... c tto its of ,a litoaI nn By POULTNEY BIGELOW FAR Up in the Highlands of South Africa, hemmed in by the Cape Colony, Natal, and the Orange Free State, is the last coherent body of negrocs on the whole of this vast Dark Continent. They are the nearest approach to a native nation owing to a variety of exceptional causes, and they have been for years eager to be let loose upon their traditional ...

... topics, of tlie elsak As day after day the transports arrive at Cape A Policy Town, and General Buller's Field Force begins of to assume something of its final shape and Justice strength, the public mind, skipping many a disagreeable interlude, begins to busy itself with the question of ultimate settlement. A stray sentence in Lord Salisbury's speech at the Guildhall last week- We seek no ...

... DAPHNIS IT CHLOE, Lyrical Comedy, In Three Acts, Words by MM. Jules and Pierre Barbier, Music by M. Henri Mar6chal, produced at the Thiatre Lyrique (Renaissance), Nov. 8th, 1899. Daphnis ?? . H. M. ANDaRMU PbiFMMt . ?? - SOULACROIX ?? ?? K. Bor s Chlo6 ?? Mdlle. J. IZOILaRC La Nymphe Echo ?? Madame FRAIDAZ Msrtale .Madame L RICHARD (FROM OUR OWN CORRxSPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY, NOV. 9.-A ...

... MR. CHARLES WYNDUAM AND THE I ARGONAUTS. ;e I Mr CharlesWyndhamwas entertained by the members Yof the Argonaut Club at dinner at the Hotel Cecil last ,Sunday. Mr H. A. JONES presided, and there were it also present Miss Mary Moore, Mr Frankfort Moore, e Mrs Beerbohm Tre-, Miss Juliet Nesville, Mr and Mrs e Lewis Waller, Mr Murray Carson, Miss Mabel Lewis, n Miss Helen Mar, Mr and Mr. Carl ...

... THE PROFE&S1ON AND THE WAR. The following subscriptions have been forwarded to the~ Daily Telegraph fund for the widows and orphans of the soldiers killed in the Transvaal :-Sir Squire and Lady Bancroft 1,000s, Mr Ben Davies 200s, Gaiety Theatre Company, Limited, management, artists, principals and chorus, orchestra, staff, &c., 1,400s; Queen's Hall orchestra and staff, per Tambourine, 210a; ...

... ;. lM:SSAGE FiOM HIS MAJESTY. ''TE DEEPEST PLEASU (OCNTRAL NEWS AGUNOY.) NEW YORK, Wednesday. Tbao L.ondonT Correspondent of the New York ,Journal cablas that whon tho Gornman Eim- peror emartked at Sheoruizs: LLSt night, at the conclusion of his visit to Eughlad, Count von 11uelow was naked by the enterprising news- papor nmai to obtain same IiSSagO froIII his MaIjeosty to America that ...

... NEW TEMPERANCE MOTVEENT. THE JAPANESE IN CANADA. SIR W. LAURIER'S ATTITUDE. (OU OUR COR10SPlONDBT.) OTTAWA, Nov. 14. Caauadian politic$ are about to becoam vcor- plitiated by the &pp,,arace of a new party, iui tho shape of a prohibition party. The ultra- prohibitionist, have uerer been contout sinco the plobiscito of 1S78. Now an appeal hs. been issued, signld by all the leaders of the ...

... IFROM OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT.1 MAFEKING, October :L1. AT last we have received definite information. The Ultimatumn has been sent to her Majesty's Government ordering the withdrawal of our troops. And failing that impossible step, we are to be attacked to-morrow. We are prepared to do all that Britons can do; but we are seriously outnumbered for the time, and at..best can only hold the fort. ...

... W\e give, in clef crence to the request of' many rcaders who share the public anxiety, the aipproxmtfate drates of arrival of the vat ions ships taking out the troops, guins, stores, and mules of the Army Corps. The dlates are tiw latest oni Nvinch they may be ex pected at Cape Town rather than- th~orearliest: - FIRST DIVISION (Lord Methuen 1 NNov. 6: I _oPks Iire.--2nd Bo. Roy al West Sutrrey ...

... 'Cbe Zop _of the MtHotninfl' DEATH -Oi LORD l-IoNVARD LE WALDEN. Lord Howard de Walden died in- Londonl last Friday night in his seventieth vear. He was at one time anl attache in the diplomatic service at Brussels, but subsequently antered the army, and was a major in the 4th Dragoon Guards. I-le is succeeded by his-son, the Hon. T. E. Ellis, who is an officer in the 10th Hussarsr-and Ech6 ...

... 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 ...

... ?UV l jfall oxyttt offiet, 18, CHARING CRoss ROAD, W.C | Ihe Quleen has at present in her gift the sinecure office of (lentleman I Isher Dailvy\iiter, in the Lord ChlamIberlainis department, vacant by the (Ieath of' Mr. Alpin MacGregor. The salary is £250 a year, besides sonme allowances instead of board and lodiging chlrin the thiee enliths of annual waiting, which duty is only on paper. 'T ...