... THE WAR OFFICE. The Committee of Public Accounts in their first report this year, state that there is a deficit of £44,197 2s. fid. upon the Army. Appropriation Account. The committee add that they have endeavoured to trace the cause of this excess, ...

... they were to resort to military measures. Ho went on to refer to the number of wars in South Africa in which we had been at dii!erent times engaged, describing the Zulu war, in passing, as monstrous in point of policy and indefensible in point of principle; ...

... for a History of Temperate South Africa. Mr. Jas. Heywood occupied the chair. Sir Birtle Frere conitne.:ced by remark.ng that since his return from South Africa, like many others, he had often asked himself if South Africa had a history. It appeared to ...

... that the policy, for which his lordship expressed a preference. would have involved a war with France, and a war with France might have brought on a general European war. By taking the energetic course they did, when the proper time to strike had arrived ...

... mode of waging ear in that part of Africa it may be quoted. An island called Sass was the particul ir object of his ambition; but its inhabitants preferred their liberty, and, being expert divers, wheneve• Mtesa's war canoes approached, they dived underneath ...

... behalf of hi 3 country, whe it was reduced to the greatest straits by the disastrous defeats it suffe,edia the Franco German war, mo le an impression which was never forgotten in the Fatherland. About the strong patriotism of M. Gambetts there could be ...

... not to a settled form ..f government, the Boer has a decided objection Money. however, cons . Kates not only the sins ws of war, but the means of anything like a stable rule, and to this fi.ct the leading spirits of the South African Republic ate keenly ...

... bringing forward his motion, in the !louse of Commons, for the purpose of raising a debate on the state of affairs in South Africa, there will be no want of materials to work upon for members who wish to say something on the subject. The inoperativeness ...

... collected by the military authorities in the United States place the British soldiers serving in their armies during the Civil War in the same order of stature as that assigned to the general population. The stunted growth in the West Riding of York, Durham ...

... the 11th Foot; Lieut.-Colonel Coet/ogen, late major of the 70th Foot; Major Martin, late captain of Baker's Horse in Routh Africa; Major Farquhar, late captain in the Grenadier Guards; Captain Forestier-Walker, late lieutenant of the Buffs or East Kent ...

... which time the War Office authorities have betn seeking to obtain it. It was now silted hat the contract had been duly signed and a deposit paid. Captain Morley said the letter hal been only received by him the previous night, although the War Office authorities ...

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