We regret to perceive that the projea of sending Lord
Reay to the Cape as Special Commissioner has been abandoned. Mr. Gladstone stated on Monday that he had been prepared to send the Commission, and to lay its instructions on the table, but that he had received a telegram announcing the intention of the Government of the Transvaal to send either their President or Vice-President to London. The Government had thought it ex- pedient to accept that offer, and consequently the Commission would not be sent, it is, doubtless, easier to receive a Commission than to send one, because that course limits the subject of negotia- tions, the President of the Transvaal being able to speak only for his own State ; but the Commissioner could have reported on the whole of South Africa, throughout which the quarrel between the white races is the first factor in politics. The Times' assertion that the Dutch of South Africa hate the Dutch of Europe more than they hate Englishmen, requires evidence. It is inconsistent with M. Joubert's language in Holland, and with the strong sympathy expressed by the Dutch with their brethren of the Transvaal. Spanish-Americans do not, how- ever, love Spaniards, nor did our own American colonists. love Englishmen.
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