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[It STANDARD TELEGHAM.J ALEXANDRIA, MONDAY, 10.50 A.M.—An engagement at the outposts between a force of Kities and the mounted infantry and the enemy's cavalry is now going on at Ramleh. Our Rifles and mounted infantry occupied Ramleh early this morning with one Gatling and one field gun. At the railway bridge over the canal the enemy's cavalry appeared. They galloped boldly along the line of railway at about 300 yards' range. They were soon frightened away by a volley from the bridge. One of their horses was struck, and one of their men wounded. They ran away at a hard gallop, raising a sloud of dust. They after the lapse of some time re- appeared with reinforcements, in the shape of two guns, with which they opened tire on our men, who took cover, and the enemy's shots had no effect. By nine o'clock the firing had ceased, but the enemy were expected to re-appear with more reinforcements. The deputation appointed at the recent meeting of Notables at Cairo to proceed to Alexandria arrived yesterday at Kafr-Dowar, and had an interview with Arabi. Arabi warned them against going to Alexandria, as the English massacred every Mussulman whom they could lay hands upon, and he used very violent language towards 1 the Khedive. ] The consequence was that only two of the 1 deputation had the courage to proceed fur- ther. These were A li Pasha Moubarak and Oisuffii Effendi. They had to walk the whole distance from the Egyptian lines to ] Alexandria. On their arrival at Alexandria they were received by the Khedive. They gave a fearful account of the state of the interior of the country, and of the mis- representations of Arabi as to the actual state of affairs and the intentions of the English. A Holy War is proclaimed in every village and mosque, and the peasants are pouring into all the chief towns asking to be armed and sent to the front. The deputies state that at Kafr-Dowar there are 30,000 men, most of whom are an srmed rabble. On hearing of the despatch of Indian troops to Egypt Arabi sent 9,000 men to reinforce the garrison at Cairo. Preparations have been made to inundate the country as soon as the rising of the waters of the Nile will allow such a thing to be done, which will be about a month hence. ["CENTRAL NEWS" TEiEGRAM.] I CONSTANTINOPLE, MONDAY.—A full meet- ing of the conference was held this afternoon at Therapia, with Said Pasha, Foreign Minister, and Assym Pasha as the Ottoman Plenipotentiaries. We have every reason to believe that the Porte's representatives have informed the Powers in conference that Turkey has decided to send a military and naval force to Egypt to assist in the restora- tion of law and order. MONDAY, 12.30 A.M.—Water in Mahmou- dieh Canal continues diminishing. Unless measures are speedily adopted we shall have to experience all the horrors of a water famine in a few days. Our vessels at present con- dense 8,000 gallons per day. Authentic reports received here describe Arabi as very strongly entrenched with 70 Krupp guns at a point where the peninsula is just four miles wide. He has a fourth line of entrenchments 150 yards in the rear. No less than 1,000 recruits are reported to have joined him in one day. He is stated to be short of provisions. He has two regiments of inferior cavalry and a few Bedouins.

THE MASSACRES OF EURO- PEANS. ["RERTERV TELEGRAM.] ALEXANDRIA., MONDAY, 7,5 P.M.—Two inspectors of she Cadastre who witnessed the massacres at Tanta and Mikalla were taken to-day before the Intelligence Department. The Inspector of Tanta deposed:— I was at the railway station on July 11 vhen it was announced officially that seven English war vessels had been sunk by the ire of the Alexandria forts. On the next day large crowds arrived from Alexandria laden with loot. They passed the word for the massacre, which began on July 13, at eight ajn.. At mid-day I counted not less than 85 eorpsea carried past in groups of three' or four. Each procession was headed by two women, oarrying each a bludgeon, to which dismem- bered arms and legs were tied. Then fol- lowed other women, uttering cries of joy, the same aa at weddings, and surrounding the bodies, which were dragged along by Topes, tied to the legs, until they became dis- membered, when a rope was tied to the other limbs, and the mob with bludgeons beat the bodies until th^were flattened, and-after- warda caught up the viscera with sticks and tjfatgfW them MMuaat the windows of the houses inhabited by Europeans, the bodies having previously been robbed. The police inspector appropriated the money and valuables. For the other loot there was a fight between Egyptian soldiers and the rabble." The Inspector at the El Kebir stated that on the same afternoon three employes were murdered and their bodies burned. Twelve Greeks also were killed by the mob.

[FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS SPECIAL L CORitF.Sl'ONDENT.] ALEXANDRIA, TUESDAY NIGHT.—I have just returned from Ramleh. Nothing oc- curred ot importance after the despatch of my last message at one o'clock yesterday. The forward movement of the enemy's risrht was only a feint, and the afternoon passed off with nothing further than a desultory nrle fire, which ceased about four o'clock. We have no casualties on our side. The enemy had but 700 men engaged, but later in the day reinforcements were seen hurrying up. I rode on in advance of our line last night to within easy range of the enemy's position. The Egyptians were then throwing up entrenchments, working busily, so that fur- ther fighting here may be confidently ex- pected. In fact, the natives seem confident of victory. The British force remained on the ground we occupied in the morning, the General en- camping at Amaguen, on the sandhills oppo- site Ramleh. A farther force has been sent in to Ramleh, and strong entrenchments have been thrown up, and two 7-pounders placed in the best position to repel attack. It is a fact worhh noting that the site of our present encampment is just the spot where General Abercrombie fell. The four 40-pounders ex Malabar, with artillery, will be forwarded to Ramleh with the greatest despatch. TUESDAY, 7 A.M.—Morice Bey was informed by the commandant at Aboukir on Sunday night that Arabi was working trains all night long to bring up troops and recruits from the interior. Natives are confident he will attack before all the British reinforce- ments arrive. The Khedive has sent for Cherif Pasha, with the object, it is believed, of forming a new Ministry loyal to his Highness. 3.5 P.M.—I have just returned from another visit to Ramleh. Arabi's outposts have re- tired about 1,000 yards, while our men have taken up a position .500 yards in advance of the post held yesterday. During last night shots were exchanged, but no casualties occurred. Some excitement is visible in Arabi's entrenchments; the men appear to be quarrelling and fighting among them- selves. Our position is now a strong one.

TURKEY'S DETERMINATION. [" CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] CONSTANTINOPLE, TtrRSDA Y. The Porte has now definitely agreed to send a naval and military force to restore order in Egypt, as invited by the Identic Note, and an official intimation to this effect has been made to the representatives of the Powers. The Porte, however, desires some modifica- tions in the conditions laid down in the Note, and at the sitting of the Conference to-morrow Said Pasha will formulate the wishes of the Sultan in this respect.

F" DAILY TELEGRAPH TELEGRAM.] ALEXANDRIA, WEDNESDAY, 8.50 A.M.— Rumours are current that Arabi has been attempting to treat, at Alexandria, for con- ditions of surrender. I have not been able, up to the present, to learn on what basis these reports reat; but whatever he may have done or may be doing in this respect did not pre- vent him last night from attempting a sur- prise on our outposts. It appears to be part of Arabi's policy to make a treacherous use of the white flag. At sundown last evening the white flag was reported to be flying over his entrenchments. and this, proba- bly, was the foundation for the rumours to which I have just referred. Nevertheless, at nine o'clock a decided attempt was made to surprise our outposts, and but for the watch- fulness and gallantry of Major Alexander, of the 38th, it might have succeeded in cutting off our outlying pickets. Under cover of darkness a force of GOO men came on, in three bodies, and approached close to our most advanced posts. Our men opened fire sharply, and the enemy retired precipi- tately. During the rest of the night nothing of any importance occurred, but Arabi's men con- tinued moving about, just out of range. ["REUTER'S" TELEGRAMS] ALEXANDRIA, WEDNESDAY, 12.30 P.M.— Reports received here this morning at head- quarters from the lines at Ramleh announce that everything is quiet. There is no sign of the enemy. The troops are engaged in strengthening their positions. Several cart- loads of ammunition and provisions have been taken to the Ramleh terminus, and thence by rail to Ramleh. To-night ten guns and two Gatling guns will be in position. A report reached Sir Archibald Alison yesterday that the Ramleh Palace, a portion of which had been placed by the Khedive at the disposal of the British authorities for barracks, had been looted by some British soldiers. The General went himself to Hamleh in the after- noon to make investigations,and this morning reported to the Khedive that he was con- vinced, after strict inquiry, that the plunder- ing had been done by the servants of the Palace (Bedouins), as the colonel commanding found the palace plundered on his arrival. Ali Pasha Mubareh expressed his conviction that the army will separate itself from Arabi, and deliver up the latter if the other superior officers were amnestied. This proposal is favoured by the Ministry, but the Khedive refuses to entertain it.

