... I NEWS FROM WEST AFRICA. IMPORTANT FRENCH MERCANTILE EXPEDITION, POSSIBLE INTERFERENCE WITH BRITISH TRADE. LirvstrooL, WEDNESDAY-The British Aflican Company's steamer Boma, which has arrived herse left the French port of Cape Lopez on 10th July, on which ...

... that Sir Redvers Buller will com- mand in the event of war. Preparations are being made for the despatbh on tihe 24th inst. of sixty men of all ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps to South Africa by the Arundel Castle. The Press Association has received ...

... thc R.H.A. Brigide lbv:.: bridge, goes to Somith Africa. andi has, pointed colonel on the st:iff to einmani - at Ladysmith. on the Natal frootter alr is no stranger to South Africa, fir hr r-; Zulu war of 1879, and also in the ni Sekukuni. when he got ...

... large St amount of ammunition through Cape Colony to the Free State, has directed attention to the im-nt mense accumulation of -war material in the two at republics, especially in 'the Transvaal, the Vit- ni lander population being debarred from carryin4 arms ...

... to war. It becomes daily more evident that Sir Alfred Milner 'has been mis- led from beginning to end as to the grievances of the Uitlanders in Johannesburg. It would be well' for the people of Great Britain, before entering upon a disastrous war, to ...

... SOUTH AFRICA. A Devonport correspondent states that private advices received there show that the 32nd Battery of the Southern Division Garrison Artillery, sta- tioned on Spike Island, Cork Harbour, are ex- pecting orders to proceed to South Africa within ...

... proceed to South I L Africa The battery has been equipped with im- v . proved gun-carriages, and is fully prepared for r active service. I The Union Company's steamer Goth, which left 1 Southampton on Saturday afternoon for South c Africa, will cal specially ...

... anything approaob- ing excitement or exceptional bustle at the Colonial Office and the War Office yesterday, and in spite of the somewhat alarming telegrams from South Africa, it is the fact, says the Press Association. thai no grave changes in the Transvaal ...

... Orange Free State, end our own territory- in South Africa. Every 'word of what lie has wrfitten I consider shoold be read -with unpre- judiced mind by those who, at a distaine so giest as Sooth Africa is from the United Kin., iofl, nnyj, not have~ had ...

... should be in a position to gauge the prospects of peace or of war for ourselves. MNr. Chamberlain is at Highbunry in telephonic communication with the Colonial Office. The Minister for War, Lord Lansdowne, a most undemonstrative and watchful holder of ...

... extreme measures-I mvse,± hav-a Ialways disliked to use the word war until-it be- comes absolutely necessary, bus. the honourable gentlenssn used it, and said that any extreme inea- Sures.-aiy war-would be needlest, and lie himaself ?? proposal, which consists ...

... England. MR. SOUTTAR, M.P., OPPOSES WAR. Mr. Souttar, ?? P. for Durnriesshire, speaking at Dumfries yesterday, said he believed the good sense of the country would prevent war in the Transvaal, although the Tli Ia Irq wanted war in order to bring about annekxio ...