Connecticut western news., 1882-07-26
THE EGYPTIAN WAR.
THE SCENES AFTER THE BoMBARDMENT
 OF ALEXANDRIA.

UT AlGAANOh1A.
 During the bombardment, after the Khedive's palace had been surrounded, & party of soldiers entered his apart ments and declared that they had orders to kill him and burn the palace. After long barley their loyalty was bought by promises of money. Dervish Pasha says that but for the opportune appear ance on Wednesday day after the bonn mbardment-of one of her Majesty's ships off the Pharos fort the Khedive would have been murdered. General irmed the statement.
 At Friday evening detachment of 200 marines marched through the town. Some of the plunderers, caught in the act, were summarily shot. Orders were given to shoot all robbers.
 The American ships have landed sixty marines under command of Capt. Coch- rone, to assist in maintaining order in the town.
 Thirteen hundred Christian refugees were saved by taking refuge in the Coptic Church during the massacre. After the footing commenced the soldiers attacked the original plunder-
 
 Pasha during the engagement was at Fort Napoleon, which neither fred nor received shot. After the firing had ceased he rode through the Mo9 &C., companied by Mahmoud Samy and other Ministers.
 A dispatch dated Sunday says:-The fires scattered throughout the city were caused partly by soldiers out of pure n ,,ortIu Inv, tivoS mhn tnok this means of paying off old 'grudges. In the Grapd Square and it's vicinity the ruin is most complete. Not one house but has been levelled or gutted. In consequence of reports of an in tending attack by Arabi, Captain Fisher had mines sunk in front of the gates, doing it in an ostentatious zay in order to insure the fact coming to Arabi's ears.
 This morning colonel and @ lieuten- ant, deserters from Arabi's army, have arrived. They say that hi- force con- sists of eight regiments of infantry, four batteries of artillery, one of mitrail- euses and one of cavalry.
 Some German sailors who were pro- tecting the German hospital, in which German Sisterhood, hurried through | was approaching.
 When challenged by our pickets they foolishly crouched down and gave no answer. Our men thinking they were msrauders fired, and tue Germans be- lieving the same of us replied. For a time the scene was one of wild con- i fusion. The Germans ran through the town. Our alarm signals were sounded, I oil &h0 4,,, . out thinking that the city was attacked.
 The Khedive has authorized the issue of a proclamation that the English Ad- miral, being charged by permission of the Khedive with the duty of maintain ing order in Alexandria, orders that all persons, European or native, caught firing houses shall be shot, and all plunderers arrested in the act shall be punished for the first offense and shot if caught repeating it. Stone Pasha is knowledge of the country.
 On Monday Admiral Seymour issued manifesto announcing that he has un- dertaken, with the consent of the Egyp- tian government, the restoration of or der. Nobody is allowed to leave the town after sunset.
 | raised the total British force ashore to 5000 men. Every few hours more i troops were arriving.
 Arabi Pasha continues to throw up earthworks in all directions with the ob. ject of offering stubborn defense. He has cut the telegraph which connected him with the Palace and by which the Ministry constantly communicated with ! tal o1. been passing to and fro with documents. The British outposts stopped the Egyp- tlan officer bearing the Khedive's dis mlssal of Arabi, which, therefore, has not reached him.
 Arabis force consists of 0,000 men, who are represented to be intensely dis contented and surrounded by starving women and children. Recruits are enticed to the camp by promises of un, limited plunder, and the force is held together by the assertion that the
 English will kill all who return to Alex. andria Arabi and Toulba Pashas have utterly lost prestige by their gross cowardice during the bombardment The Khedive says that 205 Europeans have been killed at Kafr-el-Dwar. An attempt was made Monday even ing to set fire to the St. Marks building the headquarters of the Americans. The
 police arrangements are now thoroughly t effective. Five hundred marines vii occupy seven different centres, which is expected to place the whole town under efficient surveillance.
 Native police is being organized to act under the military police, and { 2 detective force has been instituted tc search for suspicious persons. In 3 cehdiaries and robbers are summarily
 shot. Four new graves were dug in tht
 square Monday morning, ready for the
 bodies of plunderers, and before nigh
 three of them were filled. Ara bs guilty l of plumber and arson are brought 1T 1 every few minutes.
 The fears of native outbreak at Ca1rc are increasing. The active warlikt preparations of Egyptian soldiers have convinced the people of Cairo that the } city will be sacked and burned and itI foreign population massacred. Int Suez Canal has not as yet been attacked at any point.
 No Europeans remain in Cairo, e1 eept twenty Germans who refuse to leave. The Consul who was killed al , Zagazig was the Italian Consul. , The correspondent of the London } Daily Telegraph at Alexandria says
 l drove nine miles along the line of Arab f Pasha's retreat, and passed several will lages, the people in which are starving. The soldiers robbed them of everything The entire route is lined with dead horses and with carriages. It Is re. ported that the Bedouins harassed the soldiers during their retreat, killing 200 of them.
 Arabi Pasha declares that he will kill all the Turks in Egypt. He says as there are not many throats to cut, it is better to cut them now. He has sho1