Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-01-10
A NORTH CAROLINIAN ABROAD
THE GREAT CITY'S ANNUAL CAT
TIE SHOW.
The War in Egypt---Additiona1 British
Troops to be Dispatched to
khartowu.
Especial Correspondence Of the Sentinsl.)

Especial Correspondence Of the Semtlasl.)
LONDON, Dec. 90, 1SS3.-We are
in the agonies Of cattle-show week,
that annual visitation which quist,
easy-going Londoners always look for
ward to with horror, and endure as
best they may, 1t is the one event of
the year which really makes a sensi-
BILE difference to our ordinary every
day life. London is SO vast and is, as
a rule, so insensible to external infu-
ence that it is very rarely affected by
any novelty. 1t absorbs and swallows
up every fresh invasion, whether Of
men or ideas, as the ocean opens and
closes upon stone cast into it. But
the cattle show, and all that brings
with it, London cannot ignore. 1t is
nothing that the railways bring so
many thousands of country visitors to
town-a few thousands more or less
don't make much difference to us
but the cattle-show visitors more than
any other class of strangers are Gin
evidence everywhere the streets,
sic halls, in the shops, at the shop win
dows, thrusting lis from our accustom
ed haunts and seats, causing the whole
town to be pervaded with their burly
presence, and upsetting everything all
round. Are there no places to be got
at our favorite playhouses? No, it
is cattle-show week. Why are the
omnibuses all ''fuli inside?" Cattle
show week. You send a servant for a
cab. None to be had. Cattle-show
week
You drive into town, the road is
blocked. The reason, cattle shcT
week. The Strand and Regent Street
are thronged with determinations of a
certain class, surpassing those seen
/ there at any other time. Why? Cat
tle-show week. As for the cattle show
itself, l fancy Londoners display less
interest in il nowadays than was their
/ won't There was a time when the
show was held in the Baker Street
| bazaar, when it WAS sort Of reprOach
not to have been to see the tatted OK
Ell and sheep, but the Agricultural
Hall at Isington is long way from
the centres OF fashion and respectable
ity it has to be approached by roads
cut up by tramway lines perilous to
the wheels of broughams and victorias,
and though royalty and the great aris-
tocracy and plutocracy connected with
the landed interest still patronize it
extensively the general public seom
to care much less about it than they
used to do The great bulk of the
visitors consist of the good folk from
the shrcs, and of these L fear it must
be said that while we are pleased to see
their broad ruddy, beaming faces, We
shall be still better pleased to see their
backs.
Notwithstanding the denial this
week by the War Office of the report
that additional British troops would be
sent to Egypt, preparations are max
ing in that department Of the govern
ment for the dispatch of forces to that
country. Every effort is making to
ascertain how many troops can be
spared from the regiments at home
and at what time they can be got rca-
dy to go forward. General Stephen
son and General Sir Evelyn Wood
have both sent warnings to tie gov
eminent that the Egyptian force at
the disposal Of the khedive are insult
ficient to either relieve Khartown or
to march on Berber. Lord Dufferin,
the British Ambassador at Constino-
pie, has been in communication with
the Porte touching the advisability of
scheme to recruit the Egyptian army
by the enlistment of Albanians and
Circassians. The Sultan is unwilling
to grant his formal sanction to the
plan, but urges instead the expediency
of sending Turkish contingent to
Egypt at the expense of the Egyptian
treasury, the money to be supplied
from loan advanced by England
In the event of the failure of the Sui.
tan to give his permission to the
scheme proposed by Lord Duferin, ii
will be impossible to comply with SiI
Woods demand that the army be
strengthened by the addition Of two
thousand Circassians.
A TARIIEEL ABROAD