... * As a Watch; in the Night, by Mrs. Campbell Praed (Chatto and Windus), has the rare distinction of dealing with the transmigration:of souls, and yet not being rubbish. Dorothea' Queste, the central figure of the story, has the gift of clairvoyance,'and it makes her artistic fortune. Gradually, as the story develops, it is revealed to her that the visions which come in her moments of ...

... i I : small :Mail 1 ? oxj?ttt. SW I offift; ?' -., . i 18, CHARING CRosS ROAD. The Prince qf Wales has been presented by the Lodge of Edinburgh (Mary's Chapel) No. 1 -vith a handsomely bound cop othhsory 6 h The Green Jacket Club will give a dinner to Sir Redvers Buller at tI e Hotel Cecil ou January 7. The Duke of Cambridge and -the Duke at connaught will be present, and it is anticipated ...

... The House of Commons made a mistake of more than ordinary magnitude yesterday when it rejected Mr. Wharton's Corporal Punish- ment Bill by 123 votes. Presumably that unexpectedly large majority was due to the fact that both the Home Secretary and his immediate predecessor spoke against the measure. It is much to be regretted that they should have done so. As Sir Matthew White Ridley himself ...

... THE CONTINUED INFLUENCE OF THE DREYFUS AFFAIR. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 PARIS, Monday.-The extreme bitterness of party feeling in France at present is strikingly illustrated by the spirit in which the Opposition press is commenting on the accident that occurred on Sunday onl the outskirts of the Exhibition. The collapse of a private suspension bridge, which had not been opened to traffic, ...

... THE BOER REVOLT. FLANK MOVEMENT FROM MODDER RIVER. THE MILITARY SITUATION. tBY OUR MILITARY CORRESPONDENT.} 1he last official telegram from Lord Roberts, of the 5th inst., from Cape Town, reiterates, a No change in the situation; but notwith- standing this, we know, fortunately, that the situation is each day rapidly changing in our favour in many respects, excepting as to our beleaguered ...

... SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN has reduced the doctrine that it is the business of an Opposition to oppose to a farcical degree of absurdity. If he was bound from his titular position to disagree with Mr. CHAMBERLAIN'S action on the' Australian Commonwealth Bill, he might at least have advanced some reasons for his displeasure that were a little more dignified than the babble of the nursery. The ...

... 9 I BRANDY. Bottled in Cognac. Messrs. Jas Hennessy and Co. hold the Largest Stocks of Genuine Brandy in the World. 0? The Sl'BSCRIPTION l-IST will bh OP}N'ED TO-DAY (Wednesday) 25th April 1900, and CLOSED on or beforeiO-MORROW (Tburs- cla,1, 2tth April, 1R. CITY OF BOMBAY IMPROVE- ENT TRU';T 4 */ GUARANTEED DEBENTURES for RP.50,00,000 jWhich, calculated at the exchange of Is. 4d. per ...

... THE FEELING AT CAPE TO-vWIN. [FROM OUR OWN COR.RESPONDENT.] CAPE TOwYN,- March 21. TiiE subject that is exercising our minds at the date of writing is the possible action of the British Government with regard to the colonial rebels. Fear is openly expressed that the mistakes of 1881 may again recur, and from a mistaken feeling of generosity-the loyal section of the colony may be sacrificed to ...

... LETTER FROM VILLEBOIS-MAREUIL. A long letter from Colonel de Villebois-mareuil to his brother is published in Paris. The following notes of it are sent by the correspondent of the Daily News. It was written a few days before the relief of Kimberley, and the conclusion of his letter shows that he at least among the Trans- vaalers was beginning to feel uneasy. As for the Boer state of mind, it ...

... Of the 40,000 £5 Shares; offered 14 500 Shares have been applied for by the directors and tbeu friends and Ill be allotted in full in terins of the prospectus. bfr The LIST will OEN on MONDAY, the 23rd April, andi (LOSE an or Wo WEDNESDAY, the 25th April, at 4 o'clock, for Town'and Country. THE JOHNSON-LUNDELL ELECTRIC TRACTION CO. (Lisilr-ro). (Incorporated under the Companies Acts, 1862 to ...

... Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman had a hot half-hour at Inver- keithing last night. It is no joke being heckled in Scotland, and C.-B.'s hecklers had prepared their questions with the utmost care. The result was that C.-B. was completely cornered, and his answers read very badly thisrmorning. He defended his statements previous to the war on the ground that he knew nothing of the Boer armaments. ...

... FOURTH EDITION, , THE S3A. CONCESSIONS CO IssioN, INQUIRY INTO THE AFFAIRS OF A DISTILLERY, PRETORIA, Tuesday.-The Concessions Commission to-day was 'hiefly engaged in an inquiry into the affairs of the Hatherley Dis- te It appeared from the evidence that the Government were in receipt of 1,000 a year from the coucessioniiaires, who paid no duty. The profits had been diminished by the ...