ALEXANDRIA

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2905, 18 July 1882, Page 2

ALEXANDRIA

THE BRITISH REINFORCED. ORDER RESTORED IN ALEX. ANDRIA. ARABI PASHA. THE CANAL CLEAR. REMONSTRANCE WITH THE PORTE. AiiEXAKDBiA) July 16. The English sailors and marines now bold all the forts, as well as the City gates. Men from the German, American and Russian warships. are assisting the English, and are acting as police and restoring order in the City. The French and Italian commanders refuse to land any forces to assist the other Powers. The City is rapidly becoming calmer and the efforts of the English sailors to stay the flames have had good effect. Most of the fires have now been got under and are dying out. The marauders and pillagers have ceased their work of devastation and pillaging. Rumors are to hand that serious disturbances have broken out in Cairo, but no confirmatory news is to hand. Lateb. It has been ascertained that Arab! Pasha escaped from the City by taking a boat down the Mahmoudich Canal, and after proceeding some distance, he landed and fled into the interior. His exact whereabouts is not now known. It now transpires that Arabi had not to resort to bribery, but that it was tbe Khedive, Who bribed the soldiery in order to escape from Ramleh Palace. July 17.

It has now been ascertained that Arabi Pasha has reached Kafedowor (sic), and is accompanied by a tolerably largo, but utterly demoralised, force of Egyptian soldiers. The English sailors hare captured a number of men who hare been engaged in looting the City, and the latter hare received a severe flogging and am detained in custody. The native population generally have adopted an obsequious attitude towards the English and other Europeans now occupying the city.

Many o£ the natives are thoroughly destitute and in a state of starvation. The ironclads, comprising the Chan* nel Squadron, and transports conveying 4000 British troops, are now nearing Alexandria. The rumors which came to hand that Cairo was in a state of disorder are now proved to have been without foundation. The capital is known to be perfectly quiet. Mama, July 16. A further detachment of marines, consisting of 1000 of all ranks, left to* day for Alexandria. Constantinople July 16. The six Great Powers Austria, Franco, England, Germany, Italy and Russia have sent an identical note to the Porte, inviting it to send a body of Turkish troops to Alexandria to restore order there.