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Gen. fiir ('hurí ;s Wiison, who suoereded Ge1. Sir Herbert Stewort ii tommand of the ad■.IIKT -)]■[);: Of tbe Kh;lllO:llM l'i'lif!' ' Ypcdition, nis Bent Ín hi official rcporl in response lo the thal Gen. Gordon mlght have béên res-11- 1! ulive ií lliij troopa uader commajul Oí }lr C liarles ! ad r.ot been umi' c.'ssarily ualted it Gubat for threa davc Thc report exp'.ai i Ms three days' dtlíy in ttuitlng up the Nile o relieve Gen. Gordo d tae necessity oí secnring the smal] lorce al (lul;;:! egalnst an ittack, th(u thrcatened fro:n lierhcr om the íoróh and f rem Omdai man on tbe south. The ■epor) furfhér-States that after .the arrival of I be troops át Gubit i' r quireda jrivad doalof tme 1" select the ris and prepare tlie steamersíor tile a vanee to Khartoura. El Mahili s rt-tiriiii;' his tiviops everywhcre. Víctor Hugo, the famona French poet and i authur, is üead. The railioa i pant DOW at Suakim is to be ' sent to England. Tlic Britisb House üí Commom has adjourned until June 4. Natives fear a genera] masacre by El Mahd' ift' r evacuatlon of tlie Bondan by thc British. Mr. Phelps, United St.iícs minister to England, l:a been formally presented to Queen Victoria. : A moTemant is on foot in India to increasc I the raiiway Byrtem of that country. A loan of $50,000,000 is asked. The ti men, Cunnineham and Uurton, who i wcrc arrested and held for trial on a charge of treason-felony, e mpllclty in the ! flons in London. have betn 'genteneed to imprlsOBm nt tor life. All the i. adiniíKiiglislijournals congratúlate ! Canada on what they deern the practical suppression of the rcbsllion in the norfhwest. Thej compliment the troop oa their skill and the courage displayed by the commanders and i men. In loost quarters the liope is expressed that the governm nt wil] not repeat thc prevlous error oí Bhowing leniency to Riel. Sunday, May 24. belng the anuiversarv of Í the fnll of the commune, the commnnlita of i Paria atteropteil to hold a df-monstration atthe tomba of tluir comrades in the Fcre la Chaise pemeterv. The pólice iateríerccl and prevented 'a display of st-i Ir, i ui emblema. A serious I fliet ensiu'd, i" w..ich live men ere killed and 80 wounded. The p ilice Bnally dispersed the riotevs, thirty of whoin were arrestad. The London Mark I.ane Express says : The cold weather brings the season dangerously j late for the cropï, v.iii, h are already 80 , ward. The quantity of cold rain whieh has ' f allen is anf avorable for the wheat erop, the color of whieh is getting worse daily. Should ■ the weathei ehaage it ií still doubtfnl whether the wheat would regain what it has lost during ; the month. Foreigu wheat is slightly more active. In the house of eommons on the llth inst, Lord Harrington, minister for war, stated that the government had detinitely deeided to abandon the plan of advauce on Khartoum. The British troops would be eoncentrateil at Wadv Halfa and Assouan. Suakim eould not be evaeuated until an arrangement could bc ' made to garrlson the place by the troops of some clvlllzed power. These "changes in the ! original plan of operations in the Sondan j would make it unneeessary to push forward the vailway from Suakim toward Berber. London advlees ol May 33 eay: The Timea fears that a bo-tile combinaüon afrainst British ! intiuenee and intirests in Egvpt has been oreanized by the European powers. Theiraeticn m respect to the Egyptian convcnüon and in (orcing the khedive, by tbelr protesta, to refund. : the flve per cent whrch had Leen deducted , from the eoupons, has been cleavlv intemled ta ihow that they are determined ta astst üu every polnt against Englmd.' Th_' latter ha; possession, iiowev'er-," Tin detention of the guards in Eg-ypt need not bc attributed to the difflcuUy with Russia. Affairs In Egypt are serious onough to enforce preeaution, if not to justify uneasiness.