Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1885-03-21 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THURSDAY, 6-35 p.m. Before we left .ksheen to-day on our return to camp. a letter was placed in a 00118piCU000 position in a cleft stick, addressed to Osman Digna. It gives the rebel leader one more cheers of averting further bloodshed, but there is little hope that it will have any effect. The letter, which is signed by General Graham, acknowledges the oommunication from Osman which was brought in a week or so ago. Osman, it will be remembered, then recapitulated those events in the Soudan wherein the natives had triumphed over the Egyptian troops, such as the defeat of General Hicks and of Baker Pasha, the capture ef Khartoum, and death of General Gordon. Re then pointed out that, should the British forces venture on Suakim they would be annihilated, none being spared unless those who would become Moslems and acknowledge the Mandi. General Graham, in reply alludes to the religious I question first of all. He says the English nation respect all religions. England governs many Moslem , races in peace, and lives in perfect friendship with them. Not one great chief in the whole country ' has yet accepted the present Mahal as a true prophet. The Arabian Mahomed to whom he prays, the head and founder tithe Moslem religiot, was as tolerant in his time as the Engliah are to-day. , The object of the English is to establish peace here, to maintain friendly relations with the Arabs, said In secure to them their jest rights. provided the/ Broil quietly and reapeetea all religions. The General goes on to speak of the submission of the hostile tribes. Its nays, "Yen had better throw yourselves instantly upon the mercy of the English, before it is too late. If you followers deeire to accept this offer of peace, well andl. good. A perfect pardon shall be granted them, and they will escape from almost certain death. They should therefore, instantly implore for pardon. Remember the utter defeats yon sustained at Teb and Tamai. The blood of the Arabs killed there rests upon the head of Osman  &gun° The General concludes his letter by dwelling upon the punishment which will assuredly follow if the terms he has offered them be not accepted instantly. Their floate will be captured, and many of the rebels will lose their lives.  At the Middlesex Sessions, it blind man and his wife, named Jackson. were sentenced, the one to six months and the other to three months bard labour, for taking from her parents a little girl to enable the male prisoner to gain money by beg'°M e. Alexander Atkinson, who started the movement for workmen'a weekly railway posies, is engaged in promoting a memorial to the Bradford CIL imber of Commerce in favour of the adoption of truck and apace charges for railway transit instead of the present method. An inquest has been held at Blundell Sands, Liverpool. on Mrs. Frederick A. Noswortby, the wife of a Liverpool menhant, and eldest daughter of Mr. G. Thompson, formerly member for the Tower Hamlet«. She was accidmtally poisoned by taking an overdose of laudanum. The Italian papers report the suicide of the aged Joseph Melotti, the beta known and moat popular of the "personal conductors" of strangers in Rome. He threw himself from a high wall on the Monte Pincio. The dearth of foreign visitora in Rome this winter kept him unemployed. , A child named Richard-Jordan. of Oradell Lane, Salford, hoe died at the Salford Royal Hospital and Dispensary from the effects of burns, caused , by his haying fallen out of bed and set his . clothes on fire at a paraffin oil lamp which his • mother had left burning on the bed room floor, close to the bed. F.I.Pg, COCO& GB Cr&