force employed during the engagement which took place that day numbered fully 15,000 men all armed. They made a plucky and determined stand against the British troops, and their losses amounted to several hundred. The exact extent of their casualties cannot be ascertained. An official statement of the British loss gives two killed and fifty-four wounded. The death is announced to-day of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., G.C.8., aged 83. [" AGE " SPECIAL.] LONDON, Sept. 11, 4.5 a.m. Germany has advised a peaceful settlement of the Turko- Greek difficulty. One hundred and fifty insurgents and fifiy French soldiers were killed in the recent disturbance at Kairwan, in Tunis.
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone will address his Midlothian constituents in Decomber next.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2631, 12 September 1882, Page 3
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