Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-21

that he will not be responsible for their
safety, having to call all his soldiers and DO
lice to the 'front.'"
A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Com
pany, dated Alexandria, six o'clock, this
afternoon, says: "Fighting commenced this
afternoon on the Mahmoudieh canal The
British are using the heavy guns which
were brought to the neighborhoOd of NAL
lsha junction yesterday. The firing still
continues"
A dispatch to the Times from Alexandria
states that Generals Willis and Graham and
the Duke of Connaught have gone to
Aboukir. OF the whole fleet, the ironclads
Invincible and Inconstant alone remain.
The Forty-ninth, Seventy-fifth and Seventy
ninth Regiments at Ramleh will probably
support the movement at Aboukr by an
attack on the left flank Of the enemy.
A dispatch from Alexandria to the Ex-
change Telegraph Company, dated 7:3O this
evening, says: "The firing heard in the
direction of Aboukir this afternoon was the
British twelve-ton guns along the Mahmou-
dieh canal"
PORT SAID, August 19 Just before sun
set to-day the gunboat Falcon went out ap-
parently to recOnDoiter Fort Ghemil. She
is now anchored off the fort.
Two French gunboats entered the canal
to day. They are said to be bound for Is
MALTA.
It is also said that some British troops will
leave here tonight for Ismailia. Her
Msjesty's ship Tourmaline is apparently de-
tailed for duty at Ismailia.
ALDEN, August 19.-The transports Arme-
MIA and Galatia, from Bombay, with troops
from Egypt, passed here on the 18th inst.
on their way to Suez.
PORTSMOUTH, August I9.-The troopship
Malabsr with twenty-six officers and one
thousand and eighty-three men drafted for
various regiments in Egypt, sailed to day.
There was great enthusiasm on the vessels
departure. The Queen will inspect the ship
from her yacht.
BERLIN, August 1S.-The Post under
stands that the Porte has countermanded
the military preparations for the expedition
to Egypt, and declines to accept the British
conditions for a military convention
LONDON, August 20-The Daily NeDS has
the following dispatch, dated CoDstsn-
tinOple, 195h: "Tbe Sultan is understood
to be more averse than ever to the issuance
of proclamation against Arab Pasha and
the acceptance OF the proposal for
a military convention. The fanatical
party are for the moment entirely
in the ascendant. Growing sympathy of the
people here with Arab Pasha is daily caus-
ing the palace increased anxiety. Several
arrests have already been made of persons
wv blIOuklf OulE EROhCu III GuPDOAb VI AIduls
religious preaching has been
prevalent in the mosques, VIGOROUSLY in
that OF Saint Sophia, during Ramsson, or
the annual Mohammedan Lent, which is
now being observed.
LONDON, August 2O.-A dispatch to Reu-
ter's Telegram Company from Constantine
pie Gays: at is said that Assym Pasha has
draft for a convention, embodv-
ing mutual concession by England and Tur-
key. The new project will be submitted to
Lord Granville and afterwards TO the Sultan
for ratification. 1t is thought proba-
BILE that the conference will meet
sentative has obtained the signatures of
the ambassadors to the protocol relating to
international protection Of the Suez canal.
Lord Dufferin, In signing 1t, reiterated his
previous reservation as to the force 1aOjeltre
clause, which provides for non-interference
by the international police with military
operations. A commission of naval officers
of all the States concerned will meet at
Port Said to confer upon measures neces-
sary for the protection of the canal"
The Eastern Telegraph Company announ-
ces that Port Said was occupied at three
o'clock this morning by the English forces
At 230 this afternoon earthworks had been
thrown up between the European and Arab
quarters of the town. Seventeen trans
ports aud five men of war are at Port Said,
and Admiral Seymour and Gen. Sir Garnet
Wolseley were both there this morning,
Ismailia was also occupied by the British
and he enemy's troops were driven from
N. fich.
The British has possession of the telegraph
line from Port Said to SUM.
A dispatch from Port Said to the Ex-
charge Telegraph Company, dated seven a.
M, SAYS: 'Sailors are landing and are dis
arming the natives, who offer no resistance.
Several transports and men-of war are an
chored, and a feet numbering seven is
coming in. The gunbosts Dee and Don
have entered the canal. It is said that Rear
Admiral Hewitt has stopped canal traffic"
The Exchange Telegraph Company's dis
patch from Alexandria Gays: sit is ru-
mored that Arabi's entertainments will be
attacked on Monday morning at o'clock"
A dispatch from Alexandria to Reuters
Telegram Company says: "The intention to
lombard Aboukir, which was officially an
nounced on Friday, was ruse, or was aban-
doned as the last moment. The feet and
transports went to Aboukir Saturday after
noon, but at 1890 o'clock at night quietly
steamed eastward"
Rear Admiral Hoskins, commanding at
Port Said, reports as follows:
"PORT SAID, August 20 We made all
our arrangements yesterday for an advance.
Edwards, with the boats Of
The squadron, during the night occupied
the canal, taking possession OF the
dredges, barges, etc, and also occupied
Ksntara. Before daylight Capt. Fairfax
occupied Port Said, aud Capt. Fitzroy, Of
the Invincible, held Ismailia. All went
well, and there was no difficulty. Captain
Fitzroy shelled the enemy out OF Nefich.
Kane was slightly wounded.
MI ffnn with Konfora
and Ismaiia has been restored. Three hun
dred and forty marines are on board the
gunboat Dee ready to be sent to reinforce
Captain Fitzroy. One ship Is ashore in the
canal, but vessels can pass her. The ships
with Admiral Seymour and Gen. Sir Garnet
WolseleY on board are In sight"
From this 1t would appear that the occu-
patton was effected by the naval forces be-
fore the arrival Of the transports. A later
telegram from Port Said says that the troop
ship Scraps and some of the guuboats have
already entered the canal with troops.
A dispatch from Constantinople to Reu
ter's Telegraph Company Says Lord Duf.
ferin, in an interview to-day with Said
Pasha, declared that he was unable to ac-
cept the Turkish proposals for military
convention even in the new form. Said
Pasha and Assym Pashs are understood to
be strongly in favor OF an understanding
Win England"
ALFxANDRIA, August 20-The troops
landed from the transports which arrived
o-dav were Immediately sent to the front.
There was a reconnaissance in force at four
O'Clock this afternoon along the Mabmou-
dieh canal by the Thirty-eighth, Forty
ninth, Seventy-ffth and Seventy-ninth
Regiments. The enemy kept within his
firing shell at the British
advance, but there were no casualties.
In the skirmish yesterday the Egyptians
fred shrapnel shells Intellectually at the
outpost of the FortY-sixth infantry, num-
bering three hundred, who were occupying
temporarily an entrenehment. The E9yp-
tian infantry then advanced to within about
eight hundred yards They were coming
from Kafr ell DWar. Some cavalry also ap-
peared from the direction of Aboukir. The
Egyptian lines we're irregular, and some Of
the men were apparently unarmed. The