THE AMERICANS AT ALEXANDRIA.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3495, 19 September 1882, Page 4

THE AMERICANS AT ALEXANDRIA.

(Morning Post. July 18.)

The New York Herald says, and very truly,' that Uncle Sam's little contingent of sixty marines has performed honorable and •worthy service' at Alexandria. Indeed, the behaviour or the American Admiral and his men throughout the Egyptian troubles ha 9 been beyond all praiso. Amid diplomatic protests, European concerts, conferences and naval demonstrations of imbecility, it i s as refreshing as a gleam of sunshine in a fog to find a commander able and willing on his own account so say what he thinks, and to do what he says, when our European allies were getting up steam to pass out of range of the insolent Egyptian earthworks, it is said that the American admiral, with a cool glance at the threatening cannon, 'calculated that he would stay where he was, and if any one fired at him he would fire back. . When the bombardment was'over for the day, the American ship alone, without red tape or circumlocution, dared to sail around each of our ships of war, and give them a lusty cheer. When, again, Admiral Sir Beauchamp Seymour asked for aid to protect life and property in Alexandria, the Americans landed promptly and at once. Sixty marines, physically speaking, could not do much, but there is a way of giving support which quadruples its value. And last and best of all, when the awkward news passed from mouth to mouth that Arabi was returning with 8000 men and thirty-six guna, and the European marines were hastening back to their men-o'-war, while Erench and Italians were Bailing in safety on the open sea, the Americans preferred to ' stick by the Englishmen and take their chance.' There are times when jealousy and ill-feeling run high between us, and bad words are bandied across the Atlantic; but, thank Heaven, there are also times of national grief and occasions of great moment when blood is found to be thicker than water, and Americans and Britishers are found to be standing eide by side. May it be so always.