... censure has been resented as impertinence—but in the hour of need there is no one so high or great that he will not seek to speak with its million tongues, and to move his fellow-countrymen by its machinery. In all honour, we aspire to be the organ of the ...

... war. It is through the maritime districts, reaching as they do from the metropolis to the coast, that must lay, techuicjdly speaking, the lines of communication of the hostile forces. These are, in fact, the roads and tracts of country along which tho contending ...

... Parr, R. Penman, A. Reilly, T. Rogers, H. Samways, G. Sharman, J. Silcox, S. Silk, W. Springett.” Sir James Outram invariably speaks of the services of this battalion as cavalry with the warmest praise. Artillery. The G Field Battery is ordered from Longford ...

... harmony, if not subordination, and m this respect, notwithstanding his strong admiration for French military orgamsation, speaks hopefully of England She has sought and introduced the most perfect rifle hitherto invented, and is now intent on making her ...

... had received no intelligence of the enemy from any of tlie native authorities, and I believe he now thought it necessary to speak seriously to the thanadar. In what precise phrases the gallant colonel conveyed his reprimand is not accurately mentioned ; ...

... the builder of the Great Republic, Lightning, and other clipper ships, entertains a poor opinion of our naval architects. Speaking of the Donegal, lOlguns : —“The roan who designed her appears to have derived his ideas of naval architecture from Dutch ...

... departures from routine, and that unfortunately not unfrequently, seniority and not service is the title to promotion. When we speak of seniority use word, which if unexplained, is likely to mislead. Seniority on the Generals’ list is not actual seniority ...

... column will give them a power that may turn the fate of a great battle. I am, Sir, &c., &c., It is a usual and absurd mode of speaking and writing to call a gentleman a quarter,” when ho may be round peg in a round hole, but serving ourselves with this euphuism ...

... Penitentiary, members, and it is upon the principles recommended by this committee that the system of which we are now about to speak was founded. After fully considering the question in all its bearings, Karl Cathcart’s committee submitted for introduction ...

... forward as to make them “wet” ships, or more likely to cut into the body of a wave, than to rise buoyantly over it. course speak conjecturally, and wait for the test of the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Implacable, 72, at Devonport, is being rigged by the ...

... certainly, we cannot think that those who obtained their promotion in June and July, 1854, without purchase, and generally speaking without active service, have any right to complain because they are not borne on by the tide of prosperity to the desired ...

... opposed to return to the press-gang ; that mode is therefore out of the question. Indeed, its manifest inequality, not to speak of its intolerable hardship, makes every feeling of fairplay rise against it. No doubt it is very patriotic and reasonable ...