The force of insurgents led by the Haddah Mullah attacked the English camp soon after nightfall. The soldiers were at once formed into a square around their baggage, and though, as we have said, the attack was fiercely made on three sides at once, the famous square stood firm, and the tribesmen were forced to retire. Ten batteries of artillery and eight regiments of cavalry have been ordered out from England to help suppress the insurrection in India. * * * * * It is reported from the Soudan that a treaty of peace is about to be made between the Mahdi and Great Britain. The terms of the treaty are said to be that the Mahdi will not oppose the British forces advancing as far as Khartoum, and that they may station troops to keep possession of the land they have gained, but that they must not attempt to go a step farther. The Mahdi is to remain King of Khartoum. It is not yet known whether the terms of peace will be accepted by England. An interesting find was made at Berber. When the British troops entered the town they found on one of the boats in the river a uniform-case marked Gordon Pasha. The English officers to whom it was brought were much moved at the sight of an article that had once been the property of the unfortunate General Gordon, who was killed by the Mahdists at Khartoum on January 26, 1885. * * * * * There is news of Professor Andree. You remember that he started from Spitzbergen in a balloon, hoping to sail across the North Pole. A report from Arctic Russia says that on the night of September 14th the inhabitants of a little village saw a balloon which was believed to be that of Andree's. A day or two after this a carrier-pigeon brought a despatch from the traveller. The tidings brought by this bird were that Andree was making a good voyage to the eastward, and that all was going well. There is no doubt that this message is a genuine one from the explorer. The pigeon bore on its wings the same markings as on those which the adventurer carried with him. Scientists have, however, expressed their opinion that Andree has failed to reach the Pole. The message of the bird and the direction in which the balloon was seen to be going have convinced them that Andree has been carried eastward, and not across the Pole, as he had hoped. It is thought that by this time the gas in the balloon must have become exhausted, and that Andree and his companions have had to cut loose from it, and are on the ice somewhere near Spitzbergen, and that they may perhaps be so fortunate as to drift near enough to civilization to be picked up and rescued. * * * * * Interesting news has reached us about Lieutenant Peary.