CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1120, 11 August 1882, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Age Special. LONDON. August 10, 5.40 a.tn. The Sultan has signed a proclamation denouncing Arabi and approving of the military convention with England. The Orient has arrived at Alexandria. The French Parliament has been prorogued. [Reuteb’s Special.] LONDON.

August 10. Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone made a speech at a banquet at the Mansion House last night. In the course of which he referred at length to the Egyptian crisis. The Premier stated that England was going to Egypt with clean hands, as she had no secret intention as regards that country. She alone desired to maintain interests which are identical with those of the whole civilised world.

At the Mansion House banquet last night, the Right Hon. Mr Childers, Secretary for War, in the course of a speech which he made, stated that all preparations for the despatch of English troops to Egypt were completed. The necessary transport had been chartered, and from to-day detachments of troops would leave daily.

CONSTANTINOPLE. August 0 Intelligence is to hand from Crete to the effect that Transports with the first detachment of Turkish troops are arriving at Suda Bay, to await orders from the Porte. A draft of a convention between England and Turkey, has been submitted to the Conference. It provides that Arabi and his chief supporters shall forthwith be proclaimed rebels. Allusion is made to the friendly relatione eiisting between England and Turkey, and the latter undertakes to support the Khedive.

August 10. A force of six thousand Turkish troops is now* under orders for Egypt, and will proceed tq-day. ALEXANDRIA. August 9. All is now quiet in this city, and perfect confidence has been restored, and business generally is being resumed.