The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-10 00:00:00

• PEINMS IN ♦ TOWEL

The palace at Attegrath, no longer inhabited, oontaine
one spacious and well-proportioned apartment, which still
retains gigue of haring once been roughly droorated, and
there I. no doubt that at one time this was the raidenoe
of some Tigre' prince. Tradition says that two royal
brothers quarrelled, and the younger seceded to a sort of
lions Saar on which be built the stone edifice above men.
tioned, &radio which he successfully resisted the attacks of his
outwitted and enraged relative. However that may be, it
is now occupied by a native lady, whoa husband is held in
dasabee vile by Kist Theodor*. She is surrounded by
female attendants only, and lives a life of strict seclusion,
refusing to motive any visitors on any pretext. Several
men I know have made endeavours to penetrate only into
the sacred precincts of the court-yard, but have invariably
been rebuffed, and the female Cabal are without exception
impervious to bribery. This unfortunate "grant widow"
mistimed a madly dull life. Ido not know what the domestic
occupations of the Sheba fair sex are likely to be, but her
tie recreation, so far a I sea judge, waists in sitting
cep in one of the dovecotes and taking a bird's-eye view of
oar camp sad the surrounding country. Who knows what
botereee fOrtoatet may be in dare for General Napier if he
seams this way, bringing task her injured sprees rr
limed ? The lady is not handsome, esetaisly not fair,
knd what is vulgarly termed on the shady side of 40 ; but
possibly bar virtues may excel ha charms.

A feW JAM elephants have been shot, and one officer in
the Aaloostmes, Lieutenant Edwards, had, not keg ago,
marvellously narrow escape with his life from an ele-
pbaat near the &aro* Pass. The brute actually got hold
of him, aad was only prevented from trampling or goring
him to death by the steepuese of the ground. A shot from
Major Seville turned it just In time to save the life of
Lieutenant Edwards, but he is said to have been so seri-
ously injured as to haw to give up all thoughts of remain.
lag with the expedition, and return bane.

The Auer thinks it unlikely that the army will
leave Antalo till towards the end of March, and
will take at least a month in passing through the
200 miles of mountainous region which lies
between Antola and Magda's. Supposing the
main body of the expedition arrives at Magdala
about the Ist May, the Tiesu gives a week for the
capture of the city and the release of the prinonors
and seven weeks for thereto.= journey of 4001aBeeno
Swat But it might be that the Pass would be
Slopped by the heavy rains, and in that case it would
bessoessary to wait on the high land till they were
mar. If so, the first re-embarkation would hardly
be Wooled before September. The Ceeneeader-
isrebief meanwhile is strenuously efthenendeg to
liimacumber the force as much as poeible. All
followers not strictly necessary, and all Ingo"
that can be done without, have )-

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