It is decided to record for general information certain impending changes in the command of the Corps. Under proposal which has received the Council's final sanction application has beau made to the War Office for the services of a Field Officer to be seconded for duty with the Corps for a term of years; this officer will, upon the lines already' adopted in Hongkong, be in command-of the Corps* while fulfilling all those duties in connection therewith usually undertaken the Adjutant. The Council has author tative reason for believing that this procedure, if the application is successful, cannot fail to be accompanied by more activity and general efficiency among the units of which the S.V.C. is composed."
Tur following notes are from the York "Nation "of the Sth of January "The New Year is full of promise for the new Republic of Cuba. It finds Pres Palma in n stronger position owing to his firmness in putting down the Havana strike. The feeling in the Cuban Congress towards him is friendlier. and he has gained a nuniber of supporters, despite the hit that he was foreed to remove the Mayor of Havana, who did his. best, it appears, to foment the strike. As a whole. the island seems to be far more orderly. particularly in the interior, than when ander Gen, Wood—a circumstance that makes the refusal of the President to withdraw the last of the American troops the more regrettable. The Republic is now collecting more revenue and expending less than did Gen. Wood's government The sugar-planting season has heyn earlier than usual, and the tobacco erp bids fair to be one of the largest in the history of the island. If the reciprocity treaty should be wed at an early date, the Cubans would undoubtedly look forward to one of the most prosperous and happy in their history, Germany's rupture with England is now tically speaking. Wilden-has handed Kipling his passports.
shall the English poet's name Germany announces. in true dithyrambic spirit, the favourite bard of Ripling is only the uncrowned—the unlanrelled—otficinl poet of Great Britain, but Wildenbruch is court meistersinger in Berlin. The Kaiser openly praises and patronised him, and apparently would like to make it Majestitsbeleidigung not to go to his stupid medieval plays Certainly the German people have shown that nothing but the threat of prosecution for high treason can drive them to a Wil-} denbruch drama However, this poet's retort to Kipling's ode on the Goth and the shameless Hun is evidently something more than a display of courtier zeal It is a kind of poetical mailed fist shaken across the Channel. Germany wants the English to understand tha' she can give as good as she gets in the way of " poetical ilngsgate.
Maritime -Register" of the 21st of January is.a strip is ay corollary to our article of the 9th of December last. on "Steam Traffic on the Pacific:
The mammoth boats which James J. Hill is having built at Groton, Conn., for ocean service between Seattle and the Orient may never be used on thuse waters. It is suid thet Mr. Hill is revising his opinion as to Pacific. the- wisdom of placing large boats on the Officials of the company assert that he has gained valuable information in the matter at the expense of the Boston Steamship Company, which has just concluded an experimental trip with Shawmut. This boat sailed from Puget Sound August 22, after one month's time spent in loading lumber and flour. The steamship, which cost $1,0 0,000, made alow progress across the Pacific, and after receiving a stall consignment. returned home. 123 days after the tins she started to load for the outward e. The cost of her maiden trip was £98,518, Her cargo netted her $77, of $21,318. which with other aggregated 40,00.—(Dispetch fron Paul. Mina: published in "Ne
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