In the admirable letter of "AN OLD SOLDIER" in your paper this week, there are a few unimportant errors due, no doubt, to your Correspondent's age, and the shortness of memory consequent upon it that mar, in a measure, the trenchant force of his criticism. I feel sure he will pardon my reminding him that the Coldstream Guards do _not_ wear varnished or patent-leather boots with a tunic, except in "_Levee_ dress;" that Mr. CHARLES WARNER did not play a private soldier in "the same distinguished regiment," but in the Grenadiers; that a Captain could never, by any possibility be "on guard" at the Tower; that the officer on duty at the Tower is called the "Picquet," and not the "Orderly" officer, and is never a Captain; that no Guardsman has ever, in the memory of man, worn a "scarf" in uniform; and that no soldier, worthy of the name, considers the mess of his own Battalion "an odd sort of place to dine at," even "in the height of the Season." I may add that my mother tells me she has often had her Court-dress altered on the very morning of the "Drawing-Room." With these few trifling exceptions, "AN OLD SOLDIER's" letter is most accurate and just. I am, Dear _Mr. Punch_, Your enthusiastic Admirer, A PRESENT GUARDSMAN. * * * * * "HERE WE ARE AGAIN!"--Last Friday, a Correspondent of the P.M.G., onboard the _Angola_, interviewed "the Marine-mystery, the Sea-serpent," off the West Coast of Africa. It showed "two tremendous green eyes." The narrator counts upon there being a considerable amount of green in the eyes of those who don't happen to be Sea-serpents--unless after using very strong glasses (hot) and plenty of 'em. * * * * * "WE ARE NOTHING IF NOT CORRECT."--In last week's number the title of Picture, p. 198, should have been "Studies in _Contrapuntal_ (not 'Continental') Perspective;" and at p. 201, in EFFIE's reply to the Governess, "AN" was a misprint for "no." This information will relieve a vast number of perplexed inquirers. * * * * * [Illustration: THE GENTLE EGOTIST. _The Doctor_. "AND WHICH OF YOU TWO LADIES IS THE INVALID?" _Elder Sister_. "I'M SORRY TO SAY IT'S _ME_, DOCTOR!"] * * * * * THE ROAD TO RUIN; _OR, THE REAL MILITARY LONG-DISTANCE RIDE._ ["A quarter of a century hence, France will have more than four million trained soldiers, and Russia more than four millions and a half. We may deplore, as we will, this conversion of Europe into a vast camp, but the German Government, witnessing the development of such colossal armies on either hand, cannot be said to propose anything excessive or unnecessary when it asks, as it now does, for the means of raising the trained soldiers of the Empire to 4,400,000."--_The "Times" on the German Army Bills._]