16 SEPTEMBER 1882, Page 2

No tragedy would be complete without its comic element, and

this has been supplied at Alexandria. The correspondent of the nines states that up to the 14th inst. the Khedive had been left nearly alone in his Palace at Ras-el-Tin. The natives—a few officials excepted—never appeared there, and Tewfik was loft like a prisoner, entirely to the Europeans. On the 14th, how- ever, the news from Tel-el-Kebir had arrived, and "in all the rooms and corridors of the Palace were natives bursting with loyalty," embracing the Europeans, and thanking God for the defeat of the traitor Arabi. Every one is prepared to obey the Khedive, and to worship the Europeans. It is sickening, but, in considering all this baseness, we are bound to remember that Arabs regard a victory as the decision of Heaven.