2 AUGUST 1884, Page 1

There is no intelligence of any value from Egypt, though

the Mudir of Dougola, as usual, has been doing the most wonderful things, and professes to be in possession of a letter from General • .Gordon, in which General Gordon asserts that he has retaken Berber. If that letter exists, and should be handed over to Major Kitchener, as has been requested, we should have some light on a very dark place. More probably the story is a fabrication.