The age-herald., 1900-03-05

at the foreign office that the attention of the officials of that department was brought to the many articles with the subject. But while Lord Salisbury and the foreign office confine themselves to the broad issues at stake and marvel at the accounts attrib- nting to them desire to form an Ameri- can alliance, when the private opinion of the whole department, inclined to the idea that sentiment has a very doubtful value in international relations, the colonial of- fee busies itself with minute considera- tions, and apparently conforms it's opinions and actions to meeting in behalf of Canada the present feeling in the United States as eabled by the English correspondents.
 Chamberlain Protested
 Thus, MT. Chamberlain several times has protested against projected agreements with the United States, and has some times prevailed At present there pervades the colonial office an overwhelming dread of American complications, Fenian raids into Canada, and what not, while there are hopes of getting the Alaskan and other dis putes settled. The low ebb of this feeling IS not shared in the slightest by the foreign office MT. Chamberlain also exhibits al- most painful anxiety ito keep in touch with the party in power in Canada, the latest instance of which is in his cable to the Australian government, asking if they could raise 2,500 troops. As published here the report says: "In the event of imperial troops being needed, elsewhere" and sev- eral papers interpreted this ito mean that the government feared European hostility. I {e Y,ol hot Mr hal 10 merely asked for troops neither mention ing nor contemplating any such contin- gency as conveyed by the enormously re- ported addition to the request It was orig inally intended that these troops should come from Canada, perhaps augmented by many Britislhers from the United States, who by letters to consuls the war office and others had volunteered, and with these form body of 5000 rough riders for service in South Africa under General Sir Freder- ick Darlington. However, swayed by the indifferences in the Canadian parliament and the reported disnclination of the Cana dian premier, Sir Wilfried Laurier, to come out boldly in favor of sending more troops, MT. Chamberlain has left Canada out in the cold, and has asked Australia to fur nish the men.
 Anoti CT Curious View
 Another curious view which seems to be taken by the colonial office and the writers of the press in close touch with that de- partment is that since Canada has split blood for the cause of Great Britain, Can ada's various contentious with the United States must be considered as transcenden- tai. In other words, to halo the war hero ism in behalf of the empire. The consid- erations which formerly influenced Lord Ss isbury in dealing with the Canadian American matters must now be sacrificed. 1t is needless to say that such an idea has not been suggested to nor considered by the American ambassador. Regarding the Nicaraguan canal, diplomatic commit nications have passed between Washing ton and London, and the matter stands just as it was when Great Britain consent ed to the modified ton of the Clayton+Bul- wer treaty. The British government has not considered any measures to be taken should congress reject or modify the Hay Pauncefote contention such as conditions l governing Great Britains official attitude | towards the United States as they exist | today.