On this Soudan question, however, we urgent demand was at once made for a new are likely to have a hot debate in Parlin. bullet. This is now on the eve of introment. Mr. John Morley has worked duction, and whether it be of the English or Indian will probably be no greater, if indeed so pattern its powers of penetration himself up into a very high state of i i mon the sub-
great as those of the Martini bullet. The ject. vidence this. week that the expedition is but the beginning of new pellet will '"'sct up" when it meets a great plan of reconquest of the Soudan any hard substance and its onward course and it is indeed stated with an amplitude of will consequently be checked. It will detail which goes far to carry conviction that give such a shock to the man. or horse further advance to Berber has already been unhappily in the line of its flight, {decided upon for the early autumn. Mr. that its stopping-power will be quite Morley has one advantage over his col-Dut it will no longer be equal [leagues on the Front Opposition Benches. to passing through trees or walls. The He can at least claim consistency, for as soldier may once more use with confidence private member of the House of Commons: the cover to which he trusted when a bigger in 1885 he strongly opposed the Soudanese bullet was in common use; but at the sume policy of Mr. Gladstone's Government 5 time, he must remember that if he is hit and when he now denounces the new the wound will be far more severe than Soudan campaign as a blundering and a when the earlier pattern of metal-covered criminal enterprise he can point without pellet was employed. Cavalry must also blushing to the failure and the evil effects, note that a bullet which sets up" on of the campaign of 1885. But although impact will effectually stop horses in their the Liberal Party generally supports charge, just as it will knock over ghazis or Mr. Morley's view of the question it dervishes. supports it in a. somewhat half-hearted way. If Mr. Morley's prophecy of disaster is fulfilled they will be ready enough to LONDON, denounce Lord Salisbury and his. policy 5 but if the reconquest of the Soudan cin
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