... Martin Btreot. SALES BY PRIVATE CONTRACT. c 2 SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1871 NOTES AND NEWS. The full text tbs Royal Warrant abolishing Army Purchase is given another column. This takes effect from Ist of November. A short time since a labouring man Arbroath came ...

... come to a miserable end. He belonged to the 20th corps of the Army of the Loire, and was shot as a traitor and spy. He kept the Prussians daily informed of the position of the French army during three months' time. A gentleman at Keswick, with a partiality ...

... entire congregation of Primitive Methodists have come over to the church. One of the toasts drunk at a recent celebration was Woman ! She requires no eulogy —rhe rpcaks for herself. Mr. Spurgeon has now, it is said, printed 1,000 of his sermons, of which ...

... majority of at least 50. Among the strange reports in circulation yesterday was one to the effect that in Committee on the Army Bill it is intended to move the omission of the purchase clauses, on the ground that their object has been already secured ...

... THE EXTRAORDINARY STABBING CASE AT FULHAM. The woman name! Mary Sadler, charged with stabbing Captain Sills, at Fulham, under circumstances bearing so strong a resemblance to the recent tragedy at Weetbourne Grove, was again brought up the Hammersmith ...

... determined to separate the civil from the military branch of the medical service in that country. We learn on the authority of the Army and iiavy Gazette that the War Office intends to call upon all volunteer officers to qualify or resign. The Emperor Napoleon ...

... prated by the Women’s Rights agitators. A woman who can manage her household—a good, thrifty, matter-of-fact housewifeis the sort of woman every sensible young man should look out for. Miss Becker and her army of female politicians might remain spinsters ...

... MAIL, FRIDAY, things. If they will vigorously pres* the Ballot, and give us efficient Army and Navy —will promote the Commission to inquire into the tenure of land in England and Scotland —will lay hold of some of the most pressing social reforms —will ...

... mentioned at all, and that ought to mentioned. In the first twenty-five years of the reign of George 111. the whole Crown Lands of England only peached the figure of £7,000. a year—not so much as that. Our Queen surrendered them in the beginning of her ...

... quantity of gas had accumulated in a disused underground cistern, and had communicated with the nearest house, so that when a woman, tenant of one of the houses, was lighting her fire, a terrific explosion occurred. The roof was blown off one house, and every ...

... French, on the organisation of the Prussian army, has just been published by Amyot in Paris. It is said that the Emperor has recently been engaged in the composition of work on the reorganisation of the French army and on the revision of grades. Four men ...

... denied the statement made by the physician of Her Majesty’s household, and officer kiffh in the Army, that this evil is necessary either for a standing army or the development of manhood. The meeting was largely attended by ladies, and a committee was ...