Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-28
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. BADLY WHIPPED. The British Beaten by
 Arabi's Troops. ALL THE RESERVES ORDERED UP. A Desperate Effort to Retrieve
 Themselves. Turkeys Answer to England A Tardy Consent to British
 Demands.
EGYPT.

l A British, Reverse-NyoIseley's Attacking | Column Driven Back The Defeat 1 Thought to be severe-A Feeling of Gloom in Eng Gland-Turkey Surrenders to Engiand-A Promise to Comply with Her Demands.
 | LONDON Aug 27.-Further details of the ! enqapement at the fresh water canal on Fri l day have been received here as follows The day passed few feet over General Wclseley' s | head and took off the leg of horse ten l yards behind him. The enemy throughout | the fight declined to come to close quarters. ] The two gunners who were killed were struck down by shrapnel near General Wolseley $ position. The troops behaved well. They were all day without water or food, after marching ten miles through the heavy sand The enemy's cavalry swept around the British right flank, but did not come within striking distance. The Egyptian fire was too hot for l the Life Guards to cross the open toward l them. The British infantry passed the day lying down behind the banks and in the
 ditches. After the engagement on Thursday, General Wolseley rode into Ismailia and re- turned late in the evening. Achievements ! arrived during the night, but the guns did not come until early next morning, having had great difficulty to get through the sand. At daylight it was found, to the great disappointment of our men, that the main body of the enemy
 had withdrawn. The Egyptian artillery l fought well and fired much more accurately
 than at Kafr el Dwar. The infantry were
 contem ptible and the cavalry little better. Many of both those arms were observed breaking from the ranks and dispersing un- der our fire of shell. The Life Guards cap tured eight prisoners, who were dressed as ordinary peasants, but carried arms. Two of them had long Arab muzzle-loaders, the ! others carrying Remington rifles. The enc my's scouts displayed great boldness. The enemy was much stronger than we expected. They had number of cavalry and were spread out in 8 semi circle. We soon per ceiyed train after train of achievements ar irving. Our guns commenced firing at II o'clock. At first our fire was very weakly responded to, but in the afternoon the Egyp- tans threw six shots to our one. They pro duced, however, very little effect. The fire of the enemy, though fairly good for anna teurs was not correct. Altogether our men and horses withstooa the heat of the sun fairly we'll A launch has been sent up the canal with two guns.
 IsMAEL1A, Aug 27-The British troops at tackled the Egyptian position at Tel ell Mahuta yesterday afternoon with the infantry of the First division, supported by the cavalry and artillery. The advance was met by rapid and destructive fire, and despite the utmost efforts of the British officers it was impossi ble to keep the troops up to their work, and the attack was repulsed along the whole line l with heavy loss. The Egyptians were largely 1 reinforced from Tel el Kebir during Friday night, and fought with more confidence than they have hitherto displayed, their artillery | being especially we'll handled and it's fire very | accurate while the infantry fire was so hot l that the British advance did not even succeed l in reaching the first line of Arabi's entrench ! ments. Arabi Pasha personally directed ] the movements of the Egyptian troops l After the repulse General Wolseley ordered all his available forces at Ismailia, Nefich and Suez to proceed at once to the front 1 day the British advanced 8 column in the direction of Kassasin Lock with the inten- ! tion of occupying that point. Heavy firing l is now going on at the front.
 l ALEXANDRIA, Aug, 27.-Arabl has several | thousand laborers employed in making an 1n I trenched camp near Aboukir on the Isthmus ! between Lake Aboukir and Lake Edko. This l is an important position, as, if held by the Egyptians, it would be impossible to turn 1 Arabi's lines ct Kafr ell -Dwar by any move | ment from the coast between Alexandria and I Aboukir.
 M DeLesseps started to-day for Mar seilles.
 The new Egyptian Ministry has been l formed Wltn hlaZ TRSnR as IroSlUeuG Ol Cne l Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs
 Haider Pasha, Minister of Finance; Omar
 Lufkir, Minister of War; Moubarak Pasha,
 Minister of Public Works Fakra Pasha,
 Minister of Justice and Khairy Pasha, Min ister of Public Instruction.
 ! The Turkish transport Calypso, with 1, ,50O
 troops on board, is off Port Said. Armed boats from an English man of-war are cruis ing around here to prevent attempts at land
 ing.
 large force of Bedou1ns attacked For
 Meks this morning. but were repulsed after Z l short skirmish.
 l LONDON, Aug. 27.-The news of the undis
 guised defeat of General Wolseley on Satur
 day, following so closely on the suspicious
 accounts of the affair of Thursday, ha
 changed the general feeling regarding thu
 Egyptian campaign from anxiety to positive gloom, and the immediate result of this feel
 ing is manifested in the difficulty experiences
 by the recruiting offices. The reputation o
 General Wolseley as dashing officer ha
 hitherto been relied on to tempt the Englisi yeomanry into the ranks, and has general.
 succeeded, but the position is becoming
 stronger day by day that dash and brillianc.
 will not in this case supply the place of tn } engineering and administrative qualities necessary to successfully manoeuvre artiller. and heavy troops in such difficult country It is to the possession of these qualities it i , thought, that success in this peculiar cam paign will be attributable if it is tt : be achieved at all. Although, a l usual, the dispatches are very vagu ] regarding the British loss in Saturdays ac
 tion. it is admitted that the casualties wer
 heavy and General Wolseleys urgency in or
 dering all his reserves to the front is takel
 to indicate determination to rectify the CT TOT into which he has fallen by some bolt
 and desperate effort and the outcome of tn
 next move is awaited with unconcealed anxie ty.
 CoNsTANT1NopLE, Aug. 27.-The Turkis , council has resolved to proclaim Arabi rebel. and accepts the English proposals fo ; the military convention to govern the employ
 ment of Turkish troops in Egypt. It is be
 lieved that the Sultan's increasing jealousy c the influence of Arabi on the Moslem popu lation of Syria and North African depender Z cies has operated largely in bringing abor this decision.
 ALEXANDRIA, Aug 27.-The British iror clad Minotaur is lying off Ramleh, firing int
 the enemys earthworks for the purpose (
 impeding the labors of the Egyptian workin
 parties, who are constantly engaged
 strengthening the Notifications opposite tn
 British lines Tho native who murdered Mis
 Richardson and Dobson in Alexandria he been arrested.