Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-26
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Wolsley has applied for more troops.
This, it adds, probably means the
Third Division of the army corps now
mobilizing.
ALEXANDRIA, August 26.-It is
stated on good authority that 1000
Albanians have been enlisted for
service in Egypt in the quarantine
and other departments, as it is feared
that the native troops cannot be trust
ed. Troops are urgently required at
the quarantine and Moses, as well as
near the Suez, as the attitude Of the
Bedouins there is threatening.
A blockade on the Egyptian coast
was established yesterday.
CoNsTANTINoPLE August 26.-The
British. ambassador, Lord Duferin,
has promised that pilgrims to Mecca
will be permitted to traverse the Suez
canal as usual.
LONDON, August ga letter from
Prince Ibrahim, brother Of the Khe.
dive, to Lord Granville, is published,
asking to be allowed to serve with the
British army in Egypt. Lord Gran
vile replied that the government
regretted its inability to accept the
Princes offer of service.
Lamberg & Co., commission dealers
in Swedish iron and timber, have
failed. Liabilities, 100000.
Frederick Lutke, the celebrated
Russian navigator, is dead.
IsMAILIA, August 26.-The ene-
my's loss in the fighting on Thursday
with General Wolseley is estimated at
400. The first shell fred by the enemy
passed few feet over General Wolse-
ley's head, aud took off the leg of a
horse ten yards behind him. The
enemy throughout the fight declined
to come to close quarters. The two
gunners killed were struck by a sharp
mel near Wolseley's quarters. The
troops behaved well. They we're all
day without water or food, after
marching ten miles through 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 the
Guards to cross the open space to.
ward them. The British infantry
passed the day lying down behind
banks and in the bitches. After the
engagement General Wolseley rode to
lsmailia and returned late in the
evening. Reinforcements arrived
during the night, but the guns not
until early next morning, having had
great difficulty in getting 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Withdrawn.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 fought we'll,
and fired much more accurately than
at Ka6r-el-Dwar. The infantry were
contemplate and the cavalry but little
better Many of both of those arms
we're observed breaking from ranks
and dispensing under our fire of shell.
All the Irish troops except the Irish
fusileers and three batteries Of artil-
lery have gone to the front. Two
squadrons of Indian cavalry arrived
and have also gone forward. On
Thursday the British gunners we're
so exhausted after some hours con-
tinuous work they we're obliged to
lie down, while the drivers worked
the guns.
ALEXANDRIA, August 26.-The
Austrian boats crew Of the frigate
Nautilus, captured by the Egyptians,
have been liberated.
At l:3O this morning the enemy ap.
preached our lines, apparently en-
deavoring to cut off the British out
posts near Mahmoudieh Canal, but
retired on the alarm being given,
Two Tunisian merchants who had
escaped from Ka6r-el-Dwar have
arrived here. They declare that the
country generally is thoroughly dis
contented with Arab Pasha, and
anxious for peace. This applies par,
ticularly to Cairo.
1t is stated that there is an unex,
pected hitch in political matters
Riaz Pasha, who, was summoned BY
the Khedive to form new Ministry
refuses to take the Office if the Cham.
ber Of Notables is restored, as he con,
siders such an institution unsuited tc
Egypt as to India.