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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... fourteenl124'-ton guns airrived o a-. from Woolwich last week in the Sec Queen. Others will p an be sent out as soon as they can be got ready; and I hear I h- that the military authorities intend to include in the a )n armament of Malta ordnance of still ...

NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... Foot: Ensign E ter, James William Poole retires from the service, receiving the se or- value of his commission. 95th Foot: Lieut. Sir Archibald. b] Ava Campbell, Bart., retires from the service, receiving the c] at- Stewart Burmester has been permitted ...

NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS

... therefore, before they had P( en. much opportunity of making themselves acquainted with ion the rules of the service. w inn The military invalids from the East Indiaman Essex S not were dirembald from Snithead by Government steamers dt ro. on Wednesday ...

DRESS IN SOUTHSEA

... ther The Military element of smartness is of course m reflected in the feminine portion of the populaJ WI tion. Easter Sunday Prayer Book Parade, which ke ary consists of a fashionable promenade across the C'ommnon afser morning service, was very ...

FOREIGN NOTES

... for discipline that the soldiers be kept long in active service. M. Farcy opposed this opinion, ?? It is not length of service that makes discipline. The undisciplined like prison'better than service, and get themselves sent away in the disciplined companies ...

MOVEMENTS OF THE SHAH

... weary waiting was foreshadowed when the Princess of Wales, the Cesarerna, and the Czarewitch entered the Queen's box. This was the signal for the military bands to play the stately national hymn of the Russian empire, '.ich being ended, another silence set ...

LITERARY & OTHER NOTICES

... childhood's home do thou receive ?? parting gift-my dust to thee I give. Mr. Fletcher had been sent to Yaruton as a child to be nursed by the wife of the parish clerk. HIe became Mayor of Oxford threo times. and never forgot his early home. The figure engraved ...

LITERATURE

... object should be to reward qualification and service. As in tce French service, no nan should be eligible as an officer wiho had not served a fixed titus as a nonacomnseissioned officer, or stediieel at a military academy, besides passing an cxameination ...

UNREMEMBERED HEROES

... a otsa . GARNET1T HALL. the ar sea. mankii *The Queen has accepted ?? of Dr. P. G. F. his owi e Macidonaild' broehosie respecting `Napoleon MI., the and F if Empress Eugjiilnie, the Prince Imperial, and the Franca- Charmc L- - ema -War.' ideal e e ...

HISTORY OF PORTSMOUTH

... the Russirn I. Imperial family undergo a military education, a and are from earliest years familiarised, through - the medium of toys and picture books, with the ae working of guns, the uniforms of various regi- is meutes and the military history of their ...

BOOKS AND BOOKMEN

... but at f 's length Mliss Fleorcuce Nightingale, P.who had devoted'several years to the subjectiof nursing f offered her sertvice, au(I n ith 42 nurses, some or whom were ladies in high position, anld accom- t pauied by Mr. and MIr l'3racebridge,.twvo ...

SUMMARY OF THE WEEK

... officers of the British Xavy, after twenty years' constant sea service previous to their obtaining post rank, have never interest sufficient to obtain a ship, and become lost to the service. Very little, indeed, can the most tortunate of Xaya 1 Officers ...