The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-04-22


ambassador, refuses to grant.
General Delisle, in an order of the
day to the French troops, attributes
the recent reverses to the transfer of
the command, in consequence of
General Negrier's wound, to hands
unprepared to undertake the charge,
and expresses surprise that the
enemy did not venture to pursue the
French.
THE SOUDAN WAR.
ADongola despatch, Ap. IA, says:
Deserters from the Mahdi's army
report that the rebels have evacuated
Berti and Metemneh and that the
garrisons of those two places have
gone respectively to Berber and
Khartoum. Numbers of the Bisha-
rooms are leaving Osman Digna's
country and are taking their families
to Berber.
A despatch of the same date from
Suakim says: The British cavalry
visited Otao, eight miles beyond
Handoub. No hostile Arabs were
encountered and water was found
plentiful. The country appeared to
be entirely open. The Arab popu-
lation freely sells supplies to the
English. Italian troops occupied
Arafali, on Austri bay, Red Sea,
and have hoisted the Italian flag
alongside that of Egypt.
1t is officially denied in Cairo that
the British camel corps in the Sou
dan has been ordered to return home.
The French newspaper, Bosphore
Egy7otien, at Cairo, was forcibly
suppressed by the Egyptian Govern
ment on April 9th. French resi-
dents of Cairo were manifesting
such indignation over the case on
the 14th, rs to necessitate doubling
the guards in the city and confin-
ing the troops to the barracks.
France demanded an explanation of
the affair, but the reply given by
Egypt is considered in Paris to be
unsatisfactory. lie Paris news
paper asserts that the French Gov
ernment has sent another note to
Egypt demanding reparation for the
act of suppression, and the punish
ment of every one of the Egyptian
officials connected with it.
DISTRESS IN ITALY.
There is great distress in Italy,
owing to the cholera and failure of
crops last year. Rural laborers of
Mantria are on strike, and acts of
violence and bloodshed are prevent
ed with difficulty. The Government
is with high hand interfering with
the publication of true accounts of
the situation. Journalists are organ
izing a league for mutual protection.
AS result of the deplorable state
of affairs, an unprecedented emigra-
ton to America is anticipated the
ensuing season.
THE CANADIAN REBELLION.
There was rumor in Winnipeg
on April 18th, not confirmed at
latest accounts, that the Goth batal-
lion had a skirmish with Riels party
within thirty miles of Humboldt,
and eighty men killed.
Ottawa advces of the 18th are as
follows; The condition of affairs
in the Northwest has undergone such
material changes within the past ten
days that some important changes in
the programme by which the cam
paign was to be conducted have
been found necessary. In place OF
finding themselves confronted with
some 1900 rebellious half breeds,
who might be soon overcome, the
Government is face to face with q
general Indian uprising, which will
tax to the utmost the energies of the
whole available force of the Domin-
ion before it is put down. Every
official dispatch points Enthusiastically
to this end.
1t was reported on the following
day that negotiations looking to
peace were opened the previous day
by telegraph between General Mid
dleton and Louis Riel, and that such