The Mahdi has been recognised Sultan of Kordofan, -General Gordon has been cordially received at Khartoum.
20th February.
The House of Commons negative the motion of Sir Stafford Northcote with regard to Government action in the Soudan matter by 311 votes to 262, The Irish members voted in the minority.
21st Februar; 'The expeditionary force for the relief of Tokar is proceeding and will rendezvous at Ras Mal General Gordon is very' popular and is establishing great influence, 22ud February, Mr. Bradlaugh, member for Southampton (? Northamptov) has resigned, and been re-elected.
A motion of the House of Commons was adopted excluding him from the precincts.
23rd February.
Tokar has been surrendered. is said to be due to the disaffection of the garrison, half of whom submitted while the rest escaped.
25th Febraary.
4,300 British troops have Ianded at Triukitatand are preparing to advance.
The Cavalry have reconnoitred the cuomy, whom they fouud 10,000 strong.
{Probably Krinkaba or Merza Tokar is It is on the Red Sea and apparently the harbour or port of Tokar.]
The foreign delegates appointed to consider the question of the bunding of the Hongkew foreshore have come to the conclusion that the operation, if carried out, wil n improvement, provided that dredging is resorted to occasionally. We believe the delegates also suggest that the Garden side of the Oreck be similarly b With regard to the Munici to the foreshore, this appears to be difficult question to decide, and probably ires considerable time to settle jocking accident occurred at about on Thursday afternoon at the inese village situated on the Hongkew of the Chekiang Road Bridge. A Chinaman had somehow become possessed of some metal cases containing charges of some explosive. Apparently ignorant of the dangerous natitre of the articles, and curious to ascertain their contents, he tried to break one of them open by beating it with some instrument. The composition exploded, causing a report which was heard all over the neighbourhood and scattering fragments of the vessel containing it in all directions, with disastrous results, Several men, women and children were in the immediate neighbourhood at the time, some of them watching the man' proceedings from curiosity, and others attending to their own business. Some police who were in the district hurried to the spot on hearing the explosion and found twelve people 20 seriously injured that they had to be carried at once to the hospital. One poor child had its lower jaw completely blown off, another victim had a piece of the burst pass clean through his thigh, and a third was so seriously injured in the arm that on his arrival at the Shan-.tung Road Hospital it was found necessary at once to amputate the limb. These were the most serious cases, and it is feared that all three may lose their lives. The other victims escaped with less grave hurts, but all of them have -received severe iujuries; in particular the man who cause of the disaster; he was struck in: places with pieces of the burst metal. On searching the locality, the police found two or three other charges of dynamite, doubt less similar to that which was exploded, and although they have not yet been able to find out where these were obtained from, it is believed that they formed part of some cases of explosives which were stolen long ago, The injured man who exploded the charge states that he found it on the Bund but this is of course it il ili search tu the Doats on neighbourhood generally, light any more of the Te appears that the ci was n patent socket al, manufactured by th Powder Company, Limited, of We _Oue of those we one pound, measuring inches long and an inch anda half in diameter. The case is of tin, with a wooden plug.at the top of it.
The China Mail says that it.has good grounds for believing the report to be correct that Shanghai is to be raised to the dignity of a Consulate General,"
Rumours have reached us of insurrectionary troubles in Mongolia, The source iis but no details have come to hand legraph communication between Nagasaki and the Island of ''eushima and. Fusan, Corea, was opened for public traffic on the J5th inst. The rate to Fusan is 50 cents Tsushima 40 cents per ising Sun understands that 10 Government intend to open a the is of Iki, where the Japan-Coren call id en route.
Pore Dechevre received a number of meteorological instruments from France, is now distributing them among the coasting steamers. Each set consists of a barometer, wot and dry bulb thermometers, a hydrometer and a thermometer for test= ing the temperature of water, Joseph -Hans, who was so well-known in Shanghai as Consul for several nations and as an energetic Assessor at the Mixed Court, returned to Shanghai by. the Fuyew on Sunday. It is reported that of Mr. Haas is partially in connection with financial matters on behalf of Corea. We are not aware if this is actually the case, but give the rumour as we heard BLE. Eh. de Groote, Minister Resident for Belgium in Japan, was expected by the Hiroshima Marw yesterday, but his name does not appear in, the' passenger-list. His Excellency has been transferred to China in place of H.E. Lo Comte do Noidans-Calf, ho goes home next month, The new Minister also goes home on leave, and Belgian interests will bs, pro fern, in the hands of Mr. H, Sorruys, who is the Belgian Consul-General at Shangh Captain McEuen, Captain-Superintendent of the Police Force, arrived here on Wednesday from Hongkong by the Malwa.
There were among the passengers by the P. & 0. Co.'s steamer Malwa on Weduesday three foreigners whose appearance on, the Bund excited considerable curiosity. They are members of the Franciscan Order of Monks, and are on their way to Hupei. Although the weather was cold,
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