Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. ENGLAND AND TURKEY WrangIing over Their MiIi-
 tary Convention. THE PORTE ON THE BLUFF. An Intimation of Rejecting
 Dutferin's Proposal. W0LSELEY TAKING HOLD FIRMLY. Making a Personal Study of
 the Situation.
EGYPT.

DuRerin's ProposaIs to the porte-An In-
 ttmatton That the Latter Will Not Ac-
 cept-A Counter Proposition From the
 SuItnn-The CaItph Question the Mov-
 ing Spring-Wolseley Taking Hold In Person at Alexandrta.
 CoNsTANT1NoPLE, Aug. 16.-The draft for the glo-Turkish military convention was submitted to the Porte to-day by Lord Duf- fdrin, the British minister. It stipulated that the Turkish troops in Egypt shall not operate without approval by the British con-
 mander. It also stipulates that all arrange
 ments for the appointment of British officers at the Turkish headquarters on the evacua- tion of Egyptian territory by the British troops shall be subject of a special conven- ton. It is understood that the requirements of this convention, as furnished by Lord Dutferin, were dictated from the home office. The fact that proposals regarding evacuation were advanced by the British government had the effect of making the Porte suspect that England was weakening somewhat in her position. He at once took advantage of what
 he supposed to be his opportunity and inti- mated that Turkey would not agree to the convention and further intinlated that En- glands demand of such 8 convention as the one proposed freed Turkey from the obliga- ton of the promise to send troops to Egypt. The action of the Porte th1s morning in al most positively rejecting the military conven tion proposed by England through Lord Duff. ferin is understood in some quarters to be the direct result of the official notice sent to the Porte of the Sultan's deposition as caliph by the military and the meeting of Ulemas al Cairo last Sunday.
 The Sultan presented Lord Dufferin, in op- position to the English draft for an Anglo Turkish military convention in Egypt, one of his own This provides that Turkish troops shall undertake alone the pacifcation of Egypt, without any foreign assistance, the British troops to be confined to their present limits and to evacuate their present positions when the Porte declares that peace has been re established, Alexandria to be the head quarters and supply point for the Turkish troops. The proposed draft was indignantly reflected by Lord Dufferin, who instead said | that he felt justified in refusing to consider even for an instant the proposals, without ! waiting for advice from his government as thev were preposterous and impossible of ac- ceptance. Lord Duferin insisted on the ac- ceptance by the Porte of the English draft for the conven tlOn.
 The Porte prohibits the export ot supplies 1 from Syria to Alexandria. This prohibition | affects tho English supplies of grain, mules, | horses and other live stock.
 | ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 16.-Five Bedouins were killed in skirmish outside of Ramleh last \ night Gen. Sir Garnet Wolseley has Issued | proclamation to the Egyptians Tn which he | states that the English troops in Egypt have 1 been sent there solely for the purpose of re ! storing the authority of the Khedive, anc I only to fight against rebels. He says that peaceful subjects of the Khedive will be !! treated with respect and that all supplies necessary for the British troops will be pait ! for. He invites the cooperation of the na l tive chiefs in the repression of the rebellion General Wolse1ey had conference thu morning with Admiral Seymour and all thu other general officers in the British service l It was announced as one of the results O | this conference that General Wolseley would during the day, visit the Khedive and In spect the situation at Ramleh personally.
 The unloading of the English transport at Suez has been suspended. It is inferred
 from this fact that the landing of troops vii
 take place at 1smallia.
 The Khedive is endeavoring to form @ min istry with Riaz Pasha as minister of finance
 Cherif Pasha as minister of foreign affairs Omar Lutfi as minister of war, and Osmal
 Rifki as commander of the army.
 1 LONDON. Aug. 16.--It is understood tna 1 General Sir Garnet Wolseley has expressed ! much dissatisfaction with the military man agement that has preceded him at Alexan ! dria and his determination to make per
 sonal inspection TO day of the situation a
 Ramleh despite the state of his health is at
 tributed to seriousness in the situatio
 there.
 Reports are spread in the stock exchang that reliable news from Alexandria show
 that the rebellion of Arabi is collapsing UT
 der the fear of General Wolseley, and ths
 whole regiments of Arabi's soldiers are CT
 deavoring to make terms. The reports ar
 jumping stocks up, but are contradicted b
 the news of this morning from Constantine ! pie, which shows that the backbone of tn Porte is weakening