The SECRETARY OF THE ADMIRALTY announces that candidates for assistant-clerkships, Royal Navy, who have completed a period of not less than three months' actual military service with His Majesty's Forces since mobilisation, will be granted fifty marks in the examination. It seems a most unpatriotic proceeding to pay them in German money. * * * _The Nursing Times_ must really be more careful or we shall have the German newspapers drawing attention to atrocities by the French. In its issue of the 5th inst. our contemporary says:--"The 'Train unit' whose names we gave some weeks ago have waited all this time for their call for duty.... And now the French authorities have cut the train--and the staff--in two!" * * * Reply to those who think it absurd to take precautions against invasion:--It's the Hun-expected that always happens. * * * A great fall of cliff occurred last week between Beachy Head and Seaford, and the Germans are pointing out that the break-up of England has now begun in earnest. * * * * * Illustration: "I'M AFRAID IT'LL HAVE TO GO TO THE SAME PLACE AS MY GERMAN PIPE WENT--THE DUSTBIN. IT SUITED ME, TOO." * * * * * Mr. Wells on Men's Wear. "Her thoughts came back to the dancing little figure in purple-striped pyjamas. She had a scared sense of irrevocable breaches." _The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman._ An obvious misprint in the last word. * * * * * The Quickest Route. "THE KING'S JOURNEY. CROSSES CHANNEL IN TORPEDO." Cumberland Evening Mail. This is the method which the KAISER means to try for his coming invasion of England. * * * * * "Professor G. Sims Woodhead, the Board's consultative bacteriological adviser, to whom the report had been submitted, said: 'I consider Dr. Mair's work contains a germ of great promise.'" _Birmingham Daily Mail._ We hope the Professor will not lose sight of the promising young microbe. * * * * * "For any enemy ship to try to get into Dover at the present time would be like entering the mouth of hell. [We understand that the Admiralty have received no condemnation of this.]" _Daily Telegraph._ We hope that none of our contemporaries will blame the Admiralty for its lack of information. * * * * * "Rev. Owen S. Watkins, one of the Wesleyan Methodist Chaplains with the Expeditionary Force (already mentioned in the dispatches), tells some most extraordinary stories of his experiences at the Front." _Public Opinion._ We remember now some mention of this "Expeditionary Force" being made in despatches, and we wondered at the time why the Censor allowed such a public reference to it. * * * * *