, 1896-04-15

thousand men. With this army he can he
reports, hold the triangle to which Massowah
Is the entrance, and keep back the Abyssini-
ans, WIN will be slow to Quit the shelf, + of
their hills. He waits, however. for more ar
tlIlery. and will have great difficulties with
has co"miSsariai, rs most Of his food must be
imported. Erythlea produces very little
beyond whit lis people want, and the i'm
n'ense nnmber If transport animals makes
the GoIIecti Il Of forag> in It roadless country
very difficult. ka>saIa is not vet abandoned
and Genera BaldisSera. an old Piedmontese
soldier Of the regularly trained tyne. will give
up nothing he can help, though he will not
move forward a yard till he IS ready.
klng Humhert has been determined all
through, and has appointed q Ministry of
Affairs. with the Marquis Rudini. a S@iciIian
us Premier, the Duke of Sermoeeta S Minis.
ter OF Foreign Affairs. and General Ricotti
as Minister OF War. They are all opposed to
adventure" in Africa. but all sgrer hat be
torc peace can be made King Nenelek must
be defeated. They have decided. thereto,
10 ask Tor a loan, to raise the army in Africa
to t)rty thousand men. and after the rains Ia
a second and, they hope. more sue
ce6stuI campaign. Assurances have been re-
cel7ed from Berlin and Vienna that Italv
shall be protected while hostilities last and
even the French, who cannot stir Till the
Cars coronation is over, in june profess
friendliness nov that Criypi has faIlon .,
Even the Pope, we are told. was bitterly NOV.
ed by the disaster, and suspended a re DENIM
which had been ordered, while the SIciliaus
displayed a transport of grief. The deser-
tons, however, have been numerous ANA
the populace, while s%ulIenly acknowledginq
that the disaster must be retrieved. aIe AN.
gmly opposed to the idea of couquering Abys-
slnla. They say it will bring Them nothing
except death and hardship for their children
IN the army.
The British Government is not sorry to
find that it can help Italy ami itself at the
same time. In thu eatening Ka>saia the Der
wishes are threatening at once Italy and
Egypt, and 1t has therefore, according to a
telegram from Cairo, been decided 10 push
forward the main body of the Egyptian gar
rlson into Dongola, beyond the outpOsts at
Wady Halfa. Dongola is the Malldi's store
house on whick his forces depend and an in
vasion will so threaten his power that his
forces must retreat from kassala. 1t seems
clear tha3 the italian defeat before Adowa
has greatly increased the hopes Of the Nah
dis adherents-we use the old term of clear
ness though the present ruler at Omdurman
calls himself not Mahdi but Khalifa-and
that If that disaster is not repaired Eaypt
may be seriously threatened. The move.
ment resolved on seems to be necessary, but
before 1t begins the Government would be
wise to add a regiment or two of Sikhs or
Ghoorkas to The garrison of Egypt.
On Tuesday Mr.. Massey Mainwaring's
resolution i'll favour of opening the national
museums and art galleries in London on
Sundays from 2 p. IN. for n certain number
of hours was carried in the House of Com
mons,-the amendment moved in favour Of
opening them instead for three weekdays
for twelve hours and maintaining he Sunday
intact having been defeated by a majority
of IS (l78 to 93.) Sir George Trevelvan
and Mr.. Goschen both of them spoke in
favour of the relaxation of the Sunday. and
Mr.. John Burns expressed his strong convic-
ton that this step would not lead to anv
increase of Sunday labour. Indeed, the
original resolution provided that no atten-
dant in these galleries should be expected to
work more than six days in the week, and
that no one who conscientiously objected to
Sunday labour should be expected to serve
on the Sunday. Our own opinion against
any secularisalion of the Sunday has al ways
been strongly expressed, but we do not think
that this very modarate sion xxouIJ II