The daily gazette., 1882-08-21
BRITISH AT PORT SAID.
TROOPS TAKE POSSESSION OF
THE SUEZ CANAL.
A SHARP sKIRMIsH ON SATURDAY
The Egyptian Troops, as Usual, Fail TO
Have Any Enect-The Ghemilah FORTH
cations TO be BOmbarded To-day.

PoRT SAID, August 2O.-At 3 O'Clock this
morning Port Said was taken possession of
by the British. All day yesterday prepara-
tions were being made for the landing, and
1t was not until after sunset that they were
completed. Commander Edwards during
the night occupied the canal, taking possess
sion OF the dredges, barges, etc., and also
occupied Kuntara. Before daylight Captain
Fairfax H"d occupied Port Said, and Captain
F1tzroy of the 1nvincible held Ismailia All
went well and there was no difficulty. Cap
tain Fitzroy shelled the enemy out of Nefich.
Commander Kane was slightly wounded.
Ielegraphic communication with Kuntara
and lsmailia has been restored.
The occupying force numbered 600 252
Egyptian soldiers were disarmed without
resistance. The Government of the Khedive
has been reinstated. The commanders of
the Egyptian troops are prisoners in the
ofhces OF the canal company, and their tele-
graph office is occupied by the British. The
canal is closed to merchant vessels and
the dredges In it have been seized. The
bombardment of the Ghemilah Notifications
VIII probably take place to-day. The
French dispatch boat Aspic left here yester-
day to take the place of the Corvette Forbin
at Suez. The Forbin has gone to Massewah
TO protect the French subjects there. The
British man-of-war Fourmaline entered the
canal this morning together with the gun
boat Dee, and cleared for action. Seventeen
transports and five men. of-war are now
here, as well as Admiral Seymour and
General Sir Garnet Wolseley. At $50 this
afternoon earthworks had been thrown up
between the European and Arab quarters of
the town.
MEETING OF sUEz CANAL SHAREHOLDERS.
PARIS, August 20.-A meeting of the
Suez Canal Company was held here to-day,
at which resolutions were passed declaring
that it is the duty of the company to up
hold the claims already made in favor of
the neutrality of the canal, and to oppose
all Warlike measures taken by England
acting in her assumed character as supporter
of the Khedive. The resolutions state that
the eompany's concession cannot be dis
turbed even by the Sultan, and that the
company reserves to itself the right to claim,
before competent tribunal, compensation
from England eventually.
Saturdays sKIRMIsH.
ALEXANDRIA, August 20.-In the skir-
mish yesterday the Egyptians fired shrapuel
smells inetectually at an outpost of the
Forty-sixth Infantry, numbering 300, who
were occupying temporarily an entrench-
ment. The Egyptian infantry then ad-
vanced to within 800 yards. They were
also appeared from the direction of Aboukir.
Tue Egyptian lines were most irregular, and
some of the men apparently unarmed. The
cavalry also were confused, from the rest
lessness of their horses. About O'Clock in
the evening the British ironclad train sent
out car with 40-pounder detached, and
fired two shells upon the Egyptians, who
endeavored to execute fanking movement.
The 4O-pounder, after this movement was
frustrated, fired towards Kafr-el-dwar. The
Egyptians replied with shell, which burst
between the train and the engine,
A retreat was then commenced, firing
being kept up all the time. The British in
fantry, meanwhile, fired from the entrench
ments, causing great loss, that of the Egyp-
tian cavalry being estimated at 300. The
fighting ceased at sunset. Another Egyptian
policeman was recognized to-day as one of
the assassins of the 18th of June. The in
tention to lombard Aboukir, which was
officially announced on Friday, was either
ruse or was abandoned at the last moment
The feet and transports went TO Aboukir
Saturday afternoon, but at 1880 o'clock at
night quietly steamed eastward, leaving the
Achilles and two other vessels in Aboukir
Bay. These are this morning still anchored
In the bay south of Nelson Island, from
which point they control the railway to
Rosetta but the coast from Aboukir to
Rosetta shows no sign of any landing having
been made. The white flag is still fly
Ing on the Aboukir forts. The troops
landed from the transports which arrived
Today were Immediately sent to the front.
There was reconnaissance in force at
o'clock this afternoon along the Mahmoudieh
Canal by the Thirty y-eighth, Forty-ninth,
Seventy-fifth and Seventy-ninth Regiments
The enemy kept within his entertainments,
firing shells at the British advance but there
were no casualties. 1t is rumored that
Arabi Pasha's entertainments will be at
tackled on Monday morning at o'clock.