Show csiss iw rao Biaas of Dyc unitt mid kelro gelt ut shu aw boril TOT we have in london two distin named andrew claracy aoe of thew who ia air glad stones medical att jdant was made a baronet by haf gentleman in 1883 the other has re tired from the royal engineers hith the rauk of uan eral having eleu bervice in nearly ewry part of alie world curiously he was to mr gladstone i i military affairs aba ia in matteis matt eif just as oen cral sir J L jimmona waa alie confidential ail of the t to isison government general sir A claris corroborated in a letter to the I odilon the contradiction I 1 bent ym ato lays before of ahe reports that it was to fortify london the real of the cisa beau to be as 1 reported to the month of march last sir A clarkel Clar kea denial brought nut a formal denial the nest day arnn the war that it was intended inte oded to ask for bonev for firl the hag now be n traced tu a small suburban leporter who finding that soldiers of high position had been endeavoring t reconcile on aliu spot the views if some eai gincer otti cera who 00 the mt of the to the con alution that furte geroto ve roto bo con AO larke clearly that done i 0 o chlotie and pre pare th plans fr in trenched camp and to have the for malboa hero handy to thal selected bot hie A clarkel Clar kea letter raises a atry question how far a cretu ed buer in at to print by virtue of his confidential when employed A freelance fre elance like myself asca big discretion about what be eiroa and if he sometimes kaya too much why it 1 n the na tur f things that he should not know where toatoa to atop but for highly placed officer who was ceper and lher eore in about tb most confidential po sailon a man can hold to pome out directly after bis and volunteer stion as to the plans in the mind of bis department up to the time of hb leaving is quite another thing and would not it seems aime bo poa aible anywhere butau boland land I 1 understand that lii ln chief haa completed trial little tour of corn and pleasure in the mediterranean notice will be taken of this alfair it is felt if high are lo 10 be drawn iq thi sway by what might everyl ell ue bibin ni bin newspaper newa paper pari graph thero would be aa end to all confidence confide oce the rivalry between bassia and england ia the east and especially just now u peria 1 4 very much more acala acula than usual A few weeks apo at was oppi int ed consul general in khat rakaan tn bebide at and there to havea boly guard of by arrangement with the persian government we have promptly replied by promoting brigadier general maclean of alie bengal staff corps to be our consul general at the tame place but whether be is to have bengal cavalrymen asa as a body guard doea not app eitT general maclian baa been on the frontier for some time with undefined rankle definite duties but mhd formal agent has been an indian named has khan now general macceau Mac leau who served in the mutiny ia in the african war and in beveral frontier affair will represent england at one or the most daue roua and points with authority a well oi experience ja alance at the map ill chow how limits any poa aible advance on Herat tt nd it would be to know bow much indian secret service money we arc in tins quarter of the klobe aut at present it is evident from private letters from teheran that sar not very he the russians and trouble inay be looked for in this region but clug gla ready for any further move in this direction at present and H hen her internal communications ore will need abc ehe will have a fum where we are H ft company for the Engl ahil of and nitro gelatine bhella I 1 aay yours for he knitel estalea ed titled to the credit of leading in ania direction mr deraska but for the rights for great britain ad her colonies coloni ei and the continent con tinen tal righta and be will no doubt get the rooney but if all that i said about mentioned in this place beroe months ago and brinl on a considerable scale last week is rue why thero will be ho need for any special appliances to fire dynamite bhella or any special of filling thero since it seeing belleli will nat go off under any circumstances ot explosion with a detonator and then it ja well to aland from under cioce alie force developed ia inucci greater than from anything yet knowd now if ordinary baelli caa be filled with this ai an experienced artillery officer who baa through a practical argenal course assures me ia the case juat aa they aro bow filled with powder and that aben tacy may bali cocked ua to are pa in it is thought the need fur dy guna and will bo eup and I 1 hapnon tu bmw that have been already taku which will lead to bonio experiments peri ments ih abells in a very few weeks at the moat yesterday a relin d artillery major general named owen read a paper at the united bernico inn on the lu the the cri ton geir rl to be of nuy practical value buil floii lit vea nil the theory liblit at woolwich clial artillery iq areat force is it Wily of modern warfare cere 0 like colonel lion dale calp late en ami colinea Co linel maurice of the artillery lia J they pro rouix laich in arpelt ry iio 1111 ac cinat le bodt l maurice alwell in iti laural H HI t tat iny hut belil this HH furj ironi H who u at the sume tune the lucet cutuil cu turl we have arc very big particularly he the recall re lall power of iula ulry 1 iru hail and s increasing VM my own part s x liitle taught lim eliat nil loid artillery fire liaa vecy little moral or I 1 could allu iu fitly ways but of course I 1 am of feild or aln n it cornea to and lh of or forta we have oilier to captain that at ton in 2000 bullata were pul into alie target at 2100 yarda range out of the new 12 pw iu I 1 believe bel irve teu of case shul tach having batla of 34 to the no doubt but then the exact range was known aad there was plenty of time to sight abil the targets were not firing lack does any one believe that will be able to stand to their pieces in the open at 2100 yards against massed modern infantry birr juat before the close of a mr showed that the powder now used was practically that is men could see through it but the enemy could not with every respect to mr ord enfelt this depends on jt li so ii certain of temperature aad atmosphere it is not so id others on wednesday lieutenant greet reail at the fame a paper on the coaling of lie like everybody else who was present was struck with the badness of the coaling arrangements during the naval of last autumn I 1 on them te verely at the lime 1 I he lecture s suggestion was that the hnyp ats own colliers bitted BO na lo 10 coal aeto on the principle of america i grain elevators or harbor dred iw hut wall coil boea to dust only too quickly as it is and the in the quality of the aring from small coal would be dearly purchased by an economy of ad a ton which is the moat the lecturer calculated on there is no biller and quicker way of coaling thai bat jn the suez janul where I 1 have teen a great P and 0 liner eit in four fioura by gangs cf half bred arabs buchel baskets aal alie real problem for war ships i not how to coal quickly and without destroying the quality of the coal in harbor but how to coal at sea when blockading or watching a port or on a arule lu war time it is to be feared it will remain a problem until oil takes the place of coal and then pumps and hose will soon solve it |