Recsived October 2L. at 0 25 i.m. Capetown, October 20, President Krugec reports Liaatenant Nesbltb and seven others as seriously woanded.
London, October 20. Thirty oub of GOO Irish local bodies respond to the appeal to pasa resolutions of sympathy with the Boers. In theHoaseof Commons In the debate on the Address-in-Repiy Mr Stinhope, in moving an anieodrmnt condemning the method with which the negotiations with the Boers was carried oab, accused Messrs Chamberlain and Rhodes of de liberately promoting war. Sir W. V. Harcouct disagreed, bat denied the British suzerainty, qaoting Mr Chamberlain's old speeches that) in terference with the Transvaal's internal affairs was unwarrantable. Mr Chambsriaiu, in » heated reply, and amid excited scenes, made a brillUnt justification. Ha had ulwsys straggled for, and hoped and believed, that peace would be malatained, bat ultimately waB driven to the conclusion th&c President Krnger was adverse to the British. Ho failed to see early enough that war w*s inevitable, the Boer armaments thas being for the moment stronger fchan Great Britain's. The divergence between the Government and Opposition on the main issues was redly slight. President Kroger had appealed to the God of Battles. Great Britain had accepted the Transvaal's challenge, believing her qaarrel jasr. Tempestuous cheers greeted the speech. The amendment) wjb nega«< tived by 362 against 135. The speech occupied 2.2 hoars. Mr Baltoa* traced the war to the Oligarchy's anxiety to retaia corrupt , gain.
