THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.

Southland Times, Issue 755, 27 November 1867, Page 3

THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES.

The latest news received in Bombay respecting the prisoners at Magdalla was up to July 27th, at which date a favorable account was given of their health. The latest date from King Theodore's camp was July 11th, at which date his Abyssinian Majesty was at Debra Tabor ; those prisoners who are with him were ' all pretty well ' and were ' well treated,' the king's manner had become ' cold and indifferent.' The country round about Debra Tabor was much disturbed, and direct communication between the king's camp and the coast was entirely cut off. No letters have been received by Government from the king himself, but Theodoras states that he has no intention of giving up Mr JRassam 'unless he is obliged to.' This, the Bombay Gazette says, — means nothing more nor less than that he will fight, and it is said that Theodorus fully expects that he will bring about a coalition between himself and the chiefs 30 that the whole may fight in a common cause. The expedition, therefore, will not walk through Abyssinia without trying the mettle of Theodorus and his soldiers. Of course there is only one issue to it in the end. His infatuated resolve to try the chance of war only shows that the king knows nothing of the irresistible might of the British empire, the leniency and imbecile coaxing of whose Government he has evidently regarded as synonymous with weakness. --Cokmto Observer, §§pt, 28,