On Wednesday Mr. Balfour is to tell us finally whether we are to have peace. Of that there is only the " shadow of a doubt." In spite of all warnings not to be too sanguine everybody is confidently expecting that it will be peace. Whether that coufidence is well placed your readers will know long before this letter reaches them. At present the Boer loadersare at Vereeniging communicating to the delegates the results of their conference with Lord Kitchener and Lord Milner. If pence is concluded, the only people dissatisfied will be the Boer Junta in Europe. Dr. Leyds has Deen compelled to admit that he knows nothing of what is going on. Whether the British authorities in South Africa have declined to recognise the Junta, or whether the Boer leaders have themselves refused to allow their future to depend in any way on Mr, Kruger and the others who sons! safety in fight has yet to be seen.
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