EGYPT.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4267, 4 September 1882, Page 2

EGYPT.

*-- [Special to Auckland Stab.]London, September 1. A force of Marine!) has.replaced the Highland Brigade as a garrison to Alexandria. , Sir Garnet Wolseley has demanded from the War Office a supply of balloons for observation purposes. Arabi-4s i*liin* itl " the European property be can get hold of. > : Baron Be Lesseps has declined the proposed banquet in his honor. - " Complaints are being made in Alexandria at th« withdrawal of the troops, leaving the tofq defenceless. It js reported tyitft /.Sir xEvelyn Wood's brigade is als<K*bout to leave. ?Bpainr andjpie Netherlands have been •<3mitted<t£» ftvteire in the protectorate of the Suez Canal. Our .wounded and killed in the recent engagement at Rassasein .wer*. pmtilatedby toe ■ eoeoug whetfevel opportunity occurred, TIMF/Guards (Blues) charged the gool^iaT darkneii, but failed to capture lliemf^nd are" blamed, for the failure. > Th« R |||4E^^-heavy troops in Egypt is generjil^lpiifemned by military authorities, ajhttil olimate and country render them unswijedito the work required to be performed.' - CoastdewVe anxiety" is felt about the safety vb'f Alexandria, afs it is now almost denuded of troops. The eriem'y are retiring to Damanhour, and have abandoned their advanced trenches. : The Assembly of Notables despair as to :the result of further resistance. ' The British outposts have been strongly , jrewforcedyand Sir Garnet Wolseleyshows i jt&ft utmost vigilance in his arragements. j Three hundred of the English troops ire in.the hospital. . - The filled of the enemy in the recent engagement at Kassassin, "numbering several hundreds, have been buried by our tr00p5.,,.. „ . "ik-v'i ' The suburban population' ig flocking into Alexandria, as neither life nor I property are now considered "lafe outside I the lines of the British troops. Predatory horde* ire ravishing the country, a,nd jcgparittmg all kjgdj of x^aUyges. Pro.visions/are pjfifi^ful in the city.