The Poole Telegram. — 1882-08-04 (Poole, Dorset, England)

ATTEMPTS TO MURDER. . .  At the W-e-st-itTdin-g-Aw-lze, a L eTr.:On Mon ley, Lawrence Cros,l4y, aged 18, was senten • to 20 veers' penal servitude for attempting to muider h employer, Mr. CI ,ore Black, a hosier, of Leeds. who 11,0 dis,hareett him for misc.onduct. Allred Thomoion, who had a.t .lUPt.O4 to murder a Mr. Troyier, a Wakefield eheiniut, hy bowing him with a hammer, was also sentenced to 20 years penal servitude.  Now that the Goiernuieitt have obtsined fr Parliain-nt the required votes of men and money f ir an Eg.pii to campaiesi, there are two c ;ntingenci• 8 in pro-p ct, either of which may materially interfere with the matured plans of our authorities—namely, the armed int er•van ioe of the Porte, and the sobiniesion of Arabi Pasha. But if neither of these occarreacies should affect the progress of our expedition, we are threatened with what many people c insider a posl'el, more serious and malevolent deranger of our plans. The great b ;coy of the Egyptian campaigu is the rising of the Nile. Not that this ancient river is to swallow up our hosts, as its neighbour, the ;led See, did the h ems of Phtroah ; hut the annual 11 o 1 brings a whole medical dietienary of diseases with ;t, as 4 . leaves them behind. It is some comfort to reflect th it it is not in the worst climates that our soldiers have suffere I met. In Abyssinia and Aohtntee our troops suffered much lass from disease than in the comparatively innocuous atmosphere of Zo•ul and. Beside', we may yet hope to " polish off" Arabi and his miecellaneous levies before the unhealthy season rote. mends. In fact, we must hope that Arabi will fall before the Nile rises. The 24,h Middlesex are the envy of other Volunteer Corps. They will be the first to obtain the chance of being shot at, awl there is a coating ;ncy ;if their having a shot 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 offered for the service as were required. It is an op•aortiinity of seeing something of the world, which aff irds • splendid break to the monotony of Post-Office routine. Thera is the voyage out and back, an i all the excite• meat of being present, and in regimentats. at the seat of war. In Egypt the official work will not be nearly so heavy as at home, and letter-sorting will he relieved by picquet duty at the temporary Pest-Office. Besides, whilst engaged in this service, extra pay will be granted, arid that is no small considerati m to them. The Government have other jealous critics of their war policy besides the parties in Parliament whieh are opposed to them. Tuera Is a Committee of the • Peace Society watching their movements, with 'qr. Richards, 51. P., at their head. Timers is the recently. firmed Anti-Aggression league, with Mr. Freda •'ck Harrison, and quite a number of doctrinaire philo phers and erotchetty poets amongst its member,, and, , moreover, there is specially created for this emergency a body who call theamelves the Foreign Affairs C mmittee, and whose self-appointed functions are to insist on the due application of the principle f International Law to the pri sent conflict, an t r tect, as far as possible, the interest, of the 80.e01,1 National Party of Egypt.