1 FEBRUARY 1896, Page 3

We apologise to the Westminster Gazette for having care- lessly

confused its attack on Mr. Chamberlain's "push- fulness " as one of the causes of our troubles with the United States, with the attack made by one of the "minor luminaries of the late Government" on the same speech of the same statesman, as one of the causes of the Transvaal raid, to both of which Mr, Chamberlain alluded in his speech of Tuesday week on "Colonial loyalty." We ought not to have confounded the two attacks; but so far as we can see, there was precisely the same utter absence of any show of plausibility for the one as there was for the other.