TJic Slave Monopoly of the Government. 175 lamented Miani to be brought liere, whence T shall send them to Italy.

At Ukerewe two missionaries have been massacred.

The Church Missionary Society calls them the victims of their self-sacrifice, and proclaims them to be martyrs ; but from news we have had it would seem that the cause of the massacre was some money which was contested, and that violent discussions had arisen between the missionaries, the natives of the place, and their chief.

Monsignore Comboni is preparing to establish a mission on Lake Victoria Nyanza. But I believe tha the can hardly make head against the English mission, which has great capital and splendid material at its disposal, things which attract the cupidity of the savages much more easily.

I had been several days at Khartoum making my preparations to push forward to the Sobat, and nothing more was wanting but a permission from the authorities at Khartoum, when, foreseeing that Osman Pasha, who acted as the Attorney-General of Gordon Pasha (who was absent), would perhaps make some difficulties, and in order not to place myself in the disagreeable position of receiving a refusal, I thought I would wait a few days for Gordon, since he was expected back daily from his long journey of inspection in Harrar and along the coast of the Red Sea. Khartoum at this epoch was in a distressed condition, for Osman Pasha had profited by his double post of Commander-in-chief of the army and Attorney-General to Gordon, to amass a fortune. All Khartoum was preparing a grand demonstration for the now imminent arrival of Gordon, when a despatch arrived from Berber announcing the dismissal of Osman Pasha. He had to leave instantly for Cairo. The joy of the population at seeing themselves freed from such a functionary was great. His dishonesty had arrived at such a pitch