The Italian Government is not quite so resolved to avenge
its defeat in Abyssinia as was at first believed. General Baldisaera, it is said, found the army even more demoralised than he had expected ; great pressure has been put upon the King, not only by his advisers but by his allies; and the Negus Menelek has been asked, through a special envoy, to state his terms of peace. He appears to be inclined to moderation, and it is reported that he will be content if the Italians give up all projects of conquest, and confine them-
selves to Massowah and the colony around it. It is not certain that these terms have been accepted, but the balance of evidence is that they will be, and that Kassala also will be surrendered to the Dervishes, who are gathering round it in great numbers. The precise facts are not yet known, but it is evident from the programme read in the Chamber by the Marquis Rudini on Tuesday that some such arrangement has been resolved on, the Premier explicitly declaring that his Government would not seek "expansion," that it would reject the province of Tigre as a gift, and that it would not "insert in the treaty of peace any stipulation for a Protectorate of Abyssinia." Parliament has voted formal thanks to the British Government for its sympathy, and it is evident that the British march on D,mgola is regarded with a feeling of the deepest relief.
