Foreign Affairs
Continued success attended the British army in Egypt on the 14th. Cairo w?.a f nterfd that day where Arabi l'aaha had iriived the pre-'eding night. fle was virtually a prisoner. All personi of rank involved in ;he rebellion mude immediate Bubmiasion. rhe sultan ot Turkey telegraphed his conjratulatloas to Wolseley and BugKoated that !ie stop bis raarch into tba interior, the back ■t the rebellion being broken aheady ffolseley referred tbp sultan to the authorities il London. Tiie work of recoustrnctioü of the country will b thu next thiog in orim THE END OF WAB. Gen. Wolseley teiegrapbs to Eugland }flic!al!j' that "the war is over." Arabi Paeha bas fiurrendered unconditionaüy. THE TROUBLB IN MADAGASCAB. A cable some weeks ago made brief manuon of trouble on the I&land of Madaifas3ar, whicb, it was saiJ, involved the safety ot imerican resident. The bark Taria Topan trom the ielaud, 3 the first vtssel to raach thie sountry-with tidings of tbe true state of affaire. Shereached Boston theother day and tho pasïengere report a serles of insurrections among the tiibes ou the coaot agaicet the p.uïhority of theQueen. Tho trouble grew out of theQueen's pr.)liibition of tbe export of ebony, rosewood and other valuadle products to tbia acd olher comttries. The local (ribos persisted in the piactiüe, teuipted by liberal offers of American captains. A Bniall army was sont frora the capi al ia the iaterior to the coast, in Jane, and here were several unimportaat engagement?, in wMck a few were killad. Faver attacked the QAeti's troops and huadreds of them died. Tèï.nrttivo soldiere fraai the moantalnous interifl Were unable to endure the climate of the taipnnds. The safety of American residente wrts not involved at the time of the Taria Topafe's sailing. WflAT JS TO BE DONE WX1H ABABI. Since the poor Arabs have met the Uta laat w iaevitabls at toe tima Admiral Seymour bombarded their fortsat Alexandrla, it bas bccome a questior, what Bhould b doue withArabi, the leader of the rebellion. One report says he wlll be taken to England. This wou'.d be baii, indeed; t'ut, thenCetewayo stood it, and perhaps the crafty Arabi conld wiggle through a few inonths sojourn in the land of hia captors. Tho Loudon Times speaking on the questioD, says: "If the lives of Arabi Fasha and his imuiediate followers are sparcd these men must be put once for all out ofdoing further harm. They cannot be permitted to retire to. Coastantinople to becomethe canter of palpablo intrigues. To restoro tbo authority of the Khedive, the army must b disban4ed and replaced bj gendarmes sufficient to inaintaia civil order. If troops are needed to dofend distant frontiers it is Bufflcient to maintain them on ths frontier and not keep tüem at Cairo." STILL HOLDING OUT. When the wholesale capture and surreader of Arabi'6 fovces took place, there was onsrebtl who poBitivály refused to give up. This was AbdallahiPasha, who had charge of 5,000 troops in Dainiotta, and also held the fort of Dibha and Ghemilah. Oa the 19th instant he was still immovable, and the Brit'sh were preparing! lo coinpel his surrender. In all othcr parts of Egypt, bowever, the British were In power, and trains were running regularly between Alexandria and Cairo. Later reporta state that as 5,000 or 6,000 troops were proceeding to Kafc-el-Dwar to surrender, an entire regiment moved off eastward to Damietta to join Abdallah Pasha, The regiment coqsisted of 500 mon, and was that of Arabi Pasiia. IS THE SULTAN 1W0-FACBP. A dispatch from Alexandria says: It is kaown that ths Saltan has quite recently been in eommunicatioa with Arabi Pasha t"hroa(?h Damietta, and thsre can be no dDubt that the resistanee of the commander at that phee criglnated from Blambonl.
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