NEWS BY THE SAN FRANISCO MAIL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 6754, 20 October 1882, Page 6

NEWS BY THE SAN FRANISCO MAIL.

——o— THE ALL-ENGLAND MATCH.

Colonial eleven* hsv* ever previously don* Will count as heavily in the «.Um*tion of 1 boY* o on °* M ’Utory of August 29, 1881. Tho number of persons who paid for 7«t«rday was 10,601. agatest «t»«rdinarity close approximation, and tha wore ourfouv whfn wo remember that these thousand* of spectators witnessed one of the closest matohsTof this sensational sesson.— Daily Ntm. t 0„ h *«»«n of the “Ef V fle]< ? iD ß *w»pi that it came op to toe ideal, not the practical part of their reputation. Bpoffonb, who has not been a prominent success during. this tour, came off, and was demoniacal in bis oaco, pitch, and work on the ball. Boyle bowled his best, and only one word oan fitly describe the fielding-it was automatic. The whole eleven worked together as if one com* mon mechanical as well os mental power commanded tb eir actions, and from Blsokham. who kept wiokot wonderfully well, to the outfields, the trundlera had ail possible done for them. It must be remembered that until quite tho latter part of the innings the Australians were playing a losing game, and their Show will always be quotable as exemplary of keen cricket gradually gaining its reward. At one time they had not, on paper, a 10 tol chance, but pulled through by dint of good cricket. Unsatisfactory as it is to our people to be beaten, it was an honour to meet such splendid opponents, and the second match between England and the Australians will ever be memorable for, above all thing'*, the grand perseverance and pluck of the victors after all hope seemed to b» gone. - Sporting Lift.

"Advance, Australia,” may fairly be blazoned on the colours of our visitors aifor the concluding scenes of toe above great mat oh at the Oval yesterday. If pluck and determination, combined with consummate skill, deserve success, then do the Colonial team deserve, and tbat fully, the laurels they have gathered on many a well-fought field. It was a matter for surprise to many lovers of the game, in spite of the acknowledged fact of a difficult wicket, that the display of our representatives with the willow on Monday was so poor. Nearly every , one of them bad done wonders against the most difficult of bowling, and on the most uncertain of grounds, many a time and oft previously. How camo it, then, that out of such an eleven only four wore able to roach double figures f whilst iu their second venture—well it might be advisable to drop a veil over the second if that were possible, bnt under the circumstances it is not. True the amounts completed by the visitors were not particularly large, and they left anything but a difficult (ask for their opponents. How did toe latter avail themselves of their chance ? W. G. Grace played up Tike a man, and added a dashing thirty-two, whilst he was ably seconded on what there is no wish to disguise was a bad wicket by Ulyett, but as to the rest, with the exception, perhaps, of the Hon A. Lyttelton, they simply collapsed. When the close drew near and their task was but a light one, 19 runs only to be scored for five wiokets,' they ■imply lost their nerve, and stood up to be knocked down, metaphorically speaking, like so many ninepins. All tbeir brilliant services in the field were thrown away, and too skill of toe bowlers wasted, simply because they had not the nerve to play pluckily at a critical peint iu the gams. Men who at Portsmouth fought skilfully sod well went down before the bowling of Spofforth and Boyle like so many tailors* dummies, and when the end came England had lost the victory, which at one time was easily within her grasp, by seven mns., All honour to the victors, whose performance in the field and with the leather was simply masterly. Never disheartened by the near prospect of defeat, they played up manfully, and with as much coolness and confidence as though they were achieving an easy task. Well, they have their reward. An Australian eleven has, for the first—and let us hope it wiil be the last—time, decisively beaten a picked eleven of All England. There should benooavilling about this matter. Our tide were as ably chosen, and probably as representative, as ; could possibly be gathered together. In the light of previous performances they ought to have won, and that right easily; but as it turned out, the closeness of the finish was too much for their poor nerves, and they failed lamentably. Otherwise the game was a- grand one. Most certainly our side showed equal cleverness in the field and destructiveness with the* leather to their rivals", and hod they only kept 000 l and collected to the end they must have won. We would uot for one moment detract from the fulness of onr visitors’ measure of success. True, the margin between victory and defeat was but small; but it was sufficient. All Australia will ring with the prowess of her sons, and onoe more the Old Country must taka a book seat. No matter how mar-y further defeat! the Colonials may have in store ere returning to the land of the kpngaroo, they will go book with the proud boast, " We have beaten All England," and no matter how severe the reverses that may overtake (hem during the rest of their stay, nothing can erase that emblazoning from their banner. It will become us now to look to the causes which have led to this bad result, although no amount of training can give nerve to those who have it not. Fatting aside this aspect of the question, the two great factors in the Antipodean victory were Mosaic (whose 55 with the bat were simply priceless in their second innings), and Spofforth (whose bowling was never more deadly and unplayable). All, however, worked as one man to avert disaster, and to all must ' praise be given. Murdoch, and Bannerman batted with the utmost caution in the second venture, and they with Mossio, before mentioned, were the only tores to reach double figures.