, 1889-02-20

AAAAA ~ AAO INV W OAO NAM Ao NA"S
city that Emin Pasha had been captured
and his provinces occupied by the Mahdi.
The Kingdom of Uganda, on the Victoria
Nyanza, has been overthrow by the Arab
slave-deRlers, who found the new King,
Kiwewa, much too friendly TO the Chris
tiaus. They appealed in November to
MusSulman feeling, murdered the semi
Christian Ministers of the King, maSsacred
the converts, and expelled the English
and French missionaries, who, however,
escaped with their lives, aud are residing
in safety at Usambiro. On the 18th inst,
again, the Arabs attacked the German
misSiOnary-StatiOn of Tu-u, within the
German dominion, carried away great
numbers OF released slaves, and murdered
eight male and female German miSsiOna-
ries. Their bodies were barbarouSly mu-
tilated with, knives. The French mission.
aries at BagamOyO are also, threatened,
and, more OminouS than all, the half-caSte
Arabs of the coast have received large
reinforcemeHts from Muscat, showing that
the Tevivalist MuSsulman movement and
the expulsion of Europeans from Africa
have the sympathieS of the great pOpula-
tiOn across the Red Sea. Fortunately,
there are two sides to this extension OF
the movement, as the new recruits are
subjects of the Sultan of Muscat, who is
almost q feudatory of Great Britain. We
have, however. little hope, for reasons
stated in another column, that the relucU.
tance to attack the English will last long,
and have some dread of an explosion in
Zanzibar itself. Sir j.. Kirk, whose in.
t1uence is paramount there, is, however,
on his way back.
A letter has been published addressed
by Mr.. Stanley, the explorer, to Sheikh
Hamed ben MahOmmed, alias TipDoO rib.
bearing date Bona of Banalya (Urenia),
August 18th. In it Mr.. Stanley informs
his correspondent hat he left Emin Pasha
on the Albert Nyanzl eighty,two days
before. Emin was in good health, AZ was
also the Italian, CaSati, and he possessed
"ivOry i'll abundance, cattle by thousands,
and sheep, goats, fowl, anil food of all
kinds" The writer intends to Join him in
ten days, and asks TippoO Til TO accom-.
pany him, which it is now known TippOO
refused to do. The letter has been for
some time in London, and supplies no clue
whatever to Mr.. Stanlpy'S present where.
abouts, which, however, it is rumOured, is
known to the King of the Belgians, al.
though the facts are for the present con.
cealed. He left Bona (Urenia) on August
9th, and would, in the regular course of
things, rejOin Emin by the end Of NOvem
Der but if Emin, lis seems probable, was
captured in October, Stanley must either
be retracing his steps, or have struck off
i'll some fresh direction. IT. however,
Emin is still at liberty, no letters would be
received till March, and in any case the
absence Of news is no proof that the cxpIO.
er has persisted. He evidently likes best
to carry his own news.
We notice with deep regret that the me-
gOtiationS between the Indian Government
and that of Tibet have been broken off.
and the Tibetan Envoy has returned to
Lhassa, He absolutely refused to discuss
any thing, unless the suzerainty of Tibet
over Sikkim were first of all acknowledged.
AS Sikki.n has been a f~eudatOry State of
India for more than thirty years, and as
the little Principality controls the best.
route through which a Chinese army could
enter Bengal, this demand was inadmisSi-
BILE, and the two countries remain theOreti.
.cally at war. 1t is just possible that
Pekin may cOerce LhasSa into reason, but
it is improbable, one motive for the TIbetan
stubbornness probably being the wish of
the Lamas to give their over. lord a rather
severe lesson. If Pekin is powerleSs, the
Indian Government will be compelled
either to garrison Sikkim and Darjeeling,
a most expensive and wearisome precau.
ton, or to march on .Lhassa at any risk
of Quarrelling with the Chinese. China