Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-08
JOHN BULLS TRIBULATIONS.
He is Worried and Badgered at Home
More Than Abroad.
INSIDE FACTS ABOUT THE soUDAN
How Gordon Was Lost---Due to the DAVID
ling of Military and Ign ORANGE
of Wilson.
AWFUL SUFFERING IN THE soUDAN.

LONDON, May THE situation here Is
one of party qusrrels merely, and the gen.
eral aspect of affairs in which all parties are
interested remains unchanged. The return
of General Lumsden, the Afghan Boundary
Commissioner, is now known to be the re-
suit of an accepted resignation rather than
a recall, as he found that he could no longer
work in harmony with the government on
the Penideh affair. The King of Denmark will
doubtless accept the position of arbitrator
Of that affair, but nothing more will be
known or done about it until the return OF
Condie Stephen, one Of the frontier experts
next week, with the information which
Lumsden forwarded by him in answer to the
request Of the government.
Rumors of black clouds on the peace
horizon reach me from a usually Well'ln'
formed quarter, but | have been unable to
obtain confirmation of the same. Orders
were issued here yesterdayto all the respon-
sible war officials in no way to relax their
efforts. More men Of the first class OF re-
serve have been ordered to embark tor In
dia.
The Truth About the soudan.
We are beginning now to learn the truth
about the Soudan as the correspondents
are returning beyond the reach OF the cen,
sorship of the press, exercised by Lord
Wolseley at the front. Charles Will
isms, the special correspondent, OF the
Daily Chronicle, who reach here q
few days ago and left again
Immediately for Afghanistan, has shown in
magazine article that the loss OF General
Gordon was entirely due to the inexcusable
dawdling of the military and the Ignorance
or Sir Charles Wilson, commanding the ad.
yapced forces, whs, he says, had no more
notion of what should be done than
bugler.
Wilfed Blunt's questions to the Govern
ment have not . been answered. He asks
did not the English troops cut the palm
trees and burn the water wheels to fill up
the wells and then offer reward for every
human hand brought to camp and htty
rounds for Olivier Pam alive or dead; and
did they not force the laborers under the
h to destroy the wells against the rules
of the Arabs warfare Nobody answers.
He asserts that the tribes were set IN
permanent feud. The whole country was
Corrupted by English Money,
and the land positively left in famine.
Officers now at the front are writing to the
newspaper correspondents begging them
tor Gods sake to tell the people at home
what they are suffering. Accounts Of in
credible horrors on the battle6elds are ap-
nearing. One officer writes: In few
weeks more we shall all be lunatics.
A spell seems to have fallen on the peo
ple here. If the Tories had done this the
whole Liberal party, with Mr.. Gladstone at
| the head. would be overwhelmed.
Lord CoIeridge's Libel.
| learn that the case Of Adams against
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has failed to be
arranged, and the latter will be compelled
| 10 enter The witness box. The libel has not
been published, but learn it is based on a
letter written BIZ Lord Coleridge to Mrs.
| Bishop sister of Sir Stafford North2ote,
charging Adams with improper practices.
The hearing will occur early in June.
rennyson's Epitaph by whittier's Request.
AT the request of Mr.. Whittier, Tennyson
has forwarded the epitaph for Gordon
cenotaph in Westminster Abbey. This is
he correct copy:
| Warrior OF God, mans friend not here below,
| Rut some where dead in the lar waste Soudan
| Thou liV, ST in all hearts, Tor all men know
Thi, earth hath borne no simpler, nohIer man.
| -NOrmdR.