The general situation, from all the best accounts, may be
taken to be this,—Admiral Seymour is in possession of burning Alexandria ; and the Khedive is nominally reigning, a most important point. Arabi Pasha, with about 10,000 soldiers, as we should judge—but the Khedive says only 4,000—is posted about seventeen miles out of town, and talks of fighting a great battle. By Monday, at latest, the Admiral will have the control of 3,500 soldiers, who will have arrived from Malta, with a General to command them ; but the latter will still have to await supplies and field artillery, unless the Khedive's proclamation disbanding his army—expected. to issue on Friday evening—should terminate resistance. At Constantinople, the Conference, though approving the hem- bardthent, awaits the decision of the Sultan on the ques- tion whether be will land a corps d'arin6e in Egypt. The Sultan hesitates, consults the Great Divan, and will probably refuse, seeing no gain to himself in doing Eng- land's work. The Powers express as yet no sentiments officially, but a deep jealousy of Great Britain begins to manifest itself in Paris and Rome, and is opposed to the feeling in Berlin and Vienna, where the Courts express respect and surprise at England's energy.
