Messages from Johannesburg are curiously contradictory, Dr. Jameson's release in
particular having been affirmed and denied three times. The Colonial Office, however, believes that he will be sent with his followers to England, there to be tried under the Foreign Enlistment Act. Presi- dent Kruger, however, has excepted all leaders in the recent movement from the amnesty which he promised on the dis- armament of Johannesburg, and has arrested some eighty of them. They include the representatives of the weightiest English firms, many Americans, and a few Belgians, and it is believed that they will all be condemned to forfeiture of their properties in the Transvaal. The British Govern- ment, however, is urging moderation, and it is believed that Mr. Kruger perceives the danger of irritating Cape Colony to desperation. He has accordingly adjourned the Volksraad, which met on the 13th inst., till May, avowedly because men's minds are not calm enough for discussion. In presence of an act like that, it is not worth while to recall expressions which show great bitterness lurking in his own mind. It must not be forgotten that Mr. Kruger, though a man of character and ability, is essentially a Boer, though of unusual self-control—and craft.
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