THE SOUDAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4792, 19 May 1884, Page 2

THE SOUDAN.

London, May 16. In the House of Lords to-day, Earl Granville announced that Government had^ received a telegram from Cairo announcing that refuges from Berber and Korosko, who had arrived at Assouan, on the Egyptian border, report that General Gordon was well when last last advices were despatched from Khartoum, and that he bad made some successful sorties from Khartoum with the Egyptian garrison, on each occasion successfully attacking the rebels who were surrounding that city.

London, May 17. .. ' Gordon to be Believed. .

' It is reported that GoTernment have now decided-to make preparations for the despatch df 'ah expedition to the Soudan to relieve General Gordon. It is further stated that the troops will start as soon as the Nile river is .sufficiently high to' permit the passage of a small steamer. No. official announcement has yet been made.

. , „,-j Gaibo, May 17. The Governor of -Don'gdla-has declined to accept the permission granted him to withdraw, the garrison and abandon the town.

In consequence of further representaioris- by the Egyptian Government, England has. now consented to dispatch Egyptian troops to Wady Haifa and Korosko, on the Nubian frontier.

[Specials to this Pjbbss Association] Lonuon, May. 15. The military guvd at the Birmingham gaol has been incited 'so as to prevent any attempt to reaMe the Fenian prisoners confined there. -$his step has been taken in consequence (^reports received bjrtjie authorities that tee friends of the prisoners would probably make an effort to rescue them.- -/;•'. X- . , „*•: :l .;'*■'■'; ; M. Ferry, the French Premier, expresses his indignation at Prince Bismarck's accusation that he is connifinK at the betrayal of the military secrets of Germany. London, May 16. Toe Puke of Marlborough ha» agreed

to accept the sum of £107,000 in com* minution of the pension of £4000 a year which has been paid to himself and previous holders of the title since the date of the Battle of Blenheim, 1705.