... retreat owing to a storm of shell and bullets which fell around them. The emblem, as Colonel Elrmhurst o Rhodes said, when speaking to a Boer doctor s after the engagement, which is held to be the sacred E symbol of humanity was disregarded completely, ...

... humnoured, and if the British and Portugiese flags are to float side by side, it will not b~e for t~he first time. If report speaks truly, neither Government is averse from such an arrarngemeut, but a serious difficulty has arisen ill the attitude of the ...

... Everything seemed to benefit the markets, for there was a year of exceptionally active trade, but the -war in South Africa, so to speak, knocked the botton ott of the kettle. Thereis no reason, at the same time, for any idea of despondency; and with the new year ...

... now moving heaven and earth to get Lord Laas- downe and Gir M. Hicks-Beach into disgrace. It would scarcely be accurate to speak of this move- ment as an intrigue, for after all it is condacted with open, not to say brutal, frankness. At the same time ...

... proceedings is the arrest of an atLorney, Vermooten by name, on a charge of high treason. ' We makle no Vretetice, of course. to speak on tihe mnerits of thc case. But it' shows theat the authorities are not afraid to act, and thalt is the main point whenl a ...

... the struggle, and he dared not offend the Irish. So, after a good deal of skilful balane- ing on the fence, hle ended by speaking one n way and voting the other. Re repeated this curious performance several times dt'rlog the session. The amendment was ...

... the date of his birth in the registrar's record s' bnH. le glories ill the idea of being a Welsh- niin and of his ability to speak antl write the I lal-uage. Rc is also a Welsh Nationalist of the better type, endowed with sufficient ballast and eommnronsense ...

... inspires in the patient an invincible dis- last nta t ?? a taste for spirituous liquors. The inme- Inc n diate and, so to speak, local importance of a Si(t n remedy of this kind would obviously be stoi 0 enormous. The habitual drunkard, at pre- esti Lot ...

... tirown herself into the defence of ie Epire at this impornt crisis. The people|- Gt New Zealad, said Mr. Seddon, and he was 1 speaking, we believe, for the entire Colony. was determined that the prestige of the Brit-ish. Empire should be maintained at, all ...

... their own feeinu and a dutiful testimony to their kinsman and co-reigioniat on the other side of the Atlantic. 'he first to speak vrould b* Mr. Meyer, who worked much with Mr. Moody on both sides of the Atlantic. 5The Rev. F. B. Meyer, of Chris, Church ...

... people living néar who are likely to be able to speak best of his qaslificatioas, I shall in making selections pay attention to character, which I regard as & very important point.” “ What to draw speaking, do you hope “ I shall to the class from which ...

... dissolution and decay oppresses us. But as soon as it is one in the .P. morning, and the first of January, a morning breeze, speaking of new life, moves away the ect clouds which wore lying over our souls, and y's we begin to look for the dark, pure,. morning ...