REPORTED LOOTING BY ENGLISH TROOPS. [FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS" SPECIAL WAR CORRESPONDENT.] ALEXANDRIA, WEDNESDAY, 4.30 P.M.— Since I despatched my telegram last evening little of importance has taken place in the movements on either side. At Ramleh there was some desultory picket firing during the night, our outposts returning stray shots from the enemy, but nothing further occurred. In the morning, however, it was found that Arabi's force had retired upon his head- quarters at Kafr Dowar, leaving only a few scouts at Malaha. The tiring heard was thus probably intended to cover the retreat. It is believed here that Arabi is concentrat- ing his troops at Kafr Dowar, with the idea of giving us a pitch battle, which shall be of a decisive character. While Arabi's forces are, on the one hand, being in- creased daily by recruits, they are likely, on the other, to be diminished to an appreciable extent by desertions. The 7th Regiment, at present stationed at Goukir, is ready and willing to surrender to the Khedive, and 'repudiate Arabi's leadership; and other regiments are not disinclined to follow their example. It is hoped that this may lead to the Egyptian \A.rmy largely returning to their allegiance, leaving Arabi the command of an undisciplined raoble. A detachment of 1,000 sailors and marines left here to-day for the village of Kornshogafa, near Pompey's Pillar, with the object of arresting a number of native looters who have been engaged in pillaging all they could lay their hands on. With regard to the charges of looting brought against our own men, I am glad to say that they have been very greatly exagge- rated. That of looting the Ramleh Palace turns out, upon inquiry, to be utterly with- out foundation, and as to the general accusa- tion, I can assure you that there are very slight, if any, grounds for it. Of course, in a large and wealthy city like Alexandria there was a good deal of property left behind by the ruffians who plundered the t"\vn after the bombardment and then made off with the most valuable part of their booty, and for much of this it was impossible to find owners. Under such circumstances it would scarcely be surprising if some of our men had appropriated a few of the things which they found lying about appa- rently ownerless, but it is evident that this is a very different matter from ran- sacking houses and general looting. No one who knows anything of our sailors or soldiers would have made such a charge so lightly. I can testify from my own personal observations to the general excellent con- duct of our troops here, and to the strict dis- cipline which is maintained, and it would be well if in future such accusations were made the subject of some little inquiry before being published to all the world as samples of the behaviour of English soldiers and sailors. All our men here have not only done their duty, but done it cheerfully, and have shown a praiseworthy readiness for every task allotted to them, no matter how trying and disagreeable. There is a great change for the better visible in the appearance of Alexandria. The streets have been cleared of the bulk of the rubbish that encumbered them; the dead bodies have been decently interred, and sigrfs of returning order are everywhere apparent. Many of the shops have now been opened, and we should do very well were it not for the apprehensions as to our water supply, which increase in proportion as that supply diminishes. The condensors may suffice to provide for the troops, but it is feared by the civilian population that when the Mahmou- dieh Canal runs dry they will be but badly off. Intelligence reaches us from Port Said that a force has been landed there from the British men-of-war off the port. Their landing has been received with great rejoicing by the European inhabitants, who have been living in hourly fear of a fanatical outbreak among the natives.

PANIC AT PORT SAID. A special Router's" telegram, dated Paris, July 26, says:—A dispatch received here from Port Said of to-day's date, states that a panic prevails among the Europeans at that place, and that 25 men have been landed. from the German war vessel to guard the German Consulate. It is added that M. de Lesseps arrived at Port Said yesterday, and was able to prevent a general landing from all the war vessels. He also sent for the new governor, who guaranteed the safety of the Europeans. At a meeting of the European residents, M. de Lesseps stated that Arabi Pasha bad resolved to respect the Suez Canal, and declared that there was nothing to fear in regard to the safety of the water way.

ARABI AND THR SULTAN. [" REUTERS TELEGRAM.] CONSTANTINOPLE WEDXKSDAY. — Arabi Pasha is very popular among the Turkish and Egyptian Ulemas, who regard him as the saviour of Islam. He is no less in favour among the lower classes in Turkey. It is believed in Turkish circles that if Arabi is attacked he will destroy Cairo, join the insurgents in the Soudan, proclaim the inde- pendence of Upper Egypt, and carry insurrec- tion into Syria and Arabia. Some of the Sultan's advisers recommend his Majesty to send a military force to Alexandria which would remain in the city and not advance against Arabi, while others recommend the despatch of a depu- tation of the principal Arab Ulemas to Arabi Pasha, with tha view of inducing him to lay down his arms. It is reported in diplomatic circles that Prince Bismarck has instructed the German representative in this city to declare that Germany regards Eng- land's intervention in Egypt as the only means of averting an European conflict, and that when the task of pacifying Egypt has been accomplished, the Powers will demand a collective settlement of the Egyptian ques- tion.

CUTTING OFF THE WATER SUPPLIES. (" CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.) ALEXANDRIA, SUNDAY NIGHT.-The water supply is getting more and more serious day by day, and it is feared that the Mahmoudieh Pump Stations will be forced to stop on Tues- day. The water in the Canal is sinking at the rate of one inch per hour. Condensers are being erected. It is evident that Arabi has no intention of advancing on Alexandria, and the natives are leaving the city in crowds in obedience to his summons. The old Roman wells in Alexandria have been examined by a medical commission, and it has been ascertained that the majority of these wells must be emptied before they can be filled with water fit to drink. It is reported that in the event of an Eng- lish occupation becoming probable Arabi has long ago given orders to cut off the water supply of Port Said, which is conveyed by pipes from Ismailia. In the event of hostilities the water supply of Alexandria, not including what may pos- sibly be derived from the wells, would not provide for more than eight days' consump- tion.

SPREAD OF THE INSURREC- TION. ALEXANDRIA, SATURDAY, 11.20 A.M.— The following news has been received in re- ference to the situation on the Canal At Zagazig are 500 soldiers and a large number of Bedouins; these have been oined by soldiers and Bedouins from Cairo, and there can be no longer a doubt that massacres have generally commenced. At Damanhowr and Tanta Took Benharan also several Europeans have been murdered, including some English. At Zagazig a German has been wounded. An European family were all taken out of the train at Galicub, placed on the rails, and the engine run over them. At Tanta Messrs. Crowther and M'Allen were seized on the platform. Thev broke from their assailants and ran into the buffet but they were overpowered there and their throats were cut. The Governor and Sheik tried to save their lives, but in vain. At Damietta an outbreak of murder and pillage is reported. Syrian travelling by train wag taken-for an Englishman and was brutally murdered. AJ'a.bi'¡¡ nrr^lamations will give the final [impulse to the fanatic cry against theEnglish, who are now everywhere being hunted out and murdered. In fact, the scenes of the Indian mutiny are now being re-enacted throughout Egypt.

PROPOSED INTERVENTION OF ITALY. The Standard understands that Italy, although not consenting to co-operate with the British in Egypt, wilT not refuse to take part in the protec- tion of the Suez Canal, if invited thereto by England and France. The Daily News states:—On Monday a joint communication was, we understand, sent to Italy by England and France, inviting her to take part in the movement for the protection of the Suez Canal. It is probable that within the next 24 hours Italy will be invited by Great Britain to join her in restoring order in Egypt.

CAPTURE OF A SECRET TURKISH AGENT. On the arrival at Alexandria on Saturday of the mail steamer from Constantinople, Ragheb Bey, the second officer, was arrested by order of the Admiral, and documents were found upon him showing conclusively that for months past he has acted as the agent of Arabi for carrying communi- cations between him and the Palace and the Panis- lamic committee at Constantinople. Ragheb was at once taken before the Tribunal and was examined by the President; and upon being promised lenient treatment if he made full confession, he gave a complete list of the persons with whom Arabi was connected. In this list are included the names of several in- fluential personages, including Sheiks Zaffar and Essad, the Sultan's principal agents for stirring up religious agitation in Arab countries. Ragheb also gave a list of Arabi's confederates in Egypt, and many startling and most important revelations are expected. On his person was found a letter, of which he was the bearer from Constantinople to Arabi; it is written in Turkish cipher, and its contents are at present undis- covered. He also had various testimonials from Arabi for the various valuable services he had rendered.

