Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-08-04 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTS TO MURDER.  At the West Riding Avila., a L e •v, on Monday, Lawrence Crosvloy, aged 18, waa Bunten • d tn 20v• ar.' pima' servitude for attempting to murder h employer, Mr. (I,orae Brack, a hosier, rif lee is. who had dis :harsed him for misconduct. Allred Thom woo, wh• had t 'To nted to murder a Mr. Troyier, • Wakefield cherui4, l.y hewing him with • hammer, was also sentenced to £0 years' penal servitude.  Now that the Government have obtained Irma Parliament the required votes of mm and money fir an Eg .dati au campaign, there are two c ntingenci s in prop ct, either of which may materially interfere with the matured plans of our authorities—namely, the armed intervanion iif the Pdrte, and the submission of Arabi Pasha. But if neither of these occurreeoes sh ull aff ct the progress of our expedidon, we ate threaumed with what many people a iosider a POS Pity more serious and malevolent deranger of our plans. The great b 'goy of the Emden campaign is cps rising of the Nile. Not that this ancient river is to swallow up our hosts, as its neighbour, the Iced Sea, did the hosts of Pharoah ; but the annual fl o 1 brings a whale medical diotionary of diseases with it, aid leaval them behind. It is some comfort to reflect th it is not in the worst climates that our soldiers have guff oral most. In Abyssinia and Ashantee our troops suffered much less from disease than in the corniest.... • tively innocuous atmosphere of Zifuland. Beside we may yet hope to " polish off" Arabi and his miscstlaneons levies before the unhealthy season corn. muscle. In fact, we must h epe that Arabi will fall before the Nile rises. The 24th Middlesex are the envy of other Volunteer Corps. They will be the first to obtain the chance .1 bin z shot at, and there is a clouting:nor of their having • sh et at the enemy. Many of those members of the Post-office who were not volunteers have bitterly regretted it lately, an I in the corps itself seven times as many offersd for the service as were required. It is an opportuoity of seeing something of the world, which aff irds a splendid break to the monotony of Post-Office routine. Thera is the voyage out and back, an I all thli excie. meat of being present, anii in regiment•lsr-at the seat of war. In Egypt the official work will not be nearly so heavy as at home, and letter-sorting will be relieved by pioquet duty at the temporary Putt-Offices. Besides, whilst engaged in this ssrvics extra pay will b 3 gr silted, and that is no small conrid•ratidn to them. The Government have other jcalona critics of ti, • in , war policy besides the parties in Parliament which are oppos to them. Titers is a Committee of the Peace Society watching their movements, with tr. Hichards M.P. at their head. There is the recentlyf firmed inti- Aggression League, with Mr. Fred° •ick Harrison, and quite a numb,r of doctrinaire philo -.tellers and crotchetty poets amongst its memhers, an 1, moreover, there is specially created for this emerseto-iy a body who call themselves the Foreign Affairs (7.. m mittee, and whose .elf-appointed functions are to insist on the due application of the princ'plrs ..f International Law to the present conflict, an t•• pr teat, as far se passible, the totereete of the so-c ii tl Natiotal Party of Egypt. Ail