— Sportsman. The experience of the wiokets at the Oval this season did not lead to the belief that (hey would be of any great excellence, and considering the wear ground has had this year, there would have been little chance of such a desirability in any case. As it was, the heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday materially interfered with their condition, and more than one shower daring the game S evented their being fast at any time, uoh was naturally expected (0 depend on the toss, but (he advantages that ought to have accrued to the Australians from this success they lost completely by the small scoring on the first day. No one would hare predicted, in the state of the weather and the ground, (hat the Australians would have been in a minority on the completion of an innings. Yet such was too case* and when stumps were drawn on Monday night, (he game was oestaioly not in their favour. How they were dismissed for such a total as 63 is now a matter of history, bnt their dismissal is still difficult to explain. The best explanation is that they were overanxious, impressed by the importance of tho match, and indeed it was the obvious overanxiety of the batsmen on both aides that made tho play so unreliable. Tho first day'* batting was altogether unworthy of the reputation of the players, English as well as Australian. Thewowling on both side* was good, the fielding equally close and smart, but ft is not possible to mention one member of the twenty-two who showed any grrat dash. The heavy rain on Tuesday morning, though, worked a change in the aspect of affairs. The Australians baa tho benefit of a wicket made easy by the wet, and, tlanks to Massie and Murdoch, made some use of it. Apart from those two batsmen, tho play wa* decidedly unworthy of them, and it has only to be said (hat out of their total of 123 the pair mentioned contributed a* many as 84. Murdoch, as no one knows belter how, played a eteady aad collected game 1 but the feature of the innings, and. indeed, one of the beet point* in ti.e match, »M Moasio’e batting. He hit both wisely and well, punishing the loose balls freely without anything like mere elogbld2 Too much, indeed, cannot be said in orei.o of hie second soaro Ho was credited with 66 out of 66 while he was in, and ho got hia runs at a time when they were 6! the greatest value. Had the la'ter English batsmen shown half Dr Grace’s confidence tho result of the game io'all probability would have been different. A. it war, with everything in their favour, they threw away what ought to have been a certain victory. It i* oasy of course to orlti* cise, but not so easy to play one’s game when thousands of spectators are intent on every

Barely, if ever, has there been so large an attendance on an English cricket ground to witness a match es that which assembled on August 28 and 29 on Eennington Oval, and the contest was quite worthy of the diotino* tion it received. The third team of Australians have illustrated in a most marked manner their skill-at the "noble game," and whether winning (which has usually "been the case) or losing they have shown that thoroughness which gives to most pastimes (heir greatest charm. A team representing the combined talent of England, , both amateur and professional, had been selected to play against (hepa, and toe encounter was locked forward to with warm interest. On a wicket which did not play so tons as one could have wished, the Australians went in first, hot the superb fielding of England (especially tbat of Dr Grace at point) and the destructive bowling of Barlow and Feate prevented them making much headway. The fact of an "England” team proving itself competent to dispoie of the Australians in their first innings for the meagre total of 63 was received with considerable gratification by the sightseers, who, by the way, were by no means grudging of their cheers at any noteworthy piece of play on tos part of the Australians. Far better things were expected of the English in batting than they accomplished. The, early collapse of Dr W. G. Grace was the cause of mnoh chagrin. Barlow played with his wonted care for soma time. Ulyett, although he batted at tho outset with a great amount of uncertainty, , improved towards the close of what proved to be the highest innings of the day's play, viz., 101. When the game began on August 29 Australia was 88 runs behind on the first innings. Less than an hour's play took Australia 28 runs to the front, and of the. 66 runs thus scored against the best bowlers England can put into the field Massie mode 65. How great a change came over the match after Massie was bowled may be judged from toe fact that, though the first wicket only fell for 66 funs, th* whole side were out for 66 more. Of this number Murdoch, the Australian captain, made more (ban half. At half-past three in the afternoon the. Englishmen went in to make 85 runs to win. Two wiokets were down for 16, and then Grace and Ulyett hit the score to 51. At (bis time it looked as if a comparatively easy victory for England was in prospect. The extraordinary ’ uncertainty of orioket, the difficulty , of getting runs at a pinch of the game, and. the supreme merit of Hpoffocth’s bowling on e wicket that helps him, were never more forcibly exemplified than in the orioket (bat followed. Our batsmen failed when the run* were wanted, and were unable to , withstand the magnificent attack of the great Australian: bowler, aided as he was by Boyle's unfailing accuracy at the other end, and. the,.almost faultless fieldi'g of the whole team. The number of persons who paid for admission during the two days’ play was 39,181, the amount taken at the gate exceeding £2ooo.