The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-02-19 00:00:00

THE SOUDAN.

The troopship Himalaya left Halifax a few days ago
with O. lst Battalion of U. Yorkshire Ritaiment,
sumbering over 909 mut, for Naha B. will cell
Merenuda t 'take O. ,3 isirl the 15:h C itapany of asp R,yal
&WINDOM al. for Malts A. order was sent oat Wale
tune ago for the Sad listtali. of 1.. Royal Kunst.
Paul.. to leav• Malt an Her Platesty • traurport
Crocodile for lois& Tole order may now be eaucall.
The fad Battabou of lb. fi.th I,.nceeblr. Rvitsmnt
lass received orders to hold itaell In reading.a to smirk
at Davenport fur Malta
Tots Uornmsader-ia-Omief of the Msditerransan fleet
boa int rented th• Admiralty tut he remains at Malta
with the toLlowiag ship) :—Th. Alexan4rs, the Tentersins,
the Superb, the Ids. tut Fakes, the Candor.
the Cockatrice, the Helicon, and the Woo nark. Hs beef
sent the Heals and the Monarolt to Suakin'. Tee
tztaaporl Madhya., with a large force of British troops on
returning frau lad* only. at Suss on gang..
111, stmaid that she atte will nut be 0.11.4 upon to render
amistaute t Admiral Hewitt
A body of Zooette• blacks showed • motiootts spirit on
Saturday morning sad radial that, muskets In a thrisatenii
tog mannsr. but were °owei by th• Sudan* who
formed guars around theta. Your bond,ed war* I. be
seat array at ow*, and the whole will probably follow
In • shut tima Oa Sunday a proclamation waa read
threarthout %So tows Einounoinx that Aizsirsi H-well
wit, Is. Cosiest of Baum., and E th• reatimit of Vie
Kariba., had assumed LI. taproot* es3tr.S. oaf tint
Rcutliand had andertakan dof,l the pleas. Baku
Pacoa is to lea,. au the align* of the weak. It wag
y.,patirtiou Sunday 1041. rab 'ls +era *atilt six mil.
at flousinea, and a body of cavalry was watt.. reCoan
Oa &today it warn autotimer. in Cairo Orneral Gar lon
had arrived at Haber. The announcement war, ho waver,
p ...Cara A Idea.= was reeriived from Gen..
.rdirti dated Darbor, bull appear, to here been tent in
aityasso• cry llas. crumb. Ha reached Abet Hatual on the
_

The news from Elotutkiat has c tumid thi Pete sr ..t
alarm. The CJIII2C3 Met ou Friday, ant immediately
decided to adopt memoirs@ which had been under consider-
&two foe some dale A steamer es@ chartered to it at
with troops and ammunition for litedias This nmatore
Walla tooted in conmquencs of cif or imition Vat emiswiee
of the hfandi hays already enured cntaidertble agitation
&mongol the Arab,.
On Saturday the traneport Pooaah left Portsmouth
with a detachment of Marines and Marine Artillery t,
reinforce theßritiah llediterraiman Squadron.

The correspondent of the Ties/ tslegraphe from Cairo
Ills difficult adequately to describe the humiliation of
the English in Egypt. Whstever be the opini in In
London, here it has long been impossible to disguise tie
fact OM the country is as much tinier Englith govern.
meta as Ireland. Within four days of a British army.
7.000 strong. within *few hours of a port where a British
A intiral is tardily &Bowel to take the supreme comment.
°F° 0 srnsilo starving gurlaal, who, having given riga. of
unusual heroism, are allowed to trait with barb lid oni for
their hare lives, this request booing refused. add the whole
' of them probably massacred. A few mile. further down to.
0.14 on behalf of • similar garrison, we allow Enalith-
men to escrifice their lives in vein effort. will an
inadequtte forgo of the eame soldiera wig bare shown
their losbility t stand, even behind earthwork... Je red
at a... axe by for dgnert, believed by the wives to be
deliberately working for their andihilat on con we he
surprised that P.llO an Engitah -Metal of the highest rank
should sta., ' I am arliatned to owu myself an English-
man :' and that anotlorr ottlrial in the Edglioh serv,ce
should say, 'Thank (I si, lam n an Eiglishm n ' oir
pdpularity and preetie• are alike disop aid. Etch day s
delta, in ti. declarnt•nn Of a pr it. ctorete incites Is the
Issritage of hstred storing up. which will soon render •
proteetot at] no longer sufficient, bu, notteseitste ado 'as-
tato, with an iron rule. This opini in is not coo3oed to
one potitical partc, but is expressed, with() it, diserntiont
vol, by every rotodent sot visitor to Egypt—tor 'peen,
native, R•dicsl, Liberal, or Conservative."
Th e Standard's correspondent at 8 Iskim telegraphed on
Saturday :—" Au Ofileila tele/rotes from England declaree
Stskins in • state of ties. England will be neeforth be
rasp Passible for It. safety. There is no menti in mode in
telogr an of the onfortunate nary sons of Elinkat add
Tokar, which preittatab'y Edgland ahandons to their
fate. TM. I. deploralste Wised, especially after their long
and walnut rosistance. The moat acute huntili.d.on and
sheen will he felt by.. 'my Eng:Winona here if thetmbreve
fellows, with ths women ant children they hove so well
defended are ma tutted within a few miles of Englith
ships, and with Zombsb troope avalithlro sr/ o could have
sawed them week' ato without &faculty. Enelith
responsibility is now canplettly engaged, and any disaster
which may happen in the future will tag spin them, not
ttion the Styr ism Government."