The Warwickshire Herald. — 1886-11-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

HICKS PASHA'S LAST BATTLE.  THE Cairo correspondent of a daily paper has discovered among the Egyptian police a man who says that he fougit in the battle in which Hicks Pasha and his arm f were destroyed, and who has related a tale which the correspondent believes to be trite. This man says that Hicks Pasha was misled, he believes purposely, into some bru.lwo 11 while in search of water, and teat while there he heard firing in the direction of half of his army, which he had placed under the command of Ala Deen Pasha. Sco,:ts reporting that the Arabs were attacking, Hicks Pasha closed up the square in wit t•li his troops had been marching, with the cavalry anl can;els in the ce tre, and the guns plaeed at proper intervals around. While the brushwood in front of the square was being cut the enemy appeared. "They had no rifles, nor were shots fired at us, except from a gun. They fired shell at us from this ; but these fell without exploding. They had no% rapidly increased in numbers—some on foot, others on horse—and poured forth from among the bush and over two low mounds. The horse were on their right, the foot scattered all over to our right front and front. The mitrailleuse now commenced upon them so heavily that they were unable to advance. We also kept :p a tremendous fusitade with our rifles. Being unable to get at us, they wheeled to their left and streamed down upon our riAt flank They dashed I upon the right angle and righteentre ; but the Krupp and mitrailleuse there made great havoc with them ; upon which they wheeled round again and made straight at the light angle of the rear face, where there was only a muzzle-loader. Here they broke into the square ; the right left and front facts then turned inwards and commenced pouring in a heavy fire upon them. They got in among the camels. The I smoke and dust were now so thick I could not see what was going on ; but it seemed to me that fight big was going on for an hour. When all the iimmuintim was spent the men used their bayonets. I forgot to mention that on sight of the enemy Hicks Pasha ordered his English officers to draw their swords and have their revolvers ready. A hand-tohand fight continued for an immense time. Seeing all was up, Hicks Pasha gathered his English officers around and other mounted men. They fought to the last with desperation, bringing down many." Closely examined, the speaker explained that Hicks Pasha was at the commencement on a red horse, but when all the men were falling he changed and got on a white charger because his first horse was tired. Hicks Pasha anti his six officers fought for half an hour alone ; the battle lasted two hours and a half. The soldier who tells this story says that he escaped de.th along with about 150 others, by declaring himself a Mussulman, and he was afterwards told by one of the Arabs, " Hicks Pasha was a terrible man ; he killed a great many of us, and so Ind the other Err,lish officers." Other men talked with wonder of how this little English band kept them at bay. Two Englishmen who did not wear uniforms were among this killed. "One sketched was a stout man, eagle-like nose, elderly, with grey hair. The other was a spare, tall man. with dark-brown hair and narrow thin face " evidently Vizetelly and O'Donovan. The correspondent's informant went on to say that, escaping to Khartoum, he became an orderly to General Gordon, that being sent down to meet the relieving force at Meternueh, he accompanied Sir Charles Wilson to near Khartoum, that afterwards he marched to Korti, and was sent thence to Cairo with four or five other soldiers who had conic from Khartoum.  IhrulNG a fow.ball match between the members of the Port Vale (Burslem) and Bootle teams at Burstein on Saturday, A. Simpson, 0, protninent member of the former club, came into collision with another player, and had his leg fractured in two places.. AN elderly man named John IVithm, while returning home front the Leedg Market on Saturday night, was murderously assaulted by four roughs, who stole his purse and other valuables. Ile remained unconscious after the assault, and died yesterday. Ilis assailants are at large. WHILE a youth named Noah Brookes, of Prince's End. Coseley, was out sparrow shooting, the pistol exphsled. and blew out the lower part of his mOuth, lie was found with his to gue protruding through his neck, and it is feared cannot recover. A