—European Mail. There wee only one regrettable Incident in the second innings of Australia. Murdoch played a ball to leg, for which Lyttelton ran. The ball was returned, aad Jones haring completed the first run, and thinking wrongly, but very naturally, tbat the ball was dead, went out of his ground. Grace, noting strictly within his rights and within the laws of the game, put down the wicket and appealed for the run out.- Thomas,the umpire, had, of course, no option but to decide against (he batsman. The reputation the Australians have earned for playing an uphill gams was never so well justified as it was yesterday, for though, as we have said, the triumph was brought about by the efforts of two men, the victory reflects immense credit upon Australian orioket as a whole. Wa do not believe, and, indeed, very few Englishmen, aud only match proves Australian cricketers to be better than our own. On a false and treacherous wicket, cricket quality has a strange tendency to level down. Given a really sound wicket, we believe the English team that were beaten yesterday are better than the eleven by whom wo were defeated ; but on ground in the condition of that on which toe contest was actually fought out (here is but little to choose between toe contending sides, Spofforth's bo «rling turning the scale in favour of our accomplished visitors. It would bo unsportsmanlike, and unworthy of English sporting honour and reputation for fair play, to attempt to make excuses for such a defeat as that of yesterday. The Australians would, however, bo the last to deny tbat in winning the toss and going in on the fresh wicket on Monday, and in commencing their second innings on Tuesday morning, when the ground was rendered easy by recent rain, they had a real and tangible advantage. Nor would the Colonists dispute the statement that, of the few mistakes in the field, not the least important was - that which gave Massie a second life. For the firet hour yesterday, when the Australians were batting, (ho wicket was easier than at any other time in the match. When all things oomo to be considered, we find the real reasons far the overthrow of the picked Eleven of English cricketers were, first, the blameworthy nervousness of several of our batsmen ; and second, (he unequalled bowling of Spofforth, who, at the cost of 90 runs, took 14 out ef tho 20 English wiokets that fell, an average of under *ix and a-haif runs per wloket. Only on a distinctly bowlers'wicket could such a performance have been accomplished against such a side. It i'i however, no derogation from the credit due to the prince of bowlers to s»y that bad the Englishmen played (heir real gam« throughout even his extraordinary efforts would scarcely have been crowned with enocees. The. filth Eng* gllsh wicket fell at 60,»nd the whole side were out for 77. It would be pleasant to be able to say that, after a grand fight, the Englishmen were beaten but not disgraced. In a limited aenee, to ray this would be to speak tho truth. With too worst of the luck in the weather and the wiokot, they Stayed a magnificent aide to seven runs; nt they had two grand, opportunities, and they missed them both. When th*y got the Australians out f or 63, they certainly should have made fur more than 101; and when they went in to make 86 runt to win the match they certainly should have done it. English oriokot hss perhap* never Wore received eo severe a View a* that inflieUa hy toe Australians yesterday, and nothing tne<

hit, watching nr rrcmsly every boll. Still, the > 1 vjgr t( some of the English batsmen seems i altogether inexplicable. No one o*n poMiblf 1 1 fina any extenuation for the downfall of • i the !ut five or six English bstsmeo. Bpof- j ( forth’* bowling was extraordinarily good, 1 1 qnito the beat perhaps (bat baa baaa seen i i ibis season. Boyle kept op the other eod well, i i straight, nod of • fairly good length, bat it is , 1 difficult to comprehend why there woo bo 'i attempt to make use of hi* bowling when two i or three good faita would bare settled the ) question. There waa only a difference of i aeven nine between the two eleven* at tbe 1 finish, ao that the Australians can on tbia 1 form look upon this remit as a decisive proof 1 of superiority. Everyone will accord them < the credit they so fol'y deserve for a i fairly and hard-earned victory. No one will t for a moment grudge them the satisfaction of J a triumph of whieh the people of Australia will bo justly proud.. It fa our own failure i that wo have most to deplore. The poor show ; made by batsmen who in all probability in i an ordinary match would have played with • confidence and resolution, is one of the most : depressing reflection* in connection with i the match. When fire wickets were down i there were only 19 runs wanted to win. i Every credit is to be given (0 Spofforth foe : tbe wonderful bowling which gave the victory ■ to hit side. It will take, though, a long time for Englishmen to forget the last few overs of this week’s encounter. Five of the best batsmen in England only able between them to make 11 runs, as was the case at the finish on Tuesday. No wonder that there is general gloom in tbe small world of English cricket.— hand and Water. The following was the full score in the match : AUSTRALIANS. Ist Imitate. 2nd Instate. Baunermau, o Grace b Feare 9 o Stndd b Barnet IS Uaaale, b Ulyett ... 1 b Steel 66 Murdoch, b Foa'e ... 13 run out 29 Bonner, b Bsrlow ... 1 b UlyetS ... ... 3 Horan, b Bartow ... 3 o G«co b Feat* ... Z Oiffen, b Peato 2 e Grace b Feaio ... 0 Blackburn, o Grace b Barlow 17 o '• yttelton b Fc;te ... ... 