Of the march of the Indian troops from Suez there
is as yet no intelligence, though a few of the Highlanders have come down the Suez Canal as far as Ismailia. The telegraph line between Suez and Ismailia has been cut, no doubt purposely to veil General Macpherson's proceedings, and we hope to have news before our next issue showing that his reputation for swiftness and audacity does not belie him. Sir Garnet Wolseley himself is evidently contemplating an advance from Ismailia by way of Ramses on Tel-el-Kebir, which is held by Arabi in great force,— with 15,000 troops, says rumour, and 60 guns, besides a large Bedouin force,—and thence, if he can occupy or otherwise mask that fort, to Zagazig, one of the most important junc- tions between Cairo and Alexandria. By the last news, be had already found Arabi in some force at Ramses. The Nile is rising rapidly, and this alone renders speed of the greatest importance. It sometimes reaches its greatest height as early as the 27th of August, but sometimes not till the middle of October. The inundations will be a serious difficulty to our troops, and will aid Arabi, both by the physical difficulties they cause us, and by the Sloknoss they are likely to produce, more than all his Bedouins.
