26 APRIL 1879, Page 3

General Biddulph has some humour. Two German students —students at

Giessen—reading the account of his able passage of the Kojak Pass, wrote him a post-card of greeting, in which they stated (in Latin) that they congratulated him on his passage of the Pass, and drank to his health a very excellent glass of beer. A short time ago a post-card was received from him returning thanks, also in Latin, for the greeting, in his own. name, and the name of his army. But he added, "Nuns ex Helmundi flumine ad vostram salutem bibamus. Hen ! vinum ac hostis desunt." Did he drink their healths, then, in water,

or also in beer He does not say that the beer was not, but only wine.