4 JANUARY 1896, Page 9

The very latest intelligence (Friday) seems to be that Dr.

Jameson will be tried by court-martial, that Sir Hercules Robinson has arrived in Pretoria and is negotiating, first of all, for lenient treatment of the invaders, and that the ex- citement in Johannesburg, and indeed all South Africa, is growing. It is there that the grand source of danger lies. The Boers do not know how to use victory ; they are full of dislike and contempt for the British ; and they may raise the temper of the British Colonists, already superheated, to a point at which the Imperial Government will have difficulty in controlling them. Mr. Chamberlain is, fortunately, a firm man ; but he has to deal with the most " difficult" of all subjects of Great Britain.