... The news from the western bordert8iidicates that the enemy is manceuvring to isolate and invest Mafoking, Vryburg, and Kimberley. Maribogo, south of' Mafeking, has been' abandoned by the railway staff and telegraphists, and the nearest point of communication is Setlagoli, sixty miles south of Mafeking. A despatch from Kimberley, dated Friday, 2 P.n., stated that the Boers had already twice ...

... COTTON During the last week or so raw American cotton has fallen in Liverpool to the extent of a dozen points or so, or tell shillings a bale. The bulls} unloaded last Thursday. Yesterday there wcere numerous fluctuations, but values rested firmer at the finish of the market. Mr. Henry Neill sticks to his big figures, though pressed to reduce his estimate of 11,00,000 bales. Lancashire ...

... THE unwritten law which sometimes seems to govern the military history of the British Empire, as it governed that of ancient Rome, has been exemplified again. General GATACRE'S campaign in the north of Cape Colony has opened with a reverse, which, to use his own epithet, is certainly serious. How it happened the telegrams received up to this morning do not show with very much clearness. No ...

... The great trial has begun, and in spite of the admirable bearing of the accused and the combined frankness and skill with which he parried the thrusts of the President of the Court in his examination, we must confess to the opinion that the general character of the first day's proceedings does not augur well for the triumph of truth and justice. Both the matter and the manner of Colonel ...

... A recernt issue of the *rVto IYrk .Suo conitains the follomvinm statement of losses oill the battietield, in v iewv of tihe reported statement that the Modder River engagemelit was the b' hloodiest iattle ' of the century. 'At the battleof Aiisterht/, ?? 2, 1805, the French blost 7,000 officers and mell and thie killed and wouindeii of the allies numbered more than 3,000. The Frentch losses ...

... SATISFACTORY CYCLE RITSULIS. If all cycle companies had maintained their position as well as th, F'xfild and WVearwell companies seem to have done, there would ir,3 lv been much cause for complaint. Thc Enfic Id company, asitaS w allUI~ yesterday, maintained the 10 per cent, dividend shex'.n it, the previ us two years, but the carry-forward was lower. T he \eriICa. pany shows a trading profit ...

... TXE BOER REVOLT' I(D1BERLEY GARRISON ACTIVE. TWO SORTIES. BRISK FIGHTING WITH AN INVISIBLE ENEMY. ;lNERLEY, Nov. 15, 4 A.Al. (By despatch rider to Orange River ov. 22).-A force composed of detachments of the Diamond Fields Horse, the zirberley Light Horse, and the Cape Police, under Major Scott-Turner, vith a held-gull and two Maxims, was sent out to-day to ascertain the strength of the ...

... AOLIg EiT ?? offire, 18, CHARING CRaOss ROANb, W. C, The Dowager Lady Southampton has replaced the Dowager Lady Ampthill as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen at Windsor Castle, and will be on duty until December 5, when she is to be succeeded by either the Dowager Countess of Erroll or Viscountess Downe. During tir Christmas holidays the Dowager Lady Churchill is to be the Lady itl Waitied on ...

... It must be an older archaeologist than the present writer who can speak, de visu, of the first appearance in the London streets of the now only.too familiar sandwichman. When all the world was very young indeed, and I was being personally conducted along the Strand, with never a prevision of the familiarity my fbet were to acquire with this absorbing, fairylike, and tumultuous thoroughfare, I ...

... ENCOURAGE KLINDLY FEELING SIXPENCE. So runs the legend on the tattered cover. Inside, the title page gives me The History of Little Downy ; or, The Adventnres of a Field Mouse. By. Susanna Strickland.' There are two woodcuts; the frontispiece: a hayfield in wvhichl,amid haymakers at work(and two resting onia demolished haycock), waggons, horses, trees, a child was hard set to find the little ...

... liY A 1 -AAS H-owv difteretit it ?? tha 't of I90 little thjouight, just a year ago, when walking d on the peaceflbi ?? street, past tile Royal Hotel, that shells wvould to-day~ be hurst,tn11i~ t its do~or. I had been onl anl Inspectinlg tour und~er tll(m lonely s11inlillitS Of the, Drakensbeg and returued to spend ('bristinas Daly withi aii old Jrieud of' mine, one otfthc leading merchaiits ...

... [BY W. PETT RIDGE.] THE regiment being a mixed one, boy recruits sit on one side of the six tiers of seats, girl recruits on the other. In front of the delighted roaring fire which faces them, with its flames rushing up to tell the outer world all about it, marches a young drill-sergeant in spotted scarlet blouse and black skirt, who endeavours to add to her twenty years by an aspect of ...