... ; BRIGADIER-GENERAL MACDONALD ( FIGHTING. MAC ) TO SUCCEED GENERAL WAUCHOPE : THIS popular officer, at ?? India, is : ordered to South' Africz to take command of the Highland Brigade, and is welcomed on' every side as the best possible'appoint- ?? thiat ' could be made, since the gallant Highlander, quite apart from the high and conspicuous merits wbich qualify him for th&: post, is' ordered ...

... FOREIGN PRAISE. OF BRITAIN. THE special' .correspondent of,the Daily Telegraph at Vlienna ,sends the following extracts from Austrian papers, which are strong in their sympathy with the Boers: It is, noticeablethat: all the papers pro- fessedly Angiophobe express admiration of the, courageous attitude of the English nation. A. paper which is au strong friend of the Boers, nvrites:., ?? ...

... ,STRONG CONFIRMATION,: OF THE HORRIBLE TALES OF7 BOER TREACHERY.:- TItR special correspondent of the Daily. Telograph at Maritzburg, in his article, Bond or Briton, dated October 27,;speaks in no uncertain tone as to the tales of cruelty and treachery on the part of the Boers, which have aiready reached us. He says:- The Boers are accused in many cases of killing the wounded. I was ...

... WHIT XO 4DAY -CART-HORSE IN; no other city'o f'the world, probably, co.uld such a. display of horseflesh-cart- horse flesh,- to be precise - have been witnessed as that which turned out on Whit Monday'for the annual pardde. in' Rlegent's Patk, And in no other city of the world Would shch an enormous' crobd have stgoo .'fo hours. aikle deep ,i nmud, and wvith adrizzling rain soaking through ...

... | .0 :NEW -AND IMPROVED -|REGULATIONS fFOR VOLUNTEERS. UNDER the new regulations framed for~the purpose of'-securing a higher standard of .efficiency anmongst Volunteers, themen will 'be called: upon to fire at 400.jto..600 yards .anges'. The days of the 200 yards maximum Upracticerailge. are at last doomed. :.It-has been found by the authorities that many corps hiad a woful percentage of ...

... GOLD GALORE FOUND IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. RICH MINERS RETURN FROM - LONDIKE. Tmi Echo's correspondent gives 'the following faseinating ?? ?? July 19.-Ships laden with treasure from the golden Northh are' coming in almost daily, The .ss. Tees arrived here ?? 5, with 800,000dols. The ss. Dirigo arrived in Seattle, Washington, tli-dsame dayewitli 5O,OOOdols:' The ss. Topeka followed closely behind ...

... ;. 'i _ :i DEATfi : Eof A ;CLAIMANTsTQ~t A £6,000,000-ES.TA±'-. s 0 EARL-Y on Thursday Loing Mrs n'thlee' Davey, the W*ell n'ow 'Wi'bfeA 'ark claimant, died idt her ressdenai- Gray's Inn Road, &fteriabout a fo3irtmiiit illnes. Death is assigned to syncope, closely: fol- lowod upon an attack of paeuminia and acuta bronchitis. ?? s .Davel denth will remove a familiar re bo'fr'o£',hit.- hall ...

... [SUBJECT or DoBLE-PFAoa ILLUSTRATION.] THE correspondent of The Times on the Bechuanaland border in a despatch, dated Lobatsi, near Mafeking, October 4, said the situation all along the Protectorate border is now very critical. I have private informa- tion from a high official in Pretoria that there all thoughts, and almost all desire, of peace are given up. The feeling is very bitter, ...

... THEM .TRAGEDY 'IN A KEVTISH VILLAGE : 1] A RElCTO'1S DAUGHTERGUIL'T-Y OB p MNURDER, BUT TREATED ~A$ : ?? , ::.INSANE.,: ?? ,-:1o .0 'A th 'K ent AAssiesA at Maidstone, h fose Mr. : Justice Miathew, Bertha H,2tagge,'th ai' Peterson, aged forty-five, was ssitqred: fot - 8 the wilful murder of John, WbAleI' shoe-- b maker, at Biddenden, onh Februi 5 Mr. Dickens, Q. ?? and r G. J. t 0ot mesa cuted ...

... ' ONE TOUCH OF NATURE.' TOMMY ATKINS FRATERNISES WITH A WVOUNDED BOER IN LADYSMITH HOSPITAL. ISUBJduCT OF ILLUSTRATION. One of the nursing sisters at the Miltar.y Hospital, Ladylsmith, writing under date of October 26th to Sir John Voce Moore, the late Lord Mayor, says :-'Th glorious battle of Elandslaagte was a mighty success,- but, as our beloved Queel1 says, at a terri- ble cost. All night ...

... CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS AT THE LONLDON HSI'L ONLY-'to those arxeaed ith 'te ad o tation inscribed ':'With'^the mib atron s cn pliments a it ?? to see, the :eageir lit-tle fces of the inmates zoF the6children s, :ardg 'atg the great london Hospial' ,on' ?? .o~ccasion; otth'e .axnnal - Christmas t'estivities..: ?? , Thei' sce#; was one, -amostpathetically briaht ian~festive ,xf one' maY' sayit, r' ...

... SHOCKING SUICIDE IN THE ON . ?? 'OPEN, STREET, : ?? - .~ (SUBrECT OF ILLUSTEATION.] 4 TRAGlO suicide took place on' e-l ton Green, Islington. A-well-dressed man, about sixty years of age,- walked up to a block outside a bitcheils shop, and- seized a knife. Bdfore- he ceuld:be restrained, although there were many people' about, and a 'bus full of passengers was passing at the time, the man ...