The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-08-22 00:00:00

LANDING OF THY GUARDS.

Atexamthi a, Sunday, 4.40 p.m.—The Soots Guards and
the limonite.. hare buthei end gone out to Rareleh to
camp. Tour tine, healthy appear...ion wee much remarked
as they marched through the European quarter of the
city, but helmet. instead of bearskins rather purled the
foroun spec at os, and toe pipers of the Snots Guards
luc d many Freon. and Italians to believe thth these
were Ilighlanters U. disguise. lb. marchlog itself as
not very good, which wee natural enodgo alter • log
time on shipboard.. Fortunatdy, our foreign friend. tel
not wen the thumts at their bast in England, and
too much 6:ruck by the crest strung tellows to notice
de:ail.. Tug those in dock presented. highly -pictoresque
and nitrating aspect. Three transport{ coirtaimug
Omarderaseu, Soul., cud Grenadiers, lay along-Me the quay,
I sdr side. luod with rioter. eyirldotly delignted ea the
prospect o lan lure and eager to sea the shattered city.
The troop, Is .k-4 very wail after their voyage. be ot
Item hod suffered from searcluiess, apt all seemed
cried ully anxious to relieve their comrades at the front,
as well as desirous to learn the pardculars of the last
en,agement, more especially the trees sustained. Each
of tree Sae baitelions exhibit. aucu eagerness to land
before the other that the General deemed it expedient to
give orJers that they should disembark simultaneously.
The regimental baggage, stores, hones, £c., were lauded
at mii•day. The men, however, dined on board, and
paraded to full marching order at balt•pmt three. The
order tr tail in wee then sounded by the pipers and drum-
mers, ao.l was received with cheers. Great asionlatim• nt
was arousedamoog the assembled native. by the atr,rins of
bagpipes. The two hat Jima were paraded on the (4 lays
in front of to thine at tour o'clock, In presence of •
brilliant group af naval and military era Sr John
A lye ride...rot • few worts to the affirm sod the troop.
thou marched od, headed by the hand of the 49th, amidst
the thews of tile crew of the Orieut. The men were in
high month., beonsed by th• sun sail sea sir, arid in their
ear kits tookai a very different oiy to the tightly•b It .4
Guardsmen of Hyde park. The, were indeed • grand
body of burly, stalwart mm, tit to go anywhere and do
anythiug. With a quick, secluding pace the regimth• a
marched up tin Rae &Dlr., It. principal rase of the
nerwarre of the 11th of June. Transplanted from
London to the centre of tee ruins of Alex endria.
the soldiers viewed the strange scene a llla u.•
ramie d wonder.. From the back slums group,
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appeared to vie • the scene with sullen iudifference, but
se company alter company atrod• past, they were unable
to conceal their teener of arunishment A cocres•
prudent overheard one men ask his a. hihbour, in., &fr.
strackri voice, how many thousand. of t JCUZ were rowing.
To which the other piotely replied, " Allah only Ca...
Whlla another ejeculeted. "Ad is lost; Islamism is 0. er•
thrown !" The troops on Et dr part wore no LOS ourprird
at these sun, swarthy lint.. Egyptian. than the :atter Nora
at them. " auldiere ae no bigger then thee*
chaps we ought to tusk short work of tram,- was the
&snout of taw remarks on Um Lint look alit. Egyptians.
In the lirend Square a large crowd, formed of reprwata-
tlyee of ethry race in Southern Europe, was p.tberml.
The wimirati.n was not unmixed with envy, and the feet
that England had really undertaken, singlellionded, to
conquer Egypt far the Khedive armed for the first tuna
to be impressed upon many. of twat. A Greek remarked,
in atone of a.tuaahmant,' Why, the &relish really have
eiddiere, as well as ships and money r white one of the
Khedive's odious, standing ether, exclaimed gatherer
"What, does that dog Arabi think that he can
light such Balaban al theft r In tora square the batta-
lions separated, the Soots Fusiliers going to Hamlett
station, while the Grenadier* marched to Moharrum Bey.
