Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-07

TRUTH COMING OUT ABOUT THE SUDAN CAM
PAIGN-CHARGEs OF SHAMEFUL CONDUCT
AGAINST THE BRITISH FORCES.
Special Cable Dispatch to THE Evr--1Ne STAB.
LONDON, May Tho situation here is one Of
party quarrel. The general relief remains un-
changed. Sir Peter Lumsdens return is now
known TO be due to his resignation, having
been offered and accepted. rather than to a re-
call. The fact of the matter is, Sir Peter found
it impossible to work in harmony with the
home government
KING CHRISTIAN WILL BE THE ARBITRATOR.
King Christian, of Denmark, will doubtless
mor will 5hs he pnow ..inn th var Nang
Of affairs till the arrival Of Condic Stephen
from the front ne xt week.
FRESH CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON.
Fresh rumors of dark and threatening clouds
on the peace horizon reach me from a usually
well informed quarter. But have been unable
to obtain any confirmation of these.
NO RELAXATION OF MILITARY PREPARATIONS.
Orders were issued here yesterday to all re-
sponsible war officials, in no way to relax their
efforts looking to the placing of every thing in
the best possible shape for active warfare.
More men of the firSt-class reserve have been
ordered to embark for India.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE soUDAN CAMPAIGN
We are beginning now to learn the truth
about the Soudan campaign as the correspond
en- ents are - returning beyond reach Of the censor,
correspondent of the Daily Chronicle, who
reached here few days ago and left again i'm
mediately for Afghanstan, has shown in a
magazine article that the loss of Gordon was
entirely due to the ineXcusible dawdlng of the
military and the ignorance of Sir Chas. Will
son, commanding the advanced forces. Sir
Charles Wilson, he says, had more notion
of what should be done than bugler.
wILFRED BLUNTS SHOCKING CHARGES.
WIlfred Blunts questions to the government
have not been answered. He asks: Did not the
English troops cut down palm trees and burn
water wheels to fill up the wells in the desert,
and offer a reward for every human hand
brought to camp, and fifty pounds for Oliver
the lash, to destroy wells against the rules of
Arab warfare? Nobody SO far answers. He as
serts that the tribes were set in permanent
feud, the whole country corrupted by English
money and the land positively left in famine
FRIGHTFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE TROOPS IN
THE SOUDAN.
Officers now at the front in the SOudan are
writing to newspaper correspondents begging
what they are suffering. Accounts of incredi-
BILE horrors on the battlefields are appearing.
Ones One officer f5 G writes: = I'm few weeks more we
the people here II the tories had done this the
whole liberal party, with Gladstone tits head,
would be overwhelmed with terror.
THE coLERIDGRADAMs CASE TO GO ON.
learn that the case Of Mr.. Adams against
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has failed to be ar
ranged. and the latter will be compelled to enter
the witness box. The subject OF the libel has
letter written by Coleridge to Mrs. Bishop,
sister of Stafford Northcote, charging Adams
with improper practices. The hearing will
occur early in June.
TENNYSON'S EPITAPH ON GORDON
At the request of Mr.. Whittier, Tennyson has
forwarded the following epitaph for Gordon's
cenotaph in Westminster Abbey:
warrior of God, mans friend not here below,
But somewhere dead in the far, waste SOudan,
Thou livest in all mems hearts. for all men know,
This earth hath borne no simpler. nobler man."