NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ONDON was startled on Wednesday evening altogether out of
its propriety by a telegram announcing that Sir Garnet Wolseley had fought a great battle outside Coomassie, had lost three or four officers killed, and about 250 men killed and wounded. People whispered about " another Afghanistan," and generally appeared to think that for soldiers to fight battles was extremely -wrong. The morning, however, brought comfort in the shape of -telegrams from Sir Garnet Wolseley and Commodore Hewett, announcing that the General, after five days' successful fighting, had captured Coomassie on the 4th of February, that the King 'had promised to sign a treaty on the 5th, and that on the 6th he should begin his return march. He had lost altoptiler less than ZOO men, of whom barely 75 are killed, and " all fhb Wounded are doing well." There are three officers to be mourned—ltfajoitlaird, of the 42nd (he is not mentionedby the General), Captain Nicoll, and Captain Buckle, R.E.—but a fighting State was probably never subdued with so small a loss of life. Sir Garnet took with %him too few men, but from first to last he has tramped on with those few straight to his end, as irresistible as if he had been an ignoramus, instead of " a writing officer," as he was con- temptuously called.