7 Garrett, o Bead b Feate 10 not ont 2 Boyle, b Barlow 2 b etoel ... ... 0 Jones, o Banes b Barlow ' 0 ran out ... ... 6 B'pofforth, not out ... 4 b Feare ... ... 0 Extra ... 1 Extras ... 6 Total 63 Total 122 - ' Bowuse Ahiltsis;—First Innings : Peato, 33 over*. .4 mdea, 31 runs. 4 wkts; Ulyett, 9 overs, 5 mdaa, 11 raos. I wkt; Barlow, 81 overs, 22 mdns, 19 rans. 6 wkts; Steel. 2 overs; 1 redo. 1 ran. Second InningsPonte, 21 ovfrs, 9 mdns,4o mas, 4 wkts; Ulyett, 6or era. 2 nidus. 10 rant, 1 wkt ; Barlow, 13 oven, 5 mdnt. 87 runs; Steel,7 oven, 15 runs, 2 wkts; Barnes, 11 overs, 5 mdna, 16 rani, 1 wkt; Stndd, 4 overs, 1 mdn, 9 runs. ENGLAND, let Innings. 2nd Innings. Barlow, a Banueman, b Spofforth 11 b Spofforth ... 0 Dr W. G. Grace b Spot. forth 4 o Banneman b 80-Ie ... . S 3 Wlyett. at Blaokham b o BlaoVbam b Spofforth S 3 Spofforth ... 11 Mr A. P, tineas, o Slack. hamb Boyle ... ... 9 b Spofforth ... S Hon A. Lyttelton, o Blaokham bSpoffot h 8 h Spofforth ... 18 .Mr C.T. Studd, b Spotforth 0 not ont ~ ... ... 0 Bead, sot ont ... ... 19 b Spofferth ... 0 Barnes, b 80y1e... ... 5 o Murdoch b Boyle 8 Hr A. G. Steel, b Garrett ... 14 o and b Spofforth 0 Hr A. H. Hornby, b • Spoffoth „ 8 b Spofforth ... 9 Feat#, o Boyle b Spot / forth ... ... ... 0 b Boyle ... ... 8 Extras m 9 Extras 4 »„.* Total ... ...101 Total ... 77 Vowuso Ajuiisw.—First Innings: Spofforth - 30*8 oven, 18 mdn*, 48 runs. 1 so ball. 17 wkts; Garrett IS overe, 7 mdna. 23 runs, 1 wkt; Boyle 19 oven, 7 mdna. 24 runs, 1 wkts. Seoond Innings: Spofforth 28 overs, 15 mdna, 44 runs, 1 no ball, 7 wkts; Garrett?over*, 8 mdna, 10 rue; Boyle 80 overs, 11 mdn), 19 runs, 8 wkta. BIOT3 Iff DUBLIN. The dispute between the police and the authoritiea reached a climax on Sept. 1. Barly on that day the men who attended a meeting the previons night,. 885 in number, ; wen orderea to parade in plain olothea in the j Lower Castle Yard, and before they had turned out the police stations were occupied i by infantry folly armed and accoutred. She ; men aummoned accordingly marched in plain i clothes four deep from the various police < stations through the oitv to the Lower Castle j Yard, where they were paraded in presence of ; the Chief Commissioner. Their names having ] been called out and answered to, they were ] informed by Captain Talbot that, in consequence of disobeying the order iaiued by the j authorities relative to attending the meeting i in the Foresters’ Hail, they were dismissed, j and the amount of their pay was handed to , them, Many of them returned to their < respective districts and made arrangements i for delivering *p their kits. Immediately ] after the dismissal of the police above noted, ( a proclamation calling upon the citizens to act ’ as special constables was issued hr the Lord- i Lieutenant, and posted extensively through i the city. t When the disposition of the special con- . stables among the several -police stations had : been arranged, a party of thirty of them, | who had been told off for duty at Queen i street elation, left the Castle. They marched ] in a body from the Castle Yard down Parlia- i ment street, and over Grattan Bridge into , Capel street. At this time most of the men - wore their badges, a narrow baud of coarse i linen, stamped with the letters and < fastened to the arm by means of a buckle. ( They thus attracted muck attention, and a j crowd speedily assembled around them. \ 'Groans and shouts, and much abusive | language were used. At every step the crowd j swelled, and excitement increased. Finally, ( the mob began to press against the cons- . tables, when one ot the latter, named William j Anderson, drew a revolver, and fired three ( •hots into the crowd, wounding a man. A | rush was at once made on Anderson, and he < turned and fled towards Bolton street, fol- , lowed by an excited band, who called out ( »Lynch him.” During his course he kept ] brandishing the revolver, but no more than ( the three shots were fired. On turning into ( Mary’s Lane, the pursuing crowd became divided. Most of them gained on Anderson, ] but a large section mistook for him a young , man named John Odill, and ohserd him i hotly. Both men were overtaken in Mary’s ( Lane, where they were knocked down, i kicked, and beaten until they were insensible, i In other parts of the city there was inuoh ( •tone throwing, and the crowds were charged i by the military. Another serious disturbance | took place in Stephen street. It appears that ( fire or six of the special constables wheat- i tempted to arrest a drunken man were \ savagely attacked, and some of tbe specials < were severely wounded in the fray. News of | (he riot was brought to the Castle, and a 1 special force despatched in haste, but when it | arrived the crowd ran away. Up till one i o’clock the following morning too streets ( showed no signs of being cleared, and orders \ were then given to the military to disperse ] the crowds in titokville street Westmoreland i street, and College Green. Jhs Biot Act waa ( read, and the men of the Bifle Brigade and 1 West Sent Regiment, assisted by the Dragoons j and Hussars, commenced to clear the streets. ( They charged and recharged for fully au hour < before anything like quiet was restored. ; Fourteen persons received alight bayonet j wounds during the charges, but none of such ' nature as to necessitate their retention in i hospital. Among the wounded was a reporter < of the Daily Dxprett newspaper, who re- , oeived a thrust from a bayonet in the hip. a Another man had a narrow escape, a bayonet i passing through his ear and striking the bone t of the skull behind. h On (he morning after the riots many of the ; business establishments in Dublin presented i the appearance which they did on the morn- c iog after Mr Faroell’e arrest. The glass t breaking had been wholesale, and huge gaps j were visible in tho handsome plate glass a windows. The garotters and ruffians who t infest the oity committed some shocking ont- I rsgss, and extensive burglaries were per- i petrated. Property valued at £l5O was ( stolen from one jeweller’s shop. Complaints * h&vo been received that women and j girls wore waylaid in lonely thoroughfares, i thrown, down and robbed and indecently 1 aisaultel. Two special constables turned f upon the military with their sticks, and were t at ones arrested. A Catholic' priest made a a gallant attempt to stop the disturbances in t Baokville street. tfe marched into the midst t of a crowd of young men who were armed |

