Generals Botha, Delarey, and De Wet arrived last Saturday morning
at Southampton, where they were met by Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, and Mr. Chamberlain. Arrange- ments had been made that after the interview they should proceed to Spithead, have an audience of the King, and witness the review. As, however, Mr. Fischer, the Transvaal delegate, had boarded their steamer before her arrival, their decision to proceed straight to London was not unnaturally attributed to his intervention.—One can quite readily under- stand that in the present state of feeling on the Continent their acceptance of such an invitation might interfere with the success of their mission to collect funds for their country- men.—An official explanation has, however, since been issued on their behalf to the effect that their non-acceptance of the
invitation was simply due to the inadequacy of their wardrobe, The Cape Parliament met on Wednesday. Sir W. Hely- and that no discourtesy was intended is sufficiently shown by Hutchinson in his opening speech announced that the with- their visit to the King on board the ' Victoria and Albert' on draws' of martial law Would be made_ dependent on the pass-
Sunday, when they were presented to the Queen and treated with a cordiality which they appear to have greatly appre- ciated. At Southampton they were "escorted through a cheering English crowd by two police inspectors," and at Waterloo were regularly mobbed by the crowd. On Monday the generals proceeded to Holland, where, according to the Brussels correspondent of the Times, they have done every- thing in their power to avoid arousing anti-English manifesta- tions.
