... instruction of a special of kind. Onr army, he says, stands an anachron. l ism among the military forces of Europe. e whilst the country itself remains unrivalled in t- point of peculiar and strange features. The tiny t-army of John Bull will not bear com ...

... language like a native, he returned to Eng- land. Here he lodged at Stoke Newington, studied medicine and meteorology, put himself on a diet of bread and tea, fell seriously ill, and married his nurse, an old woman, who was also a confirmed invalid. He was ...

... Uganda ; an army must be formed of one to two thousand strong, to plunder Unyoro. The Wa. soga have been insulting his subjects, and must be reduced to subjection; for this emergency another army must be formed of eoual strength, to act by land in conjunction ...

... once crossing the moor between Loch Awe and Glen- faochan. They overtook an old woman drawing a heather rope after her. The servant said, What strange work the old woman is doing ! Though you would little suppose it, said MacAonughais, she draws ...

... in favour of free.trade in land. He is against the laws of primogenitnee and entail, and does not believe that the gradual abrogra tion of both would endanger our Ooustitsstioii, He sayS: Since the inheritance of landed property by one child to thle ...

... does with a will. He is one of those Irish- men who know the facts of the case and yet do not approve of the scheme of the Land League. Rle does not, indeed, mention that Body, so far as we can remember, at all; but the whole tone of the book is against ...

... assuneption that the opposing forces are operating on land; but at the close, as if discovering that his task wants comnplete- ness, he adds a chapter to show the assistance a fleet can render to an army landing on a hostile coast0. In concluding his excellent ...

... Liberal porty in 1862 refused him. the means of increasing the army; because they believed that for the performance of vassal ser- vice to Austria, such as he recommended in 1848, ;the smallest army in' Prussia was large enough. After the conclusion of the ...

... over the y vears lie has spent in the army, Sergeant i' ;Robinson as he then was, and Horace Wynd- i t ham as he now is, believes that as a general; rule a respectable, steady man is better off all i round in the army than if employed in the civil capacity ...

... the army of which she has been a member both as camp follower and v-iscendidre in four campaigns and 18 battles, a disclosare which elicits from the Emperor the ejaculation, Dash it all, this woman has been everything. But the Uigh-spirited woman carries ...

... eldest boys entered the navy; but I Howard, ?? his strong desire to follow his It I father's profession, was destined for the army by guardians ja who, Mr. Fullow says, applied to have him nominated a for admission into the Royal Academy at Woolvich without ...

... Chicagos.' Signor Camerana is an Italian f msician . who has already produced certain cdeomic and other operas in his native land, and e. who resided for some time in Manchester, where at be was a professor of singing. Miss Kyle, who f- plays the part of ...