A little news, but not much, has come in from
Uganda. On Monday night, in reply to a rather sharp speech from Lord }ferries, who wished to know whether the Government would send out a special commissioner charged to inquire into the " atrocities " alleged to have been perpetrated there, Lord :Salisbury stated that information had been received from Zanzibar condensing letters from Captain Williams, who wrote from a place near the southern end of Lake Victoria on March 31st. He reports that the fighting is over, that Ilwanga was expected to come to terms, and that nineteen French missionaries were safe in the Bukoba district. This is -so far satisfactory, and Lord Salisbury proceeded to say that he deeply regretted to hear of the sufferings of the Catholic missionaries, and that while he did not believe their charges against Captain Lugard, whose reports breathed a spirit of loyal impartiality, the Government would make every inquiry, and would call any officers who deserved censure rigorously to account. Lord Salisbury further confirmed the rumour that the British East Africa Company intend to abandon Uganda. We have discussed that subject elsewhere, but may ask here why, if the Government intends to keep Uganda, it should not send a successor to Captain Lugard, and keep the Egyptian soldiers.
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