... BMAGAZINES FOR FEBRUARSY. LlHiRD 'oTICE.] The WNide W'orld continues Charles Neufeld's account of his confinement at Orndurman, and brings the story down to the battle whichoccasioned his rescue. Among other articles is an account of an attack upon a caravan by the dreaded Taurcgs. In the Sunday Strand lan Mllaclaren continues his Life of Jesus Christ, which is illustrated in a very ...

... -- - 1I- I1 ALTIlOuc-V Russia is still regarded as possessing only a thin veneer of civilisation, yet there are Un- I- -- -- M E - -1_ :- ?? n*t mnistakablo signs that she is making steady progress in those liberal thoughts and customs which give to the more Western states a polish that is not common to the rest of the world. Under the enlightened rule of Alexander III and that of the present ...

... . .1 SCENE IN THE HORSEFAIR. it SERIOUS ASSA ^ULTS. e Yesterday, at the Bristol police court, before Col. ), CoatEs and Air Edward Parsons, Robert Todd a Macmillan, 60, of 47, Ashley hill, was charged with i, ?? William Smith, and other persons if unknown, by striking them with an umbrella. v William Smith said he was driving a horse attached n to a trolley in the Horsefair on Monday when the ...

... I | Whitsuntide Gatherinp;s. Whit ,uibtitdo ne itle lajson of the Friendly Society meeting. In the early dty,, of the movement the members were accustomld to walk in procession, attend divine service, and hold ih.Ir annual feast; nowadays the elected representativel, attend the annual session of the Parliaments of 'heft iespeetOiV Ordters to review the acts of their exeoutves and mnlee the ...

... Voc zatil of )Zrtztot+ With reference to the contract by which the enterprising firm of Elder, Dempster, and Co. have secured an annual subsidy of £40,000 for ten years from the British Government and thie authorities in Jamaica for a service of steamers, to start in January next, forthe purpose of bringing fruit from Kingston and other ports in the island of Jamaica to a port in. the West of ...

... eb: ealtt of wtotolu I The casualty i1st pablibeod yesterday showed thWM major Shereton has boen in hospital since his arrival at the Cape, and hes only just started to join the Nortb Sonjerset Yeomanry Co. with his uncle, Lord I'oberts. The numerous friends of Alderman Cope Prootor will be glad to know that he has returned tolfnglaud with health very much improve t by his forelia trip, but he ...

... .I-)IT)fStria 1112CUM COLEVINtD (BATH)| Theannual hoenendisaionaay treetingil connection with the Wesleyan Chapel was held on Tuesday. Mr Joshua Ashman (Highbury) presided, and capital t addresses on home wisbion work were given by the I Rev T. Whitaker (Eolcoumbe), and Messrs J. James Ia and J. Hancock. a On Wednesday the home mission annual meeting ri was held in the Primitive Methodist ...

... = | SomE weeks ago it was lightly . stated, in answer to certain fore- bodings as to the condition of a__ LL L1A IÆ Ace_- 4 USA JJUUAL1rCO CU UU -U- J -IIAa Us Klimberley, that the town could not be properly considered in the throes of a siege until its inhabitants had been compelled to turn to the consumption of horseflesh. We were optimistically told that Paris held out on its rats, and ...

... 'Ihe F'l;r East, Tuie situation in China is raplidlly getting wvorse. The Im~e rial soldiers have been defeated by the Boxers, t rains can no longer run thlrough from 'lientsin to Pekiin, and the Legations are calling for more Miarines to protect Eulropean lives and interests. Elushed with their sac.. cesses, the rebels-if rebels they really are- are getting more audacious, and it is evident ...

... I I Official Lists. [Press Assoclation Telegrams.] The War Office last evening issued the following From General of Communications to Secretary of State for War. CAPSTOWN. Following reported dangerously ill 11th June:- I Draghoender. I NeEbitt' SHorse-Trooper Clock. 19th Battalion Imperial Teomaury-Pte, E. F. Gush, 6th Lancashlre Fuslliers-Pte, W. Clarke. I St. John's Ambulance Brigade-Pte, F ...

... TIm French newspapers having , becomo discouraged over their ?? campaign, have turned their attention to the creation of another sensation. The remarkable discovery has now been made that if France were only to possess a Colonial army she would be in a much better position to check the machina- tions of England. It is astonishing the number of times the word if enters into the calcu- ...

... A TORPEDO BOAT DESTROYER STEATMS 40 MILES AN HOUR. Feginesring had a representative on board H.L.S. Viptr on her trials, when she ran for some hotrs, a speed of 40 miles an hour. The Viper is similar to the later elies of torpedo boat destroyers built for her Bl'jesty's Navy; but differs in this respect that she is driven by PNrsons' steam turbines. She is 210 feet long, 21 feet wide, and 12 ...