... ladies and gentlemen. The annual report. s ?? year that is past has been a c memorable one m the annals of peace. Wars and rumours of wars have abounded in every quarter of the globe; and, as the montas rolled on, oar hearts were continually saddened with ...

... rived. Portland, Dor, Wednesday-Elmina, from Rot- terdaim, arrived and proceeded for the West Coast of Africa; Ethiopia, from the West Coast of Africa, arrived and proceeded for Rotterdan. We]lington, Tuesday-Warrimoo, Vancouver, for Sydney, arrived. Madras ...

... 'raise the qhes- tion of the occupation of the Soudan. When he did so be was asked by 'Mr. Wyndham, the Under-Secretary for-. War, if he would like ' to have .the, --flures before addressiug. ethe House. 1 'souldbhave liked, said Mr Morle .to have had ...

... they kill or capture in war. The latter are tortured before being put to death. In fightina with the enemy who has pressed them hard and caused them much loss the bodies are eaten very soon after capture, and when the heat of war is upon them. In this case ...

... Saturday Aberdeen, for LondonL Port Said, 3Ionday-Hunalava, for London. sailed. Craftsman, for Calcutta, arrived. Sydney ,Saturday-War-rior, for Vancouver, sajledl. Greenoek, Sunday-Magellan, for Rio Janeiro, sailed. Scotia, for Calcutta, sailed on Sa turday ...

... make much of. Ujelenda est Carthago! went forth hle cry fromd outraged Rome, threatened at her own gates. The war was carried into Africa-not having studied my Livy, nor eke my Biedeker, of late, I am not in a position to say in what particular year ...

... visbes with a curse on the English namo. Mr C P Scott. who raised the question first in the elonce, has a further inquiry of the War De- .artinent, to ask that such of the remains as are iiil securable shall be decently interred. The 'bole affair will be discussed ...

... the great battle. After much trouble a party of Arab hunters succeeded in capturing in Africa a magnificent specimen of the crested or Mount Atlas lion. The GOek war was as delighted as a child. with a new toy when he received the monster. He gave orders ...

... POLIVICS. THEmRE is a short but very suggestive article in the new number of the Fort- nightly Review, entitled The War Game in South Africa, by that powerfully realistic writer Mr. Morley Roberts, which will repay the perusal of all who take an interest ...

... sufferingr there? Vas it a act that there were 50,000 people- en th a, border '1t starvation even in the best wars, raid was it a fact that wrhen there wars as abntt aI rain- fall they were brought to ?? famine 2 If so, in the presence of that state of aflairs ...

... A D the mariner had rnot ventured ?? far, and Africa was practically unknown. Tir' cane the discoveries of Columbus, a-i tm. enterpriase of the Portuguese, and in two c*an turys' time the outline of Africa was made velc clear. In 1600 -A D the maps of ...

... Gas for a c-nil! lot were 'owe r at 22.4 and Coats 1, at I ?? ?? - Warehousiing Preference and Burka Preference eaclh save war ;, and k~ollding Preference 1.-2. Pim Btotheri fell tti 64 'in nhe redneud dividend. Aroott and Co Ordinary ?? and Co Pre- erence ...