Suez is occupied by English Marines from India, and a
wing of the Seaforth Highlanders left Aden on Thursday for Suez ; so the Indian contingent is fairly on its way, and General Macpherson, who is to command it, has already reached Bombay. The G muds have sailed, with the Duke of Counaught ; and General Wolseley, who had, we regret to say, an attack of Cyprus fever on him, took his departure from London on Wednesday. It is by no means too soon. Arabi has, if we may trust the T i»tee' correspondent, issued a very impudent proclamation, stating that when the proper time comes he will march into Alexandria, and " join our brother Moslems from Stamboul in. chastising," not only the English Infidels, but." all who, by serving them, have proved traitors to their country ;" and he has also made the Notables at Cairo, who are, of course, abso- lutely at his mercy, issue another proclamation (much less violent), to the effect that "Arabi must be upheld, as Minister of War and Marine entrusted with the general command of' the Egyptian Army, and in possession of full authority in all that concerns military operations." The Turks threaten us with sending off a transport of troops for Egypt on Saturday, and. this though Said Pasha, the Prime Minister, still maintains that when the Ottoman flag is raised on Egyptian territory, the- conduct of Arabi" would determine the measures to be taken ;" which clearly means that the Sultan would not proclaim him a rebel at all, if his Generals found Arabi pliant to their purposes on their arrival, tinder such conditions as these, the Turkish transports should be peremptorily forbidden to land their
contingent in Egypt.
