NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3216, 10 June 1879, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

(fbom the home news.) An interesting controrersy, and one not entirely inappropriate to the season, seems to hare been raised in Paris by the eloquent address with which M. Kenan was welcomed a week ago by M. Mezieres to the august ranks of the French Immortala. The point really at issue is nothing .less, that the personal appearance of St. Paul." M. Kenan has described the"firil "* Apostle of\the.Gentiles in his wrings with some minuteness and' confidence* The picture which he has thus drawjx may. , r; be supported by much internal evidence contained in the Pauline Epistles as authentic, and M. Kenan enumerates a . variety of passages in justification of bis,,,. verbal portrait. He" speaks' of the' 'salntf £ / thejre as being short, with a small bald ' > head, pale, face, thick' beard, ' Aquiline nose, and piercing eyVs; with jblaek'.eye>rows meeting over the nose. /■!^obpdy,", ., M., Mezieres was unable to resist the temptation of sayingtp M.i^WM,^crald. haye known Bt. Paul so intimately, and M. Scerer must, be right iv alleging .^thit r , you have seen him." ,-V „„ '' 7" J ' . The severe malady from which Garibaldi is now auffering barpf late assuM^ a,peculiar form. The attack^ come on every forty days, and last for eight. - Painthrills through every ; muscle and joint, especially at nigHtjJWben/kstne patienl is .falling asleep, a series of shocks pass through his * (whole ) frame. *<f Even i JtW T weight of a sheet is too heavy tote borte,' *■ and the coverings ,have ,to,be r suspended rqn; hooks. Once'the'attack is ov«r, the general is himself again. As far at politics are concerne<l~th'e general is ai * eager a» ever r „He is much disappointed to find that his tW^urite CairoH'vtiUa^ni >with the Depress Cabinet last, week, but accepts the explanation that' all these dissentions in the Liberal party can but restore the ConservativesTo power. The general^ p^ch^f, the Government is its weak foreign' poUejHe would have Italy join cordially lid heartily; with, England,., and .France in "compelling JTtirkV &' Ju*ieV*tS X (rffi6Cß 11 That' wonderful man Mison? of electrio S&^'^ift&Bttsfe* four messages:at once qn,.a f single wire. This feat was performed' tine other"^ky ""' with great succesu an^afcw, je^ h^he contemplates a plan for sending" six messages by the same iwireja^onfl^tjnie, o ,f* His improved telephone for enabling persons to convene at foor* miles distance, was exhibited in the city of Londqn the other day to a select circle of mercantile£f. •men, who were perfectly astonished at the results. -—_-.. iATcoßßispbNUEiff, speakjag ofa tifinx appointment of. Lord Chelmsford to the 1 command , at" ''CapVMwfrsY—" The ""* whole thing savours ot infatuation" foi the Thesiger family, who—are ■ all strong Conservation ffi /,w|ur}jmM^A»rv .same m/Jie .appointment of jLora^Justjckr 1"' .Thesiger, who, barely'forty y^aTs Aof rifte, and of no judicial' experience whatever, /wps placed dvff the heads otfiflee*!,' judges, many of^frtioih had had nettrly/oli twenty years' experience on the beectc •'T It is wpll r known that the late Lord";'• Chelmsford,was: politelydisiniiieifr^;} the, Lord Chancellorship oiMm¥:M°j /make room for Lord, Cairns, andlhat ttf , l!: qiidpro quo wasto-ha/ appoii^n^i^r;,^ hjs s«ni.',V)t v,-,u :-.h o h; « .wrfiV^c r >LT | A dubious case of superstition hit just come Jto, light in Mid-Somerset. -ItjweßU „ thattjie laWring mtotih%Wt&kWpV like those^f most other' riftSE districts in' Jingland/hold'br'held('sacred. mmiVVi prophecies of " MotherShipton," whose topographical knowledge, if w* Are to be- ■ Hew alLthatJs said of her, must have bpen little less marrelloui than her [might - 'into the, future. Of thess prophecies the most widely believed in had reference to;/] the fate of Ham Hill, a large stone quarry"x in the neighbourhood oC Yeovil, and a prominent feature of the landscape for niiles around. It was to the effect that an earthquake, and that at the same time Yeovil should be Tinted by a.tremendeus flood. With'siich real aniiety was last JGfood Friday looked.forward to in comeqjience that people actually" left the Ideality with their families aad went to tlie county until the areadea * Tisftatidii should be over. | o 'Ah* )m jm ul-jAit. si rA.WdZiAI{ r\: ■ (feom tbuth.) ! The best Jrim* W tl Wfe WJte/SfV sider that the 'GoVertaMetil! wtmldfifcaMl done well to employ some of our Indian troops in the Cape war, ■Jtoj^JSgffJS&t were brought to^urdp^tt«l>fe**(*^ expense, for no purpose whaterer; bot» n|DW,when they couldJ^J^jK}* South Africa, we hear nSthiniftbomyMmJ Then active troopt are incomparably more adapted for jungle-figh^nf^thattthote of any of the home force!•jt*ift(fc*rfMi«jf the hardy Goorkha regiments would have from England. *•»!."•. of English generals, " if we take it for granted that two Englishmen are equal to three Zulus. TheZuluiaw armed, it is true, but the desperate courage that they showed at Isanduia never Has been surpassed. 1! ''A ! The Army Athletic Meeting v to take place a^Mderphot earlyi in? June^uader the patronage of the Duke of Connaught, and it is hoped that thej duchess will give away the prizes. A novel £ij«wo W*N be a caiioe race,- bjit as there mnff JtP&W J many entries for this, and the canal is but narrow, a serieaorfifiminin^ lessons might be taken! with advahtaije^by intendnsr competitors. . : It seems to W eipected'tbat two out of the four general officerssent out to aid Teneral Chelmsfbrd id caser he" feeli~to~ ' Want it, will supened>^£h>kJHlti?o»r|sl>';r * and Wood. If this sho«W"b«*<V^» wUt-; be "doing the/ crossest- injustice to those two"officera, who realiyt hare proved their capabilities, and fbeen tte only successful commanders' in ''the' campatgu\as yet. Bightly or wrongly,~th«y did accomplish , what they uVdef took, arid they bavßfßfVv i-un away ,frQm their post, and have no! lost their meii;and%eir stores'." -i.■ J S-" X • -Military,.critics.considerrthat.lMiian regiments would have been beat fijte^i;for t} the Zuhv wari both;as regards climate and 'the peculiar kind of warfare, but th« s misgoverning authorities would not hear of tliem, and at present there is not, besides' the Guards, * KaingießipfciJtafr regiment in England complete-and,,6t loti active"serVtce. o'' "■ '■>■*!'»'"'■' !'.>'«)« -fv^lk ■

; As for .Russian adrance in Asia Mtnotyr it is not to be dreaded; indeed, «o long as we bave possession of the sea, it could .

never |ak.e place* -% The best safeguard for. our route to Iri^dia is to leate Asia Minor as it is, without roads. A wide belt'of road* less, sterile country between the frontiers of two, States is the beat defence of both frontiers.

This, indoed, is our real security against anyidlussian inTasion of India.' What would be thought of our political foresight if we were to make good roads to Khiva ? I hear that for the first time within the memory of the present generation, the supply of young men for commissions in the line is not equal to the demand. Taking even the number of applicants from tho militia, and those who go through Sandhurst, there are about seven vacant second 'lieutenancies lor every sis youngsters who apply for commissions. There is hardly a battalion of infantry or a regiment of cavalry in the whole service, in which, the number of second lieutenants is complete.