AN INCIDENT OF THE BOMBARDMENT. A letter from an officer of the Invincible to the Western Morning .Yetcs mentions a hitherto un- published fact in connection with the spiking of the guns at Alexandria:—When volunteers were called for to go ashore and spike the guns nearly every hand in the ship expressed a desire to be selected. Ultimately, ten torpedo men were chosen, and they landed, in the charge of the flag-lieu- tenant. under cover of the ship's guns. The dingy was conveying the men from the shore to the steam launch when it was struck by a shot and foundered. The occupants, however, all succeeded in swimming to the launch, and were brought safely on board. The admiral shook hands with each of the men employed on this dangerous ser- vice, and told them how proud he was to feel he had such men under his command.

THE EXECUTION OF TWO PRISONERS. The Standard Alexandria correspondent tele- graphed on Tuesday:—The first two prisoners sen- tenced to death by the Native Tribunal were shot yesterday evening. The Egyptian authorities tried hard to evade the fulfilment of the strict agreement between the Tribunal and Lord Charles Beresford. and signed by the Khedive, that a British officer should be present to seethe execution carried out. Ahmed R aifaat Pasha, the Governor, deliberately disregarded the orders which he had received to this effect, and towards sunset, without any notice being given to Lord Charles Beresford, he marched the prisoners who had been handed over to him out of the town. Some English civilians and officers, seeing the Egyptian police marching out of the town with two prisoners, accompanied them, and, in spite of being requested to retire, insisted upon witnessing the execution, which was then carried out. Our authorities are convinced that the inten- tion of the Egyptian pulice was to smuggle the prisoners oui of the town, and then to release them beyond the British lines. Upon Lord Charles Beresford learning the facts he despatched at midnight a stimy written letter to the Governor, asking why no notice had been given of the execution, in order that a British officer might, as arranged, have been deputed to witness officially the carrying out of the sentence. In consequence of such failure on the part of the Governor to give notice, he de- manded that the corpses should immediately be exhumed for the purpose of identification in tie presence of a British officer.

ENGLISH SYMPATHY WITH THE KHEDIVE. An Alexandria telpgram to the Times says :—Th. Khedive receives numerous letters from sympa- thisers in England, and replies to them, One con, gratulates him on his emerging from tl1e Valley ol the Shadow of Death through his gentleman line- and heroism another is willing to send plans fin rebuilding Alexandria on receipt of £100.

MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. In the House of Lords on Monday, Earl GRANVILLE, rising to discharge his pro- mise with reference to Egypt, said he would put their lordships, as far as he could, in possession of the views of her Majesty's Government as to the policy which they had thought fit to adopt At the beginning of last year Egypt appeared to be at peace and in the enjoyment of progress and prosperity. There were several military riots on account of the arrest of some officers, and the Khedive found himself without sufficient physical force to resist the military fac- tion. In October the Sultan sent a mission to Egypt, without previously communicating with France or England or any other country, and things appeared to be settling down. At the same time England and France each had an ironclad at Alexandria. At the end of December or in January M. Gambetta proposed that her Majesty's Government should join in a dual Note on the same line as his (Earl Granville's) dispatch in November, but possibly more accentuated. He was told the other day that if they had then agreed to the pro- position of M. Gambetta to use immediate force the difficulties would have been averted. That was a matter of opinion. But he wished to point out that M. Gambetta never made any proposal to employ military force, and that he adopted for himself the reserve already stated with regard to the time and the mode of action to be used. But, supposing that they had made that proposition, and that M. Gambetta had been willing to accept it, in what position would they have found themselves ? Two or three days later M. Gambetta was suc- ceeded by M. Freycinet, who believed that France at that time was disinclined to take any action of this sort. Confidential communications passed be- tween the Powers, and on the 11th of May he received a telegram from Lord Lyons informing him that M. de Freycinet had asked the consul in Egypt whether it was not desirable that France should send a sufficient naval force to Alexandria. The reply was that her Majesty's Government were ready to send two ironclads, informing the other Powers of the fact, in order that they might join if they thought proper. It was then agreed that war vessels should be sent to Alexandria. That action tn the part of the Government doubt- lessly saved the lives of hundreds of British sub- jects and Europeans generally, and had it not been for the action of the Government, he believed that the Khedive would not now be the de jure ruler of Egypt. Admiral Seymour telegraphed that Alexandria was entirely in the hands of the rebels, but it was fortunate that he did not act with precipitation, it being agreednow by the Egyptian and English authorities that if he had done so the massacre of European subjects would have been still more frightful. The massacres were prepared by Arabi's military leaders. Here, again, Admiral Seymour has been complained of for not having landed men im- mediately, but it is now universally acknowledged that it would have been a fatal error had he done so. Instructions were telegraphed to the Admiral to put a stop to the massacres, but in all that was done regard was had to the lives of our fellow subjects. In the bombardment, which lasted ten hours, the rebels certainly showed great courage. In that action we had proof of the value of English officers, men, and materials of her Majesty's Navy. (Hear, hear.) In going away the rebel army made a fraudulent use of a flag of truce after committing frightful atrocities. We wish to say that there never was a more legiti- mate act than that of an English Navy demolishing the forts which day by day threatened its destruc- tion. By the desire of the Powers, the proceedings of the Conference at Constantinople were kept secret. With regard to Turkey, the noble earl frankly ad- mitted that even at this hour he was not suffi- ciently acquainted with the policy which has been adopted in the past, and with the policy intended to be adopted in the future, to be able to speak with perfect confidence in the matter. In conclusion the noble earl said I have only to add my fervent hope that the opera- tions, which I have hardly any doubt will be sanctioned by Parliament, will lead to a restora- tion of order and tranquillity in Egypt, the main- tenance of the authority of the Khedive, and the development in a prudent and judicious manner of the liberties of the Egyptian people when 6nce they are free from the military tyranny which is now exercised over them. (Loud cheers.) The Marquess of SALISBURY said: Any person rising after the speech of the noble earl to discuss the policy of the Government in this conjuncture of public affairs necessarily labours under the difficulty that, on the one hand, if he passes by a policy to which he objects and of which he dis- approves, he must hereafter be held to have ac- cepted it; and, on the other hand, no one in the m-esent state of affairs ooseeases that freedom of speech which he otherwise would enjoy and i' is the first duty of every man who joins in this discussion to assure the Government that, whatever differences of opinion may exist as to the means by which the present crisis has been reached, at all events, now that the word of England has been passed and the honour of England engaged, all parties will combine as one man to assist the Government in extricating the country from the difficulty. I wish to make that statement, and I hope it will cover everything that I may hereafter say. After referring to the co-operation between France and England the noble marquess continued For a long time past the separate interests of those two countries imperatively imposed on both of them the necessity of supporting any effort to obtain a solution to a problem so difficult as the Egyptian. But in the dispatch of the noble earl he indicates that the idea originated in the Conference of Berlin. That is an entire mistake. It has existed for many years, and the co-operation of the two countries took an emphatic form when Mr. Goschen and M. Joubert were in Egypt, and the Khedive invested the representatives of the two Governments with certain control. From that time there has been on the part of the two Governments a constant effort at harmonious co-operation. At Berlin nothing was done to diminish the co-operation. No kind of en- gagement was entered into then, or at any other time during the tenure of office of, the late Government which has induced this country to co-operate further than the interests of this country dictated. I think the noble earl informed your lordships that England would not occupy any territory in Egypt, and that assurance was given at Berlin. But beyond that assurance there was no engagement of any kind, and there was nothing to bind one or the other in case it should arise that their interests should be divergent. It is necessary to say this in conse- quence of some words in the dispatch. That con- trol, the importance of which has been greatly magnified, established in 1876 bv Mr. Goschen, was not a sudden and uncalled-for interference with the internal affairs of the country. It was the result of an interference of a larger character and for which both parties were responsible. It was the result of the establishment of a mixed tribunal. Decrees were made by this mixed tribunal against the Khedive and against his Government. They went so far as to seize all the Crown lands and levy execution in the palace of the Khedive himself. The Khedive resisted levy- ing on his treasury, and the Powers were placed in this position that the Khedive was resisting the performance in regard to his own debts of the decrees issued by the tribunals to which the Powers had given diplomatic sanction. You were in this position. You were obliged to enforce decrees aguinst a debtor you could not sell up. There was nothing for it but to appoint what you call a receiver in Chancery, and the comptrollers were nothing more than receivers in Chancery. That was the state in 1876. Long before the Berlin Conference in 1879 we revived that control, but wo withdrew from the comptrollers the powers they had of administrative interference, and they had nothing but the power of inspection. Much has been said about the comptrollers since, but I have not been able to trace in the papers that their action has had anything to do with the events which have led to the state of things which the noble earl has depicted to us to-day. I am not blaming the Government; I am trying to ascertain the real facts of the case. The truth is, the tendency in Egypt has been to establish a pro- tectorate of two Powers, administered, not by the comptrollers,, but by the agents. There is no doubt it is the question of this protectorate which is now at issue, and at bloody issue, between you and the Egyptians. The noble marquess then proceeded to discuss what moral or material means should have been adopted towards the Egyptians, due regard being had to their religious susceptibili- ties, and then proceeded I confess I had heard with alarm the statement that her Majesty's Government and the Government of France were agreed in the duty of guarding the Suez Canal. The object of guarding the Suez Canal is to keep it open, and I cannot help feeling that if events should ever happen to make it the interest of France to close that Canal, while it would always be the interest of England to keep it open, the fact of the Canal being guarded by two Powers would not materially advance the interest of this country. I heard with extreme satisfaction that it is the intention of the Government to restore the authority ot the Khedive. I would only urge the noble earl to avoid the vacillation and hesitation which has marked his policy hitherto. If he employs diplomacy, he should make certain of the concurrence of the Powers upon whose co-operation diplomacy relies. If he employs force, he should give force a fair chnnce, and take care, by the employment 01 ample resources, that, in acting against a feeble enemy, the honour of England suffers no stain. (Opposition cheers.) The Earl of NORTHBROOK said the pillage of Alexandria could not by any means have been pre- vented by the forces outside the town. The debate was continued by Lord Cranbrook, Lord Houghton, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. The motion to lay papers on the table was then • jjn.eti to.

