The Times states that the future conduct of the Chartered-r Company in South Africa has been provisionally settled. Mr Rhodes proceeds to Buluwayo almost immediately. The Government deter making public a statement on the matter till the result of the trial of thost connected with Dr Jameson's party is known. Mr Chamberlain, in writing to Sir H. Robinson on the 4th, reviews the events occurring in the Transvaal, and states that he. was aware that the exclusive policy, adopted by. the Boers irritated the Uitl&nders, who believed ithey had formidable grievances. He !had watched the movement, and had not believed, that a collision was likely ; |j therefore the invasion by Dr Jameson jcarae quite^ unexpectedly. President iKruger, he mentions, appeared to be jrsimilarly ignorant. Mr Chamberlain ( points out that since the convention in |i 1884. the Transvaal has been internally le free, while externally it has been I subject to British control. There is, [■ he says, no reason to anticipate foreign and Great Britain is.deter \ mined; to maintain her rights in the j Transvaal. British interests in Africa justifies the Imperial Government in j advising the Transvaal to remedy the ' grievances of the Uitlanders, who are chiefly British subjects, in regard to franchise, finance, education, State monopoly of labor, railways, and police.
