A CAPTAIN'S REVENGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 98, 22 October 1904, Page 13

A CAPTAIN'S REVENGE.

• The Chronicle tells an amusing story of insubordination which is under consideration of the French Ministry of War. According to French military regulations an officer of or below the rank of captain proceeding to join, his regiment on colonial service is allowed' only a secondcabin passage. Even if he is willing to pay the difference in order to travel firstclass he must obtain permission, to do so from the senior officer travelling by the same vessel. Thus it came about that a certain wealthy young officer, Captain, , sought leave of a certain impecuaiousv general to occupy a firstclass cabin on the voyage to a colonial port. The superior officer, presumably resenting the society of a subordinate of considerably larger means than his own, declined to give the authority. During the voyage General . made the acquaintance of a fellow-passenger, with whom, he played cards and otherwise associated. When the vessel arrived in port the superior officer was horrified to find his intimate acquaintance busily looking after Captain 's baggage. The regulations which forbade the younger officer travelling first-class said nothing about his valet. Captain had not only secured a first-class passage for his servant, but had also provided him with the necessary funds for cultivating the general's acquaintance in the smokingroom with the object, which he has certainly achieved, of holding up both the regulation and the officer who took advantage of it to ridicule.

The Daily News states that a onelegged cabman, Banjamin Tyrrell by name, is about to revive a claim to a baronetcy and estate in Buckinghamshire. He claims to be descended from John Tyrrell, of Thornton Hall, in the County of Buckingham, baronet, by Frances, his wife, daughter of Honry Blount, of Tittenhanger, in the County of Hertfordshire, and through srfch descent to be entitled as heir male entail of the Thornton Hall estates and Crakemarsh Hall, Staffordshire. Tyrrell lives at Burton-on-Trent. Members of the Tyrrell family at one time held distinguished positions. Sir -Timothy Tyrrell was Privy Councillor to Charles 1., and was General of the Ordnance'' under Lord Gerard. He married the daughter of the Archbishop of Armagh. Another Tyrrell was the author of a history of England, j