THE VOTE OF CREDIT. ? 1,000 SOLDIERS TO BE DESPATCHED TO EGYPT. In the House of Commons on Monday, Mr. GLADSTONE, whose rising was greeted with loud cheers from all parts of the House, said: I rise for the purpose of submitting a motion for a vote of credit to be granted by this House, for the sum required beyond the ordinary grants of Parliament, towards defraying the expenses lately incurred for the year 31st of March, 1883, in strengthening her Majesty's forces in the Mediter- ranean. (Hear, hear.) I believe it has been already stated to the House that the vote of credit which we propose amounts to JE2,300,000, and that it is divided between the army and navy in the propor- tions of m.400,000 for the Navy, and £900,000 for the Army. But it is well to observe that of the £1,400,000 for the Navy by far the larger part, I think about il,200,000, consists simply in the estimated amount that will bo necessary for the hire of transports to carry her Majesty's troops from this country to the points to which they will be ultimately destined in the Mediterranean. As regards the force which this vote of credit will enable us to send to the Mediterranean, I may state it roughly in these terms:—Of cavalry there will be 2,400, of infantry 13,400, of horse and field artillery 1,700, making in all 17,500. Besides these there will be garrison artillery, engineers, and commissariat, amounting to 3,700 persons, and there will be a reserve of 3,100 men, who will sail at a later date. It will, perhaps, be convenient, as I have not troubled the House with many details, that I should at once inform the House that I intend to move that a provision barely equal to this sum, and ultimately exceeding it, will be met by iniroducing a proper clause into the Tax Bill of the present year. The sum im- mediately to be met is, as I have stated..£2,300.000, and it is our intention to provide for this sum in a manner which has been adopted on several occasions when the House has found a cause to add to the burdens of the country at a time con- siderablv after the commencement of the financial year, that is to say, by making an addition to the income-tax, which should be charged upon the latter half-year's tax at double the rate at which it would apply to the whole year. In the present instance we should propose to make an addi- tion of 3d. to the second half-year of the income tax of 1882-3, which would be equal to an addition of Hd. over the tax for the whole year. The House is-aware, of course, that not the whole of the tax can be raised within the year even under the present arrangements, greatly improved as they have been since the time when the present income tax was proposed, and when scarcely half the tax—if half the tax-was received in the financial year for which it was raised. The pro- duce of the financial year, the imposition of which I have referred to, would be £2.262,000, but that sum is very moderately and safely estimated, and over and above that sum there will be a sum approaching £ 600.000, which will not be received until after the financial year. The House will, therefore, observe that the entire financial provision which I ask the House to make will considerably exceed the charge we ask them to incur. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the general state of the revenue, I am not in a position to submit any alteration of the estimate to the House, but I am in a position to say that some gain has been made upon the estimate as far as our experience down to the present day is avail- able and, under these circumstances, I shall find myself in a position to make the grant that was promised for certain purposes connected with the highways without asking the House to disturb the present state of the law as to carriage taxes. (Cheers.) I now go on to say that, in proposing the vote of credit to-night, we need, as the next step in the proceedings, to bring down a message from her Majesty declaring urgency to exist to-morrow in order to lay the foundations upon which to-morrow we shall ask the House to make an addition to the present vote for men which will be necessary in order to enable us to send a force to the Mediterranean such as I have described—(hear, hear)—and in due time my noble friend (the Marquess of Hartington) will also ask friend (the Marquess of Hartington) will also ask the House to grant the vote necessary for the ex- penses attending the transport of the Indian troops, in conformity with Act of Parliament, and then it would only remain for me to ask the House to go into Committee on the Tax Bill. That, sir, is not otherwise than summarily stating the series of steps we will have to take in order that the House may give effect to the resolutions to which her Majesty's Government have arrived. (Cheers.) Now, sir, it is necessary to consider the state of things in Egypt which this provision is called forth to meet. It is a state of things which we have describedwith the exception of what prevails i n Alex- andria as one of lawless military violence. (Cheers.) I am sorry to say that that state of violence is greatly aggravated by cruel and wanton crime (Cheers.) It is not for me to assume what may be the ultimate state of facts as they may appear when we have before us more full and more de- tailed information than we have at present, but we have before us now facts that are as singular as t hey are happily rare in previous history and experience. (Hear, hear.) That the fortifications of a town should be bombardedis of itself a very grave fact sure to be attended with serious results, but that the town itself should not by the bom- bardment, but by an action entirely apart from the bombardment-by the action of those who posi- tively were in possession of the reins of govern- ment and in the exercise of the powers of govern. ment-that conflagration should be brought into the town upon the retirement of an army which must have known itself perfectly able to hold the town-nay, must have known that it was, for a time at least, perfectly safe from attack, and that with the conflagration there would be let loose upon the town those who wI)r8 to iack and pillage [ —these are dreadful facts which, if they are made zooo-and we have'no reason to doubt at present that, they wore not such as I have described- deserve the appellations of cruel and wanton crime. (Cheers.) Now we have advanced one step further. The House is probably aware that the great town of Alexandria is dependent for its supply of water upon the Mahmoudieh Canal. The water of that canal is a matter of entire insignificance as far as her Majesty's forces are concerned, as they are possessed of the scientific means and machinery by which their wants can be adequately and amply supplied. That measures have been taken for contaminating and poison- ing the water is a matter of uncer- tainty, but there seems to be no doubt that means have been taken for cutting off the supply of fresh water, on which depends the life of the whole population of Alexandria, and the rebels are now not offering resistance to the force of England, but to their lawful ruler, the Khedive. Until a few weeks ago we looked upon the leader of this movement as a misguided man, but since then grave changes have arisen that will have to be considered now. This being the case over the rest of Egypt; the same military party is acting in violent oppo- sition to the authority of the lawful ruler. I am not aware that any charge is made by them against him. We have never learned that he has in any way abused his trust so as to deserve the loss of his position. We have not the smallest reason to believe that the popular feeling in Egypt is adverse to the continuance of his rule, but we, in so far as our knowledge goes, know that this reign of violence is being put in force as far as the power of military chiefs can reach in every part of the country. The governors of three out of the five provinces have been dismissed because they were not willing to become the dupes of that military party. It is, in fact, a case where we see civil strife in its most intense and highest form. The lawful ruler shut up in Alexandria, where, we believe, he receives the willing obedience of the people: the bulk of the country in possession of the Egyptian Army, and that army, whether a willing or an unwilling instrument, directed by its ambitious commanders for the purpose of setting up some military dictatorship. It is not in the circle of associations like this that liberty can grow. (Hear.) There have been periods of its history when it was charitably believed that the military party was struggling for the liberty of Egypt. There is not the smallest rag or shred of evidence to support that contention. (Cheers.) Military violence and a regime established by military violence are absolutely contradictory to the growth and the existence of freedom. The reign of Crom well was a great reign, but he did nothing for Knglisli freedom, because it was the rule of military force, and it has not left on the statute books the records of such triumphs as were achieved by peaceful action during the, in many respects, base and infamous reign which followed it, the reign of Charles II. (Hear, hear.) The reign of Napoleon was a splendid reign, founded upon military power, but that did nothing for freedom in France, but tended rather to increase the embarrassment which beclouded the political history of that great nation. Well, if that be the state of facts the question may be asked, What have we to do with it? (Hear, hear.) Why do we not leave the matter until, in the course of nature, the country can from its own resources, convey a just retribution upon its disturbers? That is a question fair and right to answer, because, undoubtedly, the fact that vou have great interests in a foreign country, the fact that those interests are seriously suffering in consequence, does not suffice to establish your right to enter by force into that country and to undertake the solution of the difficulty. Let me then proceed to answer the question. What, have we to do with the solution of this great difficulty in Egypt ? The Egyptian question in its present condition lies entirely outside the general question of non-intervention. Circumstances have happened from the consequence of which we cannot escape, which we are bound to take into account, and which the present Government are bound to consider imperative as regulating theiraetions. This question of what we have to do with the internal concerns of Egypt, if it were to be asked at all, ought to have beer. asked earlier. (Hear, hear.) We have undertaken some, of the most important functions of the Government of Egypt by international arrangement; and, having once undertaken those functions, it is impossible to say that you will regard those engagements as if they had never been contracted, and fall back upon your general doctrine of non-intervention in the internal affairs of another country. It was some years ago that the Egyptian ques- tion was partly decided, and that the groundwork was made upon which the action now proposed is founded. It was not dififcult to fore- see that embarrassments and that obligations snch as are now before us would probably arise from undertaking engagements such as we took up then. I have no doubt that many foresaw it. It is in my own recollection that I did not fail to deliver a warning on the subject on the 6th of March, 1876. when it was proposed to send a commissioner to Euvpt for the sake of assuming some powers, not then fullv and dearly defined, over Egyptian finance. I said that the measures which we might think necessary as a 'natter of prudence might entail upon us greater rliffièulties and make us increase our responsibili- ties in one portion of the internal government of Egypt. I said that when we had begun one portion of the internal government of Egypt, we might pass on to another, and we might come to occupy the entire ground by a. series of degrees not difficult to contemplate. Well, nothing was done at that period to bring about the realisation of such anticipations, but in the year 