with sticks tad stones, and raffed the* severely, sriring their weapon* and breaking them across hie knee, tad commanded th* nob in tbt name of hie Church to retire to their komee. Inquiries ehow that about eight; injured person* bare been attended to at the various hospitals in the city, at th» reeult of the noting. Nearly a score of then had reoetrtd bayonet wound*, and the re* maindmr were suffering from blows given by ■tick* or stones. Some- alao complained of having been kicked while on the ground daring the charges of military and police. It is not thought any fatal results will ensue. In addition to the damage done to the Sing William statue on College green, the Pott Office window* were smashed, and the street* at the back wer« strewn with broken glasr, every bouse baring been attacked a'(lsoms looted. It is satisfactory to be abls to state that tbs •triks hat collapsed, for the present at least. It appears that, on mature deliberation, the men who were dismissed, together with those who afterwords resigned, Ears preeented a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant, humbly asking to be reinstated, to which Earl Spencer has sent the following reply:—“To tbs Chief Commissioner of Police. With reference to the memorial from the men lately dismieeed from the Metropolitan Police Force, I now authorise yon to announce that I hare directed a careful inquiry to be held into the recent conduct and previous character of each one of the memorialists; that I will myself personally review the result* of the inquiry, and that such of- the memorialists will be reinstated in the force as appear to me to be deserving of reinstatement. —Smcn.” For the present, however, the men have been allowed to resume duty pending the inquiry above noted, and tranquility again prevails in Dublin. TEE WAR IN EGYPT. Continuing our description of the operation* in Egypt, as condensed from the Eng* lish and American papers, we come to the fights at Easaaitin Lock. The first of these occurred at the end of August, after the preliminary engagements along the line of the Sweetwater Canal from Isznatlla towards Zag-a-Zig. It w it thought after the fight at Msg far that the Egyptian troops were too half-hearted and demoralised to stand beforethe British. Not so, however, for Arab?* troops on August 27 gave up the defensive and assumed a determined offensive. They fell with great courage and effrontery upon our most advanced post, attacking it in great strength and with commendable resolution. Arabi’s presence no doubt explained this abnormal activity, although there were symptoms that something more than bis per* sooal authority was needed to screw up the courage of hie men. Throughout the morning of August 27 there were signs as of diesezuions in the Egyptian camp. Heavy firing was heard at a great distance, and with no apparent reason, unless the guns were being turned on one another. The inference is that a port of the Egyptian troops— thoee, probably, who had already felt our mettle —were reluctant to re-engage, and had to be coerced into courage. However this may be, the enemy showed before General Graham at Eassossin Lock in menacing numbers at about 7 eon. on August 28. Graham, whose force consisted of three battalions of infantry, the 46tb Marines, and 84th, with five guns and » squadron of cavalry, and the Mounted Infantry, at once telegraphed for assistance to Drury Lowe, who was at Mahmmeh, four miles to the rear, with the Ist Brigade of fho Cavalry Division. His force, comprising the Household Cavalry aud tbs 7th Dragoon Guards, quickly mounted and rode forward. The enemy were now plainly visible—two regiments and swarms of Bedouins. Their artillery opened fire at ridiculously long ranges; bat the main body made no farther demonstration, and about four in the afternoon gradually withdrew. This retrograde movement rrts, however, only a feint, and within bait an hoar the Egyptians came on again in real earnest, re* solved to fall upon Graham in force and carry his position at all costs. Our dispositions at Eassassin were as follows;—The Marine Artillery on the left, resting on the Canal, then the 48th, .then the 84th, all ia slight earthworks, with the Mounted Infantry In front, and thus they calmly awaited attack. Meanwhile, the cavalry under Drury Lowe hod returned to Mahsameb, but the commencement of a furious artillery fire towards Zasiassin assured him (hat the enemy’s retreat hod been feigned, and that a battle was really imminent. IQs men, wearied by fatigue and exposure to a terrible sun, were snatching a hasty meal; their hones went equally worn Out by their toilsome, objectless day’s march, batwithoatsmoment’shesitatioa Drury Lowe again stood to srmr, and proceeded as rapidly as possible to the front. 'Whether or not he was working in concert with Graham !