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THE TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1899. CONTENTS. OoUMOal axt roEnsx nrrcujcExck XirwniSmirtTin UiuuClr IsoeciaSrecm.OonsssrosBaTr "uiii rurmsnAL Tiiurr Tt Svtettm Immx tvtositioriiicii.OopeK lka Dl ltrtoiL CVKSrrlsrT THF. TOAX8TAAX. CRISIS Umi" or riaus sv Tn tw it.

rAMrBj.RAN EEM.N at siAinrroME MR VOK1JTV ATCAKXsKVOX THF. KOXAX IATUOUC CIU'ECH ASD rtREYTl'. CAKE Xirtr LASTur at novr.R rn Mwr. or ncKirnxu sr.ir.x THK EMRAXK3IENT AXP THE YACHT iRrijkxn HV JOHX RTLAKr MEM RIAL LIURART. RAILWAY SEKVASTV OONOUA TVMKATWV TATITlai ATrAl TUKATKR NORWICH MIMICAL COMUTKV BRITISH CEOl'S RrcuL Rrr 1KKS or THE XTEMi covet nri ruiR Avn rr Autidtiiim asp IV' fx 1 Tvt4T Ty (iUlTTI Iv.iKiim'ti Imi uti N.s.i.

st Mijt.kt Imiut' ''1 4t Ai" regiments warned lor srvioe in 8outh Airic. 1 Thee would number about oo sixteenth of the entire lerve. Tbe steamer Braemar Castle left Southampton for the Capo yterday with mom than 1,600 officer and men on board, chiefly llonging to the Army Stftiw Corp, (pp. 9, and 14) Thr Joh Rvujrps Memorial Library, which iwn meted at Manchester by hit widow. and stocked with a remarkable collection of I hooks, including tno mmoni Aitnorp nrrary, waa it opened vestrrday, the inaugural address being deliver! by the Rev.

Pr. Fairbairn, Principal of Mansfield College, uxionl. Kylanria was afterwards presented with the freedom of the city of Manchoitw. (p. 9) Ieelaxd.

The Bishops of the Church of Ireland yesterday Wtl the Very Iter. Dr. T. Bon bury lWn ot Limerick, tn the sco of Limerick in succession to the late Dr. Graves, (p.

13) A Sraiors Lsnsuir occurred last night at Dover in connexion with the new Nation 1 Harbour works. Several hundred tons of chalk foil, burying a numlx of workmen, who, it is feared, cannot lo rescued alive, (p. 8) Tux West Indies Hirricaxm Fctd at the Mansion houso now amounts to (p. 11') The Railwat Servants' CON.Rr.ss wvs brought to a close last evening at Liverpool. It was decided to hold next year's congress atXewcastle on lyne.

(p. 10) PoLicr rovKTS. At Bow street. William Stuart killvtT ixp rrri Uta HV r.rwiT rir.r.rr i I Apxnut. 13 CiVHOLIC Cut ECU 14 II.

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iTjI Uj. n. li IWrS.lim 1 Aactiofi 1 Mirt 15 Tiuw Coinnm wir t. 8ute. The profound gratification which Prcccz Feed: Xass of Bulgaria may reasonably be supposed to Sim llmf CaJirszuvBairxxRif ax then indolgea and of the disposal of the material forces of the in some persiflage concerning the word suzerainty, the microscopical character of the difference between a fire yoars' and a seven year' franchise, and other matter of that kind, upon which verbal quibbling is exceedingly easy.

But, after all this fencing with perhaps scarcely worthy of the leader of the Opposition at a critical moment. he comes to business, and states the facts wttb commendable distinctness. lie says When some of our countrymen attach importance as I see from some indications in the newspapers that they do to this queHion of suzerainty, it appears to me that they commit the error of confounding the technical word surerainty, which is valuelers, with the great fact, which is cardinal and essential, of the supremacy, the predominnro, the preponderance, tho para mountcy chooso which name you like of the British power in South Africa. Ami if we were to insist upon this shadowy suzerainty, so far from strengthening, tso should diminish the forco of that higher authority which is inais putahle, hich is necessary, and which is basod not upon the accident of a few words in a Con vrntion, tut npon tho necessary circumstances and the nsture of the case." That is what the man in tho street would tell him. Tho tieople of portfolio, and what will be the maltreats financial and other crises of the landt We printed yesterday the second of two articles in which we hare set forth in some detail the pro CS.

traveller, of Hcrne hill. was finally examined country are aware that the real authority of an committed for trial charged with attempt this country call it what narao you please to procure on Alfred i'lper to coirmtt. deliberately and op nly deCel and attackf! ty an offenco apainst tho Ofhcial Secrets Act, 188i. Josj4a Pa.ai'.a loh.r.r MTgciut in the Cud Bat tali 'i Ikiifi'ril Uogiment, now etation xl vt wai coiutn.tted for trial charged with havini; attempuil to rtcuro Stuart to commit a um ir olTciu e. Iag was going up for thu lirst clas Armv examination, alxmt to be hold this mouth, and ho iihIuoo I Stuart to try to obtain copuw if tho examination pajmrs.

iitUiirt got int. vmmtinication with l'iixT. a dork in the employ MwsrF. Harrison, tlie Queen's printers, ant otferwl him monsy to get the jupers. Acting on l'iper producwl somo p.i,HTs for him to copy, und ho was in tho act of doins so whi arresl.

