... and in a very prostrate Qereral Sir Wood takes over the com mand of the in the eastern military dietrict, with headquarters at Coelobester, to-day. in place of service as renerel }o command ef the district. of White, who has completed ble period According ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT BOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY. In7,the House of Lords, Lord Carlines:W(l declined to give any information relative to the arrestof one of the Phenix Park murderers. Lord Granville moved an address in reply to a message from the Queen as ...

... Government 1 l have carefully considered our military position, not with reference alone to the Soudan, but to the 1 general condition of public affairs, and to all the t fpossible demands upon the military resources of F the empire, and have come to the ...

... I IMPERIA-L PARLIAMENT. ;| WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12. LEADING INCIDENTS. HousE or COoaroes, XVED'ESDAT NcGHT. The speeches from the Ministerial benches of the two Houses, to-day, which introduced the vote of thanks to the army for its services in the Soudan ...

... paid the foreign service messengers as compared hano tg with home service messengers and Queen's to r- messengers under the Home Office. ?? ie Sir C. DiLSE stated that a circular bad been sent A v to the representatives of the Queen abroad, advising WAit ...

... ZZeg I of service in all thecase dwas absolute. With regard Sa to the reserves, he stated that for his own part he n' strongly felt the necessity of being prepared to fill it up the vacancies created by the withdrawal of ox troops from home service. C After ...

... Chancellor, the Marquis of 3A Waterford, and the Earls of Coventry, Lathom, r and Hardwicke. r- THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. d . The Loan CHANCxLLOx then read the Queen's id Speech as follows:- .e| MY LonDS AND GENrLE=,r. ; I am glad to be able to relieve you from ...

... for the complete military evacuation of Northern Afghanistan, and some progress has been made towards the pacification and settlement of the country. A renewal of hostilities by the Afghans under than has rendered neeemary further military operations in ...

... directed a military expedition of'her forces,,cbarged ti ity upon the revenue of India, to be despatched for tl d service in Egypt, that House consented that the tl i-I revenue of India should be applied to defray the ti eir j expenses of the military operations ...

... regard to the opinion of bis military advisers, he could not ahtte dto the House the exact advie they had given. To ea do so would be most inconvenient to the public t an service, but he must point out that his i1 military advisers at home' were nuot so ...

... I mast' not forget the service of the' I Royal Marines, aud1 assure this House that there v is no coldness between that arm of the: service and b the army. We are always too glad to avail ti .ourselves of the valuable services of the Royal t dtazines ...

... rather as an incident in the military occupation of Es-',pt, would estaim- lish a precedent which it wouldl not le desirable to establish. The reward to the officers and men was engaging the earnest attention of the military ldepartment. Their lordships ...