1879 decisions were taken which supply the real stm-tincf points of the whole of the recent actions. In 1879 a change was effected in the supreme rule, or at. least in the local supreme rule, of the country, greatly at our instance, and the present ruler, Prince Towfik, succeeded his predecessor, who was compelled to withdraw. It was by the fact of that succession that we incurred a great responsibility to the person thus elevated. The House will see that, unless the person who was chosen, and who was preferred, failed in his duty. it be- came our duty, under what, exact limits I do not say, but there came upon us the obligation to sup- port him in the exercise of that rule to which we had a large share in appoint- ing him. But that was notable because the Commissioners were appointed by the positive action of the English and French Governments to become members of the council in Egypt, corre- sponding with the Cabinet in this country, or rather exerci,ing a much larger and wider power than the Cabinet of this country, and invested substantially with a real control over part of the Egyptian finance, which virtually extended to the whole of it. Under these circumstances it was impossible for any Go- vernment of England and France to decline ad- vice or to decline counsel in the internal affairs of Egypt. You could not say to the ruler when asked for help It is no affair of ours." You could give him the best advice which the circumstances admitted, and it is by giving that advice from time to time, and from step to step, that we have arrived at the present position. (Hear, hear.) We have arrived at it by a series of steps that form a chain which cannot be broken. I am not now going to pro- nounce an opinion on the wisdom of the original procedure. What I have read to the com- mittee of the sentiments of myself sup- posed that I was not prejudiced in its favour. We found it existing when we came into office; we recognised frankly the obligation of honour and duty which it appeared to us to entail—(hear, hear)—and we have arrived at the point where we now stand. This I think it fair to state- and I think it is quite open to question, on grounds of policy and prudence, whether the present embarrassments ought not to have been foreseen, and whether the course taken in 1879 was wise—this it is fair to say, that I add my testimony to the testimony of many others to this fact, that no inconsiderable benefits have been conferred upon the people of Egypt. (Hear, hear.) It may be that in certain respects, and within very narrow limits new abuses have cropped up, but it is a fact of a hundred times greater im- portance that the condition of the cultivators of the soil, which in Egypt was miserable almost beyond belief, has been greatly reformed -(cheers) -and brought within the limits of something like regularity. That is the state of the case we have to meet. It is not necessary for me to go through the details of the position they have been set forth fullv in the papers that are now before us, and, perhaps, with adequate fulness, and in a con- secutive manner in the lengthened dispatch from Lord Granville, dated the 11th of July. (Hear, hear.) But the point I conceive to be the deter- mining point in this series of actions was that the military lawlessness in Egypt had reached such a height that, in the first place, the military dicta- torship thought fit to summon the Notables without the consent of the ruler of the country, and in de- fiance of the law and then, when those Notables- highly to their own honour, and with a conduct that really gives better promise than any single occurrence among the whole series of events—de- clined to be a party to those proceedings, this mili- tary dictatorship persevered in the course on which it had entered, and insisted on undertaking the government of the country without the consent of the Khedive. Now, a condition of thorough and violent illegality, hopeless for the people of Egypt, having thus been achieved, and we, feeling ourselves under the obligation to recognise it as a state of things which it was our duty, at least, to take part in the remedy, it is true that I should endeavour to state to the committee what general view we have taken of the mode by which that remedy ought to be applied. We have to take into account the sovereignty of the Sultan in Egypt. We have no desire to decrease the fabric of the Ottoman Empire. Some members of this House think that a general crusade against the Ottoman Empire was taught by this Government, or some of its members..(Hear, hear.) But I have never taught a crusade of that kind. I have always held in language perfectly unvarying that we ought to insist upon the duty of making some arrangements with respect to the condition of the subject races in Turkey, and in making those arrangements in more than mere words. I have never ceased to maintain that we were the best friends of Turkey and if on a certain occasion, which was the very height and climax, I did contemplate the removal of Turkish power from one province, the province of Bulgaria, I said then, and so it was proved, that those who proved them- selves the friends of Turkey would let her give up that province and a great deal more. (Hear, hear.) We have approached the question of the Turkish sovereignty in Egypt with the same feeling, that we were earnestly desirous to maintain that sovereignty within the limits of law. One important act we have obtained from the conference which is now sitting is that we have obtained from it a solemn appeal to the Sultan to take into his own hands the conditions proposed by civilised Europe for the settlement of the Egyptian Question. But we have obtained something more than that. The Powers are not willing as a body to be directly parties to military action in Egypt, or to a man- date demanding the exercise of that military power, yet we have obtained—I think this to our entire satisfaction-the moral consent and the conouriwona of Europe to the policy we I> re pursuing. (Cheers.) There is a universal recogni- rion that a case has arisen wherein for the interest of humanity and of the future forces should be employed to put down the military dictatorship of Egypt, and that although it unfortunately be true that Turkey has not been found ready to take into her own hands the discharge of the duty pertain- ing to her sovereignty in that respect, yet that duty ought to be performed. On that we have had full and adequate assurance, and it forms an im- portant part of the basis on which we stand. (Hear, hear.) The defence of the Suez Canal does not in our view meet the necessities of the case. Perhaps I may say a word or two in regard to the Khedive. Undoubtedly, the circumstances of his accession gave him the right of much considera- tion at our hands, and the circumstances of his conduct during the last three or four months of difficulty never surpassed that ot danger to his life, at times most formidable. (Cheers.) His conduct, without a single step of deviation from the direct line of honour and duty, has been such as to entitle him to our highest admiration. (Re- newed cheers.) Now, as to the state of Egypt, we did not feel that we had satisfied ourselves we had discharged our duty whilst endeavouring to bring to bear adequate means for delivering Egypt from a state of anarchy to a state of peace and order. We should look upon the occupation of Egypt as a duty, and to hold such occupation as, not merely lightening our burdens, but as strengthening our title and as divesting it of any- thing of a selfish or an aggressive character. (Cheers.) If we do not succeed in bringing in the full force and authority of the Powers represented at the conference, if every chance is exhausted, we should not shrink from undertaking the duty by the single Power of this Empire. (Cheers.) It is a serious charge, but it is a charge which seems to devolve upon us from our duty, and we believe to be within our means. (Cheers.) We also be- lieve that it would have the full sancticn of all those who are the observers of our policy, and we are convinced that by taking this duty upon us we are performing a great duty to Europe and to the world. (Renewed cheers.) After describing the bombardment as an act of necessity for the safety of our ships, the right hon. gentleman proceeded :— That is what we have done and now I have a word or two to say as to what we intend to do. We shall desire to strengthen the throne worthily occupied by the present Khedive it we have reason to believe in the continuance of the worthiness, and;I have every reason to believe in the conti- nuance of the worthiness. We must not be too hasty in our favourable assumptions, but I, for one, believe that Egypt is a country which, not only economically, but socially and politically, has made great progress, and there is reason to hope that when the present occupation that weighs upon her and the reign of lawlessness are removed, something may be founded which pro- duce in the future that which will show that there is in even the Mahommedan peoples a desire for those institutions under which blessings have been achieved in many countries of Europe. (Cheers.) This will be the purpose for which we shall work. It would be impossible for me to enter now upon detail, but what I wish to convey to the House is that, whether we to go to Egypt alone, or in partner- ship, we shall not go for selfish objects. (Cheers.) If we go isolated, not isolated will be our purpose. Our purpose will be to put down tyranny, and to favour law and freedom, and we shall cherish the hope that it may be yet that Egypt, with all her resources, and with the many excel- lent resources of her peaceful and peace-loving and laborious people, will achieve in the future less perhaps of glory, but yet possibly, also, more of happiness than she has once achieved when, in the far off and almost distant past, she was the wonder and admiration of the world. (Great cheering.) Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, who was received with Conservative cheers, said: I must say it has never been my lot to listen to a speech in this House that has given me more grave reason for consideration. I do not for a moment yield to the right hon. gentleman in my conviction that if England sets herself to work in her single strength to accomplish the objects which, so far as we can understand, the Government is setting before them, I cannot doubt that England will show herself competent to accomplish the task, and of this I am certain, that it will be in full strength of her sons. But I feel this is a moment when we require further and fuller consideration than it is possible for us to exercise in the first flush of the statement we have heard made. There is much in that statement to surprise, and also much to disappoint us. We find we are no longer to look for aid from the legitimate Sovereign of Egypt, charged with the duty of maintaining peace. Nor are we to look for assistance to the other Powers of Europe, except in a limited degree. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GLADSTONE: I said the hopes and chances were not exhausted. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE: Are we to live upon hopes and chances? (Cheers.) It seems to me there has been throughout the proceedings of the last twelve months too much of hopes and chances, and I am bound to say that, looking at the position of affairs as they are now represented to us—looking at the difficulty of the enterprise in which we are engaged, and looking at the same time to the doubt of the other Powers—I must say we require some further con- sideration before we commit oorselves to support the Government in this matter. We have a right to expect, and it is our duty to demand from the Government, a full explanation both of the grounds and the objects of their pro- ceedings, and the means by which they expect to attain those objects. After some discussion, in the course of which Mr. Gladstone -,isked leave to withdraw his motion, in order to allow time for the consideration of his statement, The motion was withdrawn.

