No news whatever has been received from Egypt this week
beyond the usual farrago of lies about tribes hundreds of miles 'from the scene they are said. to be in doing this or that. So far as is known the 3,Iahdi has not moved, General Gordon still holds Khartoum, and Berber has not fallen ; while the Mudir -of Dongola telegraphs that he has defeated everybody. Suakisn is again threatened by Osman Digna, and has been reinforced with 260 Marines. For the rest,. Nabar _Pasha is restoring abuses, the English officials are suggesting reductions of taxation which will not be granted, and Zebehr is intriguing for the throne of the Soudan. He is probably stop- ping the communications with Gordon. At least, it seems in- credible that, in the absence of treachery, the General should be unable to get letters through either to Suakim or Berber. His bills on the Government, it is reported, do come ; and the only plausible theory is that the letters come too, and are stopped en. 'route by men whom General Gordon trusts, but who are in the pay of Cairo.
