The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-08-26
lettings about Men and things in the Old
World.
IRON AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.
Brussels. July 5. 1882.

Egypt and her affairs are the topic of con-
versation almost TO the exclusion of all others
just now, but as you will have received
much later news on such a prominent SUBJ
Ject before my letter reaches the middle of
the Pacific, L shall not enter into details. 1t
seems doubtful whether we shall ever have
an accurate account of the number killed
in the affray of June 11th. A letter from
Alexandra says th't the publication of all
newspapers in that city had ceased, some
having been officially suspended and all the
employees of the others having fed from
the place. Besides the engineer of the
Superb two of the domestic servants of Adj
niral Seymour were killed. The authori-
ties were afraid to give a military funeral to
the dead as they at first proposed to do, lest
it should provoke a furthsr enaeute. The
bodies were therefore, placed on board the
Cygnet and buried at sea. The same cor
respondent gives the fLllowing account of
the origin of the outbreak which [ think the
most reliable / have met with. He says, sat
Alexandria people turn out for E. drive or
walk on Wednesdays and Sundays. On the
the banks of the Mahmoudech Canal there
is on the afternoons quite a crowd of car
riages, all the European population turning
out to seek some fresh air and to listen to
the music of the military bands, which give
on these afternoons concerts of national and
operate music in the splendid gardens of
the yice-roy. On Sundays the shopkeepers
and Levantines are the most numerous in
these gardens, whilst the English and Ger
mans generally go off to Ramleh. In con-
sequences of thus habit the houses, Offices
and stores are abandoned to the care of a
few Arab domestics and porters-an actual
temptation to pillage. 1t is believed that
the national party took advantage Of this
circumstance to excite the cupidity of the
populace. In Alexandra as in all Eastern
towns the lower class of Greeks are the
most turbulent, and it is evident that the
chiefs of the military party excited the ig.
norant passions of the native population
against the Greeks and against Europeans
in general. The slightest friction therefore,
developed a fame at once. The incident
which sufficed for this purpose was trivial
indeed. A Greek paid eight piastres to an
ass driver and the latter declared that there
was a piece of false money amongst them
They had a dispute and the Greek either
tried or threatened to use his knife. A po-
Iiceman turned up and there was a struggle,
a crowd gathered and from a window near
at hand some one. said to be a Maltese,
fred a pistol. Then the row became gen.
eral, endorsements arriving from all sides.
The English Consul being informed of the
tumult fastened to the house of the Gov
ernor of the city accompanied by a janissary.
He found the streets already full of in
surgents, who set upon his carriage and
maltre,ted its occupants. The Consul him
self had two fingers and a thumb cut of and
received some severe wounds in the head.
After these earlier inciden 3 of the affray the
insurgents moved in a body through the
streets cutting the stores as they went along
and throwing out on the pavements all THAI
they could not carry away and massacring
all the Europeans they met on their way.
The balls extracted fromsthe corpses cor