Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-06-11
THE WAR IN EGYPT.
Wholesale Massacre by the Rebels Re
ported From Berher.


ported From Berber.
CAIRO, June 10.-Reports have reached
here to the effect that the rebels. nine days
ago, massacred Hussein Pasha, Khelifa,
commander at Berber, and all his family
and the garrison, which had remained
faithful 10 the Khediye, and the European
traders who remained ct Berber.
CHANGE IMMINENT.
LONDON. June 10.-Persons well in
formed of what is going on in Parliament
airy circles predict a change of government
within three weeks il the statement of the
Pal HGH Gazette shall prove to be true
The government has no chance If 1t at
tempts to carry out such an agreement
with France. 1t will then resign and the
Conservatives will continue the govern
ment until August, when the general cleo
tiOns Will occur. Parnell is In cOnsulta-
tion with his friends preparing for imme-
d1ate elections in Ireland in case of a dis
solution of Parliament.
THE ''PALL MALL GAZETTE's'' CHARGES.
The PGll Mall Gazette reiterates its be-
lief that the account which it published
yesterday of the leading provisions of
the agreement upon which the Egyptian
conference will be based, recently made
by Earl Granville and NJ. Waddington,
was substantially accurate. It saws:
''When further cOncealment would have
been fatal to the existence of the Minis
try we felt compelled to publish this
scheme, at which the whole nation now
stands aghast. The lame and labOred de-
nial of the Ddilg NetcS amounts
to virtual admission of the
truth Of our revelation, however
inaccurate it may be in point of detail.
and every member OF the Cabinet knows
that at least in regard to the proposed
English loan of 9S,O00,000 to the Khedive
we were absolutely correct. All the Jug
glery and self-deception of the govern
menps protests will not affect the simple
fact that England is to be in permanent
minority on the board of audit. Our
French colleagues make no secret of their
determination to convert the board of
audit into an effectual control. The Min-
listers know that this is sure. The only
way for the government to prOlong its eX-
istence is to sacrifice this agreement.
General GOrdOn's sister has refused to
accept many offers of money she has
received for the relief of her brother. She
says that General Gordon is a British
officer and that 1t devolYes upon the gov
ernment to rescue him.
GLADSTONE ON THE TURKISH NEGOTIA.
TIONS.
In the House of Commons to-day,
Premier Gladstone said that the rumors
that Turkey had been asked to pacify
Soudan were unfounded, but that negotia-
tlons with Turkey were in progress look
ing to Turkeys occupation of certain Red
Sea ports.
Lord Edmund FitZmaurice, under For
eign Secretary, said that the most recent
advices from Admiral Hewitt indicated
that he had had very satisfactory inter-
view with King John, of Abyssinia, on
May p. Admiral Hewitt hoped to start
upon his homeward journey on June 1.
Earl Granville and NJ. Waddington have
prepared a joint memorandum to the
powers, stating the basis of the Egyptian
conference, which will meet the first week
in July.
The Pau -Hall Gdzette'S Anglo-French
agreement on the basis of the Egyptian
conference has been traced and found to
be an invention of the London correspon-
dent of an Austrian newspaper.
Ell Mahdi has retreated from KordOfan
to the almost inaccessible stronghold of
Tebal Godin. His power has been greatly
diminished by che enmity of the Chief of
the kabbabist tribe, whose brother he
killed. In a memorandum sent to the
British Government, Zebehr Pasha en-
gagged to obtain the submission of Ell
Mahdi within five weeks, upon
the condition that he (Zebehr
Pasha) be created Viceroy of
Soudan without paying tribute to Egypt,
the Khedive to become the Suzerain of
SOudan. Zebehr Pasha also engages to
bring Gen. Gordon and his suite to Cairo,
stop the slave trade, hold Khartoum and
the rest of SOudan open to European
commerce, and allow free exercise of all
RELIGIONS