Seemingly half London was "malicking" or paxicking," as someone has sug-sted as 2 more appropriate term, on Sunday night, and all London on Monday night. It was not a very edifying spectacle, that of thousands of people, chidly hobbledehoys and young girls dancing, yelling, blowing tin trumpets, squirting "at one another with "tormentors," and thrusting "tiddlers," otherwise peacocks' feathers, in eachother'sfaces. But after all it betokened a very real joy at the conclusion of peace, and it must be remembered that the class which disported itself in this way is the class which has suffered most by the war. The upper class, from which most of the officers are drawn, has many relatives and friends to mourn, the middle class has provided the bulk of the volunteers and yeomanry, but the "mafficking" class has supplied the rank and file of the army, and has suffered most deeply by the depression which the war has caused. Still one could wish that their wsthetic sense were a little more developed, and that their rejoicing did not take the form of rowdyism.
The Terms of Peace.
Tt was in the quiet of a Sunday afternoon that the news arrived, and in the remoter suburbs of London the glad tidings were not known till probably long after all Shanghai had rejoiced in it. Eagerly as we had been waiting for it, it took us by surprise in the end, for Mr. Balfour had promised "an announcement on Monday afternoon, and every one expected the first news of peace to come from him. But although Mr. Balfour was forestalled, a crowded house assembled to hear his statement in the hope of learning the terms upon which pence had been mode And they were not disappointed. Never lhasa peace been concluded upon terms which met with such universal approval and that is all the more surprising when it is remembered how bitterly a section—even though it be but a small section—of the people of this country have denounced the war and its objects. Even the" Daily News," the organ of the Pro-Boers, hails the terms to pass upon then true tists polities! bias induces it to give all the credit for the settlement to out Kitchener and none to Lord Milner or Mr. Chamberlain or the other members of Majesty's Government. But their praise of the terms is in itself a sufficient tribute to the men whom they have reviled as the makers of an unjust war.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.