The prisoners were for trial, but admitted to bail. At Marhorou'h ttvot, Auguste Hicluinl, tho Boers. They know that this authority is indisputable, necessary, and based not upon tho accident of a few words in a Convention, but upon the necessary circumstances and the nature of tho ca e. It is to maintain this authority, which they know makes for peace, civilization, and good government, tlut they ore ready to go to war, if tho corrupt and tyrannical oligarchy which has for years leen undermining it cannot otherwise bo compelled to withdraw its pretensions. Bound rip with this reason for facing war is the other rensou, also apparent to the man in tho street, that there is no other way of obtaining for our countrymen in the Transvaal the ordinary acouri.

of French nationality, was remanded i rights of self government which all nationalities thargo of stealing of. Ufc from Do! enjoy under our flag. On this point also the nd vart, rrench Mchman. It appo.woU that the atler 0f tlie Oi Dosition sneaks with clarnss a j.i.v.w He savs tiet me aila that it wo udverttsement saying that strong young men i to tak chargo of hories '7 WeP8 as we do claim, if wo enforce, as we do war.tl for the Transvcjil, ainl giving an addrvss enforce, our right to seek redress for the in t.i uhii li snulicHtioii vu to ho mado. i erieTances of our countrrmon amon" thi Lit hare experienced over his reception the other Tisions of the Coal Mines Act passed in ISX, and day with Royal honours at tho Hofburg must the measures framed by the Homi Secxeiart, bare been somewhat dashed by the consciousneas I under the powers conferred on him by that mat a cabinet crisis with perhaps other crises to follow it was awaiting him at home.

This waa all the harder upon him, becauso the last change of Government took place no later than January, and countries where everything is so unsettled as in tbo petty principalities of tho Balkans cannot dismias their Cabinets with the light hearted indifference of Franc. Instability in these youthful nationalities is apt to extend from one institution to another, and the consciousness of the fact must cause a prudent and sagacious Prince to regard frequent fluctuations of fortune amongst his constitutional advisers with deep personal concern. On tho other hand, Pnixirr. 'EunrxAXD must have had tho consolation, such as it is, of being forewarned. From tho moment when the SToiLorT Cabinet foil, it was recognized that the (ttEKorF mnosLAVorr coalition which succeeded them had in its bosom tho seeds of future division.

The seals hare now homo fruit after their kind. and the fruit seems likely to be harvostad at, or before, the meeting of the Sobranyo three weeks hence. Hie present Cabinet inherited a very troublesome legacy from their predecessors. Tho SroiLorr Ministry had not cut Bulgiria's coat according to their cloth. They ha1 quarrelled with tho Kaitvrn Iiailways Company, which was backed by a powerful syndicate of German and Austrian bankers, who had been willing to accommodate Bulgsria on certain terms.

They lgan opposition railway of thoir own, and sjmnt four or live million! of franc of somebody's money on tho undertaking. They stt to work makiug various othe: railways, which might have boon highly advantageom to the country liatl the treasury boen full enough to pay for them without trouble, and sank more capital in hartwura. When M. Gr.r.Korr took ofSco ho said ho thought he could got the finances straight in tlireo or four years. He abandoned tho opposition to the Eastern Company's line and all the other undertakings of his predecessors where al audonmeut was possible without ruinous WDO.V.

SATURDAY, OCTOESR 7, 19. Tee Ti axsvaal Ceisis. Sir H. Campbell Bannerman. M.P., speaking yesterday at a luncheon given ai Maidstone by Mr.

.1. Barker to the local L.riera'. Two Hundred, devoted his remarks chiefly the Traasvaal crisis. In the general belief of man k.nu, be said, this country stood on the vertre of tat. It was even spoken of as inevitable, but the remarkable thing was that in the face of this in of war, the question which men asked, ani which was not answered, was.

What is it th it we are goinz to war about Cotild it lie tea: a war was really inevitable of which this id be sail Had this country ever vrt gfse ir.to war in this etato of un rtainty and bewiidcraieat In this condition of a Jars the responsible leaders of the Lreral psrtr were in a position of singular r.e'. acy and diib utty, because they had thought it t.ie:r duty to refrain from anything which embarrass the Government, or nvght embitter fling or rais false hopes in Suth Africa. At this critical ir. the only thing that mattered wa tho que tin of peace or war1 hetotr. even at this eleventh hour, tbcre might some means of reaching a peaceful settlers He could it see that cither side had the d'Or upxni further negotia No thinking mn coidd give an avowable sugeytel ly tie history of the case as di i in the BlueNKk, for the war with were thrcatene'l.

The diJercnce between i.ve and a stvtn veers' residential qualilicction worth tl.o Unes t.f r. single British i.er. It could jt be arbitration that stood way. for Government luul agreel to at in the A arv 'ncret matter of The prosecutor pj liel, and waa informed that he I would! engaedand mustsend jf.f3c. foroxenses and come to London at once.

