... YESTERDAY. COLONELS SCOBWARTZKOPPEN AND PANIZZARDI. ANOTHER APPLICATION REFUSED. A Reoter's Rennes telegram, received yes- torday, says: - When the Court re-assembled this morning, a letter was read from the witness Cernuschi, saying that he was ill in bed and could not attend. Me. Labori subsequently stated that he had been informed that Colonels Schwartz- koppen and Panizzardi would give ...

... ] NOTES AND COMMENTS. for ti BY JOSEPEC BURGESS, heci5 THE P-ROSC1B.TBED A.S.E. oe The Amalgamated Society of Engineers has Witi. 'a&len ton evfil days. An arbitration uonimittee Gfa theo Parliamenotary Committee of the Trades debet *Cnion Congress has sentenced the society to ex o eolusion froetitile Trades. Union Congress for two seeir years, in accordance with thte following stainding Sinit ...

... S SUtMMARY OF PARLIATMEWIT I * HOUSE 01r 0MMOI . M ONDAY. IHTSH DEPA.TMEST OF' A(GRICULTUllE. Mr. G. Balfour introduced a Bill for ?? *3 Department of Agriculture and other Industries and Technical Instruction in Ireland, .and for other purposes connected therelvith. ' The inessure, so far as concerdcel the transfer of ncw duties, closely resembled the Bill of last year, but it added those of ...

... SUGGESTED FORCE OF SH^AP- SHOOTERS. In a long lotter to the Times, on the war, Lord Dunraven writes:-I ghould liks to &eo a force of, say. 50,000 mouinted sharpshooters raised, 20,000 at home, ,0,0U0 each in Canada, Australasia, and South Africa respectively-a Volunteer force, but liable for foreign service. . . The idea can bo utilised now. Nlhy are we not availing ourselves of the ...

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... .SPJF9. Spies flourish in South- Africa as they do every- where else, writes the author of the article Spiae at the Seat of War, appearing in the January part of ' Cassell's Saturday Journal. . Every country eim- ploys them, and they are found in every ariny, bladk as well as white. Many a battle, indeed, has bewn won simply by- 'informatioei brought in.' Spies, broadly spbaking, are of ...

... SENSSATIONA1L O( CTUR].T'N(*1; I; Iy I - CHE'SHfl CIIUllIIt. The Rev. Father Black, of South Lodon fe anouneed to praceb the harvest thanlrllf 3ree we, in Nantwicb cburch on Snnday but evas prn setmr°l the intervention of the Bishop of cilhster. MQfedl by hymn before the sernion ait the norn 'ntor Rector, Rev. C. E. Jackson, aten emd tericetehe addressing a large eongregation said that be 1t b ...

... The expected has happened after THiE ?? all in South Arica. Great W.As. Britain is at war with the Trans- vaal. For tbe first time for many years Fingland is entering upon a deadly struggle ?? a white people, a people professing Chris tianity. The position is one which ;must fill us all with the deepest pain and regret. War is always hatefpl, deteati.ale. It is doubly hiate-, ful when ihe ...

... IMPORTANT MILITAR T ARRANGED- MENTS, h THE BOER REPLY. -- ?? The Press Association Woolwich correspondent . states that, subject to such modifications as cir- cumnatances may require, the composition of the military, force proposed to be -depthdtihe Trs~xsvaal will be nearly as follos Tey- e battalions of Infaiitry, six regimet ?? four batt eries of -Royal'frs Atleylee batteries of Field ...

... X , - ~:- - I :. A lFEW ])%INITIONS 01? VANITY.. arsonal'stooktakiugat too bigh a figure. Dust airing itself. Recolunting might havo.beens. Pigmies striving to be giants. . No. 1 on pride's bicycle trying to beat the record. wA edding breakfast without. the bridescake of affection: . Life's diany. The sigh of regret. Self-esteem turned sour by the yinegar of pwidn. -A fanoy~ bazaar' of al ...

... :. A,-THAGICt.ANDRXOITING;PERIM? 11 . . ?? - ?- AA great:deal has.tbeen written from time to: tiie about-thei, series-of tragio events ?? vwhicheCUl- ,d mminatedin the eruel ?? of Tsar Alexander b II.. The. iarquie of' Dufferin and: Avn;: who* was 'o Bxritish. Ambassador to Russia- at the time, returns to v the suhjbotlin the- ?? Eis artiele I ccevmr-asm.reaground--that is- familiar to many of ...

... I . A CLAIRVOYANT FORTUNE-TELLER FINED. The West Riding Justices at Deovsbury on Moniday were occupied for a considerable time in hearing a forrune-telling case, which has aroused a good deal of, interest throughout the district. The defendant was o' well'dreased woman, named Evelyn Scott; who resides wiith her husband, 'a well-known-imusician. at SyVi]6 Town.. The prosecution was conducted ...