21 MARCH 1896, Page 16

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StR,—A " bull " is none the less palpable though the subject be serious. Shortly after the tidings came of the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the captain of the Boys' Brigade (a popular military religious organisation in the parish), at a meeting of his petite corps, referred sympathetically to the sad event, and, choosing an appropriate hymn to close the service, added, "Let us sing these lines in solemn silence."--