Widnes Examiner. — 1882-11-04 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

NANTWICH. a very trustworthy character. It is said that he expressed The Nantwich Total Abstinence Society has held forty satisfaction at the murder of Christians at Tanlah. The meetings during the year, and received over 350 pledges. telegrams speak of the " complicity" of the Sultan in the Plans have been approved by title Nantwich Local Board movement. It is stated that among the documents already for the conversion of a building now used for private purtranslated is a letter to Arabi from the private Imaum or poses into a post-office. religious adviser of the Sultan, and that the "coatents of The income of the Nantwich branch of the British and this letter directly and most seriously implicate the Sultan Foreign Bible Society for the past year amounted to nearly in the course which Arabi pursued." A translation hasalso VI After the payment of expenses, a balance is left of been !wide of the minutes of a Cabinet Council held at £1 161. 7d. Alexandria, where, in the presence of Dervish Pasha, the In regard to the holding of a monthly cheese fair at NantSultan's Envoy, it was decided to meet English intervention wich, the local authorities have expressed themselves with armed resistance. The Times correspondent at Cairo favourable. They have assured the Secretary of the Chessays that Arabi's disclosures compromise most seriously hire Dairy Farmers' Association that their hearty co-opera•fficials at Stamboul so highly placed as to make a denial of don shall be given. tne Sultan's complicity almost impossible. As yet they A son of Mr. George Williamson, shoemaker, of Nantwieb, show no direct connection with intrigues at Tunis or had a narrow escape of drowning the other day. On his Tripoli. " When resting from wtitipg, Arabi talks freely road to Acton school he stopped to play on the first bridge on political matters. He says no one can deny that the re- beyond the aqueduct, and overbalancing himself fell into the suit of the collapse of his movement, whether right or canal. He was rescued by means of a stake from an adjoins wrong, has been to put power in Egypt entirely into the hag hedge. • hands of Turks and Circaseians to the exclusion of the Arab population. He adds that history has shown that this means the ruin of the country, which can now only be saved by the English element permanently controlling every other, and the strength of the Turkish faction being neutralised by total separation from Stamboul. He is uncompromisingly severe on both Caliph and Khedive." The preliminary examination of witnesses against Arabi has been concluded, and the legal adviser of the Egyptian Government expresses the opinion that the evidence will prove the rebel's complicity in the pillage and burning of Alexandra. The English counsel, on the other band, take the most hopeful view of their clients' case. The native fear of doing anything which seems to favour Arabi is strongly developed, so much so that no Egyptian doctor will attend his children, who are ill, and an English doctor has oonsequently to be salted in. Arabi states in a letter to an English acquaintance, that in surrendering to the English as a prisoner of war he thought that he should be as safe as though he had taken refuge in London. Mr. Broadley, we are informed, has agreed with the President of the Courtrnartial at Cairo that only that portion of the evidence connected with the preliminary examination of his clients shall be furnished to him. Upon this evidence, however, he will be at liberty to cross-examine the witnesses. As might be supposed, the object of the prosecution in making this arrangement is to keep from the public any information likely to give rise to international complieaKona. tr,7-j