Immediately after the last order was given to evacuate Egypt,
the Mandi's army began to descend the Nile. The evacuation, therefore, stopped. It is now again proposed to evacuate every- thing but Alexandria, and the European force is being reduced to three thousand men, whereupon the dervishes have reappeared in force upon the Nile, near Wady Halfa. The troops sent against them are Egyptian, blacks chiefly ; and if they are beaten, we shall again have to fight for Egypt against the Soudanese. In a moat remarkable letter from Cairo, published in the Daily Chronicle of Thursday, it is stated that the Sondanese are in communication with the Princes in the interior of Arabia, and that all the tribes in the peninsula and else- where have decided to abolish the Ottoman Khalif, and replace him by an Arab. The leaders are anxiously stirring the Soudanese, and calling for recruits from the depths of the North African deserts. If that statement is true, Europe may witness a struggle in which not only Egypt, but all Western Asia will be submerged.
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