Ho did so, but could not find tho prisoner. It was stated that Richard Lad ha 1 letter addressed to a newsagent's shop, where over TOO, all from abroad, had tico.li rooaivvd and taken away by him. (p. 3) The Weatuer forecast for Southern KngLuwl (London and Channel) anticipates to day eaxterlv wir.ds, fresh on the coast fair generally, "(p. 13) Strcial Akthtm are published to day on The Seventh International Geographical Congress (from our Special Correspondent) (p.

3) Bo. ks of the Week (p. 3) and Condition of British Crops Tlie Jim Special Imports (p. 10). The Crrr.

The Money Market was ouieter yestcnlay and tho loans due to the Bank were rcptid. KaUs wrro steady for atlvancca and discounts. Stiver was unaltered. On the Stock Exchansru tho tono was cheerfnl and prices generally again alvanced. South African shares landers in the Transvaal, wo do not the least in virtue of this so called suzerainty, but on the ground of international obligation, and with tho additional authority which is given to us by the fact that we act in the interests of the whole South African community at large, for whose wellboing we ara in the main responsible, and to whom the prolongation of the present evil relations between the Govern.

ment of tho Transvaal and those Uitlanders must a constant source of disturbance and of danger." We are content with the admissions made in thee extract. Tho rest is but leather and prunella. Siu Hexrv CAMrcEix BAXxxKMAX cannot refrain from imputing to others who hold the views he has thus expressed a desire for war from which his virtuous mind is wholly free. The imputation is uncharitable and unjust, but we may let that pass. Ho also ar.d American Raiiroad isucs attracted most expatiates upon the race hatred whic.h war will pro duce.

He must be blind, indeed, if he does not see that the race hatred exists in the acutest form and he might inform his mind by reading tho accounts Tnr. Transvaal. Some remarkable stories are of tbo brutalities inflicted by tho Boers even upon told by refugees who have arrived in Cape Town helpless women and children who have the attention. Consols roo Louisville and Nashville Railroad shares 2, and Rand Mines 1. (P 6) aoout the brutal treatment to which they snd other British subjects have ten subjected by tho Boers while on their way out of tho Transvaal.

Men, women, and children aliko hare been hustled, and threatened with rifles. President Kroger was interviewed in Pretoria on Thursday regarding tho rumours of incursions by burgheri into British territory. Ho said that tho Republic had no intention of taking the aggressive unl it was forced thereto by Great Britain's militant attitude in massing troops near the misfortuno to be Knglish. Tho race hatred cannot be made greater than it is, nor can it over made loss until we assert our necessary and indts putabld authority to enforce entire equality between the two nationalities. When neither can oppress the other tho cansos of hatred will disappear, and the hatred itself will gradually die out.

Except by the assertion of our authority no equality can ever possible. Tho Boers are in too backward a stato of education and civilization ever to grant it unless they are liorders or sending heavy reinforcements from comnelled. and Mr. Kruorr mom th.r, over va. iuc lunrcr uespawn oi commanuos to th front lias bet temporarily suspended.

The autnonties 1:1 Johannrsburg have announce! that all gfdd from the mines will bo commandeered, su'iicicnt being ri'turneil in minted money to pay Tuges ar.d expenses. Of the native workmen, 3.U0O have now left the mines. Tho notorious Wis the stumbling block, then, in the Commandant Cronje has promoted to the taade tli siiZerainty Surelv this claim exploded otic and for all. If we were ift li t'lis shvlowy rurerainty we should tie force ot our title tj that higher ty Jrr.ich as indifputable uid was basel few wrds in a ccnvtntioti, but on the arary tl cw. Tlw Boers ucv on this t.cn of suzerainty.

regime" I it a a of rnk of reneral and appointed to tho command of the western frontier. Ho is concentrating a force of ft.OOU men with artillery near sent a mif rae on Thursday to tho British camp near Maf eking that he would cross the lxrder as soon as a shot was fired in Natal. The VdkuUm, declared that tho Uitlanders shall win no political rights save over his dead body. We print to day a highly entertaining letter from a gentleman who lias taken upon himself to pross Mr. Krituzu to believe that this country has no designs against the independence of tho Transvaal.

Mr, Krcoer rnubbod m. ami he proudly publishes tho correspondence to show that tho Boers take thoir stand upon tho Convention of Thoy do, upon so much of it as fcuita them, after with holding all the consideration for which it wan granted and their reading of it, as Mb. Krcoer Statute, for the further and more effectual preven tion of explosions in coal mines. The new Act tras a baro skeleton of legislation, and it was largely left to the Secretary oi State to give it practical effect. In this respect it was some thing like a new departure in legislation.

and ws hsvo already commented on the constitutional bearing and implication of the legislative principle involved in it. Here we are more especially concerned with its preventive effects, so far a they can be ascertained or inferred from the experience of two years working. These elects have bcn most remarkable and most satisfactory. In the last two years, that is, in the two years which, at the end of 1893, had elapsed sinco the Act carno into force, there has beeu no great and devastating colliery explosion. would of courte be hazardous to assumo that this immunity ha been entirely, or even largely, due to the operation of the new Act.

