Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1896-09-26 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE SIRDAR OF EGYPT, BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR H. A. HITCH EN ER, K. C. WI. G., C. B. done their best to retard and disheartm the men, yet they have come up smiling at the finish and have given "Fuzzy Wuzzy " "beans.' But the Dervishes, although they retire into the inaccessible remoteness of the dieser% sullen and defeated, do not give up hope. The hated white man is kading these Egyptians; he has given them good guns, but he will not always be theve. There are no newspapers in the far Soudan. All information, political and social, is transmitted orally, and these will sons of the desert are frequently told that the British will be made to retire before long by other white nations who regard their stay in Egypt with impatience. So, content at learn in c this, they mutter a wild prayer to Allah, and look forward to the good time coming when lentil soup will be theirs once more, and they can chase the brown-faced mongrels they whipped so often in the past back to Wady lialia and beyond. Honours will of course fall to the share of the Sirdar, and he has richly deserved them. He has by the magnificent handling of the troops under his command become without question the man of the day. He comes of a fighting stock, and has already, though comparatively young (46), seen some hard work. He it was who protected Berber against the Madhist forces in 1884, and, as the result ot one of his escapades, he carries even to-day a Dervish bullet among the cartilages of his throat. But it is of such men that England is proud, and he is the man to give the Lavish troops all they want.  The latest development of the Fenian conspiracy is funny. Many of the best known Fenians absolutely disclaim violence, and nearly all pronounce against Tynan and his methods. We have secured some of the ringleaders, it in true, but our Criminal Investigation Department—clever and patient as they have proved themselves to be—do not delude themselves into the belief that they have destroyed the enemy. They have but scotched the fringe, for Tynan, the head of the Invincibles in MO, is not the Tynan arrested at Boulogne. The sixteen intervening years have convertid the mysterious man of action and resolve, who baffled the police force, into a babbling blatant drunkard. The curious thing in the entire basiness is to watch the attitude of America. Here are men caught red-handed in the very *et of preparing to make war upon society in a friendly country bound to the States by that tio which is proverbially supposed to be thicker than water. While civilisation stands aghast with horror at the discovcry, what does Washington say or do! She cannot afford to lose the Irish vote, and therefore permits meetings to be held at which 60,000 dollars are collected towards defraying the expenses of couns...l to defend these se.rindrels, and it must always be remembered that the men who subscribed this 50,000 dollars helped to pay for the bombe. They arc only would-be murderers in the second degree— at least, in America—but the criminality of their intention is as great as that of the men who have risked their liberty by coining over NO. I. (TYNAN). IVORY (ceias