NEWPORT BOARD OF GUARDIANS. THE IRISH REFUGEES. At the meeting of the Newport Board of Guar- dians on Saturday, Mr. Woodruff was in the chair. and Colonel Lyne in the vice-chair. The poor-law inspector (Mr." Bircham) was also present. A large number of persons who left Tredegar in conse- quence of the late riots applied for relief. They were mostly married men with families, who had been at Tredegar for years. A few accepted employment from Mr. Parfitt and Mr. Price, and the others were ordered into the workhouse until steps could be taken to remove them to the Bod- wellty Union. Number of paupers in the work- house, 270; corresponding week last year, 271. Number of children in the Caerleon Schools, 168 hist year, 155. Receiving out-door relief, 1,144 adults and 652 children, at a cost of X177 4s. 6d. —The Chairman gave notice that on Saturday next he would move that the workhouse master's salary be increased from zC95 to JE105. PROPOSED INCRHASE OF GUARDIANS. The question of granting an additional guardian Z, to each of the parishes of Llantarnam and Christ- church has been for some time before the board, and an intimation was given by the Local Govern- ment Board that if these were granted some of the smallest parishes must be amalgamated, so as not to increase the number of guardians in the whole. The Rev. F. B. Leonard said he understood that the fusion of Llangstone and Kemeys Inferior had been suggested. This was strongly objected to by both parishes, and they would oppose it in every possible way. The Clerk then read a letter from the Local Government Board, dated the 19th instant, proposing to grant an additional guardian to the respective parishes of Christ Church and Llantarnam, but they would not in- crease the total number of guardians, and there- fore proposed to join Bettws and Malpas, and Whitson and Goldcliffe, these changes to take place at the end of the official year. The Rev. D. Roberts moved that Bettws and Henllis be joined, as they were one for ecclesiastical purposes, and were adjoining parishes. This was agreed to, and the recommendation will be made to the Local Government Board. It was also resolved to ask the Local Government Board to order an imme- diate election for Caerleon, consequent on the resignation of Mr. Parry, and to give the addi- tional guardians to Christchurch and Llantarnam at once? instead of waiting until next April. OUT-DOOR RELIEF. Mr. BIRCHAM rose to address the guardians on his published annual statement for tJle district over which his inspection extends. He said it was interesting to observe the position of the Newport Union, which presented a stationary aspect. In it the percentage of pauperism was 3 3, as compared with 2-9, which was the average for the United Kingdom. He failed to see why the union should be higher than the average for the whole country. It was true that during the past ten years there had been a great improvement, but there was plenty of room for Newport to move up a little higher. The guardians should not be content with their present position, but use the workhouse more as a means of testing the applicants for relief, He had analysed the out-door paupers to see where the weak point was. He divided them under four heads. The first section was under the head of old age and permanent disability; 948 was a very large number to be relieved under that head, and it was a question how far the workhouse test could be applied to reduce that number. Under the next head there were 200 widows and 538 children. He hoped the guardians would look very strictly into these cases. Now that they had such good schools they need have no qualms of conscience on the score of humanity. Then there were the deserted wives, wives of prisoners and soldiers, and women with illegitimate children. It was neces- sary that the guardians should be very careful how they dealt with these cases, for in no other union iu his district ware there so many of the kind granted out-door relief. He then spoke of 111 cases of able-bodied men who sought relief on account of sickness. This fact showed that in six months there were 111 homes where no provision had been made for a time of sickness. He hoped the guardians would show the people that they marked their appreciation of triendly societies by the difference which they made between those who had and those who had not made provision for themselves. Nearly £10,000 a year was spent on out-door relief by this union. If the spending of that amount did incalculable good he would say nothing. A great deal of it was, no doubt, a necessary evil, but a great deal of it was money thrown away. Referring to the cases from Tredegar, he said if such persons came here for relief the proper way to deal with them was to order them into the workhouse. Relieving-officers, if applied to during the week, should give them an order for 1 he work- house, and not relieve them in kind, except in cases of sickness. If temporary relief were given in kind, that would have a good deal to do with in- ducing strong men to refuse to work for 2s. a day,' as the guardians had heard some of the men refuse such an offer that morning. He repeated, such cases must be met by the workhouse. There was no other business of public interest before the board.

