An alarm was raised on Wednesday by false accounts from
some of the newspaper correspondents as to a panic by which some of the soldiers of the 60th Rifles had been seized, when on Tuesday night some of Arabi's horsemen drove in the picket outside Ramleh. It has since transpired, however, that the picket behaved very well, that it retired firing in good .order to the watch-house, on which it had been directed to fall back, and reoccupied the point attacked on the Wednesday morning. The newspaper correspondents do a great deal of harm by spreading so much hasty news, whether it be true or false. Even when it is true, it is much more instructive to Arabi than it is to the English people. And when it happens to be false, it generally happens that it does not mislead Arabi, while it does mislead Englishmen, and makes them even more impatient than they naturally are for some change which is not wanted, and which would only do harm.
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