The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1881-03-08 00:00:00

REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE
TRANsVAAL.

Final orders are expected at Woolwich for the
&porton, of the 7th Dragoon Gusushi and the 18th
'lnseam for the Trans% aal, tr, rg Aber with a .lidaehment
of the Army Ser. ice Cs' nisi. The 18th Hussars are
now at Dublin. The number f men altogether ic
about 800, anal\ number a new carbines, with holsters
of the latest pattern, and adequate camp equipage,
have been ordered. About twenty tons of hospital
appliances and medical comforts have been shipped on
board the Thames. A number of army surgeons are
holding themselves in readiness, but the selection has
not yet been made. A further number of trained
sisters will go out under an experienced superintendent,
and it is hoped that they will Is. seconded by billero-
- ladies in the colony. Nothing has yet been
decided AA LO Selidilig out re artillery: but the Wool-
wich oflicials have prepared a new equipment for two
.batteries incase of nem!. The Royal arsenal has a large
reserve of stores of all kinds, and beyond the manu-
facture of provision-boxes at the rate of 1,000 per day,
there is no work in progress to indicate the existence
of warfare.

In conferring upon Sir Evelyn Wood the local rank
of major-general, the Government have evidently
shown a &sire ti mol ify public oi • 'on. The treat-
ment which that distinguished 'tiler has received is of
C.time technically justifiable, but it is manifest that
"ace more routine and popular feolim: are at
vari.tnce. The shoe pinches most severely in connec-
tion with the kpointmentof Majord b,neral New.ligate.
Every one asks who is Newdigate, and everybody
learns in reply that General Newdigate was one of the
heroes of Zoluland, who did nothing. The secret ,4
this officer's preUnt appointment is to be traced to tle
Duke of Cambridge, who seems to have discovered in
the gallant general virtues and attributes not
perceptible to inferior mortals. It is altogether a
three-cornered business. The Duke disapprovtd of
Sir G. Roberts, Rothe Government, to mollify our iluke,
selected one of his favourites to be second in and,
and, in order to allay the growing dissatisfaction of the
public at the treatment of Sir E. tVood, that officer is
given a fleeting rank, In order to counteract the
selection of New,ligate. What everybody hopes is that
Woed may succeed in doing something decisive and
brilliant before he is superseded.
The death is *mowed of Commander Romilly
them adding another officer to the list of killed on the
Majubs crest. Commander Romilly appears to have
been singularly unfortunate. na was laid low by one
of the longest attacks of typhoid the doctors ever new
of. Subsequently, on the West Coast of Africa, he
caught small-pox, and had barely recovered from this
disease when he fell severely wounded at the head of
the naval contingent accompanying Sir George Colley
upon hi. ill-stared expedition.
Commander Romilly, who died on Friday, was
buried next to General Colley._
litomirosrreiN, Tucsoar MARCH 2Nl'. —President
Brand received • telegram to-day (nun the Boers
commander, sent through Sir Evelyn Wo.sh'in which
he says that the people of the Transvaal share the
desire to prevent further effusion of blond; Foot it rest.
with the British Government alone to stay hostilities.
The Boers are simply defending themselves against the
attack of the British, and are willing to accept all
efforts with the President of the Grange Free State
may make to promote peace, provided they do not
conflict with the resolution of the Boors to acquire
their freedom.
The Queen has telegraph to Maritxburg, expressing
with Lady Colley, widow of
hGeerneraldeel; irsYmGelc),atrgehYColley, In the sad loss she has
sustained. It is Her Hajesty's wish that special
provision should be made for Lady Gdkv. who has
additional claims, she being the slaughter of a
distinguished general officer.
The Ge:dte contains a notification that Sir Freder-
iek Roberts is to have the local rank of Lieutenant-
General while commending in the Transvaal, and
Major-General Edward Neardigata to be placed on the
staff as Itrigsdier-General while commanding an
Infantry brigade.

GERMAN VIEWS ON THE TRANSVAAL
DISASTER.
All the papers publish articles on the defeat
in South Africa. Moat of the paper, say that the
Uritish fought with their tutual lwa‘ery, lett blame
ver7 ebYtagly the "ignorance" of their leaders and
general& who attack strong natural poeitions with a
Comparatively mail force. The liertnans also come
down heavily on us for whet they describe as the bad
myanisation, which resulted in not having even enough
ammunition to fight with. The whole affair creates
great etritementin Ilertle.—