A much lonci period of experience would be needed beforo any such generalization could bo accepted. Sines tl)0 year 1873 there have been ten y. ars marked by serious explosions of Ercdarup, causing death viol xw pcuoLLj. jl laeso tatal years, five were included in the decido ending three in the next succeeding divide, while ia the remaining years, down to 1803 inclusive, only two years, namely, 1SS3 und lUM, have leen so marked, and that in a reduced degrea. In the first dewle under consideration the average ratio of annual mortality by explosions of firulamp was G5 per 1,000 persons employed underground, though the ratio rose as high as oZ iu 1878, and TCS in 1880, both of these years baring been marked by specially fatal explosion.

In the next succeeding decade the average ratio had fallen to "32 per 1,000, the highest annual ratio being th.it of another fatal year, when it was 8 per 1,000. The years Ls93 ar.d 18IM were, as wo have seci comparatively fatal and their ratios were 29 nud 'CO per 1,000 respec tively. The ratio fell to 1 per 1,000 in 1890 and that Mm of IU effect produced la the form et lUma tuorog from the bole in which It la placed and confined by stemming It or rajnauag (t down with some noo in flammable end aoo plosive substance. The percentage of blown ort shots Is very ssall, bat their effect may be most dUaatrous, because, not only may they eet up local explosions of fire damp, but these is now fully established, often do, act up in their torn consequential series of explosions of coal dust extending throughout the mine. If, then, tho blown out shot cannot be prevented altogether, the thing is to neutralize its mischievous effect by prohibiting the use in mines of any sxploture of which the emergent flame is not, or cannot be rendered, incapablo of setting up en explosion.

This the Home OSce has now done under the provisions of the Lew Act, by establishing a Permitted List of explosives from which coalowners are required to select the particular explosive they propose to use In their mines. Admission to the Permitted List" can be obtained only by an explosive which satisfies ft very stringent series of tests, applied under skilled super vision at a testing station established by the Home OH ce at Woolwich. It is thus easy to understand how, if no faulty safety lamps can henceforth be used, and no explosive is permitted which is capable in ordinary circumstances of setting up an explosion either of fire damp or of coal dust as the result of a blown out shot, the chief originating causes of explosions in coal mines can be, and, to all appearance, have been, reduced to a rinimun. From this point of view the remarkable investigations which Dr. Jon II aliens has conducted into the causes snd conditions of death from after damp "the death dealing gas or gases evolved by an explosion of fire damp or real dust may almost seem to have lost ranch of thoir significance.

If there can bo no after damp where there has hero no antecedent explosion, and if the antecedent explosion can be prevented, the specific effect of after damp end the specific causes to which its fatal operation is due will become mainly a subject of acsdemical speculation. Nevertheless would direct special attention to the researches of Du. Haldaxs, of which we have given a fuller account in our articles, as a brilliant example of patient investigation and of self eacrificiDg devotion to cause of humanity and of science. loss. But it has boconio moro than doubtful rose again to 31 iu 1390, though this year was whether tho Premikr will hold office for even one not marked by auy serious explosion causing of the three or four rears he estimated as nocee desth to over 100 wnrau.

In 1S9T. tin Ant sary for the successful execution of his financial was passed, and ia 1807 its effects first began to I P0" bo felt. In 187 tho ratio.which bad never before The Ministry of tho Interior hail been handed been represented by a decimal having zero for it over to M.RAUOStJtvorr, otico tho coadjutor of first figure, fell suddenly to 0 per 1,000, and in tho groat Stamboiiff, and M. IUdoslavofe, ISPtt, though it had riseu a little, it was still no more than "Oo, tho average for the two years being thus W. It is difficult to resist tho conclusion suggested by thcMj remarkable and most encouraging figures.

We may make every possible allowance for recent immunity from serious explosions duo to tho known phrase, the elections. That i tho prerogative i variation of the average, that is, to tho probability. of his offico in States which rank hirh in basod on the exnerienca of the last 'Jo vrau s. that Europe for civilization and for power. M.

about lSyearsoutof every 20will be freo from serious Srekoff, it is true, in a spirited speech explosions but tnis causo of possible variation shortly beforo the olections last spring, declared is quite inadequate to account for tho observed that the freedom of the ballot would bo pro effects. In the lt oars prior to the passing of the tected. But, as complaints are now raised new Act the lowest annual ratio was 1 per 1,000, that M. lUnosLAVorr broko the contract he made and this occurred only twice, the average being with the Peskier as to the distribution of the soats Co for the dscado 1873 83 and 32 for the decade in tho Legislature which is, of course, elected 1883 92. Even if we omit the specially fatal on advanced democratic principles between his years from both decades, we find that the average own personal adherents and those of his col of the normal years was.

for tho first decade 33 league snd chief, this declaration must bo regarded per 1,000, and for tho second 23, making an as a purely rhetorical flourish. When tlie results average for both decade of 23. Thus, if we COURT CIRCULAR though ho is credited with a degree of financial purity not very usual amongst tho poli ticians of the Balkans. sor.m tn ham known how to use his opportunities. The Mi.mster of the Ixterior, it need hardly be said, controls," in tho delicate Continental BALMORAL, Oct.

