... COLONIAL AND WAR OFFICES. A QUIET DAY. There appears to be no sign of Mr. Charmber- lain's speedy return to London, and yesterday the Colonial Office had one of the quietest days since L affairs in the Transvaal reached a critical stage. At the War Office, ...

... upon our promises. He did not see that we could go back upon our pledged word. It would be a war-if war there was, and ha prayed God that there mi'ght he no war (hear, hear)- wh'cb we should go into feeling that we had done wrong,feelingthatif timehad been ...

... troops on the borders of the REoublic while friendly negotiations are in proaress, and diseclaiming responsc- bility in case war should result. A' further resolution was passed expressive of the hope that the Governmeat would act according to circumstances ...

... for armed intervention. And again:- A war with one of the independent States in South Africa would be one of the direst calamities that could occur. -0- THE CAPE SQUADRON. In view of the situation in South Africa the I position of the squadron on the ...

... he talking of going to war over a ques- tion whirli ought and could be settled by arbitration. furthermore, they had be- fore them the spectacle of a Government which refused womnen the franchise in E~ngland preparing to go to war to en- force thefranehise ...

... House of Lords to ask a question. Ft was not about the SpanishlAmerican..War, which was then raging, it was not about the vwr clouds, which, even then, were gathering over Sth Africa. It wah, Did -a certain milnister.of the church give azittle prayer book; ...

... two Governments and the incalcul- able harm and loss it has already occasioned, and to prevent a racial war, from the effects of which South Africa may not, recover for many. genera- tions-perhaps never at all-and, therefore, this Government, having regard ...

... convinced the ?? of the ifferences might be settled witht -war. : Mr Comp'oa 'icket, .orough member, wrote that in -the caiise of peace it would be wise to increase the British forces in Soiith Africa, so as to 'onviece the Boers of the 'hopelessness of r ...

... while Colonel Picquart. -was sent on an expedition -tol!lirica. When he was in Africa no one, could communicate with him, and letters sent to any person by him through the War Office were every one opened. Zola, the noyelist, wrote a letter to one of the ...

... all- absorbing question in South Africa, Mr. J. Cham- berlain's speech at Birmingham nil her understated tie position than otherwise. I have no doubt in the lung run the Uitlanders will get their right.-, war or no war, but if they had tv wail for the ...

... Scottish Rifles, being at the Lead of the 2nd Battalion of the reaiment when it took poart in the Zulu war of 1879. When he came home from South Africa in that year he was appointed to command the Belfast district. M Battery Royal Horse Artillery, at Wo001wch ...

... Dreyius the culprit (great sensation). He read a long extract from a letter which he wrote to General Bil- lot, then Minister of War, on the 6th Januaury, 1898, to-protest aginst these- lies. -'eneral Billot made rV reply, and did not institute any inquiry ...