New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-06-17


THE POWERS AND TIE PORTE-wAR VESSELS CON
GENERATING AT ALEXANDRIA QUESTIONS AN
swERED IN PARLIAMENT.
LONDON, June 1.-THE Daily TelegrdpFs dispatch
from Alexandria states that the whole American
mission has embarked Oh board the United States
steamer Galena
The Standards Alexandra correspondent tele-
graphs that Arab Pacha has had notices pIacarded
i'll Cairo exhorting tranquility and declaring hlm-
self personally responsible for the safety of the Euro
pcan residents. The correspondent reports that the
canal engineers at Atfeh have given notice OF sus-
pension of work.
The TiAcs's correspondent az Const1ntinople says
All rumors of military preparations by Turkey are
pre- mature. There Is present intention OF sending
troops to Egypt. The Secretary of the Sultan has
left COnstantinOpe for Egypt with new instructions
for Deryisch Pacha"
LONDON June 16.-Deryisch Pacha has sent
a telegram to the Porte declaring that the presence
of the British and French squadrOns at Alexandra
is an obstacle to the restoration of order. At the
suggestion Of the representatives of Germany and
Austria the Khcdive has summoned Ragheb Pacha
and Ahmed Raised Pacha from Caro- for the purpose
of forming a new Ministry with Arab Pacha as
Minister Of War.
Ten thousand persons aTe supposed to have lett
Alexandria thus far, leaving many servants and
worlImcn without employment. The postmaster
doubts his ability 10 continue the postal service.
owing to the probable flight of the employees The
engineers at Atfeh, the junction of the Mahmoud-
ieh Canal with the Nile, have threatened to quit
work. which action might imperi the water supply.
The real and only serOns danger is from the native
troops, who are thoroughly in sympathy with the
rabble and will tire of guarding the Europeans and
take part against them. The correspondent OF
IL, Il titr
a superior force Is ready to land, the troops would
have TO choose between fighting and submitting. In
the first case they would have to deal with the ill.,
vaders and the foreigners could in the meanwhile
hold their own against the rabble.
Rear Admiral Nicholson, with the United States
steamers Lancaster and Qunnebaug, has arrived at
Gibraltar and will proceed to Alexandria imme-
diatcly.
The torpedo ship Hecla has been ordered to join
the British Channel Squadron. The Government
has made arrangements at Liverpool for the en-
ployment OF SIX hired transports III case of neceS-
sitg. 1t is stated, says The Times, that the British
Channel Squadron has not gone 10 Alexandrla, but
for cruise on the north coast. of Egypt.
It is also reported, on the other hand,
that the Channel Squadron will embark large
number of troops at Malta and will then proceed To
Egypt. The Dutch man-of-war Marnlx has been or
dered TO Alexandria. A second Austrian mall-Of-
war has been ordered TO be reany to proceed to
Alexandria. The German gunbOat Habrlcht has
sailed from Malta for Alexandria.
The Porte has been assured that the conference
will be strictly confined to the discussion of the
Egyptian question. Spain considers that she SHOULD
be rcpresened at the conference, as the Suez Canal
is the shortest route to her eastern possessions.
ii Is officially stated in Paris that all the
Powers have agreed to request the immediate ac-
ceptance by Turkey of the conference. Failing to
receive her assent, the conference will meet else
where than at COnstantinope without Turkeys
participation. A later dispatch says that Paris
newspapers assert that the Powers have given
Turkey forty-eight hours IN which to consider
whether or not to take part in the conference on
EcyDua" affairs.
STATEMENTS IN PARLIAMENT
In the House of Commons this afternoon Sir
Charles Dixie Under Foreign Secretary, replying to
Sir Henry Wolf, SAID that the news from Alexan-
drin rrns nnssmrinN No fresh disturbance is an