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ISLAND, TUESDAY JANUARY 9, 1900

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OPINIONS REGARDING BULLER

He may be Making a Turning Move- ment.

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Military Men think Gen. Buller is moving with the bulk of his force.—Thought that the Boers may

ease the pressure on

Ladysmith.—New York

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SpectaL DespaTCcH OPINION IN NEW YORK.

New York, Jan 9.—Considerable satis- faction is expressed in this morning’s papers at the news from Geuveral White; of the repulse of the Boers at J.adysmith. |

But it is feared that the British losees | were very severe and the solution of the Natal, depends al.

military eiluation, in most entirely upon General Baller’s opera- tions on the Tugela.

From reports to hand regarding these movements on Saturday, doubiful whether they were of the slightest service to the beleaguered garri<on.

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The Post points to the despatch, dated 2nd January, from a correspondent in Ladysmith which says that the Boer in- tend to give one battle and retreat to Ma- jaba. This suggests Saturday’s attack which may have been a desperate effort.

OPINION IN LONDON.

Loxpow, Jan 9.—General Buller’s ex- planation on Sunday that in response to oiminous news from Ladysmith he gent all pyailable troepe for a demonstration against Colenso on Saturday afternoon has directed attention to the details of that reconniance. Ncthing was accomplished, siace no reply was drawn from the enemy’s guns to the shrapnel of the field artillery or lyddite shella of the naval brigade, and { the troops returned to camp after futile ‘ demonstration of no apparent service to the defenders of Ladysmith.

The list of brigades, battalions and bat~ teries mentioned tends to prove thata large portion of Buller’s army was not available at the front and ie consequently maesed for eperations in some other quarter,—either the enemy’s right or left.

Military men were confident last night that Buller’s advance had been ordered duriag the day, if not previously in pro- gress, in the direction of Springfield or Weenen and the lower Tugela.

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But General White’s gal-

emith imperative—a duty which must be performed without flinching.

THE TRANSVAAL ANNEXATION.

(Montrea! Gazette.)

The Duke of Argyll hae made an inter- esting addition to the controversy about the polievof the Glsdstone Government in giving back the Transvaal to the Boers in 1881 atter it had been ann+xed to the empire by Sir Theophilus Shepstone.

' The Duke had really no seed to intervene,

as everybody but himself had overlookes the fact that he was a member of the cabi- net when it decided upon retroces- gon. But with praiseworthy courage apd sense of duty the Duke telis “bound to come forward aod stand io a white sheet among his former compavions.” He re- rignea his seatin the cabiaet oa April 8th, 1e8L; the action on Mejuba Hil) was toughton February 26, and the whole policy of the Governm-nt was decided be- 1ore the Duke’s resignation. He remembers distinctly a conversation be had with Mr. Gladstone oa the subject. Ila this con yersation, the Duke says, Mr. Glad- stone did not use the absurd language commonly ascribed t> him about theduty of**magoanimity.” He simply dwelt upon the fact thatthe Government bad epened negotiations with the Boer lead- ere come time before that battle, and that there was reatonable hope for a pacific eettiement. He aaid he did not think that the defeat of Sir George Coiley’s small force in an attack of doubttul prudence ought of ‘tseli to put an end to the negotiations whica had begun ; and | he stigmatized as “biood guiltiness” the policy of seeking a merely avenging fight. Lhe Duke agreed with Mr. Gladstone that, assuming reasonable tcrma of peace to be then attainable, they ought not to be abandoned for the mere sake of furiber figkting to avenge tbe defeat of Colley ; and he is of the same opinion atill.

As to the “reasonableness” of the ar- rangement made, the Duke admits that the ministers were hardly in a position to form ac opinion, He writes:

**Asa cabinet we were most imperfectly informed. ‘Lhe subject was, for the most part, treated departmentaliy, and from moment tomoment. Nodocument with avy grasp cf the eubjectasa whole was ever put before us, so faras [ remember. The abominable treachery with which the war bad been begun in the elaughter of the 94th regiment at Bronkerspruit on Dec. 3, 1880, had never been detailed to us. Itit had been I tnmk I should have’;known better how to trust the Boers. I do not remember baving ever seen the exact terms of tbe convention of 1881 be- fore it was concluded. But this 1 must add— that if 1 had seen it [ shonld pro- bably have agreed toit, with the know- ledge we then had. If it had been honest- ly accepted by the Boers snd honestiy acted upon, it might well have been the basis ef a lasting pesce, and ot permanent relations, quite a8 frieudly as those with ihe Orange Free State. Wedid not foresee that the Boers would deal with it eo dis- bonestly ; oor could we foresee that tbe gold of that country would give tbem the means of forming an armed conspiracy of enormous power.”

This is a perfectly straightforward statement, and, so far as it goes, convinc- ing. It ie probably the best defence that can be made of the action of the Gladstone

Government. At the viry best, they

stand convicted of a very serious error of judgment, which had calamitous conse- quences tothe empire. They utterly mis: took the temper of the people they had to deal witb, and they must be held respon- sible for the corsequences of the error, because they disregarded the advice of the people on the spot. They acted in ignor- ance, it is true, butit was culpable iguor- ances The British settlers in South Africa, stood aghast at the retrocession, and protested most emphatically against it. It was made in defiance of pledges by the leading civil and military authorities in South Africa, that the Transvaal would remain part oftheempire. British states- men denounced it at the time as @ sur- render which was bound to have evil con sequence, and when every extenuating circumstances is taken into account it i- impossible to acquit the Government with Mr. Gladstone at the head of fatal weakness as well as blindness to its inevit- able results,

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