What were the terms which the Boers declared them. selves
willing to accept does not appear in the papers laid before Parliament. Meantime a curious account of them is contained in a telegram from the special correspondent of the Times published in Friday's issue. He says that a Boer who lately came in from Senekal states that De Wet and Botha held a council of war on the 17th inst., and then published the following sentiments —"They were still well horsed and well supplied with food and munitions, but if the British would guarantee (1) joint education in Dutch and English; (2) liberty to retain sporting rifles on pass; (3) an indemnity of 23,000,000 for the burnt farms ; and (4) no franchise for natives, they would be prepared to accept annexation—this, of course, to inchide an amnesty to all belligerents still in the field." The condition in regard to the natives is characteristic, and shows how all through the war the Boers have been inspired by the feeling that coming within the Empire would mean the forfeiture of the right to do what they would with their own "niggers." As one of the Boer prisoners explained, it was useless to talk about freedom existing in British Colonies, for-there niggers were allowed on the sidewalk. '.
