... I|:~ . , CODLINGI..NG. THE FANATICAL FERVOUR OF AN M.A. IT was to a friend of mine, whom I call the Merchant Adventurer, because he once made a voyage to Hartlepool in a collier, that I owed my initiation into the mysteries of codlinging. I never thanked him for the trouble he took on my behalf, and I am afraid he ;thought me ungrateful; but, while I admitted that he did his best, I found ...

... o 'PRNGFREERGNES ex-citenfen; inay'. n1~y e ieiarasaby; ~.according y.5 -Ni httese'ca e rae ihL .or ?? dictatet an miatacr foexieetorve for surprise tmybewl osuia z what seem tobe thxeac~ -programm h s BtainonteLnon shire Regrmndiathad~~A the 6st tatao ?? of ihe Came~~ign Highanders Mw old ?? at~ - ed' ness to-start ii th~ ~ ?? ies tewrdbtw ga~hif ~.ifd Alexandria the lst B a'talion d'h hi, ...

... A JOKE AGAINST THE VATICAN. [FRtox OUR OWX CORRESPONDENT.] ROtIE, Sunday.-Radicals, Socialists and Anarchists are trying to repeat, for the discomfiture of the Marquis di Rudini, the experiment they worked with success against the Giolitti Cabinet, when they had Sicily and Massa Carrara almost in revolution, atld against the Crispi Cabinet, when in 1896 they set on foot a general agitation all ...

... THE PUNJAB ARMY-li. DOGRAS. Tan Dogras are a Hirdu race who occupy the hilly country between the Sutlej and the Chenab. They are the highest caste men we enlist in the Punjab army ; the majority of them are Rajputs (literally descendants of kings ). They are, not of the same physique as the Sikhs, but they are well and actively built. They have exceptionally fine laces, with fair complexion ...

... -, . . . . I .. I , 11 I ADATI ' Iffitil - 'foxIttte 4affl iet 18, CHARINrG CROSS ROAD, WACO The Prince of Wales will be ih town next week for the meeting of Parliamnent, and his Roval 'Highness is to 'entertain a large party at Sanaringharn for the sale of his shire horses from the Wolferton. stud-farm next Friday. The Pridice Is to return to Marlborough House from Sandringham on Monday, the ...

... OCCASIONAL NoTEES. The last reverse on the Indian frontier is just one of those affairs about which the less said the better. TLo begin with, General West- macott's telegrams only afford the most meagre information. We knowv merely 'that the Fourth Brigade, which was engaged in- a combined movement against the billhien, became entangled in a gorge near Shinkumar. Why the 'Sikhs` we're ...

... . [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] THE interesting article published in these columns yesterday, while empha- sizing the commercial importance of the Tchad (or Chad) basin and the serious character of the French designs in that region, takes no account of a very weighty factor in the situation-na mely, the presence of Rabeh. Ml. Gentil, as we all know, reached Lake Tchad in his steamer, but before ...

... 1. I 0.ifil ffigil saltat Office. 18, CHARING CROSS ROAD, WW.C The Queen has granted the Earl of Rotbes's three sisters, the Misses Mary, Mildred, and Georgina Leslie, the rank, title, place, pre-eminence, and precedence of an Earl's daughters. Pier Majesty's concession does not afiect Lord Rothes's mother, who continues to be plain Mrs. Leslie. III the same position as Mrs. Leslie, Mr. ...

... A DEFENCE. The voice of dissatisfaction is ever louder than the voice of satisfaction. If satisfied with a- state of affairs, we do not feel it incumbent on us to express that satisfaction. Silence denotes content, no less than con- sent. If dissatisfied we lift up our voices and say so, that our grievance, the cause of our dissatisfaction, may be redressed. Moreover, to express satisfaction ...

... P A N A MA.t; It may perhaps be a surprise to many people to learn that there is anything in existence upon the isthmus of Panama besides the remains of the Canal. Yet so it is. Panama is a department of the Republic of Colombia, and it has a separate financial deficit all to itself. That much is certain; but what that deficit exactly is appears to be by no means certain. A recent ...

... THE NEW PLA Y AT REP MAJESTY'S. A CHAT WITHX MR. MURRAY CAR 501. WE were sitting over our coffee' and cigarettes 4in te garden of that charming house at Maidrhead which overlooks R'ulter's -Lock, and which , . bat dd Mrs ...

... SOME DERBY RECOLLECTIONS. [BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] That the field of horses engaged in the 119th celebration of the Derby to-day may be classed as the poorest that we have seen contesting the race for years past seems to be a generally admitted fact by all good judges. As two-year-olds they were always an indifferent lot, ever beating one another, and to one thing constant never and as ...