... So slow in its course, and so exiguous in its volume, is the stream of news from the seat of war that the public wvill welcome as a burst of unwonted generosity the long despatch fi-om iReuter's correspondent which 'describes the triumphant entry of Colonel PILCHIER and his flying column. into the little town of Douglas yesterday. Douglas is one of several places which the Boers have occupied ...

... ROYAL MILITARY ACADENM WOOLWICB. The following are declared by the Civil Service 03m- missi3ners to be the snoceaful candidates at the Com- petitive Examination held in November and December Just, for admision to the Royal Militry Academy, Woolwich; bht their admission is conditional on tei pawing a medical eaamination which will be hd, in Land - in the course of a few days. Marks. Kas. Ingham ...

... t3It~j IRA # tte Effirt, 18, CHARTRG CROSS ROAD, W.C. The Queen will, it is expected, return to Windsor from Osborne about Thursday, February 15, and her Majesty will then reside at the Castle for between three and four weeks, until her departure for Bordighera. The Duchess oF Albany and Princess Alice and the young'Duke of Albany, who are staying, at Osborne with thie Queen, will pay a visit ...

... OUR IMPERIAL INVALIDS. t'o he EDITOR of/1e PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-In mentioning places in the south of England which are suitable sanatoria for re-establishing the health of our brave soldiers invalided from the war, it seems strange that you should have overlooked so well-knovn a health resort as the city of Bath, especially as this city approached the War Office with offers of free use of ...

... THE WAR GEN. FMENCH'S ADVANCE. POSITION'S MAINTAINED. REINFORCE-ENTS WANTED TO DRIVE BOERS OUT. FIGHTING YESTERDAY. SUPPLY TRAIN WRECKED. SUSPECTED DUTCH TREACHERY. BOER MOVE ON MOLTENO. REPORTED ATTACL A messag from the Queen nddressed to All the troops in South Afriea, invoking God's blessing upon them and wishing them a happy New Year, was read out on Tuesday by all the revgiriental ...

... A-0 IRO0M TO LIVE.' THE RURAL R19,OINGT QIESTION. Pt F~C 11WNVI NG IN TIHE Co&rrA _C. 1 TIE QUESfTON OF REXLMI)ES. ._ ?? THE EXIST'ING LAW. JrY 0, LM SIMAL CO. MJ-SIONI> I in pr~wiou Articlos we have sv-n ^ fNU' suvrro of the state of ti.ingi in the mrral &'i- t. Ies of Sozuhem 1g-Ine i Ws txgn, it. wlII be re-nembetre4, with en ?? of a wekin, r m Fo..t Anlti. In this *he writer deoscribed [ ...

... l d~M- , peets of th Wdx. PATrwNc, is 'tili the virtue which makes the heaviest and most constant demand on the CO51huDn amOMAIM on We British people. The war in bouth Africa, so far ma the mao operit- tioias of it are concerned, is reduced to a univer- sal stalemate, and the public is natura3ly anxious to know when and how a new move is to bo made possible. When will Lord Aethuen be able to ...

... DEULGOA BAY. IREPORTED L.ANDING nF GUN |S. THEC APTUR E OF TIE B1UNDESRATH IS ENGLAND WITHIN HER RIGHT? OPinION OF GERAMAN EXETS LFROM OFln CoIrSPONDEN'r.) MBEIN, Wednesday Night. Thn statement that a secoud German vess1el has boeeU seizd ott Delgo Bav has fanued th. anti- ntivs tlamie here, and even in. G.overnmentia quarter, they begin to be sonic- What inervots. Yet it ?? be admitted that ...

... PROGRESS OF' SICK AND WOUNDED From the General of Commuiicaticns, Capetown, to 1 W Secretary of Stto for War. 2 January, 1900. 2nd Lieut. Ring, 1sf Argyll and Sutherland High- I lacders. rezar-,ed w missing, is now reported to Nes been found dad by M,1ajor BrtcbalL, Royal Army Medical Corps, now releesed. yiklowing ocmr -ns to asuaitv List, Magers- iontein: EraS, from missing. and aad to ...

... NOTES ON THE WAE. BY OUR MILITARY EXPERT. COLESBERG, MOLTENO, AND DOUGLAS TEE ARTILLERY DISPUTE QUICK-FIRING GUNS. MAJOR RAY AND TIE DAILY MAIJ. A -COMIC INCIDENt This has been certainly, if ever any was, a war which has been marked by strange changes, tending to violent revulsion of feeling, taken on the whole by the nation with wonderful calm and phlegm., bat none the less trying on that ...

... A NE W TRIS TA N. MR. VAN Dycx INTERVIEWED., FOR some time Ernest Van Dyck has proposed to make his first appear- ance as Tristan in Wagner's opera of that name in America. It will be an interesting occasion, for it puts into the field a new Tristan. where hitherto Jean de Reszke has reigned secure and without a rival. Not that Van Dyck is likely in any sensetobe a rival of Jean de Reszke in ...

... DEATH OF MR. SCHNADHORST. * THE FOUNDER OF THE. CAUCUS. After a-prolonged illness AMr. Francis Schnadhorst died at Putney on Tuesday. Mr. Schnadhorst's name has secured its measure of immor- tality in association with the caucus, an institution which, for good or for illp or. for a combination of-both, has certainly come to stay.- Born in - . ? --.__ IOAfl --. MR. SCIINADHORST. Birmibgham in ...