, 1896-06-03

ton you and he will leave. There must be
no departure from this as many subscribers
have agreed to Wake shares on this assurance.
Ii letter necessary it can still be sent but it
was agreed document left with J 4. Stevens
was sufficient and that you are responsible
for Chairmln's departure. 1t is very i'm
portont to pat tins rigat. Reply to Lionel
Phillips
There can be no doubt as 10 the meaning
Of these kilograms, or rs to the hoaI OF rxuI-
tatiou With which they Will he received on
the Continent, aud, indeed, by aIl enemies Of
Grelt Britain. The Temps, however. attempts
TO Accumulate the ~tory by a ,tl! more extra
ordinary tale. publishing a telegram from
Pretoria which asserts that ne Government
possess proof that Sir II, Loch Lord Loch)
in 1874 arranged for an invasion Of the
Ilansvaal to support a rising At johannes
burg, Lord Loeb being then Governor of the
Clpr and High Commissioner. Ii Tint story
IS true, il may be taken as certain that the
Home Government knew that the Boers had
broken thr Convention; hut we believe the
story 10 9c a pure jnycutiou. Lord j.nch is
the last man in the world 70 have lent him
srItt to anything of the kind. which, again,
except IN the event OF a secret treaty between
the lrausylai and Germany, would nave been
utterly opposed to Lord Ripou's notions If
right and wrong The story VIII. ". doubt
NOT, htyr been denied ia Parliament Too late
for oar issue, hut its invention reveals unex-
p"cted depths Of hostility to Great Britain III
Paris. One of the most terrible facts which
com ont in this Whole affair is that Africa,
winch undoubtedly makes EnglislmeA cal
lou appears also to impair or destroy heir or.
binary quality Of truDhfulnc<s in politics.
The lying all through must have been worse
than the lying Of the least scrupuIous diplo-
matists.
Mr.. I~Iodgson Pratt. in tn. letter we
pehIi>h in another column on a general
G,tIt Of Arbitration for the settlement Of
disputes between nations without war, seems
to hunk that any difference between nations
winch had not actually resulted in war night
be settled BY such a Court OF Arbitration.
WHt viii he say to Mr.. O'Bricn's cheerful
proposal in the May NiaetecnM Century to
invoke he decision Of such a Court ut Wash
ington on IreIand's demand for IIome-rule?
Nothing seems 10 rs clearer than that there ara
very grave djffeIences (of such a kind as this)
which would no more he submitted to arbitra-
ton with the east hope of a settlement that
would wicid any authority over the mind Of
either nation, than a dispute between a hus-
band ami a Wlte 10 to the sincerity and depth
of their attachment to each other could be
submitted TO the arbitration Of a third party,
though no third party could be any fair Judge.
Were the Court to say to us Separate by all
means after England had Just said No,
wodld England, could England, accept the
sentence? If it were TO say Separation is ruin
to BOTH, would Ireland or could Ireland attach
the slightest authority to the judgment?
There are many issues in the disputes of ma
tons that Can be settled 10y no international
Court Of Arbitration, however sublime.
We have taken the strongest possible line
against the Interference OF the German En-
peror in South African affairs, but we can see
no common-sense in the suspicious jealousy
just now manifested as TO the German emf.
grants in all our Colonies In no case have thew
shown the smallest symptom of disloyalty.
nor do we believe that anywhere they are IN
triguing against the British Government. In
truth they greatly prefer it to their own. The
strongest motive of German emigration is tie
desire to escape from German officialdom and
German CONSUMPTION, and even if they pos
sessed the power they would not replace
themselves beneath them. The stories Of
armed companies sent ont as emigrants are
denied by the steam companies, and are ex-
cessively Improbable, if only because the
German Staff could not retain control of the