... IT was rather a strange coincidence that the first impor- tant battle of the war should have been fought on the very day when the money for that war was voted. Mr. WYNDIIAM'S interruption of his statement as to organization, to read the telegram announcing victory, was a striking incident. But the mournful later despatch which Mr. BAL.- FOUR read just before the division suggests another ...

... ?? ?? I'l rnv- n ?? 0 England, thou doest well. Crown thy great dead, ToI'lse mighty dead who built thy walls of famf, And to the earth's far ends bore forth thy name, s Making it glorious. Fit it is to spread Ien lligh canopies of honour o'er that bcd e \Vhele lies a Hero; the illustrious flame v (Of his bright (leeds putting e'cnI Death to sham-, Y Througi whose dimii vaults their splendid ...

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... [By FREDERICK BOYLE.] IT is commonly said that English country folk have no traditions. Macaulay furnished the stock illustration when he visited Sedgmoor and found no one who could tell himn about the battle. But for many a mile round Chesterfield, as I am assured, every peasant knows Revolution House and as much of its storv as is needful-for a token he calls it The Plot or Plotting House ...

... AF TR S. Ir is suerbdayin ,Seteniber, a-. radianit'ble sky, fecked with many, clouds,' foA~c~ ree li&t the istsipwhich yit fe uponi :theefed of hohhrthii Switzerlan'd Between eitrtu ad ,quaint: villag'e-'bf, Dachsien':teeaen bra'wling, orrents,~ii nosnow-clpadMO mouain ord ee ais, uch ~,9 ~the mere nameI of 'Switzerlani~dreal 'to anl ng, ?? ladsae s 'such ~as 'we Mir igh-se ?? low, 'hill oS' ...

... NEGLECTED WESTIZA1.IANF,. Y One of the curious features of the WVestra.a akti l-r ?? ij IC which speculation has deserted it for tule more attractive Il~o ...

... SIR HENRY CAMPIBELL-BANNERAIAN at a select luncheon-party, and Mr. MORLEY at a ticket-meeting, have made two more of those intolerable spiral speeches. Both of them have slipped in passages which can be picked out by Imperialist Radicals whbo still shrink from the painful task of throwing over Radical leaders of the other kind; and in Sir HENRY CAMPBELL - BANNERMAN'S case this was probably not ...

... A X ROYAL FAMIIL Y, A T THE COURT Il ARIALL play has happy moments, but as a comedy of romance BIcanIOt be altoghele pronounced a success. Of comedy in the true sense it cr i none alt more than there is true comedy in The Mikado; while rtinancem the author depends upon so vell-worn an expedient, it has for tim ceased to be romantic. For a prince to do his wooing infprop rid 5ofld htls ...

... 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 ...

... I N 21 E GA RI)E N. )l UeI ( 'C I oILrr. lic T'I'he roses blhoin their ptals fIll-- at (iltnutilolS swect, .alld lilies till! Are tailnt all plxe th-ii lif; is l st-- Tlle stmincr calnziut alvS last. I knoxv a flo1wxr iti rre choice and r! c as Thalln any ia l III,- ct Icie al ll throl gh tl!e spring till burninig June or I Watclh d that it migiht blossoin i oi . An d now i-n my farde-lawer ...

... 7-yE BRAHIS-FEAST AT ONEINlNGEiV. CASTLE OF MARGONE, near TRENT, Oct. 16. [aia 11 en, barely over, yet already so distant (for I am Tilosd at N itt, th sense of return to Italy strong upon me), have adi si apafrot, a very peculiar and clinging kind of charm. bade nusii~af of ~lebratiig the unveiling of a monument to Brahms by the m ost'D perfk perforance Germany could give, not merely of his ...

... THE TRADE OF CHINA: HOW TO DEVELOP IT, INTERVIEW WITH MR. C. T. SGARDNER, C.M.G. ABOLISH the likin, the salt monopoly, remove the prohibition against the export of grain, reform the administration of the country, and open the country to British capital ,and energy by permitting British subjects to obtain railway and minihi concessions, to engage in manufactures, and lease ?? land'in the ...