A score or two have been caught red handed and shot down, and a number of others have been flogged.
"Another batch of sailors will land this morning, and order will soon be restored; unless Arabi, who is encamped, with some ten thousand men, two miles outside the town, makes an effort to recover the place.

I don't think he is likely to do so, for now that the European houses have all been destroyed, there would be no longer any reluctance to bombard the town itself; and even if Arabi did recover it, he would very soon be shelled out.
"By the way, a larger number of people have been saved than was imagined.

Several of the streets in the poor European quarters have escaped.

The people barricaded the ends, and fought so desperately that their assailants drew off, finding it easier to plunder the better quarters.

Even if the mob had overcome the resistance of the defenders of the lanes, they would have found little worth taking there; so some five hundred Europeans have escaped, and these will be very useful.
"Charley Beresford has charge of the police arrangements on shore, and he has gangs of them at work fighting the fire, and all the natives are forced to assist.