The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-02-11
,rev.-en.. Of Ensl,sh Troops.

Movements Of English Troops.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Three battalions
If guards and four battalions OF In
fantry, Including two from Malta
and two from Gibraltar have been
ordered to : Egypt. Two batts-
ions of infantry and q regiment OF
cavalry have been ordered to proceed
from India to Egypt and the mine
batalions Of troops ordered from En-
gland, Malta, Gibraltar and India
are part of the regi nent Of Wolseley.
The guards leave England at the end
OF the present week. Two battalions
Of English infantry at present IN
lower Egypt will proceed immediate
" to Soudan. 1t is stated that all
the forces. within nipe battalions to
be sent to Lord Wolseley, will, after
reaching Hpudan, operate be-
tween Suakim and Berber with the
object of securing possession Of the
route between these points and then
effect a complete junction with the
British forces on the Nile both above
and below Berber.
Lord Wolseley t~elegraphed the Wal
Office to-day from Korti as follows:
The advance guard of Gen. EArle'e
column, con insisting of q squadron OF
cavalry under the command Of Col.
Butler, surprised q ! large body of the
Monassir tribe under Wadgam, the
murderers of Col. Stewart, encamped
at Shakcob wells. The cavalry
charged the encampmeDt and the
enemy fed in every direction leaving
behind thirty men killed and q large
number of camels, cattle and many
Remington rifles. Col. Butler
captured six prisoners.
Great activity prevails at Chatham,
Woolwich and. Aldershot, prepa-
rations for sending reinforcements to
Egypt being rapidly pushed. The
twentieth hussars aud third battalion
of the rifle brigade are now at Alder
shot. A battalion Of Scot fusileers, q
battalion of Cold Stream guards and
q squadron Of the fifth lancers have
been ordered to proceed at once to
Suakim. I
Three thousand reinforcements, at
the earnest demand of Lord Woise-
ley have been ordered to proceed as
rapidly as possible to Egypt to open
the roadbetween Suakim and Berber.
A naval demonstration on the Red
Sc. to cooperate with the land
movement has been arranged and
the dispatch of several British men
of war.to that locality. The number
Of reinforcements already ordered to
Egypt is 5000. The war department
completed preparations for the trans
port of the commissarat and 0rdi.
nance service. Vessels are already
loading with stores at Woolwich.
1t Is understood the government
has received word that Col. Wilson,
who, after falling to reach Kbartoum
andwas stranded with his entire party
on an island in the Nile, Is safe.
The opinion prevails at the war
office that Gen. Gordon Is still alive
and engaged in defending himself in
some inaccessible part of the city of
Khartoum where he had prepared q
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Korti news from Gen. Earle's army
dated Feb. 7, shows that on the
Thursday preceding his camel corps
had a skirmis4 inland with hostile
Arabs who were driven from the
wells, where the engagement &C.
Cured with q loss of six killed and
six taken prisoners. The British
troops captured a number Of rifles,
camels and cattle.
The Grenadier Guards have been
orde ed to hold themselver in readi-
ness for foreign service. Lord Gran
Vile had a long interview with Glad
stone to-day.
The Pail Mall Gazette this after.
noon states the cabinet has decided
the defeat of Ell Mahdl is necessary to
vindlcate England. Nc Immediate
advance on Khartoum Is considered
possible, or will. be attempted, the
Gazette says unllss 1t is found there Is
good reason for believing Gen. Cor
don is still holding out with his few
followers In q house in Khartoum
where it is reported he took refuge
when the city fell into the Mahdi's
hands. In the absence of this Lord
Wolseley, 1t is said, will probably
continue to advance by the river un-
til he reaches Berber, where he will
spend the hot weather of the sum-
mer with his army and wait for the
September rise of the Nile before ad-
vancing. Two months must elapse
before there can be any advance in
force from Suaklm.