... in oas opinion, it was not qualified, and remarked thbat it. was no more fitted to conduct administration or war in Central Africa than the War Office was to conduct the administration. Sir JAMfES FERGUSSON defended the Foreign Office system, and thought ...

... they kill or capture in war. The latter are tortured before being put to death. In fighting with an enemy who has pressed them hard and caused them much loss the bodies are eaten very soon afterncapture, and when the heat of war is upon them. In this case ...

... NEWS FROM 'WEST AFRICA. AN LMPORTAINT EXPEDITION. POSITION IN SIERRA LEONE. PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPrCIAL. LIVERPOOL, TUs.SDAY.-The Elder Dempster liner Oron arrived here to-day with mails and pas- sengers from the West Coast of Africa. The rorn left ...

... NATIVE TOWNS DESTROYED. PRESS ASSOCIATION FOREIGN SPEcWAL. Ln'RrccL, TimsSDnY.-The Elder Dempste? liner Benin, from, West Africa and Grand Canary, arrived this afternoon. Amongst her passengers were Major Reade, Captain Marsh, and nime non. commissioned ...

... serious personal injury. THE DE.CH OF MIR. ELLIOTT INs SOUTH AFRICA. The Press Association has received the following co'n-nunication from the secretary of the Consoli- dated Ooldfields of South Africa, Limited:-' I have to-day been shown a copy of a nmessage ...

... 'raise the qhes- tion of the occupation of the Soudan. When he did so be was asked by 'Mr. Wyndham, the Under-Secretary for-. War, if he would like ' to have .the, --flures before addressiug. ethe House. 1 'souldbhave liked, said Mr Morle .to have had ...

... Hope from the Dutch, and it re-C mained in South Africa till 1817. t In the meantime a second battalion had been a raised, and it was this one which represented the a 83rd throughout the Peniniular War. In the pirig T9tht2hd' bolios, numbering 900 m ...

... make much of. Ujelenda est Carthago! went forth hle cry fromd outraged Rome, threatened at her own gates. The war was carried into Africa-not having studied my Livy, nor eke my Biedeker, of late, I am not in a position to say in what particular year ...

... visbes with a curse on the English namo. Mr C P Scott. who raised the question first in the elonce, has a further inquiry of the War De- .artinent, to ask that such of the remains as are iiil securable shall be decently interred. The 'bole affair will be discussed ...

... the great battle. After much trouble a party of Arab hunters succeeded in capturing in Africa a magnificent specimen of the crested or Mount Atlas lion. The GOek war was as delighted as a child. with a new toy when he received the monster. He gave orders ...

... expedition to Dongola and the cost of construction of the Nile railway. She has re- paid to 'the War Office £215,000, and the other money was spent .by the War Office partly for Eng- lish purposes. (Hear, hear.) . Mr. J. MORLEY thought the House would want ...

... POLIVICS. THEmRE is a short but very suggestive article in the new number of the Fort- nightly Review, entitled The War Game in South Africa, by that powerfully realistic writer Mr. Morley Roberts, which will repay the perusal of all who take an interest ...