Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-02
Copyright. Associated Press

bO1NDO4N, SSpJeulkT l.-GSnIlDS t9G
discovery of the diplomatistS as to how
to best wash their hands OF the. chi
nese embarrassment, public interest is
momentardly diverted to the nations
private affaires; and the wearlsome
war in South Africa, the outbreak OF
the bubonlc plague in Glasgow, ehe
widespread disturbances and disaffec-
ton in railway circles and the dlsso-
luton of Parliament are all receiving
much attention. 1t is considered evil
dent from the speech of the Rt Hon.
William St. John Brodrlck, Under Sec
rotary of State for Forign Affairs, made
on Wednesday, that the government
considers the end of the war close
enough to the horizon 20 justify look
ing beyond 1t and preparing for a gen
tive announcement on the subject OF
the dissolution of Parliament is ex-
pected at an early date. Whether Mr..
Brodrick's anticipation that Lord Rob
erts' present movement will have a
| decisive bearing upon the length of
the war is justified or not, remains for
the present matter OF conjecture but
there is no mistaking the
Intention OF the Government
to utilize any appreciable military
success and ride INFO office again on
the back of ''Bobs,'' who. 1t is expected,
if ain goes well, will be able to return
in October and take up the duties
commander-In-chief and, incidentally,
to aid in the election.
Lord RoOerts emphatic commenda-
ton Of Genral Buffers strategy az
Aiachadodorp looks suspioiously like a
desire to restore public confidence pre-
paratory to the devolution OF the fI-
ture conduct of the campaign upon the
shoulders upon which it originally rest
ed. In connection with the ultimate
settlement OF Transvaal matters, re-
cent arrivals from South Africa think
il possible that the services of United
STATS Consul AdeIbert Hay might be
advaRtageously utilized.
Young Hay has managed to please
both the Beers and the English, said
Louis DeVilliers, kinsman OF the
Cape Colony Chief Justice, who has
lately arrived. 10 a representative oil
the Associated Press. when Hay ar
rived at Pretoria public opinion had
been made difficult for him by stories
of
His English Sympathies.
The Beer feeling was 50 intense that
statements that Hay was no better than
an English spy were readily believed;
but he behaved with such quiet good
sense that he speedily got the respect
OF the loer official class while he did
not part with his original opinion that
the Britons, in the main. We're right Ia
the war An American lady OF the
keenest Boer sympathies, added to Mr.
Hays first perpleXities by making a
regular campaign to win him to the
Boer side. Failing In this, she gossiped
freely of his alleged pro-British pur-
poses: but he outlived all this, was
helpful to the British prisoners and
lately, under British supremacy, has
interposed more than once in the in
terest OF the Beers"
A tangible result of the recent visit
to Mrs Florence Maybrick at Ayles-
burg Prison OF DR. Clark Bell, Of New
York. the prisoners s. counsel, and re-
preventative of the Associated Press
was the discovery of hitherto I'M
known letter from the late Baron Rus
sell of Killowen, Lord Chief Justice Of
England, to Mrs. Msybrlck raaffirming
belief in his clients innocence and Wig
orously declaring his conviction that
"a
This letter has since been made the
basis for a new memorial praying for
Mrs. Maybrick's release and SO strong
is Mr. Bells belief in the force OF this
document that a. copy Of II has been
sent personally to Sir. Matthew White
Ridley, the Secretary Of State for the
Home Department at his summer home
in Northum berland, accompanied BY
the request that he give ID his earliest
consideration. Mr. Bell started for the
Continent to-day, more than satisfied
with the effects OF his visit to England
He has not only succeeded in seeing his
client for the first time since her in
generation but has since secured for
Mrs Maybrick an interview with her
mother, baroness de Roques). The
discovery of the Russell letter is re-
garded as important. not because many
people doubted his sincerity but be-
cause It is couched in such terms as TO
preclude any question Of his belief that
she was unfairly tried. Mrs MAY
bricks friends say Or. Clark Bell feels
the mysterious influence OF opposition
somewhere, which binders a successful
result The late Mr. Bayard evidently
felt this when he declared the case had
reached the end Of diplomacy, ard sub
sequent Ambassadors also met *. But,
many recent evidences OF Ieniency To-
wards the prisoner incline her friends
10 believe that her Incarceration viii
not be prolonged.
The outflow Of home-bound Ameri-
cans this week is limited by the capac-
ity Of the St Louis and Etruria. The
former takes an
Interesting Passenger List,
including Mr.. and hrs. Edwin Gould.
~, and AIRS Wayne Ma1yeagh. JUS
~ QFay, Dr.. SchEdy. Nr. and Mrs. W
81 E1ktne. OF Philadelphia, and Sousa !