18 APRIL 1868, Page 2

The latest official telegram from Abyssinia (March 23), shows Sir

Robert Napier at Lat, sixty miles from Magdala, which he hoped to reach on April 2. Theodore, he thought, was growing " uneasy ;" but the troops were pressing forward in high spirits. A private telegram of a later date is said to have been received in Liverpool announcing the surrender of all the prisoners, but nothing of this is known at the India House. It is just con- ceivable that a message, sent from Zoulla to Bombay by steamer, may have been flashed through the Indian telegraph, but in that case it would have been received by Government. As yet the probability is that Theodore will surrender the prisoners, and disclaim all enmity to Her Majesty.