EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1007, 21 September 1882, Page 3

EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.

London, Sept. 15. Arab! has written to the Khedive imploring pardon. Midshipman Dudley Rawson, who was captured while calling despatches to Ramleh and taken prisoner to Cairo, has been found in that city uninjured. The Rebel chiefs will be publicly tried at Cairo. The British killed at Tel-el-Kebir numbered only 51. The others were only wounded. The enemy’s casualties were at least JSOO. The dyke cut to flood Lake Mareotis is now re-closing. Sept. 16. Her Majesty the Queen has sent "a telegram to the Khedive congratulating His Highness on the success of the eperations of the British trbops in Egypt. Sept. 17. An Italian naval officer was captured at Bcnha-el-Asl in Egyptian nniform. It is reported in Stamboul that Arabi will be removed to England. Sept. 18. The British lorccs are to mass at Cairo, where the Khedive is expected to arrive to-morrow to review them. The Highland Brigale garrison the city. Arabia's to be allowed the assistance of counsel on his trial. The Guards proceed Homo immediately, leaving Cairo for Alexandria directly after the review. At Aboukir two hundred rebel officers have surrendered their arms. Temporary military districts are be established, Arabi now states that he was compelled to take op arras and light against his will. The Indian troops are, to re-embark at Sue?; on the Ist October, An Indian loan of two and a half millions is required to meet the expenses of the Indian contingent. Gunboats and troops have been Ordered to Damielta, whore the rebel troops under Abdeilad, who refused to surrender, are posted. 17,000 stands of arms hare been captured at Kafradowar. Constantinople, Sept. 16, A fresh difficulty has arisen in regard to the proposed Anglo-Turkish Convenj.o.n 1 he point now iu di*pute_ ig in

regard to the relation of the British and Turkish commanders in Egypt. At.exandkxa, Sept. 16, Abdellad, Arabi’s commander -at Damietta, who holds the town with a force of fully 5000 black troops, lias refused to surrender to the British forces. Sept, 17. The garrison at Fort Aslan, near Kafradowar, has submitted. . <. ■ t, ‘ * Sept. rTB, Sir Evelyn Wood on his arrival at Kafradowar found that the rebel Arabs who had been stationed there had dis persed without waiting to surrender. The place is now occupied hy the British force. Railway communication between Alexandria and Cairo has been restored. In all, twenty leaders of the National Party have been arrested for complicity in the revolt. A decree lias been issued by the Khedive wholly disbanding the Egyptian army. The decree further sets forth that all officers of the army whb showed sympathy with the Nationalist m Yemeni will be tried by Court-martial in Cairo. Tan tab, one of the most important towns in the Delta, with a population of 30,000, was occupied to day by British troops.