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 Aeie, a, L ,e, on Monday, Lawrence Cros.ley, aged 18, was senten • d to SID v.-ars' penal servitude for attempting to murder lie emploi er. Mr. IlJorge Bieck, a hosier, if lee Is. who bud die :hanged lion for misconduct. Allred Thompme, who bad t mpted to murder a Mr. Troyier, • Wakefield chernir4, try bowleg him with • hammer, was also sentenced to '2.0 years' penal servitude.  Now that the Govirnment have obtained from Parliam3nt the rot:inked votes of men and money fir an Eg.plisn campaign, there are two c ntingenci sin prop ct, either of which may materially interfere with the matured plans of our authorities—namely, the armed jot irvaa, ion of the P irte, and the sibmi,•sion of Arabi Pasha. But if neither of these occarreoces sh aff ct the progress of our expedi.icri, we are threatened with what many people c iosi.ler a pos Poly more serious and malevolent deranger of our plans. The great b 3trey of the Egyp•ian campaign is to using of the Nile. Not that this ancient river ie So swallow up our hosts, as its neighbour, the tied Sra, did the hosts of Pharoah but the annual fl o 1 brings a whale medical dictionary of diseases with it, a ori leav3s them behint It is some comfort to reflect th 4 it is not in the worst climates that our soldiers have sufferei most. In Abyssinia and A.hantee our trooos suffered much less from disease than in the comparotively innocuous atmosphere of Zn'tzl and. Beeito we may yet hope to " polish off" Arabi and his miscellaneous levies before the unhealthy season coins moose. In fact, we must hope that Arabi will fall before the Nile ris3a.  The 24th Middlesex are the envy of other Volunteer Corps. They will be the first to obtain the chance .1 bin ; shot at, and there is a ooDting..ncy of their having • sh. 4 at ths enemy. Many of those members of the Post-office who were not volunteers have bitterly regretted it lately, ant in the corps itself eevan times as many offered for the service as were required.. It is an opportnoity of seeing something of the world, which aff .rds a splendid break to the monotony of Post-Offica routine. There is the voyage out and beak, ant all the excite. meat of being present, and in regiments.4...st 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 Psst-ofliee,. Besides, whilst eogtaffed in this servic extra pey will be gr and that is no small considered in to them. The Government have other j•-slons critics of th. ir war policy besides the parties in Pirliement wl:ich are oppos ,c 1 to them. Tnera is • Committee of the Peace Society watching their movements, with Ur. Richard., M.P.' at their head. There is the recently. .rme.l nti-A.ggression League, with Mr. Prole •iok Harrison, and quite a numb, r of doctrinaire philo bhers and crotch tty poets amongst its inemhere, and, moreover, there is specially crested for this emergency a body who call themselvee the Ferefgn Affairs a.m. mitts., and whose self-appointed functions are to insist on the due applicstioo of the principles .1 International Lew to the present conflict, an! to pr tea, as far as point)* the ineereete of the so-c ii .1 National Puty of ESYPt