EGYPT.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4266, 2 September 1882, Page 2

EGYPT.

AIBXANDBIA, AugUSt 31. Confidence Restored. Residents in the suburbs of this city are returning in considerable numbers, and confidence is being rapidly restored.

Sir Garnet Wolseley has returned from the front, and is now at Ismalia. No farther move of importance has occurred. Rumored Parleying. Night. The statement is current in Ismalia thai the Governor of Zagazig, an important town at the junction of the railway lines between Alexandria and Suez and Cairo, has commenced parleying with the British on behalf of Arabi, with a view to 1 obtain an armistice and terms for the sub* ! sequent surrender of the rebel army, i September 1. ; The rumour which has been circulated | here regarding parleying for an armistice is distrusted. j Constantinople, August 31. | The Procrastinating Turk. ! A difficulty has arisen with regard to the despatch of tbe Turkish troops to Egypt in accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Turkish Military Convention. The execution of the Convention is delayed until it has been decided at what point the landing shall take place.

[Special to Auckland Star.] London, August 31. Fever has broken out among the enemy, who have retired to Telekibiri (?). At Damietta the Christians are being 'maltreated. Thir ty-sixnewspapers favor the proposed banquet to be given to M. De Lesseps. A strong Arabist feeling prevails at Stamboul. Cairo and Kassassain are quiet. A military train of 30 guns and 1400 gunners has been ordered to Egypt. Cholera is reported to have broken out among the troops. The number of idlers hanging about Alexandria causes apprehension, and it is thought an attack on Fort Meks is meditated.