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A "CUTTING" OBSERVATION.--This is from the _Daily Graphic_:--

GENERALS.--TWO WANTED to do the work of a small house; £14-£18;
for two in family; easy place, early dinners; very little company.

How sad! At how low an ebb has our Army arrived under recent
mal-administration! In time we may have even "Our Only General"
himself advertising for a place, or answering an advertisement like
the above. Not much "company drill"; so, if easy, it will be dull.

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[Illustration: A SALE OF YEARLINGS.--THE VERY LAST OF THE SEASON.]

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[Illustration: A PERILOUS TUG OF WAR.]

"The labouring men, as a class, are rapidly approaching to a
footing of full equality with the capitalist, and it is even
possible they may become the stronger of the two.... They
must be content to have their class interests, whatever they
are, judged in the light of the public interests.... Labour
and capital may have separate interests, yet their separate
interests are little, in the long run, as compared with those
in which they are united."--_Mr. Gladstone at West Calder_.

"_Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furled,_