REPORTED MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA. The Daily News correspondent in Alexandria, telegraphing on Monday night, saya :—lt is re- ported, but the news is not confirmed, that a fanatical outbreak has occurred a.t Smyrna, and that a large number of Christiana have been mqgaact*

I THE PHCENIX PARK MURDERS. — ARREST OF ONE OF THE ASSASSINS. HIS ESCAPE FROM SWANSEA AND CAPTURE IN SOUTH AMERICA. [" RF.UTER's" TRLEGRAM.1 NEW YORK, Tuesday.-The New York Herald publishes a dispatch from St. Thomas announcing that one of the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke has been arrested at Puerto Cabello, in Venezuela, South America. He has given up the names of his accomplices. A special Reuter's 11 telegram, dated New York, Wednesday, says :-The New York Herald publishes a dispatch from St. Thomas, of yesterday's date, stating that the man arrested at Puerto Cabello was taken into custody on the 16th inst. on hii- own confession, under the name of William West- gate. He left Dublin on the night of May 6. and on May 8 shipped at Swansea under the name of O'Brien, on board the barque Gladstone, bound for Caracas. He states that he had three accomplices in the Phoenix Park murders, each assassin being paid the sum of j620, and in his deposition before the British Consul asserted that he had been employed by several influential persons. The man is tall, and of slight figure. The Press Association says O'Brien's state- ment, as reported, certainly contains elements of probability. It will be recollected that the murder was committed between seven and a quarter-past on the evening of the 6th of May, in Phoenix Park. Seven minutes' walk away from the scene of the tragedy is the Kingsbridge Terminus of the Great Southern and Western Railway of Ireland from whence the mail train for Waterford departs at 7.45 p.m. It is believed O'Brien would catch the train at once after the commission of the crime, and arriving at Waterford early the follow- ing morning would proceed to Cork, and gain the special steamer, which leaves at seven a.m. for Milford, arriving at Swansea on Sunday evening. In confirmation of the prisoner's state- ment that he there shipped on board the barque Gladstone, bound for Caracas, on the 8th inst., re- ference to reports of outward sailings from Swansea about the date discloses the fact that the barque Gladstone, belonging to Mr. William Henry Tucker, cleared from the latter port for Caracas on the 11th of May, under the command of Captain Richards. It is a remarkable fact that on Tuesday, May 9, the day after that on which O'Brien is supposed to have shipped, an Irish harvestman named Ivery, of Kilmacoome, County Waterford, was arrested at Haverfordwest on suspicion of complicity in the murders, who had crossed from Ireland that day by almost the same route supposed to have been traversed by O'Brien. He was, however, subsequently released. As the bodies of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke were only discovered at 7.40 p.m., and the mail train left at 7.45, the prisoner's escape is explained by the fact that the police could not possibly have had time to watch the train in ques- tion, even had there been inquiries directed thither. The Scotland Yard authorities are not taking any action in the matter of O'Brien's arrest, as the case is in the hands of the Irish police. The Press Association understands an ex- perienced Irish detective will at once be sent to Caracas to receive O'Brien into custody. There is no extradition treaty with Venezuela, but it is not anticipated there will be any obstacle placed in the way of sending the prisoner to Ireland for trial. Our Swansea correspondent writes:—Much ex- citement was produced in Swansea on Wednesday morning when it became known through the medium of the morning papers that the man who had confessed to being one of the Phoenix Park murderers had sailed from that port. Full inquiries have been made into the subject, everything tend- ing to confirm the report that had originated in the New York Herald. It appears that in May last a man giving the name of West- gate shipped as a "pier jumper" on board a sailing" vessel called the Gladstone, which left Swansea in May last for Caracas, Puerto Cabello, South America. Westgate lodged for two lays at the Museum Hotel, in the Strand, Swan- sea, and he is described by Mr. Dawn, the landlord of the house in question, as being dark cora- plexioned, and close on six feet in height; whrile Mrs. Dawn speaks of him as resembling a fireman having a slight hump on his shoulders. During the time that he stayed at Mr. Dawn's he rarely went out, and seldom spoke and, in fact, seemed to shun both conversation and company. Hn con- fessed to being a native of Dublin, and as he was badly dressed Mrs. Dawn supplied turn with a suit of clothes. It may be mentioned that a man named Robert Evans should have shipped in the Gladstone at Swansea, but he deserted, and Westgate was the man who supplied the vacancy. Mr. Shepherd, shipbroker, Wind-street, as also his son, spoke to Westgate, who, they say, seemed greatly agitated, and was glad to get on board out of the way. He is said to have been in possession of a goodly sum of money, and before leaving the town he authorised Mr. Shepherd to forward to his (West- gate's) wife in Dublin an allotment note for his half pay, due on the 11th of July, which request was duly complied with. It is noteworthy to mention that shortly after the Phcenix Park mur- ders Mr. Williams (an officer of the Board of Trade marine department) noticed a suspicious-looking man loitering about the doors of the Mercantile Marine Office. He spoke to him, and noticed that he answered the description of one of the men wanted in Dublin. Mr. Williams ascertained from him that he was a Dublin man, and had just arrived from that city, and subsequently gave information to the police, when the man was arrested by Detec- tive Jones, of the Swansea police force. He seems to have given his name as Eva.ns, but he informed the police that his real name was Herwin, and that he had a mother who resided at Warren Point, Dublin. Thereupon the Dublin police were communicated with by Captain Colquhoun, head constable, who received a reply to the effect that a man named Herwin, giving the address named, had been arrested at Dublin, but had been dis- charged. Herwin is supposed to be the man who deserted from the Gladstone in the name of Evans, and at the last moment had his place filled by Westgate. At any rate, Westgate and Herwin were seen conversing together before the Glad- stone sailed, and it is generally believed that both men were Fenian confederates.

AFFAIRS IN ZULULAND. FIGHTING AMONGST THE NATIVES. A "Reuter's" telegram, dated Cape Town, July 4, bays:—The affairs in Zululand wear a gloomy aspect- The Chief Undabu ka has attacked Oham, destroyed two kraals, and killed all the men in them. Oham fied. The Zulus say John Dunn has appropriated to his own use the taxes collected in the name of the Queen.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF THE SPANISH PREMIER. A Retiter's 11 telegram from Madrid, dated July 25, says :—A small box forwarded from Granada to Senor Sagasta, having been cautiously examined beiore being delivered to the Premier, was found to contain an explosive compound, proved on analysis to be nitro-glycerine. It was intended that the box should explode on being opened by the receiver. Several arrests have been made in connection with the affair.

RE-STARTING OF THE CWM-GLO COLLIERY, BEDWAS. FORMATION OF A 1NEW COMPANY. The above colliery, which has ceased working operations for some time, and was formerly worked by a London company, is about to be re-started by a new company. The colliery, which is in close proximity to Bedwas, is situate on the Clyngwyn estate. It has a large acreage of coal, which is known as the Llantwit vein. Great satisfaction is felt in the neighbourhood at the undertaking, which will give employment to a lar^e number of hands.

THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE AGRI- CULTURAL SOCIETY. The annual show of the Gloucestershire Agricul- tural Societv was opened at Cheltenham on Tues- day. We notice that the first prize in CIassl4 was won by Mr. Councillor Lougher's famous Lady Bute." And Mr. G. W. G. Thomas, The Heath, won the first prize in the weight-carrying hunters'class with his gelding," Gendarme," and the second prize in the same class with" Gamester." "Lady Bute" has now won nearly 300 prizes.

THE STATE OF IRELAND. ) » EVIDENCE OF AN INFORMER. — hflf( An Athlone telegram says:—The police ( received important information from _a P—jth sinker, named Michael Jones, in connection the blowing up of the residence of Mr. J°^n Mahon, agent to Lord Clonbrock. Jones saVs..j he supplied the dynamite with which the oUt\*n was perpetrated, and gave the names of three » j who purchased it. They ha ve been arrested) Jones has been taken to Dublin under P tection. His wife has been threatened an under protection. The house of a tenant farmer named Mumna, County Leitrim, was broken into on day night by Moonlighters," who beat. Leddv' fearful manner because of his interfering wltn Boycotted turf bank. f £ At; Cork Assizes, on Tuesday, the five men srr^ull- for illegal drilling on Mushera mountain, on day night, were brought before the Connell, and identified as having taken P in several "Moonlight" raids. A sixth i"*™ while attending the assizes, was arrested, and a identified. for Extraordinary precautions are being taken tell. the safety of the judges and Crown counsel a tending Cork Assizes. Each meeting before judges arrival the underground passages unde^' careful examination by detectives. The counsel,whenevertheymake theirappearance corridor or hall of the court house, have tives in close and constant attendance upon Connell, who was connected with the MiH-str, and Mushera Mountain Moonlight cases, i-s s tioned daily in the Crown-office window, which he is able to point out amongst the count1/ people attending the assizes several of his forlJie confederates in Moonlight" raids. tr The police arrested a man at Clane, Couø a! Kildare, on Wednesday, having a scissors and portion of a cow's tail in his pocket. Mr. Baron Fitzgerald has now resigned judicial position, his resignation, which he te°" dered on Tuesday, having been accepted Government with regret. He was first judge on the rioter for trying prisoners under the new Act^ and it was his objection to the new duties posed upon the bench that led him to take this Mr. Baron Fitzgerald was called to the bar i* 183*' and applied himself chiefly to Equity practice. In 1843 he was retained among the advocates who fended O'Connell and his friends. He defend Mr. Smith O'Brien in 1848.