The Qurrn wnt oat yesterday moraine, accompanied ly Triores Frtscis Joseph cf Battenberg After loncheon Mm. Winifred ukl Ha. Atari! Prior, accompanied ly Mrs. Carsefie, had the boncnr of playing en tbe violin before Hrr Majesty ard tie Soya Fmiy. In tbe afternoon the Queen, Princess Henrr, sod Princes Francis Joseph ot Battenbers; drove to BirRbaU and honoured the Dowster Lady Southampton with a visit.

Tbs nereditary Prince ml rrincess of Hoheolobe dined at Abergeldie. Lord fiiUoxxr cf Burleigh and General Sir Reivers Boiler had tbe honotr of dining with tb Qoeca. Sir Kedvers BuUer left the Castle this moraine The Queen has forwarded silver loving cup to Mr. Jaioes Shaw, who retires at the end ef this month from the position he has held for 33 years ef soper intendent of the northern division of the London sad North Western Railway. The cop bears the foQowisf inscription IVseuted by th 5 Qmvn to ltr.

Junes Shsw. London and 'orth Western Railway, in recognition of hi vsloaUs services deling 32 years." Ia a tetter aeeomraajinc th gift her Majesty says the eos has ben sent ss a mark of ber (ratefol sppreeiatioa of services rendered ia coBtrihoting to her safety and average lor botu decade ot 23. thus, it we whUst travellins. It mar be mentioned thai of the ballots wero mado known, it was found that, eliminate the exceptional years altogether, wo find during his connexion with the North Wrstern line Mr. of the 101 Ministerialists returned, no fewer than that the average ratio for all the normal rears out of thaw has travld focr timrs a year witk 74 wero followers of tho Mjxister of the Interior, twenty consecutive years was 23 per 1,000 and train OTrr Drthern Ji" tb while the remaining 30 were described a.

tho lowest tio 1 per On SUmboloffists." During the summer the the average ratio for the last two years which, tt4t period. Altogether be has made 138 jonmrys financial situation did not improve, at least to except for the passing of the new Act, may fairly wjth her Msjmty's train. a sufficient extent to satisfy the public. A loan 1 be regarded as normal has been only 04 per I The Prince of Wales left Ballater yesterday was concluded, but either it was too small or it 1, COO. This means that, whereas on the average evening for London, attended by Major General Sit got diverted into unexpected channels and of normal years above determined 23 persons out Stanley Clarke.

The Fnnce is due to arrive si swallowed up. Itutrcucliment is an excellent of every 100,000 employed underground in coal policy, but it is rarely popular, and, when it mines formerly lost their lives in each year, and takes the form of leaving tho Stato officials ten persons out of every 100,000 lost their lives unpaid for a couple of months, it is apt in tbe least fatal year of the period, only four to breed ill feeling in ah influential class. persons out of every 100,000 similarly employed There vva a good deal of grumbling in the lost their lives in each of the two years which summer, and an unprincipled Opposition turned have elapsed since the passing of the new Act. the prevalent discontent against Pkixce There are now over 550,000 persons employed Kerdixajd himself with so much pertinacity underground in coal mines. If the average death tint restrictions upon public liberties weru i rate of the normal years had been maintained in spoken of.

Tlie last blow to public confidenco in the i the last two years, more than J54 of these men Hofmevr of backsliding. Tho Transvaal and tho Ior lno nunnrentn nine maKos plain, is that it gives the Orange Tree State are now obliged to defend their them tho right to oppress and plunder English men and to keep all South Africa in a ferment 'u deijus on. their independence which i liberties with their swords, and the Borr will not attributed to us It was their fear on this lay down their arms except on tbe express under it induced tbe 'Iransvaal Government to standing that the present crisis shall lo brought 1 proposals of our Government of Sep to a final close, that tlie British soldiers be a refusal which all friends of peace removed from the borders, that no further ail But since tl en the unfortunate mention i made of suzerainty, and that no suzerainty Lad, by common consent, further British demands are preferred. Mr. pr i out of sight, and tlie Home ecre Conyngham Greene, the British Agent iu Pretoria, Ur iU'i Iake of Devonshire had declared is reported to I in somewhat delicate health.

i. inoepfTjoence ot tne irar.svaai woiua ne wl. Wu it to much to Lope that, with aranV tlie fars and suspicions to which be i i referred mi rht 1 relieved and tbe way T.el for a settlement? If war did ensue we vi tt victors, but there would be left South Africa racial enmity ari ner Licli it would taka generations to overcome He apfald to all who bore the as.i il.lv government in this crisis, I ndon. in Capo Town, or in Pretoria, to save South Africa, the Empire, and le i yi from so ciire a ralamity nccrred on cround so holty inrnCcient. Mr.

