Woe are anxiously awaiting news of the advance upon O-ndurman. Theat that Mr. Balfour, in the course of conversation aday or tivo ago, expressed a very confident hope that within a week's time we shall have news that the scene of Gordon's death has been wrested from the grasp of the Mahdi's successor, and is once more part of Egypt. If his prediction is verified you will have the news by telegraph long before this letter reaches you; and it would be useless therefore for me to speculate on the subject.
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