A Cabinet Council has been summoned for to-day, and although the "Times" warns us that "there are no grounds whatever on which t" form a reasonable sw mise" as to the outcome of the Vereeniging deliberations, there is everywhere a sanguine expectation that within a few hours we shall learn that peace has been proclaimed. Even the "Times" modifies its warning to some extent. To its statement that there are no grounds wh ever in which to form a reasonable surmise it adds the proviso, un ess the few words spoken by Lord Half-ur of Bur each ar- to be accepted as an indieaion of what has happened." Lord Balfour said he was expecting to be called away for "a specially important purpose," and he did not think the summons could be many hours delayed. As a fact he must have received his summons to the cabinet meeting very soon afterwards.
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