... [BY OUR SPECIAL COMMISSIONER.] Whoever chanced to pass down Shoreditch High-street on Saturday might have been forgiven for imagining that the rejoicings of the East End at the relief of Ladysmith were either somewhat belated or unusually prolonged. For on Saturday afternoon the High-street all the way from the City to Shoreditch Church was gay with flags and bunting, and crowded with an ...

... The expected Bond split appears to have happened, and the is located almost exactly as was predicted by our correspondent at the Cape and others. On the one side are Mr. Schreiner, Mr. Herholdt, who is Minister of Agriculture, and Mr. Solomon, who is Attorney-General and perhaps the member of the Ministry most generally credited with a level head; on the other, Mr. Sauer, who has scarcely ...

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... style c'csl I'homnte. It is. And the man comes out in the style of his official correspondence, even. The man had to be George Canning who could write an ambassador that rhyming despatch, and'“clap on Dutch bottoms a twenty per cent.” in F.O. cipher. Nelson, again. The style of his despatches brings Horatio into your mind's eye as plain as printblind side, empty sleeve, and all. And if you ...

... An extraordinarily clever and important person has contributed a letter to the Times which appears in large type over the signature R.N.” The object of this inspired communication is to hold up to the ridicule and contempt of mankind a paragraph in the document recently drawn up by the Service Members’ Committee of the House of Commons. The paragraph in question refers to the defence of the ...

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... PRICE ONE PENNY. Lyceum. the snowman. TWICE DAILY, 2.15 and 8.16. A Fairy Play for Young and Old. Mr. H. H. H. Cameron’s Season. Box-oifice (Mr. H. Scarisbrick). open daily 10 10. ST. JAMES’S THEATRE Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER, RE-OPENS THURSDAY. February Ist, With A.vthony Hope's RUPERT OF HENTZAU. Sequel to “The Prisoner of Zenda.’’ Box-office (Mr. E. Arnold) now open, 10 to 5. ST. JAMES’S THEATRE ...

... The literary event of the year happens this week, but it bapnens at theatre, not in the bookshops, and therefore it is no business of mine to talk about it. Still, it is permissible to note with some amusement another man plunging into the same condemnation as has overtaken oneself. The writer of Theatrical Notes in this paper has succumbed to the enthusiasm which Mr. . Phillips’s work has the ...

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... That Admiral Sir Charles F. Hotham, K;C.B., who until a year ago was Commander-In-Chief at the Nore, should have been selected to succeed Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, G.C. B -' Chief at Portsmouth, has come as a great surprise. Sir Charles Hotham took part in the Maori War in 1863, and was flag-lieutenant of the Alexandra at the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, so that he has seen some ...

... Price One Penny, home to give expression to the universal conviction of oiir loyal Colonial brethren on that subject is treated, not onlyby the Little England organs, but even by some journals which ought to know better, as symptomatic of a foolish, feminine, and wholly un-English outbreak oi “nerves.” We take leave to say that the boot is on the other leg. The people who are giving the lie to ...

... Rhodesian properties continue to attract considerable amount attention; but, in connection therewith, in the case of Kaffirs, it is only possible to utter a pious expression of opinion that all will go well in South Africa. Considering the increasing speculation, should there be anything amiss with present military developments, the market results will not be particularly pleasing. But the ...