The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-02
RELIEF OF llDYSM|TA
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only way to get past the Mansion
 house was by mounting the busses.
 Stock brokers bankers, clerks, and ! working men clambered on top, and as | the 'busses numbered past. stood up | waving flags, hats, and handberchiefs, and calling for cheers for Butler and | Roberts. A mighty shout answered l them from the crowds through which
 they were passing. The procession be-
 came continuous, yet the crowd never tired of cheering every time the name of White, Butler, or Roberts was men tioned, and off came hats and up went the little flags. Grave old financiers waved and yelled as frantically and as often as the urchins who had clam
 bered the Mansion house steps. The strain that for 118 days had kept the nation in terrible anxiety was removed. The lord mayor showed himself at a window out of which hung huge City Imperial Volunteer flag, and the crowd yelled itself hoarse.
 All thought of business was forgot
 ten. Nothing could be done on the tsock exchange except to sing God Save the Queen and cheer. Business at the Baltic closed at 1 o'clock No one wanted to trade. The stores put up their shutters and gave their employees holiday Great ensigns hoated in the sunlight from hundreds of buildings and little union jacks lit up the murky city windows.
 The lord mayor telegraphed to Lady Butler as follows: My sincerest con gratulations on your gallant husbands achievements" He also ordered a hol- day for the city schools. Later he an- swered the demands of the crowd, that increased as the day wore on, by g speech in which he said
 This news makes our hearts leap for joy, We now are satisfied that our sacrifice of blood and treasure is not in vain"
 Orders were given to ring the great bell in St. Pauls this evening. The West End was as enthusiastic, though not quite so demonstrative, as the city. The stately foreign office displayed large Union Jacks from the windows A cab- inet meeting was held and as the mem- bers met at the entrance to the foreign office they exchanged the warmest con- gratulations.
  to see for themselves the an- nouncement of the glad tidings and cheering for General Butler, Lord Dun- donald and other heroes of the hour Outside Marlborough House, the Lon don residence of the Prince of Wales, large and jubilant crowd assembled. From one end of the metropolis to the other joy reigned supreme, and bunting was flying everywhere in the bright | March morning, and hardly an omnibus passed through the streets but had tied | to the drivers whip a Union Jack pr | colored etreamers.
 All over the United Kingdom these | scenes were duplicated. At Glasgow, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and, in fact, in all the cities, big and little flags were flying everywhere, sounded, bells chimed and crowds paraded the streets, singing pa -riotic songs. Business was given up Or the day, the schools were closed, in he harbors all the vessels dressed ship, md at the military and naval depots ;cenes of the widest enthusiasm pre- jailed. At Liverpool addressing a rowd of twenty thousand people assem- ,led around the town hall, the lord may IT said:
 T thank the Almighty God for the ,lorious news. We have awaited it pa- iently. We are satisfied that under the humane laws and government of this country the Boers in a very short time will be loyal citizens of the British em- ,ire."
 Lady White, in a message in reply to congratulations, says: ''All the world is n sympathy with me to-day and I am n sympathy with all the world I am elighted at the joyful news of the re- ef and am happy at the intelligence hat my husband is well and safe at ast. As a wife I can say no more; yhat happy wife could say more?"