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Evening Star, Issue 6727, 8 October 1885, Page 2

The military corres Bible for the ' Daily News's' narratives (and their style, which recalls Kinglake and Holy Writ, is really powerful) of the priests and nuns' captivity with the Mahdites, is Colonel the Hon. John Colborne, son of the late Field-marshal Lord Seaton. The soldierpenman served in the Crimea. Wonderful the readiness with which officers take to the craft of war correspondent! The present Earl of Dunraven, when Lord Adare of the Life Guards, acted for the 'Daily Telegraph* in Abyssinia; and Sir Bandal Roberts, a veteran of the 33rd, for the same journal in the Franco-German war; Captain, (now Baron) Campbell, of the Indian Cavalry, wrote for the''Standard.' A staff-officer stepped into poor Cameron's place in the Soudan. A rich heiress, an Irish ward of Chancery, failed to obtain the consent of the late Chancellor of Ireland to her marriage with a respectable gentleman of limited means. But the lovers are avenged. The Chancellor died suddenly and the pair married. The great seal of .matrimony got ahead, of thj great seal of Chancery,