MAIL SUMMARY.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8366, 29 February 1896, Page 4

MAIL SUMMARY.

The Mariposa brings European news j ■ to February 6.. , '! Cecil Rhodes, .who was Premier of Cape Colony at the time of Jameson's , raid into the Transvaal, arrived inLondon on February sth. , There was ' popular ovation at Paddington Station, \ ' but Rhodes was hurried into a four wheeler and taken away. It is said j - .that the Queen, with a vast majority I of ladies of the kingdom, is an earnest • advocate of the bestowal of peerages on Rhodes and Jameson- Mr Chamberlain, however, and many reasonable 'Englishmen recognise that Jameson ■ aid his band are really only filibusters and should be punished as such, Jest I their example should become infections and lead to. trouble in the future. The . United States Government intend appointing a new Consul at Capetown, with power of a diplomatic agent to represent the American Government in Transvaal affairs. General Booth has ordered his son Ikllington Booth back to England' from America, hut tliore is such a rumpus ahout it by Salvationists iu the United Status that it is probable that the order will bo rescinded. Ballington Booth and his wife havo taken advantage of American naturalisation, and this, among other things, has displeased the-old general. ' He dislikes America and Americans, aud thinks the order iu Uncle £Ws country is losing that distinctively English character ho desires to retain. One movo is to oilicor the American branch with Englishmen. Despatches from St. Johns, dated Jauuary iWth, 'mya the abject misery, .: of thopcoplo ou the island of Newfoundland cannot bu uxprebswl. Hundreds are starving, and-without fuel, while treiupuduoua snowstorms wo raging. The authorities uro power-