... Judges have often commented on the chronic reluctance of justices to grant bail. Mr. Justice Mathew, who has always been conspicuous in deprecating this tendency, has length been moved, by some recent instances of long detention of untried prisoners, to make novel suggestion. It is that, where bail has been refused, application should be made to a judge in town by post, a copy of the evidence ...

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... Those who have been reading Sir Herbert Maxwell's Life of Wellington, and they are many, will probably have noticed, not without regret, that the art of despatch writing has not prospered since the days of the Duke. The bulletins of Bonaparte were no doubt well calculated to please those to whom they were addressed, and the soldiers for whose glorification they were written. British officers ...

... Attention is drawn by the Berlin correspondent of the Eamoi>„„ to the fact that the coasting trade of South-Eastern Asia has passed into German hands so far as the bulk of the business is concerned. Th purchase of the Holt Line, alluded to previously, and the Scottish Oriental by the North German Lloyd has brought about this very undesirable state of affairs. The new combination receives the ...

... Edited by LORD FREDERIC HAMILTON, IS NOW READY. ...

... « Truly ye come of The Blood,” England’s proud greeting to those sons from over-seas who have fought and bled for the Empire, goes out to none more lervently than to the Canadians. First in Cronje’s trenches at Paardeberg, and invaluable factors in the relief of Mafeking, their conduct throughout the campaign has thrilled the mother-country with pride that they are « ...

... What will be the immediate effect of the Sedan in little on the Modder and of the relief of Ladysmith, so happily announced as we write, upon the course and duration of the war it is, as yet, impossible to say. The general trek homewards on the part of the Free Staters which some prophets have prophesied may or may not come off- If it does, it may or may not be followed by such discouragement ...

... THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY i, 1900. ...

... Lord Roberts has once more bettered expectation. Each successive portion of bis wonderful march to Pretoria, the very last stage of which will be begun and completed within a few days from now, has been achieved with a swiftness and a sureness that have astonished his ell-wishers and paralyzed his enemies. The great preponderance of numbers has been only one factor of the Secret; nor must the ...

... [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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...