The Times of Friday publishes a remarkable letter from "P.
S.," a bitter Beer who: recently employed a talent for eloquent invective in slandering the British people. He now advises the Boers to merge themselves in that people, because if they do not, and the British retire, they will be conquered by the Germans, who thirst for the gold of South Africa, and have planned how to obtain it after Great Britain is exhausted by a war with France and Russia. They have, they say, the means of sending fifty thousand soldiers a month to South Africa if only the sea is clear. We do not believe in the plan, but we do believe that if Great Britain retired from South Africa Germany would make a serious effort to acquire the only land outside South America which would hold the millions who begin to press so sharply on her means of subsistence. It is curious that in a very striking article in the Nineteenth Century the Dean of Grahamstown expresses his belief that the intense Dutch feeling for the Boers is due to their certainty that Germany will conquer Holland, and their hope when that occurs to found in South Africa "the wharves of a richer Amsterdam and the schools of a more learned Leyden."
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