Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-06
HER mAJEsrx,s FOREIGN WARS
Burmese Soldiers to be Drafted Into
 the Indian SerHica.

| Burmese Soldiers to be Drafted Into the Indian Service.
 LONDON, Jan. 5.-The Boston Globes cor
 respondents letter o-night contains the fol l lowing:
 An afternoon paper prints Cairo dispatch
 stating that column of British troops has left Gnlss, moving along the Nile toward Dongola, which place, according to the dis patch, it is proposed to wrest from the pos session of the Arabs. The news is generally disoredited by military authorities with | whom your correspondent has spoken to- night and it is considered unlikely that so important movement has been begun in advance of the arrival of achievements, which, as you were informed yesterday, have been ordered forward from England. Gene | ral Supplements force of seventeen thousand men is plainly inadequate to cope with the vast rebel force which, according to all in formants, has been gathered between him and Dongola. It is probable that some
 strategic movement for general advance is in contemplation
 It is learned that in recognizing the mill
 tary force of Burmah as a division of the
 Anglo-lndian army large proportion of the
 native soldlery will be incorporated, though all regimental officers will be drawn from the English army. Lord Dufferin is understood to have reached the conclusion after full ad- vice from competent authorities that there is reason to expect as much loyalty from Bur mese soldiers as experience has shown may
 be safely relied on among the Sikhs and oth- CT native Indian troops who have come to be held as the very flower of her majesty's eastern army. It is also given out that the government of Burmah by gov ernor and council separately from the rest of India will be only a temporary arrange ment adopted for the purpose of facilitating the work of organizing the affairs of the province and fitting it to be incorporated on an equal footing with the other Anglo-Indian possessions under the Viceroy's administra- tion. The personnel of the provisional gov-- ernment will it is said b. announced before the end of this week and the governor will doubtless be prominent military officer at present on Lord Dufferin's staff.
 GLADSTONE WILL NOT COME.
 The Grand old Man Cannot Visit
 America at This Time.
 LONDON, Jan. 5.-The Cable News compa- ny recently wrote to Mir. Gladstone upon the authority of 8 number of leading newspapers in the United States extending an invitation to the great Liberal leader and Mrs. Glad stone to make visit to the Amer ican republic. He was assured that the enormous interest manifested in America in the recent British cleo tions and proposed schemes for home rule shown by the columns of news and leading articles in the great American dailies proved that if he should visit America at this time it would afford him unique op- portunity for personal observation of the practical working of the American form of government with it's semi-independent States and might aid him greatly in introducing in Parliament any measure of home rule The heartiest of welcomes was guaranteed to MT. and Mrs. Gladstone and it was sug- gested that their visit would mark an epoch in the history of the English speaking races MT. Gladstone has just replied to this invita- tion. His letter is dated Hawarden, January 4, and was received by mail to-day. He says that the invitation demanded and has received his best consideration, but he is sorry to say he has been unable to see his way to comply. The condition of his health and physical strength would not permit so exten- sive voyage and the imperative demands on his time owing to the present political condition also forbid the visit. He closes his letter with an expression of gratitude for the invitation, which, he says, is charac- teristically generous. It is just possible, however, that MT. Gladstone may be in duced to visit America next autumn after the rising of Parliament.
 The PeWs Rented at Plymouth.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-The annual renting of pews in Plymouth church took place to- night. The amount realized for the pews each year is generally regarded as indicating the degree of the pastors popularity, though, as Mir. Beecher remarked from the pulpit last Sunday, it has really varied with the pros perity of the general community, sometimes rising, sometimes falling times change The highest bid for a choice of pews tonight | was that of R. T. Bush, $735. The same gentleman paid $500 for first choice last | year. John Cla1in, son of the late H. B. | Clafin, took second choice for $700. s. V. | White, the Wall street speculator, took next | follows: E. H. Van Ingen, S425; w. B. Boo rum, $400; William Coles, $400; R. s. Bene- | l;o4 coAs. G,1xo.. e2aa. r