Morning journal and courier., 1882-07-22
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THB kHbDIVE DRPOyED BY A CHAMBER OF ARAB|'S
 NOTABLES. War Declared Against England, Arabi's Followers Eager
 For the Fray. The Country Flooded Knee Deep. British Troops Looking Af-
 ter the Water.
EGYPT.

FIeod ed Knee Deep-A Reported Massa- ere at CairO-France Looking te the | Suez Canal.
 ALEXANDRIA, July 21.-The British troops went out this morning with explosives for ! the purpose of blowing up the obstruction erected by Arabi for the division of the waters of tho Mahmoudieh canal from Alex andria, which supplies the city with water. Arabis soldiers will defend the obstruction, and fight is probable. Arabi has issued proclamation, and it is being preached throughout Egypt. It denounces the Khedive traitor to Egypt and to the re- ligion of Mohammed, and accuses him of having deserted to the Christians for the pur pose of securing for them an entry into and 1 8 permanent occupation of the land of Egypt. It calls on the natives to renounce the Khedive, and upon all who still remain at tached to him to join the army of the faithfxl and to fight until every foreigner is e1- pelled from the land. The chief magistrates of Gardria, Menootia and Gahoubia three out of seven provinces of lower Egpyt, have been dismissed and replaced by men of Arabi's party. In the villages all the Euro peans are being brutally murdered. Even the natives who acted their servants were not checked. Two Egyptian regiments have been tolled off to defend Damietta and Ro- setta. The Egyptian authorities join in very half hearted way in the efforts to restore ! order and punish the criminals. They seem anxious that the English should bear all the 1 odium of such measures. Among the ofh' I cers the men composing the entourage of the ! Khedive are regarded with great suspicion. ! and it may eventually be necessary to arrest ! several of them for reasonable oommunica- ! tion with Arabi. It is feared that news of l the coming of the commission from Cairo, l which was appointed at the meeting of mo- tables to proceed to Alexandria and inquire ! into the existing situation, will open the door again to fresh talk, diplomacy, intrigue and procrastination. ready for the advance of troops. Arabfs de- serters say that he is not entrenched and that he has entrenching tools, but later dis patch says that, having got some tools, he is | now making works. Arabi's line extends 1 from Lake Marcotis to Aboukir Arabi | Pasha, after the bombardment of Alexandria, 1 showed report at Port Said that the English l troops had been defeated. The condition of 1 the natives consequently is very inselent. | The position Is critical.
 l An Arabi spv states that the damming of l the Mahmoudieh canal has flooded the coun- l try. The water in places is knee deep, mak- | ing the ground too soft for the movement of | guns. A native has just been shot while at | tempting to set fire to house in the center ! of the city.
 1 A letter has been received from the inter for. in which the reports of the massacre at Cairo and Damietta are confirmed. At Cabul ! family was taken from 6 railway train ana put under the wheels. All the employees of the cadastral survey at Tantah have been
 killed and four captured The killed at Tan
 tah include two English engineers, named
 Crowther and Macalan. A sheik and the
 ble.
 ! Admiral Seymour has issued a proclama-
 tion declaring that by sunset Sunday all
 pillaged property and unclaimed goods may
 be taken to Lord Charles Beresford at the
 things by that time will not be eriminally
 treated, but that anybody who has goods of
 this nature and does not bring them in will, l if found out, be visited by the patrol, the
 property seized and the pilferer punished
 This proclamation Is intended to meet the
 cases of numerous Arabs who have hidden
 plunder in their houses. Some have already
 brought in what they had.
 | Refugees from Cairo report that Arabis
 soldiers massacred 200 Europeans last Mon
 day. The report is discredited. The anx-
 iety about the Suez canal is increasing owing
 to the continuance of it's unguarded condl-
 tion.
 PARIS July 21.-France is sending 1,50O
 
 ate with the British in the military occupa- tion of the Suez canal.
 :, EnsIand,s Position Omciauy Declared. LONDON, July 21.-Earl Granville, secre- 3 tary of state for foreign affairs, early this t morning sent an official dispatch to Lord Z Dufferin ambassador at Constantinople, con- taining the British governments declaration
 in reply to the Porte's answer to the inquiry note of the powers. In this declaration Great Britain pronounces the bombardment Of 3 Alexandria by Admiral Seymour 8 legitimate t act of self-defense against warlike operations of the native military chiefs who were overt = ly defying constitutional authorities, for l whose support and protection the govern
 ment of Great Britain was pledged. This
 part of the declaration is made against that 1 portion of the Sultan's note in which he ex
 plains that his refusal to intervene with troops In Egypt was based on the fact that the use of troops was avoidable Con-
 tinuing the declaration Granville says that | England now sees no alternative but the use of force to end the intolerable condi
 tion of affairs now existing in Egypt
 and brought about by the disloyal
 action of the military party. England would
 much prefer that the Egyptian disorder
 should be suppressed by the soldiers of the
 Porte alone, but the disorder cannot be al T. lowed to continue, and if the Porte finds il = impracticable for Turkey to send troops into o Egypt, then England must devise some other l. measures for the purpose of restoring orde, n in Egypt. In regard to the canal declaration
 Granville asserts that England desires tha
 the canal shall remain open and unrestricted
 this can only be possible when Egypt il
 quietly governed and absolutely free iron r the predominating influence of one power In conclusion the declaration of Grarvil U asserts that British interests in Egypt re
 quire that yerfect order shall exist in tha
 country and that this order shall be main
 tained by government to which all power
 can agree and which no one power shall con
 trol.
 Admiral NieholseH's Responsibility.
 WAsHINGToN, July 21.-It is stated at tn