... circles that Sir Redvers Buller will command in the event of war. Preparations are being made for the despatch on the 24th inst of 60 men of all ranks of the Royal Army Medical Corps to South Africa by the Arundel Castle. With reference to the report that ...

... 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 ...

... rotesting against the threatened war. A t..legram from Bombay states arrange- ments have been made for the despatch of betweon eleven and twelve thousand troops from India to South Africa. Thetroons will. in the event of war embark sirmltalrepasly at B -)uibay ...

... the im- minent danger of war hag been removed the Boers will revert to the old policy of repression and obstruction. GENERAL FORESTIER WAILER AND LORD WOLESLEY. London, Friday. General F Forestier-Walker, when he called at the War Office yesterday, found ...

... 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 ...

... ap- L, proaching excitement or exceptional bustle at y I the Colonial Office and War Office to-day; and is 5 in spite of the somewhat alarming telegrams from South Africa, it is the fact, says the Press Association ,that no grave complications of the 1Tranwaal ...

... of war, while the extension of the Geneva Convention vill mitigate its hor- rors I have concluded a Convention with the Pre- sident of the French Republic by which the spheres of influence of thee two Powers over a large portion of Northern Africa have ...

... South Africa They hare beer drafted froan Vrmoy and Kil- I w~ortb.1 MR. SOUTTAR, M.P., ON THE SITUATION. > Lindon, Wedneday. M~r. Soultr, X P for Duwfritabie, 3pealzy: i in Dumfr'e to-day, said ba belived tbe good- , sense of the ?? would preveit war in ...

... 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 ...

... c'tsidi:red in miliitav circles to be a singulr:ry wise one. as (Geer dl Walker has made his nanme in South Africa, having served il tbe Kalfir eind Zulu wars, and commalnded in Egypt for five ?? London. Tuesday. I A cclegratn to tfe 'Argus from Dnrb:n an- nounce-s ...

... 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 ...