("The demonstration seems to have been due to one of those passing outbursts of ill-humour which will now and then occur among troops,... The result was, that the bugle call of Fall in' met with no response.
It is one of those misunderstandings between the soldier and his commanding officer which are unquestionably much to be regret-Daily Telegraph.
me.—(A barrack square. Colonel of reyimont and some of the officers discovered. Ax the curtain rises the bugle ts heard younding the Asvembly.") and the rest of the ethicers?
Colonel (o Adfutant): Where are the men Adjutunt: P've no idea, Sir. They may possibly have forgotten that you wished them to parade this morning.
(To Bugler.) Sound again. (Bugler again Colonel: Ong is apt to forget the © tries sounds the *Ansembly," and the remain afitcers issue from the men's quarters.) Where ure your men, gentlemen?
Hirst Ofer Tam sorry to say, sir, they have decided not to atten marae to-day, Colonel: Is that so? his is excessively inconvenient.
Second Officer: I never knew them so unreasonable before, Third Officer: They seem quite to have lost their tempers.
And some of them are positively rud Colonel sar, dear, dear! What is their ey: They object to attending drills which they consider altogether unnecestary.
Colonel: Well, why don't they come to me und sny so? They moy be right and I may he wrong. I am always open to conviction. Buyler, sound once more.
Bugler (aged 12): Beg pardon, sir, but I cannot comply with your request. My com: rades having determined not to obey orders, should be a contemptible blackleg if I didn't Hend them my support. (ete ryt into Colonel: One can't help admiring that lad's spirit, That is the stuff to make sold of in those days of enlightenment. Gentle: men, I shall be obliged if you will go to your men' and tell them, with my compliment that T'shall esteem it a personal, favour if they will kindly come and discuss the matter with me, calmly and dispassionately. (Zvrewut ofoers into barracks.) giment and I The regi Have hitherto been on such good terms that a little misunderstanding of this kind is doubly annoying, (Reenter officers.) Well, gentle First Officer: I regret to say, sir, the men are still obdurate, and respectfully but firmly decline to meet you on parade.
"Colonel: Well, really now, this is most wnfriendly of them; and all I can say is, if they Persist in refusing to accede to stob 3 mode: Fute request as this it will evidently beget coldness between us. (Re-enter buyler.
Bugler (to Colonel): T am desived, sir, b my corrades to say that, while their éelf-respect will not permit them to fall
question, and will be delighted to see you if parade, they, are quite ready, to argue the you will step inside.
Colonel: Come, come; that's better. Gentlemen, let us show our appreciation of th evident desire for a reconciliation by joining them at once. I was certain this slight unpleasantness was due merely to.a passing feeling of irritation, caused probably by the present unsewsouable weather, and I felt sure that their good sense would ultimately prevail. Disagreements will sometime arise, and which most of us would probably answer that the whole thing is a gigantic imposture, misunderstandings occasionally occur, in the best-regulated regiments. Come, gentlemen, and that no Chinaman, from the Emperor down, believes a word of it. come!" (Exeunt Colonel and officers into bar: racks, Soldiers are heard in the distance The Saturday devotes its first leading singing " He's a jolly good fellow" as the cur-article to Mr. Stanley's new book and—tain falls.) which is most unusual with the Saturday—In another column of the same paper we it is a most laudatory article. After some find another allusion to the same subject. criticism, in which Emin does not fare very It is headed Why Not well, the Saturday says A correspondent who calls himself Old The rest is praise only. In no expedition Soldier," writes to us as follow: St. James's Park on my way to business this morning, I picked up two notes, of which I El appeared, The mere st sale, three times of Mr. Stanley's has his strength better repeated, through forest and famine, was a subjoin copies. They are apparently rough great thing, The organisation, transform: drafts of proposed forms to be in future used tion into a serviceable force, and safe conduct in her Majesty's 2nd Battalion of Grenadier through the wilderness of a body of men reduced to such fearful plight, mentally and 1.—Colonel Maitland and the officers physically, as the rearguard at Banalya, was, of the 2nd Batt. Grenadier Guards request we think, a greater. Tut greatest of all was the pleasure of Private Smith's company at the manner. in which, despite his own ill-an Tespection of kit on——at——o'clock.—health, despite the Pasha's vacillation, despite the treachery of the Egyptians, and despite the almost there dangerous and not unreasonable disaffection of the Zanzibaris with the ments to Colonel Maitland and the officers of No, 2.—Private Smith presents his compli the 2nd Batt. Grenadier Guards, and regrets work that was put on them, by and for these that, owing to a previous engagement to meet Miss Jemima Jones in the Yank, he is unable faineants, he brought safely out from one of the least accessible spots in the whole world, by routes almost unknown, and through the accept their kind invitation for——afternoon, opposition of the redoubted troops of Kabba Rega, the mob of recalcitrant refugees who Lord Salisoui African Agreement is were committed to his care, Courage is a evidently a satisfactory one, when we ud thing; fortitude is a better; judgment the Duily Neves writing as follows fy a better still; but patience united to these There are some over-developed British three is the best of all. If Mr. Stanley had lots who would hear of no Agreement lost patience, or had allowed it to be deserted 'Gd not admit of an Englishman's by the other' three for one day on the plateau, ria to Cape Town, But above the Albert Nyanza, he would in all must draw the line so ere, We can- probability either never have returned, or not annex the earth. As it is the Agreement yields to us enormous tracts of the finest lands in Africa. Uganda is the garden of the conent, and the rate of extension of English influence from the lakes and Uganda north.
ris along the Nile depends on the rate at which the Mahdist movement disappears. The extension of the Englishman's walk" from the Mediterranean to Inner Africa is merely a question of time. But, indeed, one of the creat recommendations of this Agreement is thet each Power guarantees a free and uninterrupted "walk," and settlement, to the traders and missionaries of the other. Te would be odd—as well as plewsant—if certain European States should arrive at the Bark Continent. We are strongly inthe goal of Free Trade through the door of
clined to believe that we shall find in the African excellent neighbours, Like their English kinsfolk, they possess the colo-nissing instinct. It can no longer be them, as was said by one of their poets, that their dominion was of the air, while England's was of the sea, and that of France of the land. We notice that as regards Wolfish Bay, the Powers agree to sul mit that important question to arbitration, if within two years they do not arrive ata decision between them. What with Italy in the Abyssinian regions, the Congo Free State in the centre, and the rest of the continent divided between Germany, France, and England, the slave trade, the immemorial curse of Africa, should in a few years be a thing of the past.
'The Spectator was among those taken in by Professur Buyhes' and Mr. Preece's visual telephone, and has the followin Spec-scientific remarks on the suppo discovery The distance covered in the experiments shown was only 30 ft., and it still remains to be seen to what distance light will travel over but there seems no reason why should not be established as far as audibleness has been.
If it is, the electricians wi have realised one of the dreams of the Middle-Age ph icists, and have strack one more blow to diminish' the separating i fluence of time and space. It will follow, we presume, that it will be possible not only to recognise but to photograph a. face miles tant, a triumph of science which though probably useless, strikes the imagination almost as much as the revelation of unseen stars on sensitised paper. Strange that the photographer should still fail to fix natural colours, though they appear in every mirror.
There is also an article worth reading on "The Problem of Chinese Religion," to hover have returned with the prize he was nit to secure, There is a capital article on Lord Coleridge, "the Lord Chief Sulvationist," and the Salvation Army, to which Punch refers somewhat protracted poem, with telling drawing by Harry Furniss, which is
cartoon, But Pruich does not often publish more interesting thay the regulation such bad drawing as that in one of the half-page pictures, "Such an unexpected pleasure
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