The New York herald., 1868-04-13

fantry, Third Scinde regular horse and the Third
The main body Of the army, composed of the
Twenty.ffth regiment native infantry, the Tenth ma
tive infantry, the Twenty-sixth Cameronians, the
Dragon Guards, troop Royal Horse artillery, b
battery Mountain Train artillery, G battery Four
teenth brigade Royal artillery and the Gullewar bat
terry Native Mountain Train artillery. Other forces
will follow In few days leaving only small detach
ments to guard the commissiariat stations on the
route.
Senate is sixty-three and half miles from Zoula
and one hundred and forty miles from Anatolo. The
latter place Is half way between Zoula and Magdaa.
Abyssnan expedition, Is now ut Ati-gerath thirty
five miles from Senate. lie proposes moving at an
early date. lie has issued the following
PROCLAMATION
to the governors the Chiefs the religious orders and
the people OF Abyssnia, which has been despatched
to them by native runners-
captivity British Consul Csmeron the british En-
al IN Of s a
obtained thsi, release has commanded me TO
ss.ls. u their liberation shall be Wen bu.
@ 5s Pc a1%s
essI II mind people Sr ASyssnis that the
wards yon, and mo design against, your country
Ss cas All
en s Is lie
her Msssys az t. and others pnSasy as
permanently
the nr territory or to interfere with the
THE NATIVE POSITION.
Turning our attention to the political aspect Of
AFFAIRS lind involved delicate and intricate ques-
tions likely to engender serious trouble When the
above proclamation (which s nice diplomatic docu-
ment, well and carefully worded, which doubtless
cost Infinite trouble in its manufacture reaches Mag
dala, and especially II the native spies announce at
the same time that the advance brigade Is
within 200 miles Of the fortress, the Ras who has
charge OF twill probably be only too glad to give up
his charge, well knowing that the end OF hs terrible
master has come the witch's prediction portends.
There Is report, which lacks confirmation by any
official authority, that Nagshum Gobazye had taken
Magdaa But 1t is only by treachery within the for
tress that it is likely to fall into the hands Of any
Abyssnian insurgent, and as Thcodorus h now rap
idly advancing on Magdala with 10000 men, having
left Debra Tabor some two weeks since with all his
guns, Of which hear he has twenty three 1t Is not
probable that either of those probabilities 50 favora
driven to bay will fight, there is not the least doubt
because the English general means aght which Is
And yet the Negashi's cause is not so utterly
desperate as the English would like TO believe, for
this reasOn:-ln 1920 Mohammed ALI Then {lceroy Of
Egypt, sent his two sons Ismai and 1biahim Pacha,
to conauer Nubia for his ambition was to possess ali
the banks and islands Of the Nile, and TO be abs0ute
master OF all who drink its waters from Its sources to
cOmprehended Abyssnia, but he was obliged to re-
linqush his designs on the latter country In cOnse
quence OF formal assurance that an attack on o
Christian State SO situated would probably involve
him with the British government. For that reason
solely he limited his conquest to DOng0la Dar-Shey-
geya, Berber, Shendy, KOrdofan Darfur and Senaar.
Mohammed's darling son lshmail, for his brutality,
burned TO death with oil hs guard by the people
OF Shendy. Since then his successors, lbrahm, Said
and the present reigning viceroy. OF Egypt,
u aoe aa 9as over ASSss1a 0p
icai observers Of the worlds political affairs regard
Lord Stanlcy's ready acceptance OF lslna Pacha's
offer Of friendly assistance IL really Is i lncompre
man aid of any Kind afforded chance that should
not be thrown away to all who know the iinpacab'
hostility that has ever existed between the Abys
snians and all Mohammedans especially the Egyp
tians, and OF which Theodorus, Christian king, ha,
been the special embodiment, and also the ambition
which dictated this OFFER OF the subtle Paeha, This
knowledge of<the presence of Mussulman or Egyp
tian troops In Abyssinia will arm ali tie previously
wonder TO hear that King The0dorus had an army Oi
100000 desperate men, urged on by Christian anati-
cisIn. and a hope to exterminate the army OF the
avOwed enemies 10 their religion.
