A telegram, received at the India House on Monday announces
that the last division of the Army of Abyssinia quitted the port of Zoulla on the 2nd of June, on its way to Suez and Bombay. Only a few cavalry have been left to protect some stores. Kassa begged earnestly for aid to establish his dominion, but Sir Robert Napier declined to lend soldiers, but made over to him some mountain guns, 14,000 muskets, and some ammunition, enough, he thought, to enable him to hold his own. The expedition, the best organized and most successful of late years, has ended without a single com- plication, and its return will probably never be so much as de- scribed. Yet it must have been organized like the movement of troops on parade to have been effected so quickly and with such little loss. Six or eight camps separated by Alpine hills and more than Alpine ravines—that of Jedda is a "Snowdon downwards," —and choked with animals, ammunition, and stores, must have been evacuated at once, and the re-embarkation at the end of the chain must have gone on every day unhurried, but without cessation.
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