The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-08-30
THE WARM EGyPr.

A CoSsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 25th
says the Porte has finally concluded to refuse
to declare AsHbi Pasha a rebel in any of the
ways demanded by the British Government.
Said Pasha and Assym Pashs, the Turkish del
egates in the Conference of the powers, were
instructed by the Sultan to inform the British
Minister of the fact, and to state that he
wished to submit new draft for q military
convention between England and Turkey in
regard to the occupation of Egypt. In this the
Porte demands that Turkish troops be allowed
to land at Alexandria independently of En-
gland, and be subject entirely to the orders
of Turkish officers, unimpeded by English
strictions- Next the malcontents shall be
only summoned to submit to the Khedive as
the Sultan's Viceroy in Egypt, and that no
further action shall be taken toward Arab
until he has officially replied to the summons.
The Russian Minister also called upon Lord
Dufferin and stated that he had been in
structei by his Government to signify to En-
gland that Russia was desirous of signing a
military convention in regard to the occupa-
tiOn OF Egypt; providing that England
would declare formally that she was willing
| to renounce all claims to self-advantage
from her present action in Egypt, at the
close of hostilities, and that at the end of the
war the British Government would submit all
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Egyptian question to the decision of all the
European Governments, through their Am
bassadors in a conference to be assembled at
Constantinople Lord Dufferin informed
Assym Pasha that his Government, yielding
to the objection of the Sultan, was prepared
| to waive the demand that any movement OF
| Turkish troops must be first approved by the
British. Lord Dufferin therefore proposed that
| the English and Turkish commanders should
first deliberate together, and If the English Gen.
erals should not approve the proposed opera.
tions, the Turkish commander would still be
at liberty to carry them out Said Pasha theB
urged that the landing of Turkish troops in
! Alexandria was indispensable for the future
| combined action of the two armies. He sug
| gesed that the Turks would make Alexandria.
which the English would evacuate, their base
of operations, while the British base should be
| Ismailia. AS far as regards military affairs this
was the only point of difference between Lord
Dufferin and the Porte.
| GENERAL WoLsELEY, telegraphing the War
Office from Ismailia on the oath, says that
| the water in the fresh-water canal having been
receding for the past three days, he thought 1t
necessary, although he had possession of Sc
rapeum, to push forward aud occupy point on
the canal some m les west of Ismailia, where,
he had been warned, the canal could be most
seriously damaged.
A DISPATCH from Alexandria on the 27th
says that two heavy guns recently placed
beyond the water-work's hill, opened on the
enemy on the left bank of the Mahmondieh
Canal on the evening of the 26th. Several shells
exploded in the midst of the enemy's entrench-
ment, doing considerable damage. The i'm
preston that Arab Pasha's forces have been
withdrawn from Kafr-el-Dwar was gaining
ground.
A COUNCIL of Ministers, under the presi-
dency of the Sultan, was held at CONSTANT.
nopIe on the Goth, to decide definitely in regard
to the convention with England, and other
pending questions. Lord Dufferiu firmly
maintains that Turkish troops shall only be
allowed to disembark at Rosetta, Damletta or
Aboukir, and categorically refuses to permit
their landing at Alexandria Port Said or
Suez.
| A DISPATCH from Ismala on the Goth says
that the enemy's loss in the fight of the 24th
with General Wolseley is estimated at 400.
The Egyptians throughout the fight declined
to come TO close quarters. Two English gun
ners were killed near Wolseley's position by a
shrapnel. The British troops behaved well,
and were all day without food or water, after
marching ten miles through sand. The enc
my's cavalry swept around the British right
flank but did not come within striking dis
tance, and their fire was too hot for the life
guards to cross the opening toward them.
The British infantry passed the day lying down
behind banks and in bitches. All the troops
at Ismalia, except the Irish fusileers and their
batteries, have gone to the front.