GORDON AND THE MAHDI. 96 BRITISH SOLDIERS ON THEIK WAY TO THE FRONT BARGAINING WITH ARABS AT ALEXANDRIA.

much aspossible. Nevertheless, when a safe retreat had been securedfor General Gordon and Colonel Stewart, together with the Egyptian troops and functionaries, Lord Wolseley was to makearrangements concerningthe future government of the Soudan, and especially of Khartoum. He was informedthat Egypt would be pre-