ITALY AND ABYSSINIA.
Fourteen hundred survivors from the recent battle have reached Adowa. S'xty thousand volunteers have offered for service in Abyssinia. The populace cheered thi reinforcements as they embarked. The Shoans are s dvancing, and have reached half way to Adigrat. King MenHek is willing that Italy should retain the Merab frontier line." Negotiations for peace have been opened, and the departure of troops is postponed in consequence. General B lratieri is prostrated physically and mentally. He admits that it was in a moment of rash im pulse he gave the ocd<*r to attack, hoping that the Shoans would retire, and thus enable the Italians to obtain provisions, and avoid having to retreat to the coast. Menelek reviewed 100,000 fighting men in the presence of the I'alian envoy. They were all well armed, and the commissariat showed abundance of provisions. The Chamber of Deputies regards the action of Menelek in insisting on the retention by Italy of the Mareb j frontier line and forbidding the erec tion of fortifications as humilating to Italy. The Moscow Gazette says that Russia will not consent to King Menelek bping crushed. The L-^rd-. Mayor of London has declined to open a fund for the wounded [talians. King Humbert has proclaimed ah extensive amnesty of political offenders in order to divert public attention from events in Abyssinia. King Menehk has agreed to pprtnit the evacuation of Adigrat with mili tary honors. He stipulates that Tigre shall become independent. The Italian populace resent the imposition of conditions. German newspapers sneer at the. Italians as being grateful for the release of political prisoners.
THE EGYPTIAN QUESTION.
