No news of importance has arrived this week from Egypt,
but our readers will remark a certain change of tone in telegrams and letters. It is now declared that the Mudir of Dongola has conquered his rebels, that Berber has not fallen, and that General Gordon is quite safe, even if the Mahal enters Khartoum. Rumours are also started that another Mahdi has arisen, and that Mahommed Ahmed is powerless in El Obeid. Zebehr also is represented as exerting himself to save General Gordon, even sending his sons as messengers to him. All this means, we take it, two things,—that the leading bondholders are a little afraid that the expedition may cost some Egyptian money, to avert which calamity they would betray General Gordon to the torture ; and that the higher Egyptian Pashas are growing disinclined to an expedition which might take the Soudan out of their own and the Mahdi's hands. The Nile is rising, too, and General Gordon may assert himself ; and altogether the new cue is to represent affairs as so much improving that perhaps the Expedition is not re- quired. There is a manufactory of lies in Egypt somewhere doing a most successful business, and we should like to know who manages it. Does he look to the Paris Ring, or to Nubar, or to Zebehr, for his reward?
