MUTINY OF TURKISH TROOrS. IQI rule of the department for mule carnage. Large stores of hay, mostly pressed, were at the dockyard.

Another significant provision was the adaptation of two of Messrs. Cook & Sons' steamers on the Nile to the purpose of armed cruisers under the command of Captain Bedford, each steamer with a crew of fifteen to twenty men, and furnished with a Gardner gun raised on a platform at a considerable height above the water line. During his progress up the river Captain Bedford stopped at several places between Cairo and Assouan and was received with a great show of cordiality by the natives. Three other steamers were afterwards equipped and also placed under his command, to cruise between the cataracts; and this demonstration of vigilance probably had a good effect in more than one direction, for there were rumours of disaffection and of the existence of secret societies in Cairo itself; and this was said to explain a demonstration made on the morning of the 5th of June by the whole of the British force in the city; the troops rapidly occupying the principal thoroughfares, bazaars, and bridges, all the sentries being doubled, and parties being told off to examine the vaults of the citadel, in consequence (it was said) of a report that an attempt was to be made to blow up the place.

Among other dangers which threatened was that of the mutiny of a Turkish battalion which had been stationed at Cairo and was ordered to go to Assouan. Fortunately it was under the command of English officers, and in endeavouring to intimidate; their colonel — Colonel Grant — they found that they had not counted the cost of threatening, as they might successfully have threatened an Egyptian commander. They were turbulent and unruly ruffians while in barracks, and when ordered to leave refused to allow the black troops to take over the quarters which they were about to vacate, until they received an advance of three months' pay at 4 a month, their engagement being only for 30.?. This was refused by the government, but finally the officers promised one month's pay on their arrival at Assiout. Out of 200 paraded at Cairo only So arrived at Assiout. On the way they had fired ball-cartridges out of the train, and two of them jumped out and