Courtney, M.P., and with Mr. Solons, the mighty hunter, as its Vice-President, South African Conciliation Committee has just been formed to watch South African Affairs with " view to issuing accurate intelligence" and to advocate the paramount importance of policy the object of which shall be to re-establish good will between the British and Dutch races in South Africa by a full recognition of the just claims of both, and to urge " pacific settlement upon these principles at the earliest moment when such a settlement is practicable." The most distinguished name on the list of the Committee is that of Mr. Herbert Spencer; and it includes also two of Mr. Gladstone's sons—Henry, and the Rev. Stephen, But it seems likely to have very little influence. The objects as erated are of course such as no one could object: to; but the intention is obviously that should offer concessions to the two Republics on condition of their putting an end to the war; and a writer to the Times has pointed out that James Russell Lowell, in the person of Hosea Biglow, prophetically expressed the feelings of most people on this subject many years ago "Ther' 's cutters vit thet talk an' act For wut they call Conciliatio 'They'd hand a buffle-drove a tract When they waz madder than all Bashan, Conciliate? it jest means be kicked, 'No meter how they phrase an' tone it 5 It means thet we're to sot down licked, 'That we're poor shotes an' glad town it!"
Mr. G. F, Watts, R.A., too, has expressed the view of the great body of those who deplore the necessity for the war in a much more familiar quotation
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