It appears from a telegram dated 13th inst., Lisbon, that
Sir- Garnet Wolseley, with his Staff and the Naval Brigade, left Cape Coast Castle on December 27 for the Prah. The first detachment of troops would be landed on New Year's Day, marching straight to the Prah, and followed by another detachment every day for six days. When his whole force had been collected, Sir Garnet would start for Coomassie —now said to be forty miles off, whereas, before it was a hundred at least—and if successful, carry out orders of which no hint has yet been suffered to transpire. Before his departure he issued a general order of a some- what novel kind, carefully explaining to the soldiers the work they bad to do, the nature of the country they had to pass,—a clear forest of tall trees with patches of underwood—the method of Ashantee fighting,—an effort to envelope the advance by stretching long thin lines of yelling men ; the superiority of the Snider to the musket,—which he reckons at 20 to 1; the innate superiority of the white to the African, and the necessity of keeping the small sections into which in bush-fighting the com- panies must be divided well together. Finally, he warns them of the absolute necessity of kindness to the camp-followers, whose retreat at any moment may leave them without food or ammuni- tion, the most dangerous point in the whole campaign. Alto-ç, gether the order is a most sensible one, of the Lord Clyde kind, \ wanting nothing but a word or two to fire the hearts of the men engaged.
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