The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Rsurrexi. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1881.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3982, 3 October 1881, Page 2

The Evening Star. PUBLISHED DAILY AT FOUR P.M. Rsurrexi. MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1881.

After all the concessions made the Boers by the English Government, they are yet dissatisfied, if we may judge from a cablegrams under date September 30th. The message says the Anglo-Boer Convention has been referred to a select committee of the Volksraad to decide upon its ratification or rejection ; so it is possible* after England humiliating herself before the victorious farmers of the Transvaal, that peace is not yet secured. Still we need not be surprised, when we remember that the Boers, having so easily got all they asked from England, are likely, from their late successes, to demand more, as people usually do who think they have their enemies under their feet, and in an humbled spirit. Those states men who held that a wrong step was being taken, and were opposed to the English Government making such a retrograde movement as withdrawing from the Transvaal, and granting to the Boers almost their own terms, may find their prognostications come true, and also that they were correct when they asserted that the day was not very far distant when England would have to take up a more independent and determined position in dealing with the rebellious Boers. We may see that the authorities are not withont concern at the new aspect of affairs, by the fact that Sir Evelyn Wood has been invested with full powers to act in the event of an emergency ; and he has already ordered active preparations to be made on the part of the British in order to be prepared for any difficulty that may arise. With men of the Boer stamp a conciliatory policy was the worst that could have been adopted, and Bhould hostilities break out afresh, it need not be matter for surprise. The farmers are elated with success, and many deem themselves capable of holding their own even with the great nation of England. We know how such a contest would end, but the fierce uncultivated Boers may not be able to judge correctly, aud, influenced by violent leaders, and carried away with the idea that they can beat the British again, as they have already done, a very little opposition on the part of the English authorities may. cause an open rupture. Should such happen, there will be only one course open for England, and that will be the annexation of the Transvaal, not alone in name, but in reality, and the disarmament of the rebellious Boers.