THE WAR IN EGYPT.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2908, 21 July 1882, Page 2

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA QUIET. DERVISH PASHA RECALLED. FRENCH AND ENGLISH ALLIANCE GENERAL GRANT ON THE SITUATION. GREAT FIRE IN SMYRNA. Alexandbia, July 19. The City continues quiet, and confidence is being rapidly restored. Many of the native population who left the City at the opening of the bombardment are now returning. Dervish Pasha, the special Turkish Commissioner to Egypt, has been recalled by the Porte. Paris, July 19. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day M. do Froycinet, the Minister for Foreign affairs, announced that England and France had agreed to undertake the joint military protection of the Canal; and further, to co-operate in the joint occupation of Egypt should the necessity for such a step arise. (Pee Cable to Press Association.) [Special to Melbourne " Age”] London, July 19,10.8 a.m. 4.45 p.m. Dervish pasha has returned from Alexandria to Constantinople. The inhabitants of Alexandria are very indignant at the non-landing of the troops. It is said that only 20 Europeans remain at Cairo. Gen. Grant has written a letter, expressing his sympathy with England in the present crisis. (Pee Cable to Press Association.) [Special to the Melbourne Aeous.] One hundred houses are burning at Smyrna, in Asia Minor, where a great conflagration has broken out.