ROYAL ASSENT TO LOCAL BILLS- In the House of Lords the Royal Assent been given by Commission to the Cyfarth^ Works and Property Act, 1882, the Great Railway (No. 2) Act. 1882, and the Elementary Education Provisional Orders (Llanarth and Uppe Dylais, &c.) Act, 1882. !■ I — I

FATAL MINE ACCIDENT 0 DEAN FOREST. On Tuesday James Smith, a miner, of Berry v was killed at "the Buckholt Iron Mine by a fall of l0°l while working in his stall. The facts have reported to the district coroner. A

—— < CARDIFF COLLEGE ATHLETIC SPORTS. The annual athletic meeting in connection this college was held in the field of the Soph^ Gardens on Saturday, when the sports were nessed by a comparatively large number of visito^'i The officials were:—Referee, Mr. F. C. B. Ter M.A.; starters, Mr. G. B. Hughes and Mr. J- Grant; and judges, Mr. C. W. Wait and Mr. J- Jones. The results were as follow:— n 220 Yards Race (boys under 12).—1st, Biggs iii.; ii. and Hurman dead heat for second place. Huong's won the run off. ,f won the run off. 100 Yards Hace (open).—1st, Sant i.; 2nd, David » Time, ll^secs. 120 Yards Handicap (first and second in heats to rU'J in final).—First heat: 1st, Webb 2nd, David ii. 8eco" heat: 1st, David i.; 2nd, Greenish ii. Third heat: 11; Sant; 2nd, Bland i. Final: 1st, Greenish ii.; %n David i.; 3rd, Sant. Broad Jump (open).-Webb, 12ft. 4;in. i High Jump (open).-Buist, 4ft. 4in. Pole Jump (open).—Wait i., 5ft. llin.. • Quarter Mile (open).—1st, David i. (35 yar is start" 2nd, Sant i. (scratch); 3rd, Dunn (15 yards). „ J. Quarter Mile (Old Boj-s' Race).—1st, Rowlands; H. Wilson. 120 Yards (Junior School Race).—1st. Daw; 2" Hodge 3rd, Hi, h r; i. I High Jump 'Boys under 14;.—E. Biggs, 4ft. Pole Jump (boys under 14) Wait i,, 6ft. i Half-mile Handicap: 1st, Sant i. (scratch); gn David i. (60 yards) 3rd, Dunn (30 yards). ,i 120 Yards (Strangers' Race): 1st, A. B. .& j yard); 2nd, Win. Jones (3 yards); 3rd, E. Laybourn8 ( yards).. j Quarter-mile Handicap (boys under 14): 1st, Bi1!is i'" 2nd, Biggs ii. Quarter-mile Bicycle Race: 1st, F. Wilson; Webber. • « Mile Handicap: 1st, Biggs iii.; 2nd, Bant i. Clode. Back Race: 1st, Clode 2nd, Wait,; 3rd, Lewis.

RABXORSIJJKE ASSIZES. Mr. Justice Manisty arrived at Presteigne by 1'40 train on Thursday from Brecon. The mg sheriff (Mr. C. C. Rogers, of Stanage Castle), hie lordship nt the station and escorted him to lodgings. On Friday the court was opened business at 10 30..T^Mcre Wjg only pnAcrun^ case and one civil Cause » CHAwm or C(IN'ofat,mcnt or TurtTTi. A true bill w:\s found against Eliza Kvans in that she hung delivered of a certain male child did unlawfully, by a secret disposition of tha dead botlv of the said child, endeavour to concea the birth thereof at Hrvnrhvdd, on the March, 1882." The prisoner pleaded not gu'? Mr. W. M. Xorth (instructed by Mr. A. Cheese, Fl '.y) prosecuted; and Mr. Howel Jeffrey? ("^ struct,cd by Mr. Page, Hay) defended. beth I'ugh said she was domestic sC ■, vant at Brynrhydd, wh»ro prisoner been in service as cook for the last tb' years. On the 2nd of May she was at Hay, and 0 "her return found prisoner crvinor. Tn answer 1 h«r inquiry, prisoner said she did not feel well. The day after witness found the body of child in the closet pit. Mr. Thomas Willia0^ surgeon, Talgarth, gave evidence to the effectt-b* the child was fully developed, and had breat,he«» but could not say whether before or after partui' tion. A slight depression on the head, perhap caused bv a fail at birth, was sufficient to death. It was probable prisoner went to the for ordinary purposes, and there gave birth to th child.—Police-constable Bertrupp said he hended the prisoner. The witness Pugh told bilo that prisoner told her that if she went upstairssb would find out what was the matter.—His Lord. ship remarked this was a contradiction of Pugh-j evidence, and asked the jury to find a verdict 0 j not guilty, which they did, and prisoner was, there" fore, acquitted. INTF.RPLFAOFT? CASF. LLOTf v. TRKNT VAT.LEY BREWERY COMTASY-^ Mr. E. J. Lloyd, late landlord of the Duke's Arm-4 Hotel, was plaintiff, and the company the de, fendants. The interpleader was to determine whether the property seized bv the sheriff at tllo Duke's Arms Hotel was belonging to the plaintiff' as against the execution creditors, the defendant* in the action. The goods were seized under 3£1 execution against Mrs. Bore (the late proprietress) for a sum of £ 134 13s. 4d. The jury found that plaintiff was the apparent owner at the time Of execution, and his Lordship entered a verdict f°r plaintiff, saying he would give no judgment as that would be settled in chambers.

CORRESPONDENCE. Under this head questions on legal subjects .7 answered by an experienced professional qentlem0*' Correspondents 11,I,;u9 for information or advice, are rei/vesied to observe the fo/loirina rules :— 1. The facts must he stated fully and clearly; an the questions, if more than one, should be nut*' bered consecutively. A fvll copy must be sent of any document 011 which advice is wished for. >. The real name and address of the writer must accompany the questions, but will not be pub' lished if a pseudonym" or initials be also stf* for reference. All communications must be addressed to Editor, Legal Department, Weekly Mail OffiCI, Cardiff."

WARD IN CHANCERY.—IF '-Exodus" will send us hi9 name and address, which will not be published, and explain what, he means, we shall be happy to him but his question is quite unintelligible: RECEIPTS.—We assume that An Old Subscriber na t got. actual possession of the goods, and had his ow name put up over the dooi and witidowsof the premiee where they are. If so, the receipt is sufficient, Du f not otherwise. COUNTY COURT ACTION.—If the damage was done witni the jurisdiction of any comity court W. G-" bring his action in that court. He should exp'* all the circumstances to the registrar and aPP.^ for leave to have a summons issued. Or he could s where the person lives, if that would not be trouble than profit. LANDLORD AND LODGER.—"J. R." (Penarth) can O train upon the goods of his late lodger for the aniou due for rent only. It would be safer to employ an perienced bailiff in order that no essential formal"' may be omitted, than to levy the distress himself. W. T. OLIVE.—Prom the bow.. ,n» A. A. M'LUCAS (Pontypridd).—If you write us'pomu out the particular inis-statements of fact which J complain of in our correspondent Morien's' art* we will publish your letter. We have neither spj1"^ nor inclination for the insertion of a series of and, if you will pardon us for saying so, not coherent charges, such as those contained in your v-- sent communication. rfljt CLAIM AGAINST RAILWAY COMPANY.—So far a9„w,p0D' make out from the illegible scrawl of Siins v* io tardulais), he appears to have altogether prove that his bag was stolen by a servant of the way company. Therefore, his claim to be compens e depends upon whether the bag was under his ownapJ'» or was taken charge of by a servant of the eomP as to which lie has not informed us. INSURANCE.—" V." (Newport) is advised to try to promise this matter. He ought to pay the dine between the ordinary premium and the charged for the lirst house. As to the other, n pears to be legally liable to pay the whole, ^rittf Rule 2 in Weekly Mail. It b impossible to advis?. confidence on the effect of documents of wo1 have not copies before us. rtotØ BOARD SCHOOL.—"Nemo OTerthyr), being w, payer, has power to attend t he audit and object t>< items in the accounts; and, doubtltss, he w erti* allowed permission to visit the schools whe» „ rat? might wish to do so. But it is evident that, pavers generally were to go into the .holar^!( hours very little would be learned by the e Visiting by ratepayers must be subordinate to n fl working of the schools; and must be looked privilege, not as a right. The members of 0f tbf board are the official visitors as representativ gew ratepayers. Our correspondent ought to v ■> upon the board at the next election. mauire °A PARISH MAP.—" W. G." (Fishguard) should^o. the rector and the churchwardens, and tbe.for0i the poor of his parish. There was no um TitPJ of parish maps before those referred to m ggl" Commutation awards but much older map pai'tahet are to bv found in the parish ch(Otal-