The proclamation issued by the Commander-in-
Chief was based upon Instructions received from the
Secretary Of State, and II distinctly arms that the
expedition has other motive but that Of obtain
ing tile release OF the English capiives. Could any
thing throw more dscredit In the eyes of the Abys-
slnians, on the word OF the British general than the
presence OF the hosts Of Egyptians lowering round
the Abyssinian frontier like so many vulures eager
for prey2 IL Is 10 say the least Of II, most annoy
ing and embarrassing circumstance. should think
IL would be unspeakably humiliating TO the British
ministers TO find themselves made caspaws by the
willy Egyptian Pacha, with his French allies looking
on and laughing in their sleeves at the readiness
with which the naughty and would-be astute politi.
clan, Lord Stanley, fell into the cunningy contrived
snare
THE EGYPTIAN CONTINGENT.
Ismai Pacha has five thousand troops at KhartOom
On the Nile, five thousand moving up to Senaar and
ten thousand at Mass0wah and ArkeekO, two ports
within twenty miles Of Zooa, on the Red Sea, besides
a strong Egyptian fleet in the harb0r Of Massowah
Abd-el- -kadcr, the Egyptian admiral entertained the
English commanders on board his flagship, Ibraliim
Meah, lately. The principal host Of the entertainment
was not only Admiral but The Governor General oi all
sau fxsrtr
interest attaching to IL as being one Of the only three
ships that escaped the fatal disaster which befe hel
sister ships at the terrible catastrophe OF Nayaimo
Tie Admiral expressed tic ardent hope OF his gov
ernment that this friendly alliance for the release O
the English captves might forever cement the two
nations In peaceful bonds, &c.: 10 which the English
commander replied, as courteously az possible
that their aid was not required at present.
Besides the above named Egyptian troops the English
have employed ten thousand Egyptian mueteers
Who desert by the hundreds TO Massowab, 40 that
the Egyptians in the country are really double the
number OF the English. Again should the English
prove successful IN this campaign, release the prison
ers depose Tbeodorus and leave with clean hands and
honest hearts, as when they entered II, they have
paved the way, built splendid roads and opened tho
almost impenetrable passes of Abyssinia 70 the mur
derous Egyptian troops, 10 spread their Mahom
edan cnets and root out Christianity from the land
which has twice defeated them--once when Ma
hone shortly after the Hegra, essaycd 1t, and the
last time IN 1920.
The Egyptians have already commenced their fell
work by poisoning the minds OF the natives, incnq
the ShohOs to theft and ttwarting what was being
done by the English in many ways. They have also
claimed all the Red Sea border down TO ten miles
south OF Loula; SO according TO them the present
camp Of the English Is on Abyssinian ground. The
French have also put In CAIN for the possession Of
the Isle OF Dlssi, which, like Massowall, commands
the entrance 10 Anncsley Ray.
SO that this expedition 10 a barbarous country Is
likely TO draw the English into far different nelds
from what they anticipated and TO cost them, If not
blood, much treasure and loss Of much dignity. The
English formerly undertook vast wars for the acqul.
sltion OF territories. They undertake them sOlel
fUrpresgc. This word has been very often used lately
by theIn and u has been proved at Bhootan, CaboO
and the Puniaub 10 have been as unfortunate as
more territory.
ngFfY FROM PRINCE KAssNL
Several responses have been received by Colonel
Merewether to the proc amaton issued by General
Napier One OF these, sent by Kussai, the recently
successful insurgent chief OF Tigrc have trans
crihed, OF which the following " q COPY
Letter from Prince kussai, Abba Busbus, ruler Of
Tlgrc-
In the OF the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost
God. Letter sent by Da kusss head o the chiefs
Of Ethiopia 70 reach the chief Of the English soldiers How
are you Very well.
BY the Chr.rs have received the throne Of my an
cosor OF hkae Of wada Salassc of sabagadis on old
we are house fren d from Consul Salt I'LL down to Powden