• not dear; bat, if not, he deserves all praise for the true soldierly instinct which prompted him to repeat the dashing tactics by which he bad ginned the Maiameh Station on the 25th. The direction of his edvanee was far away to his own right, and aimed against tie left flank and roar of an enemy whose position he divined rather than saw. Terrible clouds of dust obscured everything, and preset tly the sun went down. Ose moment before the darkness. swiftly supervened a glimpse of the enemy was obtained behind a fold of the sandy hil J s, and the cavalry, reinspiritsd, pressed their jaded horses forward at a slow trot. All the while the noise of heavy firing to the left proved that the combat waged fiercely at the Eassasuo Look, and it seemed certain that General Graham’s small garrison was surely pressed. Still the cavalry pushed forward, now walking, now at a slow always circling round, till, about seven p.nu, they bad evidently reached the rear of the enemy’s position. A short halt was called to allow the Hone Artillery to come up, then the advance was resumed. By this time the moon was high; darkness no longer obscured all objects, and the dangerous proximity of oar cavalry was suddenly betrayed to the enemy, who immediately opened a furious fire. The range was barely 1500 yards ; the projectiles, shells and shrapnel from the artillery, followed by Remington bul’ete from the line. By j udictous changes of position Drury Lowe disconcerted the enemy’s aim, and the severe cannonade d d but little execution. Longer delay in this dangerous position was now rendered unnecessary by the arrival of the guns, acd it was possible to bring matter* to a crisis, 'the plan of attack was quickly formed. The cavalry again opened somewhat to the right to allow space for the guns to come into action, and advanced ia echelon from the left, the Dragoons leading, while behind them the Household Cavalry were formed for a brilliant charge, the effect ef which has already been described in our telegrams this week. The splendid movement of the cavalry, so boldly devised and pluokily executed, had the effect of relieving Graham at once. He had been reinforced by one more battalion, and was now able to issue from his lines and attack in his turn. All through the affair ha had showed a bold front, but the shelter trenches occupied by the infantry were inly a meagre protection, and the enemy’s artillery had been well directed and well unstained. The columns of attack were extremely strong, numbering, it is said, some 13,000, the men composing, them stout hearted and eager, and in all probability they would hare stormed, perhaps carried, our camp. But, as usual, the report that our cavalry were in their rear was too much for their equanimity, and the hazardous march of Drury Lowe met with the success it deserved. Much credit is manifestly due to the heavy cavalry, especially to the Household Brigade, who have now more than justified their selection as port of the expeditionary army, and have added new laurels to the traditionary reputation of the three corps. We have in this brilliant affair another proof of the extreme usefulness of cavalry in this campaign. That they were unable to secure the guos from which they drove the enemy can hardly be deemed a reproach. It was night, the day’s work had been very severe, snd ample results had been achieved, it eocrns pretty clear, from A rabi’s presence in this engagement, that he Las at last been roused from his apathy in the lines of Kafradowar. He b« now begun to realise tho reol danger of Sir Garnet's line of advates, and has endeavoured to form up and show a front*to his threatened

flank. The of the attack oa yusaisin prove th?^ 6 while the unusual in. trepidity of thr*:roojw engaged points to the fact that he had, brought some of bin veteran regiments to join in the fight. He evidently risked much upon the throw, and has endured a humiliating rebuff. THB BBCOND ATTACK. Once again Arabi tried the effect of an attack in force with even worse re sails. We obtain a description of the fight from the Jfew York Herald « Kabsabsik, Sept. 9. After 6 o’clock this morning Bengal Lancers and scouts came in to the British oanp with news that tho enemy were approaching in great force on the north side of the railway. She army eras at onoe put in motion, and by 7 o’clock an artillery duel began. Arabi’e smabi of all arms were spread over the entire ridge, and a mile and a half up the 800 a train heavily armed appeared. Close to the spot where 1 stand the forty-pounder and Xrupp guns of the British are placed, shelljog toe enemy's right. There is also a twenty-five pounder a few hundred yards off playing on the same position. We have the smemy’i range exactly. One of onr shells burst right over tho enemy's nnks. Hie Egyptian artillery have got our distance very well, and their shells are dropping steadily into our camp. We have ham artillery extended along a line half a mile in length on the north aide of the railway. They are firing rapidly, and at present the Egyptians •re »lo«ly retiring. Up to this moment no pgjm.iiuw hare occurred. Beiuforoementa are Just coming up from Mabsameh. A Krupp eon recently captured from Arabi sent a nearly in front of his train. Our infantry ore slowly advancing, and tho enemy are slowly retreating. Noon. The attack of the enemy bat been repulsed, but the action (till continues along tho front,, which extends a distance of three miles. All the troops ere out from the British camp. 3fee wounded are now.being brought in, bat the total casualties- are not yet exactly known. The British loss is roughly estimated at one hundred killed and wounded. Many shells fell in the British oamp before the enemy was lepulsecl. I have counted twenty of the enemy dead near one spot. Numbers of Egyptians are lying about fearfully wounded. Our wounded include ten marines, whose wounds are tuitions. The Thirteenth Bengal Lancers commenced the