The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-06
THE WAR In EGYPT.

A PoRT SAID dispatch of the 31st ult. says
that Arab Pasha had asked for an eight-day
armistice and that General Wolseley refused,
but offered to allow one day.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 31st
ult. says that evidence abounds that the Turk
ish population is favorable TO the cause OF
Arabi Pasha. The Vdka announced that
Arabi Pasha had won great victory, and the
Djeride stated that the English lost 1000 in
the fight at Ramleh.
A PARTY of British troops discovered a new
and strongly fortified camp of Egyptian sol
diers on the LIST, ten miles from Kassasine.
A PARIS dispatch to the Boston Herald on
the I'd saws that De Lesseps, who had Just
arrived in that city, was interviewed on Egyp-
tian affairs. He says that the first fact that
should be known regarding Egyptian matters
is that the movement is a national one. He
feels convinced that Arab has the whole
country at his back. His force now is between
25, 200 and $1,000. He has arms for 200, ,OOO
men, and when be wants them he can get
them. lie thinks the war will be long one
and its final result cannot yet be forecasted
No serious operations could be undertaken
until the bad weather and the overflow of the
Nile were at an end in October. 1t was not
true that the Arabs had mutilated the English
dead and wounded. He had heard nothing OF
that from the officers in Egypt. England had
been long intending to get her finger into
Egypt on one preteXt or another. The whole
trouble had been caused by the intrigues of
Molet, and for the purpose of giving to En-
gland this opportunity. He had not seen any
of the actual fighting, but there had been
many more killed and wounded among the
English than reported There were also many
cases OF sunstrolle, and some cholera, too.
When he had been in Egypt before the
troubles begun he had found some opposi-
ton to Arabi among the Bedouin chiefs, but
now he believed they we're all for Arabi. II
Arab was killed or captured the war would
not on that account come to an end The En-
glish might buy some of the chiefs, but that
would not help them much. The Khedive was
man who would never be able to govern the
country, even IL the English succeeded in re-
establishing his authority. 1t would end, If
the English were successful, in his either being
deposed by them, or in his being merely the
nominal ruler At present he was prisoner
and nothing he did had any weight with the
Egyptian people. De Lesseps, in reply to the
question, IL this Suez Canal trouble was not
what might occur wi h the Panama Canal, said:
No, the Americans have never interfered in
matters that did not concern them while it has
been the invariable practice of England to be
always meddling in other peoples affairs. No,
have no apprehension that Panama will ever
hear cannon fired" De Lesseps said that
work on the Panama Canal was progressing
favorably, and was being pushed forward with
the greatest activity. He left Paris, absolutely
refusing q banquet from several sensation
newspapers of that CITY,
y CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the I'd says
that the Porte had been informed that so, 900
horsemen, from the interior of Tripoli, were
proceeding to Egypt, and he had ordered the
Turkish authorities to intercept the men on
their passage and turn them back.