... remember any period in the course of my long military career when we had so much to think of or so much difficulties to contend with as now from a military point of view. But such is my belief in the military soirit of this country, as it is evinced by ...

... latrst information. 466 army medical officers and 4 0 civilian surgeons, 566 femnale nurses, and 5,668 male nurses and orderlies. These did not inchade dowtors and nurses engaged in South. Africa. The supply of beds was. on the 19th inst., 5,0L1 in Natal ...

... War to Parliament for the military efficiency or preparedness for war of; our military forces. The Commander-in-Chief is the } chief military adviser of the Secretary of State. and hasf the general supervision of all the military departments of the War Office ...

... MILITARY APPOINTMENTS. (From last ?? ' London Gazette.3 CAVAL rY. usdfe 1s-Letrt, L. G. MUtatord. Lord Brooke. from 7th l -r be d-Lientenant, in succismon to Lieait. F. H. W. Car ltl, proL'etrFl. 2ni Life Guards.-Lijut. F. H. Ripley. from 3rd Hoyal ...

... forward and volun- teered to serve the Queen in South Africa, there was less need than ever of resorting to oompulsion in order to fill up our oanles (Cheers.) To pass such a measure as this for compulsory military service would, in his opinion, be a slur upon ...

... forced to do foreign service. It was an unfair and a cowardly thing to make men embark upon one kind of service -when they had only engaged to do another. The War Office dared not ask Militia and Volunteers to engage for foreign service, because they knew ...

... enter into a special agreement for service at out- lying ports, led to considerable diseussion, but upon a promise by 3Lr. Wynd6ha that he would undertake to introduce weeds limiting the places to which rch special services should apply, thie a2inendnuent ...

... attended as Her Maj esty's Lords' Commissioners, and delivered the Queen s Assent to the following mea- sures :-The Finance Act, the Army Annual Act, the Oensus (Ireland) Act, the Military Lands Provisional Order Confirmation Act, and the Colonial Bank Act ...

... public. TFIE QUEEN'S COTOCOLATE. -cT. POWELL, WILLI3AS$, replying . to Mr; Broadaruret, said it bad not been reported that fthe trcops who were in LadyEmith during the siege had not received the Queen's chorolate. Any claimant for the Queen's gift wvho ...

... for India what answer has been returned by the., Viceroy to the intimation that a grant from. the Imperial Treasurv in aid of famine relief is at his service if he requires it. MAr. BRODRICK ton behalf of Lord George Hamil- ton): No communication of the ...

... and horses to mleet these requirements have been emabarked. DRAFTS FOR SOUTH AFRICA. The active service company of the 1st. Volun~teer Ba^ttalion Queen s Own C~ameron H:ighIsadtrst left Inver- ness yesterday by the afternoon mail train for Sonrth srnap- ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAXENT.'i H1OUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, June 22nd. The Lord Charcellor took his seat upon the wool- sack at a quarter-past four. XNEW SIGNATORY TO Till) ROIL. The Earl of CLAk7NOARTY, on taking his seat for the first time since his succession ...