engagement- and ]dlled ten of the enemy. They lost one Sikh in I heir first charge. The laneers hold the gronnd gallantly until force arrived. Had the Highland Brigade come up and supported them, it is said that the British oonld ere now have orptured Tel-el-Kebir. Sept. 10. In the engagement yesterday, besides the Egyptians who advanced from Tol-el-Kobir, a force of 1500 men crossed the desert from JSakhiyeh and operated on the right flank of the British. These troops continued the engagement-after the Tel-el-Kebir force had retired. They had a Krnpp battery which they handled well The British heavy cavalry pushed them hard, and finally captured one JJjrapp gun, with the team and equipment, and a green standard, which waa taken from the hands of a dead standard-bearer belonging to one of Arabi Pasha’s crack regiments. yts Bslahiyoh contingent were routed, but 4ha others reached Tel-el-Kebir in fairly good erdeif. The British loss was comparatively -email.—perhaps eighty in all killed and wounded. Arabi’e plan was well dev sed, hat required better troops to cany it out, although tile Egyptians fought better Chau they have jmntofere. Saturday’s repulse of Arabi Tkaha is considered by some .oa a complete eneeess for the English, who hadnevar calculated upon his attacking them in such a -manner. The enemy did not retire until the English infantry advanced. Arabi left about 200 dead and wounded on the field. The •■rounded state that the English right was attacked by five battalions of infantry, with -five guns and 600 cavalry, under the command of Mahmoud Patha Sami, from Balahiyeh. The enemy had altogether 15,000 men. ■ Saturday night passed quietly, the enemy Laving disappeared behind their entrenchmeats. At daybreak Sunday morning tfie Wnglimh began to throw up rifle pile around . Kaasassin, in order to prevent Arabi Pasha : from approaching near enough to shell their . camp. A picket of the Thirteenth Bengal i lancers charged a regiment of the enemy’s cavalry, rode through, them and killed ten. znes, toning one of their own, whoso body was ( subsequently discovered full of bayonet wounds. The enemy throw many of their , own wounded alive into the canal. The Foot Guards have arrived at the front. Stores are coming up fast. The wounded ore doing excellently. The English loss during the engagement was SO wounded. None were Jailed. The Highland Brigade, which left Ismailia on Saturday, only advanced ten miles. The weather was extremely hot, and tho men suffered terribly. Two of them died from sunstroke, end a few others are not expected to tire. Two hundred men fell out of the ranks daring Saturday’s march. ■ Sept. 11. There is little doubt that tho first attack on Saturday came upon the British forces in the nature of a surprise. About five o’clock in the morning thirty Bengal Lancers, who were -out to set' videttes, to their astonishment found themselves suddenly in the presence of three rquadrona cf the eaemy’e cavalry and a number of infantry, advancing in regular attack formation. Colonel Pennington dismounted bis men, and opened a galling fire. The three squadrons of cavalry advanced to surround him, and, being hard pressed, he mounted his men and charged the nearest body of the enemy with such fury that he killed ten cf them. Colonel M'Naghten then galloped back to camp, and soon the rest of the regiment, 400 strong, came to the rescue., They found a picket of Hussars, with mounted infantry, already potted side by side with the gallant party. Prisoners report that the object of Saturday’s operations was the capture of Kassassin, which the enemv believed to he weakly defended. The Egyptians lost over one hundred killed. The number of their wounded is unknown. The'British loss was four killed and sixty wonxded. Sept. 12. There is no doubt whatever that had wo advanced on Saturday we could have captured the enemy’s position with great ease. General Bailer, who accompanied the cavalry, was actually in consultation with General Drury Lowe upon the expediency of the cavalry pushing forward to Zag-a Zig when General Woheley’s orders arrived for tho force to retnrn to Kasiatsin. It is possible that the rapid transfer of the command from Grihan to Willis and from Willis to Wolseloy within a period of a few hours during Saturday’s engagement may have had an injurious effect on the disposition and handling of the English forces. The British sick and wounded at ismailia number 240 in the hospital ashore, and 201 aboard the hospital ship Carthage. The former is to be evacuated by all but very serums cases. The campaign has demonstrated tho vast superiority of shrapnel oyer the Ktnop percussion shells. Tho English fired without haste, as the consumption of ammunition by the rifles averaged eight rounds per man. The British soldiers showed great humanity to the wounded Egyptians. Many gave away their water bottles, which, under suoh a sun, were a prime necessity for their own use. Tho prisoners all expected instant death. This brings the story of the war down to tho final crisis at Tel-el-Kebir, where the rebellion melted away like snow in the sunshine. For full accounts of this ire shall have to wait until the next Suez mail arrives, hut such curt telegrams as appear in the American papers we have already published. The following are a few miscellaneous items THB OAFTIVB MIDSHIPMAN. Mrs Stone, wife of Stone Pasha, writing to Mrs De Chair, tho mother of the young midshipman, recently captured at Alexandria, •aye-By the circumstances of service, my husband and mv only son wore absent from Cairo at the time of the bombardment of Alexandria, end I found myself with three daughters cat off from them and isolated, the only family of Christians in the European quarter of the cltyi While making vain attempts to escape, we heard one night a fearful uproar in the streets, and learned that ’ it was caused by the reception of an English prisoner, of high grade; most people scad it

