The age-herald., 1900-08-19
GREAT BRITAIN
 MUCH IRRITATED
  Over the Governments Changea- bIe Course at Shanghai. AN EXPLANATION IS GIVEN General Roberts is to be Relieved from His Work in South Africa He Will Probably Succeed
 Gen. Lord Wolseley
AN EXPLANATION IS GIVEN

r London. August 1S.-England is thorough ly irritated over the governments seem- ingly ehangeable course respecting the landing of troops at Shanghai Even the semblance of yielding to pressure by the powers or the Chinese viceroys is regard ed as impairing British prestige in the East and in Europe. The papers are featuring the government on it's supposed vacillation and faint-heartedness.
 British troops, after all, occupy the nerve center of the richest region in China, which sustains 150000,000 of people, and were landed with the consent and approval of the powers. The foreign office adju- tants are bewildered at the ado raised throughout the country by what they con- slider an amusing little game of Lord Sails bury, ending to England's advantage. It Is explained thus to the Associated Press:
 First the formal announcement that troops would be landed after five days wait in which the foreign consuls at Shanghai wagged their heads and wired to their home governments mutterings Of disapproyal on the continent and stirring up of Chinese opposition at Shanghai; troops arrive at Shanghai, and the vice. roy resists their landing, saying that France and Russia object the consuls meet ana several or lnGI0 dSSGTl II tIlc bllllSi land, we will land troops, too" Admiral Seymour, wiring London, announces that England withdraws and the troops do not land; a sailing hour is appointed; the next day every variety of foreign commercial interest in Shanghai cries out in dismay, the consuls revise their views and join in requesting their governments to induce the British to land for the security of Shang- hai; the British sail away; intimations are received al the foreign office from France, Germany and Austria that they are willing that the troops should land the transports are pursued and brought back and the troops are disembarked. The foreign of- flee expresses the opinion that the business was admirably worked.
 Arranging to Relieve Roberts
 The government is arranging to relieve Lord Roberts in South Africa, deputing to a general of less consequence the vexatious work of running down the partisan bands there. The purpose, it is understood, IS to recall Lord Roberts in october, an- nouncing then that the war is at an end General Lord Woolseley will relinquish the post of commander in chief of the army in October and Lord Roberts will almost cer- tainly replace him. As the barracks in the United Kingdom are full of embodied mill tia temporary wooden quarters have been begun at Aldershot and elsewhere in which to house the returning South African troops.
 The Marquis of Londonderry, the post master general. has issued hard and fast order to postoffce clerks that Esquire shall be used in future in addressing all male correspondents unless they "are evil dently 1aborers, personal servants or tradesmen."
 The case of Mrs. Maybrick has been re- vived by an extraordinary attack upon Baron Russell, late lord chief justice of England, which has appeared in the col umns of the Liverpool Post, owned by Commoner Edward Russell. The Post de- clares that Baron Russell neglected the case and even failed to declare his per sonal conviction Of his clients innocence, saving: (Which had he done, despite the descrepit judge who presided, Mrs. May brick would have been acquitted So eX- traordinary an attack on the dead chiet justice by so prominent a journal at once aroused Mrs. Maybricks friends. Dr. Clark Bell of New York (secretary and former president of the Medico-Legal So- ciety) her counsel hurried to London from Paris yesterday and has had a long con- sultation with the United tSates Ambas- sador, MT. Choate who is keenly interest ed and it is understood he has promised to renew his efforts to secure the pris- oner's release. To representative of the Associated Press Dr. Bell said:
 This is a most remarkable attack. It comes from no friend of Mrs. Maybrick It is a great injustice to Lord Russell Every home secretary and American Am bassador in England since MT. Maybrick' S conviction knows Lord Russell had abso- -lute confidence in her innocence"