... at least ten heavy guns. Owing to the steep ascent of the hill, and its proximity to other extensive works in rear, not to speak of the rifle pits in its vicinity, its capture must have been a most arduous undertaking, as our lists of killed and wounded ...

... not find it convenient to do so, think proper to hold off from the new organization to obtain administrative reform they jet speak their minds about any mistakes hat have been certainly committed in our eastern warfare. We must all say, in a way not to ...

... University man, under the impression that he has irri' tated the Dean by his conspicuous mousiachios: Ib£' lieve you wanted to speak to me, sir, about—about-' 1 my moustachios! Dean: Some mistake, sir! didn't perceive that you had any!—lbid. The End of ...

... be some exaggeration, when the matter was brought under his notice on the following day his brother law lords ? The facts speak for themselves, and there is, unhappily, but little need or room for exaggeration. His lordship himself admitted that the subject ...

... Temperance gala at the Botanical gardens; several cricket-matches; Newhall sports; and pastimes at Hyde-park, &c. When we speak of one we speak of all— all were failures. The caterersof the gala atthe Botanical Gardens were animated by most laudable object— that ...

... and Foreign News. FRANCE. CANROBERT v. PELISSIER. Parts, Friday.—A private letter from a French officer, who was present, speaks of the carnage during the affair of the 22nd as terrible. He alludes in the highest terms to the bravery of General Canrobert ...

... had been stationed the left bank of the Vistula are either gone* or are preparing to march; and as information from Brussels speaks of large bodies of troop' marching towards the Crimea, it refers, doubt, to the troops of the Vistula. No later news from ...

... cases they elected notorious legitimists, and, in others, even men who had already been condemned to pains and penalties for speaking disrespectfully of Napoleon the Third. His imperial majesty was naturally exasperated to see his faithful subjects forgetting ...

... Russians. Letters have been received during the past week from Lieut. Byron, of this town, dated Riazan, May 11, which speaks cheerfully of the situation and treatment of the English prisoners at the hands of the Russians. Lieut. Byron mentions the ...

... from 50 to 100 yards, speaks of it as a good, effective, substantial, and serviceable arm. Lieut.- Colonel A. Gordon and Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, R.N., in their evidence before the select committee on small arms, also speak in the highest praise ...

... weight and friction. Of the company which has undertaken the cis-Atlantic portion nf the work we have often had occasion to speak. is composed of some eight or more wealthy gentlemen, who propose to lay the entire line from St. John's, Newfoundland, to ...

... were near enough up to it to see that it was scarcely defended, and one officer lost his life almost within it. Generally speaking, the Russian gunners were not very active through the night. On the other hand, their fatigue parties were as busy as bees ...