John Money addressing a meeting held at Cimarron la.t nii ht to protest war with ti Tranraal, ur id that ven at this critical tioment it was the ity all nho were for the rau of peace, which wa also the causo of good fvmment and wis joliey. to lift np their voices 'rder to awaki.n the lo of this country to the rcaiities of the position. Me had een rwiht into our prcrnt prwrhcament by an un py iiplomacy, ana i.y tne lVxllamite counsels would hare lost their lives in each of these years. If tho lowest death rate of the same period had without interference on our part. Sir Hert 'ersally felt, in well informed quarters, that re bannony and stability of the coalition Adminii tration was given by the appearance of a semiofficial assurance that the rumours of dissension amongst it members and supporters were wholly their lives.

At the actual death rate recorded, without foundation. After this it was uni 1 only 22 men lost their lives. In other words, at 8 o'clock this morning and will go at once to Marl borongh Ilouse. The Duke and Duchess of York saw a performance of BtarU an Tnimj at Drory Lane Theatre evening. Their Royal Highnesses have arranged to leave York Hosse this afternoon for Sandrisgham.

The children of tbe Duke and Duchess of York left St. Fiacres at 13 5 yesterday afternoon for York Cottage, Sandringham. Princess Christian will attend a meeting at tbe Slongh Town hall on December at 3 p.m., in connexion with tbe Buckinghamshire Ladies' Association of the Missions to Seamen. Her Royal Highness is president of the sssorUtioa. The German JSmperor ana tmprees, President Stern, addressing a body of burrhers who passed through Bloemfontein on Thursday, said lie waa that they had responded to his call.

Tho Free Stato did not intend to attack, but it would fiercely defend its rLerithod rights. Tbo enemy was strong, but if he crossed the lordcT he would bo attacked. They were fighting for the independence of their State. A complaint from Presided Steyn to Sir A. Milncr that British troops had rrosrod tlie Free State lorder and fought tho burghers has led to a correspondence from which it appears that tho story arose from a man's saying that he saw troops at Kimberlry who looked as if they might cross." Sir G.

White and his staff arrived yesterday at East London, and sailed for Durban in the Union liner Scot. It is reporter! that, a the result of a council of war held by General Joubcrt and the commandants at Volksrust on Wednesday, no movement was to bo made by the Boers for a couplo of days. The military commandants of tho Australian colonics, after their meeting in Melbourne, recommended tho formation of an Atrlin forv of men. Mr. Chamberlain.

cf war Press tad tbe war party. He Ulieved however, cabled suggesting that tho larger ttat if there was time for puHic opinion to make leit there was a volume of sotr and re rpwai.le opinion against war such a there had rn vrr ietn against any war of the present entury. After strongly emphasizing th great of the mistake made by the Transvaal "vrn ment wb they withdrew their offer of a fcv yoars' franchise, and failed to close with the trf ras todicsted in Mr. Chamberlain's despatch of ptem'er bo argued that tho Pritish tiovern tit mad a wors3 mistake when they shut the d'xr on the franchiso discussion and expressed lit astonishment at the Duke of Devon Utemeut that the fraiKhic (ropotals had an essential point of difference th two Gove rnmeiita. Tbe alUmatlvo ii dplord to tldnk tbo Governmejit were ro lit adoj instead of the franchise was a tvj strioa of reforms, formulated In did not UlUve iu remodelling tbs Cobstitotion of th Transvaal from Ixmrlon the fviH would that this nnuutry ould have to tbo con rnm nt of tha Transvaa! Into lnr own 'wU, and a Cabiimt Minister, Mr.

Ritchie, had tt.at 1) at would La an tintnltiealnl mis lyrttiits, Mr. Mxrloy tirooeodeil ti ridiculs ths alarms extirvK! the war r.artv and Press of ln Aftlcan Doer combination against Qroat Britain, to urge that the conquest of the two itepublics would Involve tho rnainUnartc gurisotii in thoss countries, and to advocate wthling of tha nhiU races in South Africa 7 Jut and paciCo policy. The order for JJliog out the Reserves will be issued to day. understood tliat it will only apply to the S3 nsceesary to bring up to war strength ths colonies should send2.V) oarh, and the smaller colonies The different colonies are con sidering tho matter, (p. 7) France.

The Tempt has received news from Tripoli tending to confirm the report of the massacre of the Fonreau Lamy mission but these details are a yet unverified, (p. 8) Unless the man in the street possesses a good deal more intelligence than Sir HrRT Cawe bell Baxxirmax seems disposed to credit him with, he will bo considerably puzzled to extract from tho right honourable gentleman's pooch at Maidstone what be really thinks about affairs in South Africa. Hn Ixgins by saying thst tho msa In the street cannot answer the question What is it that we are going to war aliout His acquaintance, with men In tho sUnut must select and exclusive, otherwise ho would know that the answer is usually glrsn with groat emphasis and promptitude. Us then shifts bis ground a llUlo by saying that what be moans li that no thinking man can gire an avowable reason suggested by tho history of tho case as giveu in the Blue books. That Is a totally different matter.