The motley, ewe, thy crowd, the two lines of Guardsmen
towering above them by a fall boil, the newly-erected
booths molar the trees in the 1 oregiound, and the pies
of bleached ruins rising behind thin, made up a serme
which was almost unique in its singularity. When pass-
ing the hour where the tribune' site, and where •
British guard is quartered, the Goardomen's feces
brigntened at finding the familiar ndemets in the centre
of the city, and they exchanged ir.eadly greetings and
light chaff with them as tbey marched past. The Cud.
thrern Is, wile went to Kanleh on Sunday, where the
entire Brigade now bold the extreme right of our positi3l3
facing Aboukir. in the dtataaCO the Pickets Can see on
the uudbills the enemy's vet-it •s, I mos the first time
since the days of the Crimea that the Guards have ere
an eurrY.
Since the immediate danger has passed away and all
the forignirs in Alexandria are safe betitod British
boyoneta, they begin to grumble and snarl at those who
Protect them They hare even formed a committee,
to watch over European intirestr. called a Vigilance Cam
mitt.., end will be • eource of e iosiderabl trouble to Sir
Garnet Woloelsy if not firmly taken in band, and told that
during the liogil•It struggle for ciyil.sati into this remain
the foreign merchants end others who owe their lives to
our pratection cannot be allowed to begin an agitation
against any decision of resporible Englin authority. The
case la too aaaaa to wltnit of argument, and the
sooner the foreign colony here is made to un-
' derstent the situation the better for all parties.
The C ildetream en," Scots Guards are a•tablished at Ran-
i h. It is ato quail:coot situation for troupe a. 11 health.
The ro tweets sweepe over the sandy ridge where the
tents are pitche I, and there is sea bathing el°ae at head.
The meg Palely to tele,. kindly to cams If, in Egypt, and
have get everything into excellent order about their tents;
but they am rattier closely pocked, and there is one tent
only for the ofllwrs of each comp •ey, an in roite of the
Rasing andthe dry s it is no holiday work. Then was •
eburch service ibis ofbnaora. Toe three b.ttelions were
drawn up in clow columns, forming t iree.kles of • square
and the chapla is facing the centre battalion, with the
Duice and the olds n behind !leo.
It was • striking illuatradon of (Iterate at which events
have marched daring the lest few week., this servios on
the Egypt's= non, with the English Guards and an
English Prince attending it.
All was quiet at the front The Arab, were in their
old porton., and e one eps le work was etill going on but
thn enemy's Mita defences alatrear to he Anished, such as
they are, and it is rumoured that he I. rending away
moony Ishounge to ere feeding them.
The Doge of Connaught has applied to have the
motion brigaded Mita the Guards, and thief, taken as a
complimeut by the marine', due,p haps, partly to their
gallant conduct on August s'h- Toe Gu•L'thand m&riass
together would eertalnir make • splendid force of infantry,
St t, do enrichers and do anything.
I have just herd of • skirmlah westward of Alexandria,
beyond &lex. The Arabs errnered in 80030 Yonne, not
only Bedouin', as usual, bet some regular infantry and
tem cannon. Our mike and marines drove them back
by the Sr. of small field-pieces. manned by orlon, and
by the firm advance of the marines. There was no lose
on our side. The enemy, it is thought, einitaginw several
crualities.
The British army is now Arens enough to do whatever
Sir Garnet Wolaeley may decide upon doing. The officers
and men we impatient, in conventional Ones, ti he lied
against the enemy. The Commlarrist seems to tois work-
ing orary smoothly, and the troop. are well supplied with
everything neoreary t their comfort, whilst the pool Weer
of Tuesday has freshened to a strong note wind, so that
the climate even of Egypt in Aug ist is Ise from being
oPPmeively hot.
Well In., the foreign element in Alnamdria, now that
the danger is over, begin to fell critical about England.
We have cut them all out completely; but the at ea of a
greet chow of force Is excellent oa the native mind.
The 76th 'light:wader. marched through Athinfdris
Tuesday afterseer mar left 5101.5ftt'pahth Gnats' aeon
dist was edges. sod came mow nand the was