, 1879-08-07

came to hand, AMI stt T1nst1c, With candor that
does him honor, plainly stated that 1t was Mr.
Archibald Forbes who had brought shc account
wh'cl, lc 1IlelI Com.nIAsioncr DISPATCHED to his
Government. Al The LnilV Attes, with iust!d-
ntto pride, remarks: "Not for the first tt1nc,
thc courage nni cucrgy Of our correspondent In
Zu1ulauti, aEr. Archibald Forbes, l,aso relieved
thu al,xtct1 Of governments ai,l nations" Sit.
Forbes lntcat exploit ID an honor, not ouly'to
the grcat Liberal journal With which hc ia
cuntcstc.i. tut to journalism, ~ , Renefa''1,l -,
When lit. Forbes brought ltiings of tllc decisive
rcpt'se of tflc Turkish attack ou Sh!pkn lass,
and, outetr!pplng SIX ALdea c-Canp Of tl,u
Emperor, he surpassed ii! previous perform
MILES,. dotibt whether he has no' now sl,r..
passcd hfnself. fic wtpussca Thu lattfn OF
julr near t1nn1i. a. soon as It was endcd--
their forces bsca'sInE III PIECES over The coun..
try-tB set out to carry the news. The ncarcst
telegraph stallion was eighty miles away, mud
could oniv bo reachcd by lomcls ride through
4 country swarninE witt, hostile sayages, whero
might hide an ambush. With bis l'*oatcn In
his eau ahsl lfs ltlu III Ills hand. ho ruu thots
c!shty miles. ile ars!yc'i at Landmarks
nritt nn thence ,tclerraplscd ti'e 'sclc
narrative Of lhc bnttla trst to Sir Garnet
Woselcy. lien 10 Sir Darllc Frerc. The sul!
hpendor OF this achievement hardly comes out
as It deserves III tic published accounts. Forbes
covered his eighty miles uvcs ditlleul. country
ltl afteGn hUtirs. 1t WAS un tile 9Th Of July Mt
night tint hs lsnotclles reached tie twn 1IIgl
Commissioners. Three DAYS later, OIL thu Sill,
they wcro stftt sc only source Of Information At
Cape lawn. Writing. home on that day sr
tartle Ffsrs Eays: ~ hay9 % resolved from sf
tclr1rasn. which l,ad reached mo previously
Tile. lessurcly communications from Lord
Chc1nleford llHl from The. correspondcnta Of
other Journals appear 10 hase reached Cane
Tuwn iltst III time to bo, forwarded bY tic
steamcr. Gen. Clil1ord's telegram. It is truu, u
dnttd July G; u1ul cnbodcs Lord Clellnsfor1s
official report, but there u nothing to show Lint
Slr l}artlo Frcre knew Of It on the morning Of
TIL ammo tins during TINT day. II TINT steamer
Ind sailed few hours earlier, Mr. Furbas' tee-
grain, of which Str Bartto Ffcre Ind tIen been
Three days iu possession, would apparently lsaYo
Sise Tea IL e ao z e1sfu1 uaa s gou sY ss ssS S
known it this country. Il was. IN fact. tf1c nc
count which wns read out By Sir Michael Hicks
Leach to ltiB House Of Commons, Yesterday af-
tcr1oon, some llnura before anything c!su carho
to ha.d by the sasnc steamer. which to'iehed at
st. Vincent, whence the tclegfauls caslAc on.
Tic Tines anil Standard OF iAis n,ornlng pub
lfsh their own accounts. Tile Daily 1tG7rah
has nothing 0ut the ut1fc|al dispatches relating
to thu battle: 1t would be too inuel' to ,cxncct
uf journalistic luma, nature tlut<Atr. Forbes'
rivals sl,oild rsfo1cc In hts ltnpara triumph.
but the ctlttur who rurbics Str Dartt6 Frcre's
dispatch III urder to supnrcsa Ills ucknoWfedg-
nlunt to Mr., Forbes must surely, on duu rattoo-
tlon, 10 ashamed Of his jealousy.
SWITZERLAND.
GENEVA, July 30.-Un Monday and Tucsdaf
last the waters Of Lake Lamau rose twouty
Inches in twnnty.iour hours. Only three times
s.uce 1702, The last oceastou bcsnx In the sum-
ner OF 1870 has the lake reached so high lcyel
aMl, aa the Alpine sno.a contnun to melt unit!
tho middle OF August 1t Is probable that tic
present ycay Will mark tho maximum Of the cen
tur5. Owing TO continual talls OF fresh. sunY
Mml the frequuut ruins. ALPINE .Asccnts arc at
tended this reur with considerable difficulty and
tnorc tt,an lss,ul da.iecr. Soverut attannts havt
BEEN mada to climb Mont T}lanc hut 10 one, hot
even gllldc, has ~ sct succeeded In. going
further tllan tho Gra1Hls Mulots. -:
An eptdetaIc Of q TYPHOID form, directly traced
to th: sufferers having eaten Of tla lush uf q
diseased COW, has broken cut tn Nuremberg,
Canton Bcrne. Thero arr somo thirty or forty
cases. Of which several haYo aircady resulted
fatally. I;