Thinking men do nut limit themselves to Blue books which aro concerned only with the interchange of despatches. Tbey aro awsre that the despatches have to be read In tho light of facta which Bluo books rarely contain, 1 but which, sorertholesa, most dominate poller. Campbei.l plainly affirms that this interpretation cannot bo permitted, and that our interference cannot be invalidated or limited by any technical quibbles, based, as it is, upon international riht and Imperial duty. As there is no sign whatever of penitence on the part of tho Boers, he must 1 glad to learn that the Reserves are to called out to day and, when Parliament assembles on Tuesday week, wo may hopo that he will address himself to tho fundamental facts of the case, and rescrvo to a moro convenient season the strictures ho msy hsve to make upon tho mere form of the negotiations. The lino of Opposition criticism would seem to be, if wo msy judge from this speech and from that of Mr.

Morlet at Carnarvon, that tho matter has not leen dexterously handled, that tho Governments have made mistakes, that the now diplomacy is ineffective, and so forth. Mr. Morlet, as usual, is more bitter and more freo in the uso of adjectives, but wo do not perceive that ho ventures to traverse the broad arguments sat forth by tho Opposition leader on tho essential facts of the case. He is very much dis tressed beccuso the Boers did not accept the offered terms of settlement, and evidently very sorry that they thereby missed a chance of putting this country in an awkward diplomatic position. For, as he perceives, had they closed with the offer, they could have subsequently torn up the arrangement at their good pleasure, and, as far as we are concerned, everything would hare had to bo done over again at another time.

He may think himself a patriot, but this regret at Mr. Kjiuoer a failure to corner us with illusory arrangement is not what the man in tho street calls patriotism. We sinorruly hope, however, that the Government will take warning from the narrownosa of its escape. We do not know what may bo ths nature of tho proposals which aru to be mado to the Boers, but it is imperatively necessary that they should include the most substantial guarantees for tho etTfctiro and automatio working of tho reforms wo demand. Moro franchise proposals aro worse than nsolcss if thoir administration Is to loft to an armed Door minority, able and ready to tsrroriis tho unarmod majority as soon as our troops aro removed.

There Is no trick of gerrymandering, of falsification, ot bribery, or of corruption which la not aa familiar to those Implc, Godfearing gentlemen aa to Tammany Hall itself. Therefore it ia beyond all things necessary that our final proposals should giro tho Dit landers their proper share, not merely of political rights upon paper, but of substantial, and effective construction could be only a question of time Tho visit of tho Russian Colo.tki ErAjrrcHnr, by Inierial permission and by the wish of the Bulgarian Government," to examino into the condition of tho Bulgarian army turned attention for the moment from tho rivalries of the two Ministers, but the incident was not, perhaps, calculated in itself to tranquillize the minds of the people. It stirred up old memories which a good many influential personages in Bulgaria might willingly let die. There is M. KaRAVELorr, for instanco, who not long since harangued a crowd at Philippopolis on the merits of English constitutions! life, and declared that, if the Priscb and peoplo would but entrust him with the Government, he would soon show them how to get rid of their debts.

The speech sooms to have been very eloquent, snd it might have materially improved tho speaker prospects of a career, had it not been for thj inconvenient reminiscences of his hearers. They would ask him why he had helped to kidnap Prixe Alexander, He denied that ho had even known of the plot. But first a waiter, who alleged he had seen him at the Russian agency on tbe niciit of the crime, and next a soldier, who escorted the Prisce out of the PrincipeJity, and remembered how tbe admirer of the British Consti been maintained, more than 55 would have lost trUgnm states, arrived at the Wildpark Railway Station a quarter past 10 ln cvung. The Cesareritch arrived at Ballater yesterday morning from London and went to Balmoral as tbe goes of the Queen. Prince Adolphus of Teck arrived in London last night from Windsor.

Last night's London Gaustt states that tho Qnoen has been pleased to appoint Dr. Charles Bampiai, Advocate, Sheriff Sobstitote of Elgin, to be Bberiff of Dumfries and OaUowsy, tbe room ef Mr. James Wallace, Advocate, resigned. The Earl of Derby left London yesterday for Knowsley hall. Preacot, Lancashire.

Lord Kelvin has left London for Glasgow. Lord Reay left London last night for Antwerp, rU Harwich. Alderman Sir Reginald Hanson, M.P., was ywrterdsy elected tha Master of the Eretaelenraers there are at the lowest computation at least 2C1 persons, and very probably more, now living who, to all appearance, owe their lives to the passing of the Act of 1890 and to the judicious measures taken by the Secretary of Stats for giving effect to it. These figures represent a minimum they are obtained by eliminating altogether the exceptional effect of serious and largely fatal explosions which before the passing of the Act occurred, as we have eeen, in ten out of the preceding 24 years. If the Act should prove to be not less effective in preventing explosions of this devastating character than it clearly has been in preventing the less disastrous explosions of normal rears, its total effect will be little short of i til.

Hut vwka. M.P. astonishing. Tho average death rato for all the AJdtrma Sir Marcos Earned years, exceptional uu normal, uua icu 10 irj Warden for the year sneomg inclusive, was a little over '48 per 1,000. This means an annual death rate of 264 out of 550,000 persons employed underground.

On this basis of calculation no fewer than 484 persons now living owo their lives to the passing of the Act of 1800. We have already fully explained the methods by which those most gratifying results have been attained and tho principles on which they rest. We may here state briefly that explosions in coal mines srw primarily due to the ignition of fire damp," which, when mixed tution had visited the mutinous soldiers in a close in certain proportions with atmospheric air, carriage, confronted him from the audience. Even explodes violently if brought into contact with a KAKAVELorr was disconcerted. But a friend naked flame.