*“ Admiral Seymour who had been captured and brought to the capital. Then we heard Admiral, but ,6mo other high official Finally came, to ay great relief, the order permitting us to depart, and then the Under-Ministor of War requested me to visit the Bogush prisoner and sea tho manner in wmoh he was treated, and thus Ip bo able to deny reports which htf said were drenlated in Alexandria, Co the effect that ho was omeUy treated. Ho desired me to speak freely with the captive, ask any questions, and propose *ny change of treatment that might add to hU comfort. Accompanied by one of my daughters, I drove to the place where he was guarded, expecting to find some veteran officer of the navy closely confined. Arrived there, I found that the place looked else than a prison. It was the school of the young Egyptian prinoes a little palace in the' centre of a beautiful garden, near Abdia Palace. We entered a pretty reception-room, and a fair young English lad came forward smiling to meet me, saying he was tho prisoner I haa com* to visit. He was the picture of youth and health, with all the surroundings of suoh luxury as con be seen in the Egyptian capital Tho apartment that ho occupied Is that of tho Khedive’s eldest son, and his north-country olothing had been replaced by an elegant suite of white linen, much more suitable to the climate of Cairo in August. I laughingly told him that he looked to me more like a young English prince at home than a prisoner of war; and he replied that he was called the * guest of Arabi Pasha,' and that he had only to express a wish for anything, except liberty, and it was gratified if possible. 1 remained with him an hoar and a half in pleasant oonamatioa, and eould find nothing in which to add to his comfort but some English books and a few drawing materials. Two young Egyptians who apeak English remained constantly with him, and seemed to take pride in doing everything in their power to please him. These young men followed ms to my carriage, and promised to serve him faithfully.’’ THH VKOSBIS3 OF THB WOUND HD OPFICKM. The Khedive’s Palace at Ismailia—a big square building, standing by itself in a fine garden—-has been, devoted to hospital purposes oa shore; while the large ship Carthage floats in (he basin to serve a like end on (he water. A better place than the Palace oonld not bare been selected. Its vestibules and chambers are lofty, with immense windows, fitted with jalousies; and great is the feeling of relief on coming within its marble corridors oat of the torrid sunlight. '* In another room, contiguous to the one occupied by Arab heroes," writes Dr Bussell, the special correspondent of the Telegraph, “lay the officers who were unfortunate enough to be struck. Tiseonnt Melgond lounged in a chair perusing 'John Inglessnt,’ his bandaged band retting on a pillow. He chafed bitterly at being kept back from the front for so little, and having dabbled a little in gun-shot surgery, I found myself compelled to hint that, though a bullet through the hand is not dangerous, yet it may take long to cure, especially in so trying a • climate as this, wherein the blood is normally in an excited and irritable state. The temperature is about ninety in the shade { in that well-aired chamber it might have been seventy-five or so. Near him, supported by many pillows, reclined Major Bibbey, whom gossips had reported dead. Though gravely wounded, he is not by any means dead, or likely to die at present. His bullet entered at the back, under the shoulder blade, made the circuit of the ribs, shattering two, and came out of the left breast. At first it was supposed that the hall had penetrated the longs, but that, it seems, is not so. He lies there, fanning away the flies, unable to speak, bat not discouraged, and it is to be hoped that we shall see mm •gain in St James' street as well as ever. Close by is the bed—or rather stretcher —of Captain Hallam Parr, who is getting on as well as possible. All of them, by-,the-way, find the hours pass wearily in consequence of the total absence of literature. There are no ebooks, and the papers are thumbed-to pieces.” -thd-hikbbih: . Begarding the Egyptian loss in the attack on the last stronghold of the rebels, no computation approaching accuracy can yet be made, hut including what has bees accounted for by tho cavalry, it cannot be short of 2600 to 3000. In several places the bodies of the Egyptians were lying in heaps of from 80 to 60. They lay in dense rows where the Fortysecond, getting on their flank, enfiladed Arabi’s lines, while they were holding the position against an attack in the front. The dead extended for over a mile behind the position, as oar pursuing troops fired after the mass of fugitives. Altogether, the field at Tel-el-Kebir presents a horrible and ghastly sight. Fifty guns have fallen into the hands of the British. A Cairo telegram of Sept. 20 gives the rumour (which appears to have been quite without foundation) of the death of the commandant of the black troops: —“ Abdallah Pasha, commander at Damietta, has been shot by one of his own soldiers. He summoned his black regiment and said that he expected them to fight (ill the last. He declared that Arabi had turned traitor and . .fled, but Kafradowar was making a heroic resistance. A soldier asked why they should risk their lives for Arabi and for him. Abdallah replied that they were -not fighting for him but for their religion, their country, their Caliph. They should be ready, he said, to die, as he was. The soldier replied, 'Than die,’ and shot him through the stomach.’’