The dervishes are clearly IIIY allies of the French. On
Tuesday, a-formidable body:of them, marching northwards, 'made a desperate attenipt fo seize --a, point upon the Nile it Ar'quin, juit abor.d Wady "Haifa. Tliejf were attacked by 'Colonel WodeliOnse With three black regiments, some cavalry, ':and S, mule 'flattery, the latter of which proved most effective. :The deirialies fought with their usual desperate courage, and it ■ivasnot till five hundred of their number had been killed -and '"Whyndect -that they made off, without, however, aban- doning tte northerly direction of their march. They are -still hoverinf on the . bank, dying of thirst. The blacks in Egyptian ierrice behaved excellently; but without the -British org's.nisition, the dervishes would have entered Egypt, and onIY have stopped at Alexandria. That would not imply merely the loss of Egypt to civilisation;but a fierce uprising of all the Arabs in Asia, deter-mirierfo'regain the lead of the Mussulman world, which, indeed, properly belongs to them. We 'onlywish it were possible to let them have it out with the Turks, and avengethe oppressions of tunes; but the revolution would be too far-reaching,.an t e:besides.
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