Such contact is established either of his replied, with much presence of mind, that by the lights which miners use or by the escape of they wero ready to dethrone the present Prcicr a heated flame during the process ot blasting. The as well, if he did not protect the interests of Bui garia." After this nobody can say that freedom of speech on tlie Eoglish, or even on the Irish, model does not flourish in the Principality, whatever may bo tbe case with freedom of ths ballot. Supplementary elections for 39 seats, held on tho safety lamp is the chief protection of the miner against explosions caused by contact with a naked light. Properly constructed and carefully used it affords adequate protection, and it has the further adranUge of warning tho miner by its behaviour of tho presence of fire damp in first of this month, appear to have strained tho dangerous quantities. Hut, tl badly ood relations between tbe Premier and tho Mixutrr i structod, or if usod in a faulty condition, duo of tho Ixterior to tho snapping point.

All tho seats bat one which by somo oversight fell to tho Opposition wero carried by Radoilarofflsta. Tho Orrkofflsts wore uttorly loft out In tho cold. In two Important conrtltuonciss Sihrtria and Widln tho Opposition did tho next Ut thing to returning their candidates. Thry raised inch formidable disturbances that thoy succeeded in frustrating tho Dut this is tha only blemish on II. Radc iLAvorr'i triumph.

M.Gatzorr'i organ openly blames the action of tho police during tho oonsosts, a judicial inquiry baa boon dUroctod, and tha PxxntXR it going to wait npon Prwci FERDrRARD at Varna. M. RAotxAVorr, mora wisolr. baa cons there already. It will bo of loontrol cf adminirUatioiu.oi fbaoco of inaticJjatoes to tow which LtWsAirsritb.VU I Wt is of a blasting charaooo treated aod krJtUMUensljT raso.

oitber to careless handling or to mlsohiovoui treatment when not in use, it loses its protective quality and becomes a lourco of often nnroipectsd danger. Tho romody is to mako proper pro vision for tho periodical inspection cf teo Lamps and for tbolr aa(o custody whsn not In oso in tbo mine. Tbo former provision has long boon in operation, but tho latter was first offoetlToly mado under tbo Art of 10C Proper safeguards against tho effocta duo to a fiamo allowed to ascapa during tbo process of blasting an far mora dlfScalt to devise. But tho Homo OfSco has manfully grappled with this rary difficult problem and solved it with signal suecess. It la practically iapoosiblo to prrrtnt tbo occaal ensi occurrtneo of blown oct shot, A telegram from Bloemfontein states that the Bishop of Bloemfontein is very Senior de Rego Barros, rirst secretary to um Brazilian Legation in London, has been appointed Brssilian Minister to Para.

His Excellency Crookshank Paaha and Jin. Crookshsnk arrived yesterday monuog Anse's mantions from Scotland. The Swiss Minister and Madame Bom cart nave returned to 11, ColhngRam gardeas, B.W.. Continent. Lord James of Hereford and Miss iamm left London yesterdsy morning to pay a short the Lord Chancellor and Lady HsUbnry On Tuesday Lord Jm of the Scotch Conservative Associations and addresses a mass meeting at Aberdeen.

The marriage between Mr. Charles Bright, and Miss Ibel Ceding; Is to take place ow nSrsdsy. tU2b sTW Tar. fcsua. KMei.

Profes or J. H. Biles, 7. smong tho pMrvts Yor Wednesday for Jjoutianipten. An eniracement is announced between Frf rtauiv VeVwoed.

and Xerah IsaUOs, daaxhter Wabard Lcekstt, of AlsiandraWe, l3vs. Pl' ai iu nit Tho msmonai swira di hv unuv ua uu jrfterdar by Mr. Oeom Aksswadrr at tbo laViuU' sUmlsld. After the tscissoay Ur. sod Mrs.

Alesaader were ratertsiard it laarbeoa. Among Uioae firestoit wero Lord Kansas 14, Bbr Alrx asOr Mmr Kaskmais, Mr. Rafaa ratlar. Mr. Btrbert nular.

Bailie Wright, Mr. Krmry Uoatso, Mr. Alsxaoder MwMuii ei EMmnarc, natuo aissjrn West. Mr. 4.

u. uia.aisa, lUv. WUltaa Mala. Tbo third annual smoking concert In aid of tho ftn4 for tbo rtlUf of awed? sorrtren of tbo LIrtt nngado rharre st telaoUva wU to keld at Iko QweVa's baU osi tbo areolae of Wsdaosdsr. October it, tbo 4Mb aaairmsry ef tho RieBoraUo rid.

Massiii'si. Lord rrorort of BusUagtowvr, and tbo Tho Coram Usieser st foUoo for tbo City ft LowJooj lei oms as that rUps baro, bees takra wbirk tbo Cssa saiadoasr hopes will arwftat tbo rutiaoaaoa of lbs at sotivealenes and obstraotisoi saasrd by tbs sxiishissjosi dom wttb ts bssoo. tbo.