[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Departure of British Troops.—England and the Porte. London, August 3.

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[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] Departure of British Troops.—England and the Porte. London, August 3.

Two regiments of Household Cavalry and the Ist and 2nd Life Guards sailed to-day for Egypt. Sir Garnet Wolseley embarked to-day at Marseilles for Egypt, to assume the command of the British forces in that country. Constantinople, August 3. The Conference of European Ambassadors is continuing its sittings. The Porte has sent a communication asking its approval of a proposal that the proclamation declaring Arabi a rebel should be deferred until the Turkish troops had been landed in Egypt. Lord Dufferin, in replying to a communication, reiterated the declaration that the arms of England in Egypt were entirely unselfish, that the British Government insisted that Arabi should be proclaimed a rebel prior to the debarkation of the Ottoman troops. The British Ambassadors further declared that unless the Porte agreed to those terms the British Government would adopt measures to prevent the lauding of the troops in Egypt.